226 Days [32 Weeks 2 Days]

I can NOT believe how fast time is flying by now, here we are almost 33 weeks, and I haven't taken a chalkboard photo since 26 weeks!!  Do you know how I know?? Because the chalkboard still has 26 Weeks drawn on it!  I am going to do one TONIGHT!! I pinky swear... well I guess it really depends on when Rafal gets home and if he wants to photograph it... I hope so!

Speaking of photography... I have a friend who is interested in doing a free shoot for us, seeing as he doesn't have any maternity in his portfolio yet, and seeing as we are... BROKE it is a perfect set up.  But when your man never has a day off in advance, its very difficult to set something up.  I am hopeful that maybe on our upcoming trip to IL in July that we can have a close family friend take the photos for us, it would be worth the cost, the photographer has known me since I was born <3  I can't wait to have some belly pictures done with Rafal and Dylan!  They will be adorable!

SPEAKING of ADORABLE!  Yesterday I took on a big task, volunteer babysitting a friend of ours 18 month old daughter, Addison.  

-VOLUNTEERED.  FREE BABYSITTING. [aka, I am a very nice person.]-

SO!

That went amazingly, except that the dad didn't come pick her up until almost 4am, after we were told he would be picking her up between midnight and 1am.  So that was a buzz kill.

Although, she is the sweetest little baby girl I have ever had the honor of meeting.  What an angel.  I would melt when she would just stare in to my eyes and read my soul.  She was such a sweet heart, with such a sad life story for such a young lady.  Her mommy left her when she was just hours old, only see's her "when she feels like it", and she is being raised by her two uncles full time, because her daddy works crazy long hours.  She lives at her uncles house, and he is a hardcore rocker (which there is nothing wrong with, I am just showing how little female interaction she gets), he doesn't like being outdoors, and they live in an old dark rocker hippie trailer (again awesome lifestyle for a single man, not exactly a perfect home for a baby girl).  So this sweet little princess buttercup lovely baby doll, lives in a dungeon with a bunch of smelly men. 

[YES I know, she could have it a lot worse, and thank God she doesn't or I am not sure I would've given her back!]

She took to me right away, and I felt so loved, she was hugging and snuggling me right away.  At nap time I laid with her and rubbed her back like I would do with Dylan when he was little and she just laid there staring at me.  She played with my nose ring, and pointed out all my freckles on my arms, and baby babbled about them all.  It was just so sweet.  When she finally drifted off, Dylan and I got some much need alone time.  When Rafal got home from work, he melted when he came in and saw her smiling up at him.

I said right away...

"You are so screwed"

and he knew it was true and just sighed.  To think, yesterday he spent a good 12 hours with a baby girl that wasn't even his and he fell head over heels for her, he will be blown away when Maya gets here.  Talk about wrapped around a finger.  Holy cow.  Rafal will give new definition to what that means when Maya is smiling at him.  I loved watching him interact with her, it melted my soul, he has always been so good with kids, and considering before meeting me he had never even been around a toddler, let alone an infant, I never expected that.  He loves babies, and babies just love him!  

So last night was romantic, in a... "We've been through so much together, its nice to just lay here and breathe in your company" kind of way.  It was sweet to just lay in bed with a little baby and just look at her and make her smile and giggle.  At some point I teared up when rafal said "I bet she's never laid in a nice bed with a mommy and a daddy before" and it broke my heart to know he was right.  Immediately I said, "I can't believe how easy it is to fall in love with some one else's child." and I knew instantaneously that we will adopt one day.  We have talked about it in the past, about adopting a toddler, but last night was proof enough for me.  So many children are left unwanted in our world.  Maybe we can go to Poland one day and bring a little boy or girl home with us from daddy's country.

In other news:  Dylan was brought into this world between 36 and 37 weeks due to him getting so large, the doctor wanted to make sure I could have a natural birth.  He was 7lbs and 20" long at 36 weeks!!  Had he stayed in until what they call full term he could've been 10 pounds!!  Here we are going on 33 weeks, and all I am thinking about is how we are so close and yet so far away from a baby Maya birthing scenario!

At 35 Weeks we will have a 3D ultrasound to see how big she is getting and decide whether or not she will be induced early as well.  With Dylan I was scheduled to be induced on Friday March 14th, and told to come in to the hospital the night before about 9pm.  Well we were running late, as we always are, and didn't get to the hospital until almost midnight Thursday night/Friday morning.  Why were we running late you ask?  Because I had started having contractions, hardcore contractions, and was having a difficult time convincing myself to walk down the stairs from our apartment.  I was a big baby and scared.  But Dylan had decided to come out on his own without me having to be induced!  By 3:30pm I was fully dilated and by 3:40 I was told to push.  I only pushed 4 or 5 times and he was out at 3:53 PM!!  What an easy labor and delivery he was.

I firmly believe Maya Riley will be just as easy, if not easier since this isn't my first rodeo!

I can't wait!!

We could be holding her in the next 3-5 weeks!!  If she is like her brother at all, and as impatient as mommy we may see her sooner than her due date!