Waiting...

Only one more day until we force Number Two to make his or her big entrance!

For the past few days we've been trying to keep ourselves busy while we've waited.

On Friday, Em and I headed to lunch with some friends. As I parked at a meter on the street outside of the restaurant, I realized Emory had fallen asleep. I took her out of the car seat, proceeded to carry her {and my 40+ weeks pregnant self} across the busy intersection and it occurred to me {for the first time} that this would be impossible for me to do if I also had to carry a baby seat! Looks like that might have been our last lunch out for a while! So we made the best of it and stopped at the new bakery Cupcake while we were out as well. I'll be requesting those this week while I'm in the hospital for sure!

Saturday morning we set out to make the stepping stone that Mimi bought Emory for her birthday. I had high hopes for this cute little project, but it turns out she didn't exactly understand what we were doing and so it didn't turn out *perfect*, but cute nonetheless.

She helped Daddy stir the cement mixture.

{We did this right after breakfast in order to beat the heat, so pardon her pjs and bed head!}
She {not so cooperatively} made her handprint.
Then she decorated the outside with tiles and stones. It has to set for 3 full days, so we'll come back from the hospital to see our finished product!

After our little art project, I went ahead and pulled out my Halloween decorations, because nothing would be worse than getting all caught up in newbabyness and forgetting to celebrate Halloween!! Kidding, of course, but I'm so happy I did this with just Emory around because she SO enjoyed seeing all of the "punkins" and "piders". I think she's really gonna be into the Holidays this year...finally!!

Saturday night we had some friends over to watch the Carolina game. Emory and Callie did great at entertaining each other...mostly Emory just tried to copy everything Callie did, like crawling around all night instead of walking. :)

Sunday morning we celebrated sweet David Robert's Dedication {oops, no pictures!} and got to spend one last morning with Mimi and Papa before they have to divide their attention among 3 grandbabies!

After a nice long nap, Aunt Boo and Alex picked Em up to go see Elmo! She had been telling people all morning that she was gonna see Elmo, but I wasn't sure if she would actually enjoy it or be scared to death. From what I hear, she was a little unsure at first, but quickly realized the characters weren't coming close to her and then she loved it! She ran in the back door when she came home shouting "I seed Elmo, Cookie Moster, Big Bir...."! Thanks Boo and Alex for giving Emory a little special attention right before her world is about to be turned upside down!!

Emory and I are chilling out at home all day trying to relax before she heads to Grandmama and Granddaddy's house tonight, since we'll be up bright at early to be at the hospital by 5:30am.

Hard to believe last night was the last time we put her to bed as our one and only. I know the next few weeks may be a little difficult for her, but we cannot wait to begin life as a family of four!

If you have an extra second, please say a quick prayer that everything goes smoothly over the next few days as we leave our baby girl, welcome Number Two to the world and adjust to life with two kids.

We look forward to updating with our big news tomorrow!!!