In all my excitement and anticipation to meet our little Guy, it only occured to me today that these few days are going to be the last time that Corey and I will ever be alone. Alone, until we hit the empty nester stage of life--in about 30 years. What do you do when you know that these last few days are all you have left before our little bundle of joy comes? We have talked about visiting all the sites around NYC that we love and taking pictures and just enjoying the city. However, luck would have it that it is raining all week. We have delayed this adventure just long enough that if we go we will get soaked.
As I reflect on our wonderful 4 years(in july) together, we have had some fun. Our Cross Country excursion of a honeymoon and our couple of road trips to KY were great fun. We have enjoyed the city with just us and with visiting family. Helicopter rides over NYC and Broadway shows, walks in the park, Ultimate Frisbie games, and enjoying the run around the Horse trail and then progressing to doing the loop on the road; Summer sundays lounging on the grass on the Great Hill reading, napping and eating fruit, Visiting almost all the tourist traps here with family; Hitting up the Bronx Zoo with David, Melanie, and Luke, and we each taking turns riding the camel; Spending Christmas in the city and going to see the Rockettes; Visiting our favorite Vender (Which we do only about once a year on special occasions) and splitting an Italian sausage and Philly Cheestake sandwich. YUMMM! (As you can tell we are not huge restaurant people (when you travel for a living and eat at restaurants most of the week it gets to be all the same.) so we don't have too many well frequented spots.) This was one of the last things I wanted to do before the baby comes, because after he is here, eating it could mean a big diaper blowout. A couple of years ago we took my sister-in -law Melanie to eat there and she was still nursing her little one and he had the worst diaper explosion from the spicy food.........it was really really messy and stinky. Hence before the baby comes would be ideal to eat at our vender:):)
We have hiked and floated down a river in idaho and lost a wedding ring in the chilly water (good thing it was Corey's and not mine, due to it being a bit easier and cheaper to replace), visited aquariams and mamoth caves, and of course the corvette museum (very cool by the way).
Although our more exotic trips (ie. Hawaii, Italy, Fall Coastal drive in a convertible) have gotten cancelled due to things coming up, I must say that we have had a great time together, just the two of us. We are very excited to be adding on to our family, but I have been really trying to document and organize all our photos of our life as just the two of us. Kind of backtracking to journal it all before it is a long lost memory.
Perhaps we will do something special in the next couple of days or perhaps we won't. I guess it won't matter much since we have done much together and had a great time doing it. No regrets here and we are ready for the next phase of life..... with kids.
We had a successful Home Birth. It was wonderful to be able to just relax and bond immediately following the birth. It was a great exerience. I will write a little more details of the birth later as it did have its complications. These pictures were taken before he was 1 day old. We think he is the most adorable guy in the world.