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Dearest Joshua David~

Hello little man!  So, you woke up crying again last night.  :-P  We tried putting your mattress in your play area upstairs before we all went to bed, and placed our mattress next to your area, but that didn't work.  You woke up and started to cry.  Daddy leaned over and rubbed your back, and for a minute we thought you have drifted off again .... but you woke up crying once more until we had to take you out and plop you in our bed.  Tonight, I'll try something different .... I'll place our mattresses side by side and touching and see if that makes a difference.  :-P

Once you fell back asleep, we all ended up sleeping in a little.  Then, we got up and ate breakfast together.  Daddy sprayed the mandolin some more .... it's really looking good!  He also created a little logo to put on the headstock.  It says, "Sweetpea" with a 'serial number' of 12092010 for my birthday!  How creative!  'Sweetpea' is a nickname that my grandfather gave me when I was smaller than you!  ;-)  So, in order to place the logo on the wood, we needed Uncle Brennan's help with his laser printer.

We ran a few little errands this morning to finish our Christmas shopping .... Christmas is going to be 'low key' this year since we're in the 'negative' budget wise.  :-P  But, honestly, all daddy and I need is to be together with family .... and to have you and Peanut healthy!  I told people at work that all I needed for Christmas was to still be pregnant!  

Along that note .... tomorrow we'll officially be 30 weeks gestation, which is how far I was with you until the emergency C-section.  So, if we make it past 1:11pm tomorrow afternoon, we'll officially be in 'unknown territory' and further along in this pregnancy.  Then, we have our 30 week ultrasound appointment on tuesday.  Mimi and Gigi are going with us so they can see Peanut again.  Keep praying your little sister is doing well.  I have a feeling she is though because she is constantly moving.  :-P  Daddy's even seen her moving around too because my belly will move.  Ha!  :-)  We tease that she will grow up to be a 'Rockette' or soccer player.  

Anyway, once we finished our shopping, we swung by and picked up Uncle Brennan for lunch.  Aunt Katie was heading to a friend's house, but you got to see her briefly and their dogs!  Two dogs were outside, but one, Penelope, was inside and licked you.  ;-)

We had fun with Uncle Brennan.  We ate lunch at an Asian restaurant and then headed over to a carpet store.  They had remnant fabrics there, so we found a piece that was just shy of 12' by 12' for the master bedroom.  They're going to bind it for us so we'll have a 'rug' to place under the bed.  This will hopefully protect our new floors.  We're also looking into a cute rug for the nursery before we move all this furniture back in.  Uncle Brennan carried you all around the store as daddy and I ordered the carpet piece.  

Then, we got to meet up with Aunt Katie at her friend's house because they needed help with a laptop.  Uncle Brennan was able to fix it, but while there, you got to meet Zelda .... a little girl about 8 months old!  She's so cute and the two of you smiled at each other.  You also clapped and tried to crawl around to her, but we had to make sure you didn't get too close or your helmet could have bumped her since she was smaller.  :-P  But, you made a new friend.  When we left, it was snowing outside .... just a small drizzle of snow and nothing stuck.  

Uncle Brennan stayed at our house to watch the game that evening.  UNC lost that basketball game, but it was so close!  Our next game is tuesday, so I'm sure we'll come out stronger then.  :-)

Daddy took Uncle Brennan home after the game while I gave you a bath and watched some of 'The Wizard of Oz' which was on television.  Daddy got the logo printed at Uncle Brennan's house .... came home to place it .... and soon realized we needed a different sealer for the wood .... the ink ran from the logo.  :-P  Well, we'll try again later.  

I hope you sleep a little better tonight!  Sleep tight little one!

I love you!  :-)

~Mommy