Still waiting

[David]: Pregnancy actually lasts 10 months, not 9. Nobody tells you that until you are already pregnant. What I'm learning now is that the last days and weeks of pregnancy might just be the hardest because of the intense waiting – not knowing when or where or how. Everyone asking, "No baby yet?" People calling to make sure we didn't have the baby and forget to tell them. People saying, "the baby just isn't ready yet."

Maybe we're just impatient people. Or maybe this is the first lesson of parenthood, to learn that things don't happen when you want them to, that you can't plan for them, can't do anything to make the kid do what you want without at least a little negotiation. (Even with some negotiation there are no promises. I've already talked to the kid in Lori's belly offering all kinds of bribes to make him or her come out. It's silly that I even do this, but somehow I think it will do some good.)

So we wait along with everyone else. It's not quite ready, the time is not right, it will come with it comes. No baby yet.