All About the Kids

Today Sarah and I have been hanging out and taking it a bit easy. This is mostly due to the fact that it feels like mid-July (record highs!), but Sarah has also had some intermittent lower backaches (this may translate to early contractions, but we are trying not to get our hopes up).

It’s funny to hear Sarah cheering the backaches on, but I think she’s thinking long-term at the moment (no more pregnancy and a new little baby to hold sounds pretty good to her right now).

Anyways, if I don’t show up at work tomorrow, you’ll know where to find me!

It’s kinda puzzling to me that we haven’t had the baby yet, considering the number of times per day that people express surprise that Sarah’s still pregnant! At church this morning, I was half tempted to tape a sign that said “1 1/2 weeks left” to my wife, but it was fun to have so many people approach us (her) about it anyways.

In lieu of baby news, I’ve got a couple of interesting little stories to tell from the past week. The first is from my mom and her kindergarteners:

On Friday, a student said, “Mrs. Fredman, you said you would tell us where you went that day you were gone, and you forgot to do that.” I told them that I went to your place to paint and I went to my Grandbaby’s shower. One of the boys said, “You don’t give babies showers. That’s not how you get them clean. My mom put me in the sink and gave me a bath. That’s how you get babies clean, not in a shower.”

My second story (and I wish I had a picture of this one), is from Saturday. Since Sarah stopped working at TSA, she has a big “before-the-baby-comes” list that she is trying to get done. One of those items was to plant flowers in the pots in front of our house. Since it doesn’t work so well for her to bend over anymore, we worked out a system. She would sit on a little hill, legs sprawled out in front of her, and I would bring her: a) a pot full of dirt, b) flowers, and c) spare dirt. Then Sarah would put them all together for me to place in front of the house!

Like I said, that would have been a priceless picture, and I’m pretty sure I could’ve snapped a shot before she got up! Oh well…

It usually takes us a few days to recognize the latest changes in Sarah’s pregnancy. The newest development is that of the baby “dropping” (also known as lightening or engagement) in preparation for birth. This is typically observed by the increased ease of breathing, and the increased number of trips to the bathroom!

Sarah wasn’t doing too bad on the breathing side of things, but we definitely know the baby has dropped because of her nightly 11 o’clock, 12 o’clock, 1 o’clock, 2 o’clock, 3 o’clock, 4 o’clock, 5 o’clock, and 6 o’clock trips to the bathroom…

As of tomorrow, the baby is considered “full-term”, and the doctor will likely let him come whenever he feels like it. Sarah is hoping for sooner. I hear babies only have to be fed every 2 hours during the night, so I figure I’ll wake up half as often after he’s born!

Today, Sarah began her weekly doctor appointment schedule, which will continue until the baby is born (weekly appointments, not today’s appointment). Things are still going well, and the doctor had a bit of fun news for Sarah. Well, it will be fun if the doctor is right, and it won’t be so fun if she’s wrong. Turns out that there is a well-founded likelihood that we will be heading into the hospital before May 31st (the due date).
That’s a little alarming to hear at first, but since “full-term” is 37 weeks (just a half a week away), and the baby would likely be fine if he was born tomorrow, s’all good. Sarah just has to take it a little easy this next week.

(I’m posting this to ask for a little accountability help, here!)

There was a theory that these two cousins were plotting for the day when they were both able to wreak havoc on anything not yet nailed to the floor, but I think they were just having a little quiet time together!Still, it was pretty funny last weekend when Adrianna would feel a kick from the baby–I don’t suppose she was too used to sleeping on a moving surface! As for sleeping surfaces, this was one of her favorites. Adrianna would always manage to sit on Sarah’s lap with one leg to either side of her tummy, draped over top like a little rag doll. It seemed to work perfectly for her!