The last week

Well, I'm up two and a half hours early and can't sleep... so I thought I'd update my blog. This last week has been both amazing and pretty busy. First of all, Jer had Monday off, which was not just labor day but it was also my birthday. I didn't really want to do anything huge because I feel like we're always trying to watch a movie or play a game... so we slept in, and took Ada to feed the ducks at the pond. She fell asleep in the car, but woke up immediately once she realized that there were ducks. My favorites were actually the turtles. There were several turtles sitting on a log in the middle of the pond just sunning themselves... then one more tried to make its way onto the log and that was just too much for it... the log rolled and dumped all of them into the pond. Then all the turtles tried to get back on the log, but they were all trying to do it from the same side so the log kept rolling and it looked like they were some of those loggers walking on the rolling logs for a competition. Finally they got to the top, and one of the turtles kept walking and dumped all of them into the pond in the other direction. I honestly think that America's Funniest Videos would have loved it, but I told Jer that I didn't want to carry around both the camera and the video camera... whoops... that one was my fault. We went and routed the handrails for the slide on our stairs, and we went to have ice cream and cake with everyone. It was a fun and relaxing day. Of course... after all three day weekends my sense of days was all messed up for the rest of the week, but oh well...

We've had fun making smoothies with our new "will it blend" Blentec blender. It's a nifty thing and it's supposed to be able to handle frozen fruit where our other one isn't. Thanks to my brother who has been working for Blentec and for both him and my parents for putting in money towards it for my birthday... we only had to pay about $80, which would get you a fair blender at any store, but not a great one.

We've also been looking at refinancing... but the people keep forgetting to call us back, so we have to keep pestering them... I think we'll keep trying this week, but I'm starting to think that our loan looks better and better just because of the hassle that it's been to try to get information and quotes on other options.

Jer's brother and his family moved here over the weekend... he spent the weekend helping his parents get their house ready for their family to stay with them... and I felt useless.

On Wednesday I went to my final doctors appointment! YAY! I'd only gained 33 pounds... which is far better than the 60 lbs that I gained with my pregnancy with Ada. He checked me and said that I was still only dilated to a 1 1/2 but that I was almost completely effaced. He stripped my membranes too so that my labor would go faster . We'll see if it worked. When my last doctor did that because Ada was overdue... nothing happened, but when this one did it... I was crampy and sore for at least two days after. That was bad timing because I was trying to help with Margarets baby shower, go to the temple with my brother before he moved to Baltimore, and get the house clean before the baby was born. I ended up watching Emily do the shower, skipping out on the temple, and asking my sister if I could pay her to clean my house for me (which she did but wouldn't let me pay her in the end... the punk). Now I'm only 2 days away from being induced and I've got all my work stuff bundled up and ready to pass on while I'm on maternity, I have an energetic toddler that wants to go play outside even though my body doesn't want to move that fast, feet that swell up if I don't have them up most of the day, VT reports that need to be finished and passed out, and a husband... who almost never catches a cold... has a head cold and is completely miserable. And even with all that I feel like I have nothing to do except sit around and wait for the baby to come... which is making me nervous. If I don't think about the actual labor I'm excited and ready to be able to bend over and get rid of my heartburn... but when I actually think about Friday... I'm scared stiff. When I gave birth to Ada, I went into labor Wed night at 7pm... went to the hospital Thurs morning at 7 am... and gave birth to a beautiful daughter after pushing for an hour and a half at 11:30 pm. I had to have an episiotomy and I still tore because she insisted on being born with her fist up at her face. My epidural only worked from the waist up... my mom says that I should have told them sooner so that they could have done something about it... how was I supposed to know it wasn't working from there on down when I'd (a) never gone through labor before and didn't know what I was supposed to be feeling and (b) couldn't feel most of my contractions until they just gave up on the epidural in the end... but I could feel the birth and the stitches afterwards even with a local anaesthetic. By the end of my labor, I didn't want to see my baby. I felt like a terrible mom... because after all the excitement and love I'd put into my pregnancy, I didn't even want to hold her. I felt much better the day after and I couldn't put her down, but I don't want that to happen again. I want to want my baby from the get go, but I don't know how I'll feel at the time. I'm scared to go through that long and painful day again, but excited to see the new little personality that I'll be bringing into our home. Wow... who knew that just a couple of days could go by so fast and so slow at the same time.