inside out...

being a stay-at-home mom is the best thing i've ever done. but i have to say that i'm so thankful for having worked at ppd. it was there that i made some of my best friends. who knew that while making trackers for trackers and getting mad at people for taking your print jobs or pottying in public would result in real friendship. i guess God knew and had a really good sense of humor when he put four pregnant women on one row of cubes. talk about hormones :)

but one in particular ended up being a treasure. rachel and i were pregnant together - and while she delivered in november and i in february, the time we had together at work was priceless. and hilarious. every day we would check in with each other and laugh or cry about the high's and low's of pregnancy. we would compare about what hurt on our bodies, what had changed, what we could not see anymore, how many times had we pottied that day (lots of our conversations ended up happening in the bathroom - we considered moving our computers in there b/c of the time spent there), or what was the latest food craving or meal we cooked. truly, i think that she helped to keep me sane, and undoubtedly was a source of encouragement for me.

so it was such a treat when she delivered her baby, faith. i remember her leaving me a voice mail to tell me that faith had been born. hearing her cry over the phone still makes me smile - the sound of her voice announcing that her baby had arrived was priceless. joy.

and today, finally, our girls got to meet. no more big bellies for us -yay! just two sweet little baby girls who couldn't quit staring at each other and checking out the other. it was just so neat to finally get to introduce them to each other. for so long rachel and i had talked about how much we longed to see our babies. and we talked about them seeing each other one day - not that babies can talk from womb to womb..but there's just something special about being pregnant at the same time and spending so much time together when you are. so to see these two little ones together was so sweet.

and man are they cute!