Easter came and went and I am still pregnant. My doc seemed convinced that I’d go into labour well before we started munching on chocolate eggs—she even told me not to do any heavy physical work around the house to avoid an early delivery—but, unless something happens over the next couple of days, it looks like Caterina will be an April baby.
Well, the closer she is born to the due date, the better, even though these last few weeks of being constantly tired, huge and winded are nigh-on unbearable. But at the end of it there will be a new baby, pink and round and smiling. I was reminded of it—of the chubbiness, the joy, the wonder—as I put together a little 4×4 for the Theme Thursday challenge.
The prompt is pink and brown, which happens to be one of my favourite colour combinations and the one I chose for most of the baby’s clothes. So it was sort of obvious that I’d go for a little girl’s theme. But it wasn’t until I stumbled upon an old picture of one of my father’s cousins from the late 1930s—she just looked so soft, cute, happy—that both the piece and my excitement at Caterina’s impending arrival clicked into place.
Whey-hey, new baby coming soon!
The rest came off easily—a rosy digital collage as background paper, two stamped images, including a reminder that “all tomorrows are in the seeds of today,” and even the prospect of carrying around my enormous body for three more weeks seemed a little less daunting. The thing is I am having a baby girl soon, and that’s just great.
