15 November, 2011
We Are All Systems Go
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| Birth kit: check. |
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| Baby car seat assembled (with bonus clean toddler): check. |
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| Teeny tiny baby diapers: check. |
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| Labor ball (that no one can stay off of): check. |
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| Labor food/drink (jello, chicken noodle soup, Recharge, coconut milk, orange juice, Martinelli's sparkling cider for the after party): check |
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| Labor/Birth pool: check. |
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| Dog washed (random but necessary): check. |
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| Belly art: check. |
13 November, 2011
40 weeks, 2 days
Today marks my longest pregnancy to date. I'm not really all that uptight about it...yet. I'd certainly prefer not to be pregnant any longer but apparently Baby is not ready to meet the family quite yet.
Nice thing about waiting on Baby has been that we have gotten a lot done around here. There is nothing like an impending birth to get my husband into a frantic nesting mode. I don't know if it's nerves or what but that man can't sit still from about 37 weeks on. Right now he is out there cleaning the car. Last weekend he bought and assembled a bed frame. I am not exaggerating in the slightest when I say that he was rinsing paint brushes while I was sitting in the car, waiting to head to the hospital for the birth of our firstborn.
If I'm still pregnant by next weekend we might have our master bath tiled.
It's funny where your mind goes when you are due ANY MINUTE with a baby. Every time I put a new roll of toilet paper out I think "Maybe THIS will be the toilet paper I'm using when I'm in labor!" When I mopped every non-carpeted floor in this house the other day I kept musing "This is the LAST time I'll be mopping until after Baby is born!" (and that's the truth. Not doing that again for awhile.).
But then there are semi-sad little moments like when I'm holding my current baby, Penny, and I think "This could be the last time we are reading these books together where she is my youngest." And lying in bed talking with Jason until way past when we should have been to sleep (neither of us can shut up...seems like every time we go to bed on time we still find some way to talk for another hour)--once we are sharing a room with Baby we won't be able to push the limits of sleep deprivation. Of course, whenever we have a baby it seems like both of us are lights out as soon as our heads hit the pillow. But still...I will miss our discussions ("Isn't the whole idea of sleep just weird?" being a good topic to keep someone awake).
I just remembered a few things I should probably do before Baby gets here so I guess I should get on that. The baby car seat needs to be reassembled and installed in the car and by jolly I might as well do some online Christmas shopping. We're waiting on Baby but I can always find "just one more thing to do" :)
06 November, 2011
The Stork is Circling.
Well, it's almost Baby Time.
The old trusty due date calendar tells me I have four days until I am 40 weeks along. I've reached the point where I do feel as if this pregnancy will never end. I'm used to children staring at my ridiculously protruding belly. In my whole life I've never been an extra-large anything but here I sit filling out extra-large maternity clothing quite nicely. My body is weird and foreign to me when I see myself in the mirror yet I can't recall not being a ginormous penguin.
I love my babies no matter what age they are, so grateful for them, but I do not enjoy being pregnant. At best I feel okay but never good. The horrid morning sickness I get in the first part of pregnancy can best be described as "debilitating" and I dread that portion of my life more than any other. Truly, it is the most difficult time for me. After that subsides though, I am blessed to escape a lot of the minor discomforts of pregnancy and all of the major ones. The worst things I deal with are heartburn, fatigue, constant trips to the bathroom, and the annoying stuffy nose that has me breathing through my mouth most of the time (contributing to the attractive factor). But I just feel yucky most of the time.
The older girls have been very aware of this pregnancy and that has been a lot of fun. They lay their heads on my belly and talk to the baby and get a real kick out of well, being kicked in the face by their sibling-in-utero. They think the hiccups are hilarious. And they are in awe of the rock-hard belly when I'm seized by a nice strong warm up contraction (oh those are coming much more frequently lately, good relaxation practice time!). They are so sweet and constantly ask how I am feeling. I've noticed that lately when Penny has come in to wake me up in the morning she immediately asks "Mom, where your baby?" and wants to see my belly. Ha--she senses her impending de-thronement of being the Family Baby ;)
Discomforts of the extremely pregnant aside (and the fun of living with a pregnant woman--my poor family), here our family sits at one of the most exciting times of life. We are literally days away from finding out whether we will be blessed with another precious daughter or will be poring over James Dobson's "Bringing up Boys" for years to come. What a special time and how thankful I am to be in this moment (heartburn and all).
The old trusty due date calendar tells me I have four days until I am 40 weeks along. I've reached the point where I do feel as if this pregnancy will never end. I'm used to children staring at my ridiculously protruding belly. In my whole life I've never been an extra-large anything but here I sit filling out extra-large maternity clothing quite nicely. My body is weird and foreign to me when I see myself in the mirror yet I can't recall not being a ginormous penguin.
I love my babies no matter what age they are, so grateful for them, but I do not enjoy being pregnant. At best I feel okay but never good. The horrid morning sickness I get in the first part of pregnancy can best be described as "debilitating" and I dread that portion of my life more than any other. Truly, it is the most difficult time for me. After that subsides though, I am blessed to escape a lot of the minor discomforts of pregnancy and all of the major ones. The worst things I deal with are heartburn, fatigue, constant trips to the bathroom, and the annoying stuffy nose that has me breathing through my mouth most of the time (contributing to the attractive factor). But I just feel yucky most of the time.
The older girls have been very aware of this pregnancy and that has been a lot of fun. They lay their heads on my belly and talk to the baby and get a real kick out of well, being kicked in the face by their sibling-in-utero. They think the hiccups are hilarious. And they are in awe of the rock-hard belly when I'm seized by a nice strong warm up contraction (oh those are coming much more frequently lately, good relaxation practice time!). They are so sweet and constantly ask how I am feeling. I've noticed that lately when Penny has come in to wake me up in the morning she immediately asks "Mom, where your baby?" and wants to see my belly. Ha--she senses her impending de-thronement of being the Family Baby ;)
Discomforts of the extremely pregnant aside (and the fun of living with a pregnant woman--my poor family), here our family sits at one of the most exciting times of life. We are literally days away from finding out whether we will be blessed with another precious daughter or will be poring over James Dobson's "Bringing up Boys" for years to come. What a special time and how thankful I am to be in this moment (heartburn and all).
04 November, 2011
Penny + Blackberry= Love
Imagine me and you, I do.
I think about you day and night, it's only right
To think about the girl you love and hold her tight
So happy together
If I should call you up, invest a dime
And you say you belong to me and ease my mind
Imagine how the world could be, so very fine
So happy together
I can't see me lovin' nobody but you
For all my life
When you're with me, baby the skies'll be blue
For all my life
Me and you and you and me
No matter how they toss the dice, it has to be
The only one for me is you, and you for me
So happy together
I can't see me lovin' nobody but you
For all my life
When you're with me, baby the skies'll be blue
For all my life
Me and you and you and me
No matter how they toss the dice, it has to be
The only one for me is you, and you for me
So happy together
Bawk-bawk-bawk-bawk bawk-bawk-bawk-bawk bawk-bawk-bawk bawk-bawk-bawk-bawk
Bawk-bawk-bawk-bawk bawk-bawk-bawk-bawk bawk-bawk-bawk bawk-bawk-bawk-bawk
Me and you and you and me
No matter how they toss the dice, it has to be
The only one for me is you, and you for me
So happy together
How is the weather
So happy together
We're happy together
So happy together
Happy together
So happy together
So happy together (ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba)
02 November, 2011
Halloween (Candy, Candy, Candy, Candy, Candy...)
Ariel and Kitty
Princess Hailey
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