It’s almost time! Parker Webb Nunley will be here before we know it and
I cannot wait! Pregnancy is funny—when you’re clutching the toilet for close to
20 weeks due to morning sickness, you feel as if you will never get through the
pregnancy. However, when you’re T-Minus 5 weeks until D-Day, it starts to go by
a little (or a lot) faster. Although my husband will probably argue that after
hearing me whine about my sciatic nerve and overall “heaviness” of my belly for
the last 4 weeks. It’s really amazing at how months just fly by and then one
day you’re like “Oh crap, I had better start washing all those tiny little baby
clothes in dreft soon!!”
One of my favorite pregnancy times is going to public places and people
who don’t even know me say “You’ll never make it until January 15th!”
This has actually happened to me several times just this week alone! I went to
Babies ‘R Us to return an item and the lady that was assisting me asks my due
date and when I tell her, she says “Oh hunny, you’ll explode before then!” The
same exact response came from my cashier at wal-mart two days ago… and I’m like
“Well, would you like to be my OB/GYN? Because frankly, she thinks I’m going to
make it… no matter how often I bug her about an induction date, or remind her
at how large I feel like my child is, or tell her repeatedly how huge my
husband and I were at birth!” I know I’m huge… thanks for the reminder!
Although, truthfully, I had no idea how big I was until I saw myself in some
pictures taken at my last baby shower… and I was wearing black! What the heck,
I thought black was supposed to be slimming to the figure, haha, not!!
Mainly, I’m not anxious about Parker’s arrival because I’m miserable,
because honestly, I’m not too uncomfortable. I am just so very excited to meet
this sweet little boy that I’ve carried around for nearly nine months. I cannot
wait to see what his face looks like, and what color hair he has (if he has
any!), and what color his sweet little eyes are going to be. It’s all so
exciting, I can hardly stop going into his bedroom and just sitting and looking
at all his sweet baby stuff! I sit there and imagine this gorgeous tiny baby
laying in his crib cooing and babbling at his hand-made dinosaur mobile! Doesn’t
that sound like the perfect story book scene? Let’s all hope it’s something
close to that! Haha!
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Now that all the baby showers are over—I have to say that Parker is one
loved and very blessed little man. I cannot believe the outpouring of support
and gifts that he received in the past few months. Everything is absolutely
amazing, and I know that we will put it all to great use! Some of my favorite
things that were given to us were the hand-made gifts. One thing in particular
pulled on my heart-strings, and I had to try really hard not to shed any tears…
and that is the dinosaur blanket that my sweet little sister made for Parker. I
know that so much love was poured into this blanket to Parker from his Auntie
Bay Bay, and Parker will love it for many years to come! This blanket is
especially touching for me because about a year before my Mamaw Mamaw passed
away, she made me, my mom, and my sister blankets that are very similar to this
one—and now, Parker will have one too! I love my blanket, and it’s something very
sentimental to me. It means so much to me that my sister is so ready and
excited to be an aunt! We’ve decided that we would love for her to be in the
room with us when Parker meets the world for the first time- so I’m sure that
we will all share a special bond that will make us even closer!
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Speaking of my sweet little sister- I would like to ask that everyone
say a few extra prayers for her over the next few weeks. She is going to have
another (and hopefully last) back surgery to remove all the metal that is in
her back. She’s been having some issues with it over the past few months and
after seeing her surgeon, they decided it would be best to go ahead and take
out everything. According to her MRI or CT, her back has completely fused back
together and this procedure shouldn’t cause any problems in that department.
The doctor explained that thanks to Bekah being so skinny, every time she moves
her arms her muscles are scraping over this metal, and it’s slowly tearing at
her back muscles. See—I told you one day it would pay to be a little “fluffy”
haha! She should only have to stay in the hospital for one night, and then her
recovery would be anywhere from three weeks to a month and a half. Although,
knowing Bekah, she’ll be up and at ‘em in no time at all! I mean she was
walking 3 days after her car accident that nearly left her paralyzed. Let’s
just hope that Parker doesn’t decide to come before Bekah is able to move
around a little bit! Also, everyone will need to watch for Bekah on the news on
Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. Lori Tucker is coming back to interview Bekah
to do a “year later” piece on Bekah and her recovery! It should be a good
story! I’ll keep everyone posted on the details!
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