Feelin' Real

I am so excited- BUT!!!! It is so fast, it feels like it's already here. Just in the last 24 hours it's been decided that the movers are packing and shipping our stuff out on March 2. That is 2 weeks and 2 days away! It's still going to be about 4 weeks until Scarlet and I are actually THERE, so I thought I had about 4 weeks that we'd still be in town. Suddenly it's been cut very short. So after that, Greg will work a few days and sleep at the house in a sleeping bag and eat frozen/microwave dinners (yum) and Scarlet and I will crash at Pat and Randy's. Then 2 days after Greg finishes work he and Pat are driving cross country to Virginia. CRAZY!!! They're gonna do it in 5 days. Yikes. Then almost a week after that Scarlet and I will fly over to meet them. Now that it's all official and the dates are set, everything is weird. I'm still very excited but I feel strange at the same time. It's like we're vanishing. In an instant, we'll be gone. There are so many little details to make happen. I'm bummed because my ultrasound is when Greg will be on the road. I'll have to tell him if it's a boy or girl over the phone. I know it's no big deal, but ultrasounds are awesome and I'm sad he has to miss it. The last one was so fun.

Mom and Dad came into town, very last minute and stayed a couple days with us! It was so fun! We all really had a good time! I couldn't believe my Dad came to stay. He NEVER visits anyone. So I felt pretty spoiled. We thought for a sec that we might just go to their house instead and I'm so glad I decided they should come here. It's just a different experience in our own home. Scarlet's more comfortable, I'm more comfortable knowing our house is baby proofed, etc. They really got to know Scarlet a lot better and vice versa. I think a lot better than us staying there for even longer. Scarlet got really attached to them, it made me so happy. She really has had few chances to be around them and she played a lot with both of them and had some really long snuggles with them before they went home. I'm just really glad they got to connect before we leave.

It's so weird, with us leaving- the big "boo hoo" about it is that Scarlet's leaving. I mean, everyone will miss Greg and I too, but it's not like we're CHANGING and we can talk on the phone and blog. It's not the same as Scarlet being gone. And it makes me so happy that I never have to say good bye. She's mine! I get to take her wherever I go and it makes me really happy. I suppose that sounds a strange thought, but I've seriously been thinking about it a lot lately and keep mentioning it to Greg.

I'm finally starting to pop out a bit. Most people are constantly saying, "You're not even showing! How can you be 17 weeks?" And it irritates me and I want to say, "Look at my arms! Look at my legs? If I was proportioned right, wouldn't my stomach be a bit flatter? People with arms and legs as skinny as mine don't have a gut." It really irritates me. I mean, I've never had a flat six pack or anything, but I've definitely never had a GUT. And I mean, seriously, there is quite a process between now and then-

I mean seriously, it's not like I have a flat stomach and then wake up to that. I'm showing long before this point. I know people think they're complimenting me by saying I'm not showing, but to me it sounds like they're just telling me I have a gut and always have had a gut. I know. I'm being sensitive. I was way sensitive about it last time. I thought I would pop out faster with my next, but maybe I'll just always carry my babies in.