Finally a birth date!

So I finally decided on a birth date for our baby girl. It's going to be Wednesday, April 30th! Well, that's if everything goes as planned. I had concerns about that day because that the first day of Nate's summer block classes at school. I didn't want to be started in the morning and risk Nate not being there when she is born. The nurse reassured me that they start inductions all day long. She said that when the hospital calls me with a time to come in and if I think it's too early, that I just ask if they can bump up someone else on the list to be induced before me. So, I know that might be a stressful day trying to time it right but obviously I thought it was worth it. This way I can come home before Aubrey's 3rd birthday too! The one sad thing about this date is that that means I am going to have to miss John and Mallory's wedding on the 1st. It will be the first out of all of Nate's friends weddings that I will miss. Seeing that I met Nate at age 15, his friends mean a lot to me too, and I am sad I won't get to be there. Hopefully Nate will still be able to make it, I can handle a couple alone hours in the hospital with the new baby, right? Besides, Dr. Melendez even said that he's not sure if I will even make it to the induced date, after he checked me today. I'd like to said it gave me hope that I will go even earlier (before Nate's classes start) but it really didn't. I was two days late with Aubrey and my mom was late with all of her kids. She was the lastest with me, I was three weeks late, horrible huh? So I deserve all that is coming to me!

The only other news I have is that Aubrey woke up last night a 11:45pm (just as we were going to bed, of course) throwing up. I hate when she is sick with anything, but throwing up is the worse. She gets to the point that I swear she is throwing up her insides. Sorry for the visual. This flu bug scares me right now for a couple of reasons. One, I got the flu when I was pregnant with Aubrey and it was the worst night of my life, and I don't want to do it again. Second, and most important is that I really don't want Nate to get this either. As many of you know he was diagnosed not even two weeks ago with Type 1 diabetes. The fun life of pricking the finger and giving himself insulin shots all day long. Anyway, one of the things the doctors saids is be careful if you ever get the flu. They see a lot of diabetics come back to the hospital because they can't get their blood sugar steady when they can't hold anything down. I just don't want him to have to go through anything more. So, I'm hoping we did enough not to catch it, but we had to get knee deep in it to take care of Aubrey. She finally stopped the throwing up and fell back to sleep around 3am. And she woke up happy and feeling good, which makes me extremely happy!

I thought I'd add a picture I took of Nate in the ICU. Don't all the tubes and the monitors make it feel so cozy? He saw this picture last night and said, "WOW! I really was looking sick, my face is so skinny!" And that's exactly what I had been telling him for months! Hence, the reason I made him a doctors appointment.

After a night in the hospital and two weeks of insulin shots and finger pricking he already is looking and feeling so much better. I have quite the handsom husband! Sure, it is a pain to do those things, but he really hasn't complained. He's our hero.
These pictures were taken today before my doctors appointment. We went out to lunch first, did not make for a fun number on the scale at the doctors appointment!

See, she woke up a happy girl, after a miserable night of the flu. And she stayed happy all day!