Ready to Pop

Yesterday, just one day after we learned how big Nub has become, Niki got a call from her doctor summoning us to her office this morning to discuss the results. That's about as much information as we got, leading to a long night of wondering exactly what it was she wanted to discuss that required such urgent attention. When we got there this morning, we went to a room to wait for the doctor. A few moments later, one of her assistants came in to ask us who Nub's pediatrician will be. When she left, I turned to Niki. "That's an ominous sign I think. Do you think we're going to have a baby, like, later today to present to the pediatrician?" 

Well, not so fast. But not so far either. The bottom line: Niki is not going to make it to our March 9 due date. Because if she did, it's conceivable that Nub would be so big by then that he'd be able to just skip the whole milk, crawling and early development phase and just sit down for a burger, tell us how his day went and could he have the car keys, please?

And so, if Nub is not ready to join us by March 2, it appears that's the day the doctor would like to bring him into the world. That leaves us about 10 days or so to make our final preparations. Unless, of course, Nub has other plans for us. And as you can see above, it seems like he could very well be with us just about any minute.