Sunny 9 for 2006 November 8

Another day of Aaron coming home late ahead of me. Too late for Lily to see him, again. I will be so glad when his Pathology test will be over tomorrow. The second year of Dental School has really been harder than the first. And I hear the worst is yet to come. Supposedly, the second semester of the second year is the hardest and then they say the first semester of the first year. Whoever told me that the first year was hardest was maybe right, but definitely not the busiest. I agree the first semester was tough because Aaron had Gross Anatomy and was forced to go in on Saturdays to study, but not too bad. I mean I saw Aaron more then than when we first had Lily when he was juggling school and a part time job and I was working part time as well doing tag team.

I can't complain too much. Some people's husbands study this much every week. Every time I think about it, I am so grateful that I married Aaron who on one hand some would call lazy, but really he just likes spending time with his family more than being in the top 10 (even though I know if he really wanted to he probably could-but we would never see him). It is very busy times like this week when it is imperative he studies or fails where I am reminded how grateful I am to have him around more often.

Went to the Dr yesterday. I hope I don't jinx myself by writing this down, but she scheduled an induction Nov 30th at 5:30AM. If all goes well, we will have a baby boy then. I feel like I am cheating getting to have him early and I am, but I firmly believe I deserve it. I still remember leaving the midwife's office with Lily so distraught when she said she wouldn't induce me ON MY DUE DATE. I had to wait. And Lily was a whopping 8# 2oz and apparently too big.

But seriously, when people you don't even know are telling you that you look like you are ripe and ready (nice manners) right now, and you feel it...well, you can imagine my joy. Obviously, I don't want to have Gunnar if he is not ready, but let's hope he is Nov 30th so we can go ahead with it. It is crazy to think I will be having a new life in 3 weeks. I am very excited and happy to say now that I am ready for it.

In other news, I am not sure if I mentioned how adorable Lily was on Halloween. We went to our ward trunk or treat and she was the cutest saying "trick or treat" and then saying thank you to most of the people. She liked everybody putting candy into her "pumpkin purse". We went to my mom's afterward for the annual doughnut night and I thoroughly enjoyed 2 of them. We still have tons of candy that I am contemplating throwing away.

Aaron and I have done some shopping too. We went ahead while Costco was having a Vita-Mix show and bought one as an early Christmas present to each of us. They are discounted when you get them at Costco so we went ahead and bought it this early since we would be saving like $100 to do so. That day we made like 4 different recipes they had in their recipe book to try it out and let me tell you: it is worth every penny. The Vita-Mix makes the best smoothies. It is the most amazing blender. It takes no time to make one as opposed to our other blender, it would take forever and start smelling like something was burning, not to mention the consistency was nothing like how you want it.

We also got Gunnar's crib bedding. We went to the mall and stopped in Pottery Barn Kids and found the most amazing sale on the At the Zoo set. $25.99 for the quilt and bumper each and we got the bed skirt and matching valance and crib sheets. We also got a steal on a 5x8 rug. It wasn't the pattern I thought I would get but I really like it and since it was a better deal than the Oliver set I want then I am ok with it. Now I just need to get Aaron to paint the room and turn it into the baby’s room and we are all set. Can't wait to see how it turns out. It is fun designing your own nursery for your little baby.