T minus 3 days, 9 hours and change...

...little nervewracking knowing one is going into surgery.  Wish it were not so.  But alas, grateful for good care since it is.  I had my telephone pre-op today and found out that we need to be at the reception desk at 6am, not 6:30am.  So, with 50 minute transit, and the need to take a surgical shower with chlorhexadine something something that morning (hibiclens), and general getting ready, Tuesday is going to be an early morning :} Also found out that surgery with each subsequent C-section takes longer because of scar tissue and adhesions at the incision site.  How does a body take all this abuse?  (Aunt Liskin, less some divine intervention, you don't need to worry about knitting us any more stockings, know what I mean?)

But we're going to meet our little girl!  I'm mostly just excited!  We're down to a short list of names now, which is serious progress.  Owen doesn't like a one of them, and is still insisting on 'Flower', or if he really has to be flexible, 'Rose'.  Good thing I know he'll come around quickly (and I told him that he can call her whatever he wants and Flower can be his special nickname for her if he wants to call her that...he is satisfied).  Here's what happened with the girl name...we both love the name 'Asha' for a girl (pronounced like Sasha without an S); have since before we found out Asher was a boy.  Well, we didn't have many boy names we liked, and our affection for Asha actually led us to the name Asher, which of course we also liked!  But we had this conversation many times:  "But what if we actually have a girl someday...then we can't name her Asha if we use Asher for a boy!"  However, we decided not to think that far ahead.  And now we've been in a pickle of not having one name that we both equally love for a girl.  Furthermore, our front runner at the moment is an uncommon-but-not-weird name that is already owned by a little girl in Owen's Sunday school class at church (and we were her teachers last year).  Her parents seem to pick unusual names on purpose, so it will be kind of obvious that the name probably came to us more than it otherwise would have because of her presence in our class, although we really think we came on it independently as well.  But we hate to be name-swipers.  And, 2 days before Asher's birth, we discovered that a family in the church with a new baby 3 months older than ours was also Asher.  We might get a reputation...but it's a big church...

It's hard to name your child!  It feels very important!

We were joking about changing Asher's name so we could get Asha back, and wondering how long it would take a 2.5 year old to adjust to a new name.  Oh my gosh, that is so mean to even think about I feel bad that we were even laughing about it!  Can you imagine how confused he would be??

Also, I have to state that when one's husband has 5 siblings, and each sibling has between 2 and 4 children, there are a lot of really awesome name choices that have been claimed!  This is no small feat :)

My mom is coming tomorrow!  So very thankful for awesome family support and prayers as we welcome 'Flower Rose'.  We appreciate your prayers!