No it won't be long. Sorry for you loss Donna, but you seem to have a good plan in place. I'm going to TTC now. I'm over the loss of Daniel (2nd trimester miscarriage) over Christmas and we want a sibling close in age to Erika. Although her and her brother get on great despite the 7 year age gap.
Erika has recently started crawling, so her walking is on the back burning right now. I swore she'd have walked first as she can cruise, but she had other ideas. I'm looking forward to her first birthday as I missed her first Christmas due to being in hospital. Not doing anything special as her brother is going to a theme park for his birthday a month later for his main present, but hopefully she'll be old/tall enough for the baby rides there.