Goals and plans

It has been two weeks since I had my cerclage. I am so happy to say that so far everything is going as well as it can with this procedure being done.
I am 20 weeks, 3 days pregnant right now. At this point in my previous pregnancy, I was already in the hospital with preterm labor. I have hit that marker, now I need to get beyond it.
My first goal is 28 weeks. At 28 weeks I have a viable baby. I know in normal life, 7 1/2 weeks is not long at all, but it seems like forever in this current life of mine.
We have started planning the baby shower for the end of October. My mom, of course, is the host. I am helping her with the planning. We are going to have a fall/pumpkin theme!
We have a name for the baby as well, so we can stop calling him "the baby" :)
Jack Porter Freels.
We wanted a name that starts with J, since Jim and I are both J's. Porter is my maternal grandfather's middle name. We went back and forth over names for a while, a lot of laughing, and some very strange names came out of the process.
I scheduled painters to come over today and give a quote on the spare bedroom. I wish we would have done this when we first bought the house, but better late than never! Every wall is a different color, it is bright and obnoxious. Clearly it was a child's room for the previous owner. I want a light gray on the walls, its going to look totally different in there.
So much to do to get ready, and we still have a lot of time. I am very limited on what I can physically do, so I'm sure that I'm driving Jim crazy!




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