Due Date Predictions

With only one week until Peyton's due date, we have been placing our bets around here as to when she will actually make her debut. A few months ago, I got this idea to have people guess her arrival date on a calendar. I'll be honest, I stole the idea from my husband's baby book. I was looking through his baby book one day and saw how my mother-in-law had put a regular calendar in there that she had people sign guessing his arrival date. I thought this was a super cute idea, so I started searching Pinterest to see if other people had samples of something similar. Rather than just using a regular monthly calendar, I decided to jazz it up a bit and create my own calendar on my computer. I only wanted to include certain weeks of each month surrounding her estimated due date, plus I wanted to be able to make the squares extra large so that people would have plenty of room to write their names. Here is what I created...

I printed out one calendar with the last two weeks of May on it and another one with the first two weeks in June, figuring that people would only guess within that radius of her actual due date. I decided that the easiest way to get people to guess on my calendars was to make them a part of my baby showers. I printed separate calendars for each shower, which is why there are multiple copies pictured below, so that everyone would have plenty of room to write. I can't wait to see whose guess ends up being correct!

May Calendars: 

June Calendars: 

For the record, Jared and I did not discuss our date choices prior to writing them down. We just happened to pick the same day by sheer coincidence. Let's see if our parental intuition ends up being accurate. I know a lot of people probably picked early dates because we are predicting that Peyton is probably going to be pretty big based on her measurements thus far along with Jared and I's own large birth weights. However, I have been told that 1st babies are typically late. If genetics has anything to do with it, Jared was 4 days early and I was 3 days late, so I'll be interested to see what happens!

Feel free to play along and leave a comment with your own prediction for the calendar! There is no prize for guessing correctly, just infinite glory here on my blog and in Peyton's baby book :)