We're getting close....

.... or at least that's what all the signs are showing. I have to warn you, this post may have way too much information, so if you're not interested in hearing all about the early stages of labor, just ignore this post and come back later!!

Last night I couldn't sleep at all. Literally I was up most of the night. I woke up with cramping around 2 and could never fall back asleep. When Caleb woke up at 7:30, I was a total zombie so it was off to Starbucks I went to get a little pick me up. Oh, what a difference it makes! LOL.

After Katherine woke up, I took both kids into bed with me, put a show on for them and tried to rest for a while. Once again, I was totally unsuccessful... So Matt took them out for breakfast, and I finally got around to taking a shower around 11 (going to church was the last thing I could muster up the energy to do this morning so that just didn't happen). The cramping continued and about half way into my hour long shower, I realized that I lost my plug. I started having cramping and severe shaking almost immediately....

Oh, you should see my eye make up today. It looks like a 4th grader applied it for me. I had to put it on in the middle of shaking like a leaf, and it's just not pretty! LOL.

I realized that I was starving, so Matt took off to PF Changs and picked up lunch for us, and then stopped at a different place for the kids.

At any rate, I feel awful.... This baby has got to be close! I'm super crampy and shaking like my body is going through shock. I'm sure it won't be long!

So Matt changed the sheets on our bed and got everything ready for my mom to come and stay tonight if the little guy decides to make his entry into the world in the next 24 hours.

I'm not nervous about the pain or actually giving birth. In fact, it's just the opposite. I'm so ready to meet this little guy and hold him in my arms for the first time. What I am nervous about is Katherine and Caleb... leaving them for a couple of days, wondering about how they'll be when I'm in the hospital, and missing them like crazy. Sure they'll spend a lot of time there, but Caleb is such a Momma's boy that it's hard for other people to take care of him, and Katherine, she's my mini-me. I know they'll be fine, but I'd really like to be the one to make their meals, play with them, read them their stories and put them to bed.... Soon enough!!