Progress?

I'm a day away from being 29 weeks pregnant, which is just crazy, because that means that it's just 11 short weeks until Elizabeth is due.

So how are we doing with all the tasks we need to get done before the baby arrives?  Well....

The day care situation is unresolved, because we are on a waiting list.  We won't know until around mid-April whether we got a coveted slot or not.  To clarify, this daycare is on campus (meaning super convenient), and the infant "classroom" has 8 spots.  Three or four of those spots will be taken by babies who are returning to the daycare in August, so we're up for the four or five remaining spots.  Unfortunately, there are about four or five people on the list ahead of us, and one of these terrible people is having twins.

Ah well.  I've contacted a woman who has an in-home care license, and she comes very highly rated by the state standards.  She's also cheaper than the daycare, and she'll take our little one earlier than the on-campus daycare will (they won't take her until she's twelve weeks old, and she'll take her whenever we want).  She doesn't anticipate having any problem fitting us in.  But she's not on campus, so dropping the baby off and picking her up will be a little less convenient. Still, as a back-up to the campus care it doesn't seem too bad.  As soon as we know for sure that we're passed over by the campus day care, we'll go take a tour of this lady's place.

We are dragging our feet on purchasing a new vehicle.  You'd think we'd be more excited, but it's just so worrisome--we want to make sure we get a good deal and that we make a good decision. It's going to be the biggest purchase we've ever made completely on our own, so...we're a little scared (understandably so, I think).  Vehicles cost too much money to make a rash decision, and we need this one to be reliable, to last a while, and to fit our family.  We're almost certainly going to end up in a van. Why does a couple who will only have one kid need a van, you might ask?  Well, because we have two child-substitutes (read: dogs) that we'll occasionally want to take around with us, too.  Even though they're small, one can't be trusted to roam the cabin free (especially with an infant in the back seat) and we can't exactly stuff them into the trunk. Given what we're willing to pay for a vehicle, balanced with our particular needs and concerns, vans are definitely better deals than any of the wagons we've seen.

We've ordered the crib, and it will come this Thursday (thank you, wonderful and lovely in-laws)! We still need to move furniture around so that the crib will actually fit somewhere in our house. We probably should have done something about that this weekend, but...it didn't happen.  Given that our baby shower (thank you, wonderful and lovely people in the Psychology Department at ECU) will be on April 12th, our laziness is especially unforgivable.

Eleven weeks. Good grief.