Yesterdays visit to the doctor gave us one more chance to hear Ben’s heartbeat. Everybody said he sounds great and his stress test looked good. Amy has started contractions but they are too small to feel and spread pretty far apart. We are scheduled to head to the hospital Sunday night to get started and settled in. They will begin inducing early Monday morning. That’s only a few days away! Hard to believe.

We had a pretty bad ice storm Monday night through Tuesday evening. San Antonio really shuts down for these things because nobody around here knows how to drive in bad weather. I was a little worried about Amy going into labor during all of it because I-10 was completely shut down in our neck of the woods. We would have been forced to call EMS or have her air lifted to the hospital. Thankfully all the highways reopened yesterday morning.

No baby yet. We were hoping they would want to induce today, but no dice. March 3rd is the drop-dead date though. Until then we’ll just keep our fingers crossed and wait it out.

We are so ready and anxious though, the sooner he gets here the better.

Sorry I haven’t posted in a few weeks. Amy and I have been making some last minute preparations for Ben’s arrival. The nursery looks awesome (I need to post a few pictures of the final product), we have everything we need: crib, car seats, clothes, toys, bottles, stroller, pack-n-play, etc. Oh, and did I mention diapers? Yep, we have diapers. We have more diapers than I think he’ll ever use. Ok, maybe not, but still! We are prepared!

This weekend we got so much done. I built some shelves and a workbench for the garage and Amy got to do a little gardening before it turned too cold.

Tomorrow we go to the doctor for the weekly checkup. If they think he is getting too big, they’ll want to consider inducing Amy to get him out beofre he get’s too big for a normal delivery. We’ll keep everybody posted.