Almost 2!!!!!

I can't believe you are almost TWO, Charlotte!! Two years ago today, your dad and I were admitted to the hospital. It was a typical day for me on modified bedrest. I rolled out of bed and went straight to the couch, worked for a few hours, broke for lunch and a little Days of Our Lives, and then cut out a little early for Oprah that was DVR'd from the day before - those last few weeks were great!! :) We had a doctor's appointment at 4:30 across town, and Daddy was going to meet met there (it was by his work). Because Mommy was so engrossed in Oprah, she never got around to really getting ready. I had time to take a shower, but just thought I would pull my hair back, no big deal.

Drive across town - ten days late - meet daddy at the doctor. Dr. A wanted to get one last ultra sound just to check on the amniotic fluid. We had a plan to get admitted to the hospital on the 12th (Thursday night) and deliver you on the 13th. This was the last check before delivery. Dr. A just wanted to get a look at the fluid, b/c the only thind that would disrupt our plan is if there was low amniotic fluid.

Daddy and I arrived and quickly found out that we had crazy ultrasound Doctor! Dr. J is very well-known in Cleveland and is the "expert" of ultrasounds for the Cleveland Clinic, but she's nuts!! Absolutely no bedside manner, and she just barks orders - Mommy talks about this lady with all of her friends, b/c we've all seen her! Tech couldn't get a good reading on the amniotic fluid, so she called in Dr. J. Dr. J starts flying around the room, can't scrape together enough amniotic fluid to get a measurement, and tells us we need to go to L&D immediately!! She calls Dr. A, tries to tell him that she's sending us, he's not answering - Daddy and I are just looking at one another like we don't know what to do... it was chaos. So, we wait in the waiting room while Dr. J tries to get ahold of Dr. A. She comes flying out into the waiting room and tells us to go now! We're on the fourth floor of the hospital and we need to go to Labor and Delivery on the 2nd floor.

Daddy calls work - he left his laptop on his desk, b/c he thought he was just going for a quick doctor visit. I call work, because it looks like I'm not working the next day. Then we called Grandma Cee Cee and she and Gigi started making the four hour trek to come meet you!!

Little did we know you would be born two days later.... more to come later!