A Letter to My Baby

Dear Clara-
Just 13 days now. 13 days until you arrive and bring your sweet heart in to our family. 13 days for Dad and I to grow up and prepare and get our game face on. We're excited and we're scared and Dad is so tired of me crying all the time! And secretly, he can't wait until I start getting up and refilling my water myself.

Every time I get in the bathtub, you and I have so much fun! You roll around and wiggle so much, if I didn't bathe naked, I would film it for you to see some day.  I am so grateful for this time you and I have together, and I feel a tiny bit smug that you usually stop your wiggling as soon as I yell for Dad to come see. It's like you do it just for me, and I think that's fair. For the next few months, and probably even years, you and Dad will get so much one on one time while I'm at work. You will have your fun times and your activities and your secrets and your conspiracies...I'm glad you and I get this time now.
I am told that you will be the center of our universe when you come, but that is old news. I hear we'll be exhausted for months, but who isn't? They say to cherish the time as it goes by too fast, but of course we know all about that, judging by the last 36 weeks. The one thing that no one will ever be able to tell us is how we got so lucky as to have YOU and all the exciting, scary, unknown, wonderful adventures you will bring.
We love you more than any other parent has ever loved a kid, I'm certain of it, there's no way to top this amount of love...
XO
Mom and Dad