August 06, 2007
Nathan update
Well, we are definitely in the home stretch. The 2nd trimester has flown by so fast. (also read the summer has flown by so fast!) I had a check-up this past friday and things are going great. My blood pressure has been perfect this pregnancy, Praise the Lord. My glucose test came out fine and I haven't gained as much weight as I did with the other two by this point.
This baby boy is very active. I think he is practicing for keeping up with the other two before he even gets here. I really don't remember the other two being quite this active in utero. And this scares me just a little if I dwell on it.
Most days I feel great. Then I do too much (or so I am told) and spend a day or two doing not much of anything. I have moved Lexie out of the crib, so it stands empty waiting for it's newest occupant. It is driving me crazy that I can't pick what bumper pads/theme/direction I want to go in order to have the bed fully ready. It doesn't matter that he will probably sleep in the bassinet in our room until January. Don't try to reason with a pregnant woman. I have also been organizing toys, getting rid of toys, and separating out the baby toys from all of the other toys. These have been cleaned and refreshed and assembled in the top of the nursery closet waiting to be played with again.
Thank you so much to the Shipp's for the very welcome addition of some fall/winter newborn boy clothes, something we were lacking- both of our kids having been summer babies. I think I will get out the baby boy blankets/burp cloths box out of the shed this week and get those washed and in the dresser.
My brain swims with projects to do. How many will get done? I don't know. How many need to get done? I don't know. With the potential life-changing shake-up next summer I am wanting to empty and go through essentially everything we own. Getting rid of stuff, selling stuff on Ebay and organizing stuff to the point where it cannot be organized anymore. That cannot happen before this baby gets here. In fact, I'm not sure if it can be done at all. In order to take a half step in any direction with that plan I have to take a step back. Resulting in the which I don't have the foggiest where to start or step. And my all encompassing/organizing/cleaning machine is beginning to overheat with the stalled frustration. But suddenly this post is more about something other than Nathan. Can't wait for Nathan to get here. It would be easier to do all of this if he were in a sling rather than inside me. But he has a few more weeks to grow and get fat. I go back to the doctor on the 20th and will take care of registering at the hospital and with the anesthesiologist. That makes things feel very close indeed. But then when I think about school starting and the holidays things feel very far away...
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June 20, 2007
ultrasound pics
We went to the ultrasound for the new baby on Monday morning. Due to scheduling difficulties I am a good 5 weeks later than when we had ultrasounds with the other two munchkins so that made the picture only that much better because he is so much bigger. Yes, I said he. I know we have been telling everybody that we were going to let this one be a surprise, but we couldn't do it. Brad was the one who really wanted the surprise. But the morning of the ultrasound Brad saw some of the pictures of Stephen from the hospital hanging in the hallway and noticed the picture of Stephen in the special pre-selected to go home from the hospital outfit and that started him thinking. How would we do little things like that if we didn't know what this baby was? It was all downhill for him from there. I am not disappointed that it will be a surprise. I have really enjoyed picking our kids' names the day we found out their gender and making everything special just for them before they get here. It felt like we already knew who they were and had bonded with them before we ever even got to the hospital. That is just the way we like it.
Stephen and Lexie went with us to the ultrasound and that actually worked out really well. It made it a little harder on daddy not being able to devote all of his attention to what was on the screen, but hey aren't we just adding one more to juggle? Lexie didn't know what was really going on, though she kept saying 'baby.' Stephen, I think, followed stuff much better. This baby being bigger was easier to see and identify. I think Stephen was able to see the face and arms and things. When the technician told us that it was a boy (something we could clearly see for ourselves!) Stephen was excited. He told us right then and there that he was going to teach this baby to tee-tee standing up. Good for him. Isn't that the job of every big brother everywhere?
We are very excited. I had been feeling like it was a boy all along anyways. She would have had a hard time convincing me that it was a girl. His measurements all averaged out to move up my due date a little bit which makes me very happy. So now we know we are expecting Nathan Isaiah sometime around October the 1st!!!
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March 23, 2007
B3bo
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