Hurry Up & Wait

With a due date of this Saturday and a doctor who typically induces no later than a week after the due date, it is pretty much a given that Owen will be born sometime in the next 13 days. 

At this point, Em is just ready to go into labor (and I can't disagree).  She doesn't feel this way because she is experiencing any new pain or uneasiness or anything like that.  No, I think it is just the "not knowing when" aspect of going through the last couple weeks. 

In the last couple of weeks Em experienced contractions.....but nothing serious.  However, when they happened (and it is your 1st child), it is normal to ask "Is that a contraction, or something else?".  I think the wait for him to come actually slows time.  It's almost like when we were kids waiting for Christmas morning.  (I remember as a kid asking my mom if Christmas was going to come soon (It was probably early December at the time).  My mom's response was, "Christmas is just around the corner".  I'm embarassed to say now that I didn't know metaphors then and took her literally.  I must've stared out the window at least an hour to the end of our block looking for that elusive Christmas that would eventually turn onto our street.  I'm an idiot.) 

In any event, I hope that Owen arrives sooner than it seemed to take Christmas to arrive.