November 30, 2011
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while we wait for baby...
Thanks Grammy for our new Spider Man math curriculum! Asher finished his K math for the year already so we've moved on to some fun "fillers" for the time being.
What these two clowns came up with while Asher and I tackle "Green Goblin" and "Electro"??
I'm learning a lot here too mind you! I absolutely LOVE Sophia's choice for clothes mixed with an Incredible Hulk "tat" (tattoo) as she calls them. Every day it's tights and a dress. I don't even think she has a pair of pants in her drawer!
We're back after a FULL Thanksgiving away with family. Top on my radar now: Christmas decor and squaring away last minute shopping as well as home birth supplies. I have nothing together or purchased for the birth that I can't already find here at home, somewhere I am told! My instincts keep telling me that although babies usually come late they also 'could' come early.Regina came last night for a check-up and to drop off the "equipment". Now it sits in my closet with an oxygen tank and it's all becoming a bit more real! Can you sense my feeling of urgency? (note sarcasm) I think I'll finally get out sometime next week. I believe I am more pleased with the fact I didn't gain a single ounce over the Thanksgiving break. Between 2 VERY LARGE feasts, I literally just sat and ate the whole time.
This time to prepare is now the fun part, mixed with (I'll be honest) moments of (including though NOT limited to) sheer terror/feeling like I'm going to throw up/hyperventilate/poop my pants when I really stop and think about it. Good thing I'm so busy/too tired to actually have any time to process it all! I love labor. I do! But it IS just that, LABOR.
So thankful I get to do this at home with the prize being a new baby. A new member to this family! How wonderful is that?!
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Loved the way you describe the feelings as you think ahead: throw up/hyperventilate/poop my pants.
It's SO TRUE! I love that I get to be part of the miracle, but it is also the strangest thing to know that it HAS to be done and it HAS to be done by me!
After my ultrasound last week, I came out in the waiting room and Daniel asked how it had gone. I think I looked sick to my stomach so he was concerned.
"It was good. Everything's fine, like we expected."
"Then what's wrong?"
"Wrong? Oh, well... I was laying there and trying so hard to think about how amazing that baby on the screen was, but all I could think about was how it has to COME OUT! It made me, well, feel kinda sick to think about it."
@brietta - @brietta - Funny Daniel could tell something was 'wrong'. Even though there is nothing wrong with the design it certainly is enough to make our heart's race a bit huh?! Sometimes I wish I could go in each time as naive and unprepared as with Asher's and yet I'm glad I can get as much a handle on it now as I can! The logistics of it just make absolutely NO sense. Definitely a miracle in and of itself that is for sure. Regina brought up the "after pains" of birth I had COMPLETELY forgotten about! I def started to sweat a little just thinking about it!
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