Week Two Round Up

Week two?! Can you believe that?  I also owe you an apology.  It seems we left off with a note about Zelie having dropped and just let that hang out there.  I promise it wasn't deliberate, Mama is just tired, tired, tired.

So let's catch up, shall we?

Wednesday was our Doctor's appointment.  We started that with a very positive fetal monitoring session.  As long as Daddy read aloud to us, Miss Z stayed active and registered lots of good kicks and twists on the monitor.  That makes everyone happy.  The doctor herself was satisfied with our weight and overall health.  She found no signs of impending labor, but reminded us that she knew we are here expressly for the purpose of having this baby, so if /when something changes she expects us to come right in without hesitation.   Yes ma'am!

Wednesday night Daddy and Joseph had some boy time so that Mama and Aunt DD got a nice evening out before DD had to head home.  It was the first proper Italian meal we've had here in Boston's Little Italy and wow.  Just wow.  We were told that the food here would be more than a small consolation in our struggles.  We were told truly.

Thursday we said goodbye to Aunt DD.  We will miss her, but we are so glad we got to have her with us. We love you DD, and we are glad that you found your car!!  And who comes next but Nana! Thursday afternoon was mostly helping Nana settle in and letting Jospeh show off all the best hiding spaces in the cabinets.

That brings us to today.  A rainy, wet, clinging sort of a day it has been too.  But we didn't care.  We did a little sightseeing by car, got a little lost and then found again.  We had a really delicious lunch that included some Chicken Tinga (Aunt Honey we thought of you!) and spent some time at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual help.  What a beautiful, prayerful place.  It did Mama's heart good to come in from the cold into the quiet dark, illuminated mostly by an alcove where adoration was taking place and from a beautiful shrine to Our Lady's Perpetual Help.  Last of all we paid a visit to the Boston Children's Museum.  Fun! and Fun! If we lived here, we'd be regulars. We played in a fabulous tree house, visited all the turtles and then there were ....

Bubbles!  Oh man!

I hope everyone's Friday has been as much fun as ours.

Moving into the weekend there is little more to tell.  We hope to have a bit more fun exploring the city.  Daddy is once again delighted that there is no wake up call to move the car tomorrow.   Our next appointment is Wednesday.   And unless Zelie decides to show up early, something we hope for but cannot predict, that will be the time to check with us for the next bit of baby news. 

In the meantime I want to say once again what an amazing experience this has all been because of all of your continued love and prayers.  We see the wonder of that in every day we spend here.   Thank you.  Thank you for the part you have each played in getting us here, in sustaining our patience and our courage, in reminding us that this, all of it, is love visited on us.