The "Plan"

Well folks - we apologize for the gap in media coverage at the good 'ol House of Miller. Labor Day found Eric working from dawn til dusk Fri-Mon at finishing all of the floors in the house. Needless to say, a female over 8 months pregnant with severe nesting syndrome was somewhat useless and resided in town with good friends for the weekend. Stay posted for excessive pictures and details to follow!

In honor of Labor Day, we are happy to announce that if Mini-Miller has not made her early arrival by Sept 23rd (our anniversary), then she will be "helped along" that day. The plan is for Anne to go off the meds during the weekend prior and then show up at the hospital that Tuesday ready for action. (Haha, they assume we will be ready to become parents at that point.....we think we could really use those extra two weeks to be really sure ;) ) Although technically, she isn't supposed to show up until October 7th, the decision was made that it would be better to control the exit strategy that she seems to be so bent on accomplishing and pick a date when the Dr. is ready to meet her. Yet another up side is not having to camp out in Miles City waiting for things to get moving. Our favorite quote from the Dr so far: "Geographically speaking, Anne, I'm not quite sure what to do with you...." This was in reference to the 90 mile drive from Jordan to Miles City, yet Anne (and Eric)'s desperate pleas not to be inserted into the hospital any earlier than possible (ie. NO bedrest).

Everything else on our appointment last week is looking good. Still no twins, the weight gain is acceptable (Anne isn't sure to whom...) and the baby's size/length is on the increase. We're now on the weekly schedule of trekking to Miles City for appointments. The next one is this coming Thursday, on our way to help certify 4H shooting sports instructors down in Baker. Eric is a state instructor and Anne is certified to coach kids in air rifle (ie our program here) and in shotgun (she isn't exactly throwing her hand up to start that program). The state coordinator for the shooting program has been slightly nervous about the pregnant lady showing up, but after joking references to bringing calf-pulling chains....we didn't have a lot of sympathy for him. In fact, he was told that everything should go just fine....although hopefully he only gets two of us and not three. This was the point in the conversation that we heard his chair screech and voice jump significantly........... :)