We're counting on one hand now!!!

Just about all my thoughts right now are about Saturday's arrival of Brian, Ann, and Natasha! We have everything ready:

• Jim installed the safety gate upstairs yesterday.
• The sheets are on the bed in the guest bedroom, and the crib is ready for Natasha (but will she sleep in it???).
• The bathrooms are stocked with diapers and wipes, and the upstairs bathroom has rubber duckies ready to take a bath with Natasha.
  
• The pantry is full of healthy baby food (but will she eat it???), and the freezer is bursting with banana and pumpkin breads, cinnamon rolls, muffins, and Christmas cookies!!!
• The leaf is in the kitchen table ready to accommodate our expanding family.
• In a few days, Jim will be picking up the baby seat for the car that we are borrowing.
• The toys and books we have bought and borrowed are collected in the living room, waiting for a special little someone to play with them.
• The Christmas in October gifts are wrapped and waiting for Dave and Meg to arrive on the 15th so the whole family can put up the Christmas tree together, a dream I had long abandonned when Brian moved to Thailand.
  
• The stockings have been hung by the chimney with care, and our house looks like Christmas is just around the corner . . . we sorta bypassed Halloween and Thanksgiving for the time being.

I can't wait to see that little face appear among the throng of travelers at the airport. Maybe I'll be lucky enough to open my eyes one morning and see that little face looking up at me - so many special moments waiting for us to cherish in our hearts forever.