The world has shifted.
You're here and you're perfect.
We're head over heals in love with you.

Okay!  We're ready!  Come on baby girl!

Well I am in the home stretch now.  I'm 37.5 weeks today and just sort of waiting.  Everything seems to be going fine.  I have weekly check ups and everything looks good everytime, so all good news!  I have no reason to think she'll come early, but I kind of hope she decides to (safely of course)!

Its a little surreal to feel like a ticking time bomb.  To feel fine but know there's a chance labor could start anytime.  I thought time would start to crawl, but I've actually stayed really busy this week, which I'm sure has helped my sanity.  

The weather has been beautiful lately and I've been walking quite a bit.  Germany, in my opinion, is 100x times better with everything green and lush.  As I've talked about before, this move has proven to be the hardest adjustment for me and I sometimes have a hard time seeing the good in where we are.  Warm weather, flowers blooming, and trees with their bright green baby leaves definitely help alleviate my nay saying tendencies.

Here are a couple pictures from a day in the park downtown Wiesbaden last weekend.  We spent two days last weekend just hanging out for the day with friends.

I finished a baby blanket for us recently.  I really like how it turned out.  The yarn is silky but keeps its form.  It was a smaller weight yarn than the pattern called for, so it was doubled up, but even so it turned out a little smaller than I expected.  I still like it and its functional though.  Next, hopefully pictures with her using it!

I packed my bag yesterday, so we're all ready.  Its a little weird, but its good that its done.  All I could think about when I was doing it was when I was little and we'd go to visit my cousins and I'd pack my bag months in advance because I was so excited :)  

The brown polka dot thing on top is my hospital gown (Thanks Melissa!).  They don't supply those here, as previously mentioned, so you have to bring your own if you want it.  I've also got my own towels, shower shoes, and of course clothes, toiletries, stuff for the baby, camera, book, and plug adapters.  I'll just have to grab my phone and charger when I leave the house (or wherever).  I'm sure I'm missing stuff, but that's what husbands are for!

We toured our third and final choice of hospitals today - St. Josefs.  We had been to this hospital before, but for other reasons, so I was anxious to look at it again with delivery in mind before deciding.  Unfortunately I still don't know which to choose but need to decide very soon...

We've pretty much eliminated Hospital Choice #1.  We weren't impressed by it and have heard negative feedback from multiple people.  This is the only hospital with a NICU, so we will just have to keep our fingers crossed and hope that everything goes well.

We really liked Hospital Choice #2.  It was newly renovated and felt very nice.  Even without being able to see every room because most were occupied, I liked it and it felt good.  However, the biggest drawback to this hospital is that its so small.  They can only accommodate 4 women in labor at a time, so there is a very real chance that they could be full when try and that we'd end up going to Hospital Choice #3 anyways.  We would call when we left the house to check, so there would potentially be no time lost, so that's not really a factor.  Also, it would be over 100 euro for a private recovery room here and you're much less likely to get it because the facility is so small.

Hospital Choice #3 was fine.  It wasn't as nice as Hospital #2 looks and ambiance-wise.  It felt older and more dated.  The rooms just weren't that hot.  They were functional and fine, but just bleh.  The benefits of going here would be that they could accommodate us without worry of being full (we wouldn't need to call ahead or anything), we've been here before so we're a little more familiar with the building and how to get there, and the price for a private room is only 45 euro (if they can accommodate it at the time - you're never guaranteed).  

There's really no other big factor between Choice #2 & #3 that could make it a more obvious choice. Its really just that #2 has a nicer feel to it than #3.  Both are fully capable and both are about equal distance from our house.

Hmmmm....

I posted a couple weeks ago about the headband making supplies I bought for Baby H.  I wanted to post some pictures on how they turned out.  I ended up having a ton more felt and elastic than I needed, so I went a bit overboard.  I still have a ton left too!  

It was fun and easy!  I would definitely recommend the tutorial I used for the felt flowers.

Jason and I spent some time yesterday hanging things in the baby's room.  This was the last to-do for the room and made a world of difference in my opinion.  I'm really happy with the room and how it turned out.  Its so nice to see it finally come together.  Not that a ton went into it, its pretty conservative overall, but we just slowly chipped away at it over the past couple months that it feels good for it to finally be done.  

Now just to wait for her to get here.  7 weeks until my due date!

On another note, our grass is in!!!  We'll get bushes put in along the fence in the next couple of weeks to add a little bit of privacy, but just having green vs. dirt makes me happy.  It makes such a difference looking out from the living room.  Its still super tiny and I really miss our gorgeous garden in CO, but its something.  Its nice to be able to let General out now too, and the grass has seriously cut down on the amount of paw wiping needed - thank goodness!

Did you know JCrew had baby clothes?  There are some pretty adorable pieces.  Too bad they're sewn using golden thread...

We finally have a fence & a gate!  Now for grass!  

We also found a rocking chair finally.  Turns out there was one tucked away in the furniture store's warehouse on post the whole time.  All I had to do was go in and talk to them about ordering one and then one magically appeared.  Its not super cool, but its fine.  Its not offensive or ugly, just plain.  I would have LOVED to have this one from the Land of Nod.  Oh well.  The sacrifices you make to live overseas! ;)

I'm hoping to get some stuff hung in there this weekend, so I'll post more pics then.