The Countdown

So the countdown is on for when Isaac Douglas will make an appearance in our little family. I would use that as an excuse for not blogging lately but the simple truth is that I got out of the habit when the spring sun started to shine and then my pregnant brain made me forget what the fetch my username and password was. At that point, I had given up but I think it's important to note Madeline's travails as she rushes head-long into big sisterhood. She only has 13 more days to be an only child.

I have to admit that at first, I was extremely nervous that she would reject the baby. After seeing her with dozens of stranger babies, and the way she loves to interact with Haleigh, I don't have that fear anymore. I think she'll be a little mommy to Isaac. The worry I have now is that she'll be mad at me. She has suddenly become very snuggly to me. She has never, even as an infant, been a very cuddly child. Sure, she wanted comfort when she was sick or hurt. We now find ourselves snuggling in my bed in the mornings after she wakes up watching her new favorite shows, Dora the Explorer and Go Diego Go! Then if I sit on the couch in our family room, she will inevitably find herself sitting right next to me. Don't get me wrong, in a way, I cherish this with all my heart. I love to feel her little big-girl body pressed up against me, confirming that she loves I'm her mommy. But enter Baby Isaac. How is she going to handle it? Mommy won't be so completely at her disposal. Time will tell, I suppose.

On a brighter note in all of the Sivill family's lives, we are moving! We found out that we were now in a good financial position to buy a house a month earlier than expected. We looked around and found a cute little house in Tooele, Utah (about 30 miles west of Salt Lake City). We feel the Lord's hand in this. Too many things have been going right so far. Not only did the seller accept our inital offer with no counter-offer (we offered them $14,000 less than they were asking for) but they want to close on the house a week earlier than we had proposed. Now closing is completely up to the mortgage folks we're dealing with but still, we just feel so blessed. It has just about everything we had on our wish list. It's a total of about 2800 sq feet with 1400 being the top floor. Its got a huge kitchen, 3 bedrooms on the top, a laundry room on the top floor, in a new, nice neighborhood with a small community park with a playset across the street, and a nice master bedroom with doors to the bathroom and closet I can actually get my wheelchair through (note: most newer built homes were using sub-standard sized door frames for master baths and closets). So hopefully the next month's timetable will look something like this:

July 10 - Issac makes his appearance by c-section
July 23 - we close on the house and start moving in
July 30 - we close on the house because the guy selling it will be out of town the week before and for some reason we couldn't close on the 23rd
August 24 - I will be living large in my new house for my 31st birthday and make everyone drive for a hour or more to get to my house to celebrate - LOL