Well, today is my last full day to be pregnant. Baby boy should be arriving tomorrow. We have an appointment to get induced tomorrow morning at 6am at the hospital.
He had his little hands in front of his face when we did the 3D sonogram back in July, but here are a few pictures of baby boy.
I am currently 38 weeks along, and we found out at my latest doctor appointment yesterday that my platelet count has once again dropped so much that we need to induce early. Luckily, I lasted longer this go round (Baylor was 6 weeks early), and everything should be just fine with the baby developmentally at this point in the pregnancy. I had a feeling about this doctor appointment, so I scheduled it to be at 4:30pm so that Dustin could come with me. I normally go in the mornings, but I was thinking he should be there, and I was right. After seeing the results of last week's platelet count, my doctor came into the exam room yesterday with "we're having a baby this week!" She then said tomorrow wasn't good for her, so would we like Thursday or Friday. Yikes! I left the decision up to Dustin since his birthday is on Friday. He was back and forth on the decision but ultimately settled on Thursday.
While the list of projects I had wanted to do before baby arrived is not anywhere close to being done, the baby's room is ready! Baylor had moved to "the big boys room" awhile back. I would sit and rock him in their room while they fell asleep and then take Baylor to his crib in his room. He soon decided that he wanted to stay with brothers in their room. So, back in December or January, we moved a toddler bed into Southern's and Remington's room. Baylor loved sleeping with them, and we were thinking of moving his dresser into that room and moving all of the toys into his room to have one bedroom and one playroom. Well, that plan didn't work out, but we did have a room with an empty crib, so God was working His magic.
We left Baylor's dresser in his room, but the bottom drawer was broken on it, and we needed a dresser for the new baby as well. We went "shopping" at Dustin's granny's house for Dustin's old dresser from when he was little. We ended up coming home with that one plus one more that we found in the attic of her old house. Southern and Remington had matching dressers, but they both needed bigger ones. So we did a little rearranging. Dustin gave his two large dressers to Southern and Remington. (Southern got the one that matches our bedroom furniture, and Remington got the one that used to belong to Dustin's great-grandfather). We moved Southern's and Remington's old dressers into "the little boys room" for Baylor and the baby. We moved Baylor's dresser with the broken bottom drawer into his closet to be used as a costume dresser. We threw away the bottom drawer, and now it's his shoe shelf. And Dustin got the two "new" dressers from his granny's.
I also rearranged the boys' names on their walls. I had bought wooden letters at Hobby Lobby to spell out their names, and I had painted them to hang over their crib when they were born. Since we had a new baby needing the crib, a new name was needed over it. And I had never gotten around to hanging Southern's name back up after the addition of their bunk bed. So I'm happy we got that all finished in time.
Baby Wyatt boy #4 will be named Everett Andrew Wyatt :) I've liked the name Everett since 7th grade when a new boy came to our class with that middle name. Dustin also liked the name ever since he saw the movie The Family Stone since one of the characters in that movie has that name. We even talked about it when I was pregnant with Remington before I discovered the name Remington in my baby name book and fell in love with it. We decided on Andrew as his middle name (even before we settled on Everett as his first name) because we honeymooed in Andrews, NC. We also went back there to stay for a few days this past Spring Break with our boys for our 10th anniversary (while I was pregnant with Everett). So I decided Everett's theme for his room should be mountains/elk/bears to remind us of our stays in The Great Smoky Mountains. I will eventually get some of our trip photos printed and put on the wall above his dresser. We already have some landscape pictures from our honeymoon framed and hung in the hallway between the two kid bedrooms from back before there were any kids.
So please keep me and Everett in your prayers tomorrow. We received a blessing for expectant parents from Father Tony this past Sunday after Mass. I hope everything goes smoothly!
