I’m officially 26 weeks and 1 day with my baby girl. Baby number 2 for us. She is so wild and active and I’m loving it (even though 99% of her movements are mighty uncomfortable and sometimes painful). After 5 years of trying for our second, it still feels so unreal and like this isn’t really happening to me.

Bouncing off that, I feel SO unprepared. I feel like with my son, I was so much more prepared at this point in the pregnancy. But I feel like I have nothing for her and that we just aren’t ready for her yet. Part of that is that in December we were notified that our rent was being jacked up in April (her due month, obviously) so we’ve been weighing our options. Another part is that right now the apartment itself isn’t ready at all. We have a ton of cleaning and rearranging to do before she makes her appearance.

Thankfully I’ve been in high key nesting mode for weeks but I haven’t been acting on it. Today I finally sat down and started. Tomorrow I’m hoping to make more progress (obviously not pushing myself too much).

But man oh man. I can’t believe in around 14 weeks I’ll be able to hold this little wild child and just look into her face. Our son is SO DANG EXCITED. I def need to start getting him prepared for the changes that are coming. 6 years of being an only child and he’s got a huge change coming before he even knows it, no matter how excited he is.

(Also, I feel like I’m starting over from scratch so any recommendations for priorities for my registry/wishlist would be awesome)