Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 03:12 PM - McSassy
Im doing this one handed so pictures are easier than text....
The petite princess.... too little for her swing
first trip to Starbucks:
We've discovered her special 'mark' too. Nathan has a little coffee colored birthmark on his foot that we call his "Starbucks kiss." Mackenzie?? She has DIMPLES. Its too cute. Im sure I'll have to wait to get a pic until she actually smiles as opposed to showing them only when she has gas.
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( 3.3 / 19 )Monday, October 6, 2008, 02:35 PM - McSassy
**Update: (a few) pictures added. More to come. **
She's here!
Notice the 2 epidurals....more on that later
the Mac Mini and the PC
"hi precious girl" (he says that to her all the time...could your heart just melt?)
The Mac
sleepy girl
almost ready to go home
finally!!
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( 2.5 / 153 )Wednesday, October 1, 2008, 08:44 PM - This Is My Life, McSassy
Because there isn't much else to talk about. Im tired, cranky, uncomfortable, bored yet have 100 projects I should be doing, unmotivated...the list goes on and on.
Today the dr. would NOT do any membrane stripping as hoped. Midwives will, Doctors wont. Sweet. Im at 4cm so she doesn't think it will be too much longer. We'll see.
So, after this I think I'll just start a little email list of people that want updates and want to be notified when Im *actually* in labor and spare everyone else the details. Subsequently, if you don't see much activity around these parts its not because we've had the baby, its because there's just nothin' to talk about right now.
We went to The Grill with Andy and Janelle which provided some much needed humor. Andy told PC we were having a baby real soon.
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( 2.9 / 103 )Monday, September 29, 2008, 08:55 PM
Nothing to report on sister watch.
We did end up going to the flea market and left with about $450!
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( 3 / 82 )Friday, September 26, 2008, 09:44 PM - This Is My Life
I think Im just about at my breaking point. Last night when PC came home I didn't even notice he walked in because I was so busy staring at the wall watching paint dry. Thankfully Nathan was doing something cerebral....."the internet." Which can mean doing any number of things on the computer.
Most of yesterday was a good day, it started to go downhill when Nathan and I were making chocolate chip cookies and he threw a fit because I gave him the paddle of the mixer and scraped the majority of the dough off leaving only scraps for him to lick off. Oh, the injustice.
Then my neighbor called me venting about another one of our neighbors. They have a teenage daughter that is the new neighborhood hussie. She makes it her daily practice to get it on with her boyfriend ( a boyfriend, I might add, that she acquired within....DAYS of moving here) on the front sidewalk. And, dummy, she thinks she's being all smarty smart hiding from her parents on the other side of the partition of the front door (the house next to them is empty), all the while the rest of the entire neighborhood gets to see the show. My neighbor is at the point where she is about to go say something because her two pre-adolescent girls can't be watching that "after school special" everyday. Furthermore, we were both even more impressed with that family's dynamics when we had to listen to the dad rip the 5 year old son a new one so loud that it was audible from the park ACROSS THE STREET. And I can't handle the parents that are so STUPID. The mom came out of the house and asked the two teenage lovebirds why they were sitting on each other's laps in the parked car. Lady, if you are that stupid your daughter is going to end up as knocked up and cranky as I am. And for the love of God kids, thats what the love motels are for. Honestly, I cannot think of a more pathetic place to have teenage sex than in a parked car in the cul-de-sac in front of your house. Lastly, Im annoyed by them because they let their dogs crap in anyone's yard without cleaning it up, the mom has bleached white Texas big hair, and because she is a nurse who refers to the proceedure of having your colon looked at as a Colon-OPY.
GAH.
Don't even get me started on the news. Its a good thing that I don't see a lot of it over here because it sounds like our government is spending us into the next century. What a mess.
And today I convinced Nathan to take a nap and made the foolish foolish mistake of not putting a pull-up on him. And of course we weren't sleeping under the covers we were sleeping on top of the covers so I now have a down comforter and its cover reeking of urine.
And while my dear husband has definitely tested the pregnant lady's patience when he does things like: work until NINE PM, the majority of the time I am so grateful to have him as my balancing force because if he wasn't here right now......I might kill the dog. Just because she's lowest on the totem pole. Not because she's doing anything particularly annoying right now like shedding in CLUMPS of hair or requiring me to actually bend over and get her water several times a day.
I don't think Im cooking tonight. I think we will go somewhere where I can have a non-alcoholic, alcoholic drink. Or I might just need to crack open my favorite $5 bottle of white zin that has been chilling in the fridge since January or so and have a half a glass. Im sure after 9 months I'll get a pretty decent buzz and hopefully chill the hell out.
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( 3.1 / 68 )Thursday, September 25, 2008, 01:10 PM - This Is My Life, McSassy
No. No baby yet. We have no crossed the 37 week threshold so we have a full term fetus and are not really prepared. Its a good place to be. Remember, we were supposed to be moving sometime in the next 8 weeks, and I was going to just have a cradle and changing station set up. Now that we've gone whole hog with an entire bedroom for her the upstairs is in a state of total despair. The real dilemma Im having right now is that I have the "opportunity" to be "stripped" next week at my appointment. The midwife I saw yesterday (Commander Hewitt for those of you who have been here....LOVED her) said that it is usually a little more effective for second babies. However, next weekend is the flea market. WHAT KIND OF CHOICE IS THAT? Have a baby or get all the crap out of the baby's room?
As for the 37 week update, I don't really have much of an update except the midwife concurred with the ultra-sound I had last week that said the baby is in the 6lb range (Im in disbelief). The belly is even measuring a hair small for 37 weeks so I suppose these are all good things. So, I might have a normal sized child after all. Maybe. Allegedly. She told me the reason Im All Baby Out In Front is because Nathan sort of stretched those ligaments to their limits so now sister is just sort of spilling out in front like a bad case of dun-lap disease. Good thing we're not having a third or it might be hanging out down around my knees.
In other news my friend Janelle had a shower for me this week which was really fun. It ended up being a small group of us (one person got lost, another got heatstroke, another's husband just got back from Iraq the day before etc.) but it's probably just as well because it was then more of a gab 'n' eat fest (yes, I had 3 plates of food) with presents! She did a fantastic job making it special and her efforts seem even more heroic with the knowledge that she did it all with the "help" of a 7 month old.
So, thats it from Nippon. I guess now we just sit and wait...... And contemplate the flea market dilemma.
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( 3 / 59 )Monday, September 22, 2008, 02:46 PM - Nate The Great, Yup, he said that, and no I didn\\\\\\\'t teach him
We're avid (decaf for now) iced tea drinkers. I make a big pitcher of it about every other day. And I like it with lots and lots of ice. Lots. We also like to add a dash of mango or peach nectar to flavor it. The nectars come in cans like soda cans so we use it over the course of a couple of days and just keep it in the fridge. This morning as I was getting myself some tea I noticed the nectar can was almost empty and asked Nathan if he wanted the rest of it for breakfast. He came and got the can from me and started making his way to the table with his bowl of oatmeal. But then he stopped, turned around, holds up the can and proceeds to dump his oatmeal at the same time and asks me, "does it have alcohol in it?"
Um, no. No alcohol for breakfast today. You know we save that for happy hour (as someone once told me "you know, its that hour of the day where no one is happy and mom need's a drink.")
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( 3.1 / 55 )Sunday, September 21, 2008, 01:29 PM - The Whole Wide World
I thought this was a well written article:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/160080
And I know we are a bit behind the times so this is probably old news but in the event that anyone didnt see SNL, both PC and I thought this was hillarious:
http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/ ... en/656281/
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( 3 / 55 )Friday, September 19, 2008, 10:22 PM - Nate The Great, Yup, he said that, and no I didn\\\\\\\'t teach him
Today on the way home from lunch Nathan and I were talking about a birthday party we have tomorrow. He then informed me that he wanted it to be his birthday again and this time he would turn FOUR. I repeated back to him one of his most favorite phrases these days "can you even BELIEVE it?" I went on to tell him that when he turned 4 his sister would almost be 1.
N: Can you even believe that?
me: no....at your birthday party next year she will almost be walking. She will be crawling all over the place won't she?
N: Like a bug.
me: what?
N: Crawling. She will crawl like bugs do.
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( 3.1 / 49 )Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 07:44 PM - McSassy
I dont have much new to report except that at my dr's appt yesterday (this was not the ultrasound, this was just the midwife's estimate) she said that she thought the baby was at least 8lbs already. EIGHT. Already. Sure, she could be off but she is now the second person 'in the business' who has commented on what a big baby is in there.
PC told me I shouldn't be so stressed out about it, it will be fine. Of course, he is not the one who has to extricate this person from his uterus. So, whatever hope I had of having a little 7lb baby is gone. I also told him I am done producing super-sized offspring....next time I'll procreate with a midget.
After much discussion we decided that despite the fact that its highly unlikely I'll go into labor this week, it would be best for PC to head home. So, for the first time this year he is now going to be home for 6 weeks straight.....can you even believe it? Now, lets have this baby.
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( 3.1 / 57 )Monday, September 15, 2008, 02:09 PM - McSassy
When I woke up yesterday I started having one contraction after another. They weren't painful, just constant. If I laid down they got worse. If I was up an about they seemed to lessen (of course it could have been that I just didn't notice them in the hustle and bustle of things). The day went on and this continued.....I know I am supposed to call if I have more than 6 in an hour but I think I was just hoping they'd go away on their own and I dreaded having to take Nathan somewhere so I could go sit in L&D for hours just to find out they stopped once I got there or something lame like that.
We had dinner with friends last night and they convinced me maybe I should do something about it. Once we got home I called L&D and they told me to drink 32oz. of water, take some tylenol, lay down and call them if I had more than 6 in an hour. I had 10. I really didn't want to ask my neighbor (who I asked to take Nathan when its the 'real deal') to take him for this inevitably false alarm. I took him to Karen and Mike's, and while I know this is what friends are for, I felt bad knowing it was going to be a late night for them now too. Thankfully at the coaxing of my mom I had packed him a little backpack of a change of clothes, books, toothbrush in the event something like this happened. It took me 3 trips to the car to load my hospital bag, Nathan's stuff, a pillow and blanket for him, the laptop (for phone numbers, Im not under any illusion that the hospital has wifi), and the child himself.
It was a quiet night at the hospital and they got me hooked up right away. They wanted to do a 20 minute FHR and contraction strip and after about 10 minutes and 3 contractions they decided to just go ahead and check me then.
(Guys, if you don't want the juicy details you can just stop reading here). Upon checking me I was already dilated to almost a 3. They let me know I would be joining them up there for the next two hours and if there was any change in 2 hours I'd be admitted. Swell. I tried not to dwell on the fact that PC is gone and if things progressed I was going to have to do it on my own. I also tried not to freak out too much about the fact that if I did have the baby last night we weren't going to make it to the flea market AGAIN this month and I need that crap out of her room! Yes, the flea market was at the very top of my list of concerns. After two painfully boring hours with several seriously outdated trash magazines and listening to a woman deliver (the yelling....why all the yelling?) they came back to check me again. And if you've never been checked to see how dilated you are, I'd say its one of the more unpleasant/painful procedures out there. Only made worse when you actually in labor having contractions and they have to do it. Thankfully there was no change and I was free to go.
But, as the Dr. said its pretty unusual to be at 3cm at 35 weeks, so things are starting to happen. Its unlikely I'll make it until the magical day in October....which is good considering the Dr. said "wow....it looks like you have a really big baby in there." Thanks, thats just what I wanted to hear when I technically have 5 weeks to go. At 1:30am PC and I are on the phone trying to figure out what his next move should be and dang if babies aren't so unpredictable. It could be today, tomorrow or 3 weeks from now. Any bets? I also have an ultrasound this week to see how much see weighs (see: previous child 10lbs 6oz)....guesses?
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( 2.9 / 44 )Thursday, September 11, 2008, 09:35 PM
So, its 2:36 and it is the first time I've been home since 8:30 this morning. I should probably start this story by setting the stage with my general frame of mind. Today marks week 35 of pregnancy so Im feel rather large and in charge and ready to be done. Its still hot out. Im impatient and with PC gone there are many times in the day that I feel overwhelmed because just getting off the couch takes a good deal of effort. Im not sleeping much at night. My to-do list grows longer by the day and my days of "freedom" of getting severely numbered. To sum it up: Im a cranky pregnant lady.
So this morning, after dropping Nathan off at school when I rounded the corner on the stairs and heard my car door shut and a man walking away from it I wasn't thinking completely rationally when I decided to chase after him. We passed each other on the sidewalk and when I got to the car I saw he had stolen all the change out of my car. Mind you, this couldn't have been more than $5 but today was the day I decided to be a hero. "EXCUSE ME" I yelled at him. I couldnt see him but I could hear him jingling the change so I started going up the stairs hoping to catch him. I got to the second floor and didnt see him, but could still hear the change so I went up another floor. I got to the top of the stairs just as he was opening the door to his apartment and again I yelled "EXCUSE ME"- he turned to look at me and proceeded to go inside his apartment. I then marched my hippo self down the hallway and pounded on the door with no response.
Why I got such a bee in my bonnet over $5 in change I'll never know. I'll blame the hormones. I went back to Nathan's school and told his teacher what had happened and she said we should call the police. I told her I didnt think that was really necessary over $5 but she insisted. In about 3 minutes time we walked down the stairs and I kid you not, at least 10 police officers were there. Some went charging up the stairs, others were talking to me, still others were casing the premises. Two investigators showed up, the property managers of the building, a team of crime scene people (the people that dust for prints- what are they called?) and I was told a translator would be there shortly. My $5 of stolen change had called no fewer than 20 people to the scene.
For the next TWO AND A HALF hours I filled out reports, walked through the whole ordeal, took pictures, answered questions and sat inside a tinted car while they brought the suspect in for me to identify.
The translator asked me if I wanted the man to get in trouble, and I had already profusely apologized for the whole thing because I never intended for this to get so blown out of proportion, and no, I wasn't looking to get someone into trouble. If he would have just given me my change back when I asked him to stop that would have been fine. The translator proceeds to tell me that they have been having a lot of stealing in the area and suspect this is the individual. He told me that the property managers have been wanting him out of the building and this could give them the cause they need to evict him. So, I was gathering that they were wanting me to...um....press charges? (For $5). I told the translator that I was worried what would happen if he and I ran into each other again and he was sure that he would not be residing there any longer and not to worry about that.
I suppose its worth mentioning that this sort of thing is taken much more seriously in Japan. As I was telling Nathan's teacher, in the US if you called the police to let them know someone stole $5 out of your UNLOCKED car they would have laughed at you. In Japan, this guy is getting charged with larceny....for stealing some pocket change. Even though I continued to apologize to everyone involved, they were all profusely thanking me and bowing for calling the police. I guess reporting even the pettiest of crimes is what makes Japan such a safe place to begin with.
I know my parents are shaking their heads saying "what were you thinking?" And in hindsight, I really don't know what possessed me to chase after someone for stealing $5 out of my unlocked car. It was stupid to follow him up to his apartment.
So, none of the things I had intended to get done this morning got done. I needed to go to the bank and get SEVEN HUNDRED dollars to pay for repairs on PC's car (see also: pissed off frame of mind). You know, PC's car that we were just going to junk 2 weeks ago but I said no, dont junk it. We can still sell it. I was supposed to meet friends at 11 for lunch who were then going to take me to go get PC's van. I pulled out of the crime scene at 11:20 sweaty, famished and embarrassed yet angry. I raced home, called my friend and immediately left to meet them for lunch. Janelle then took me to the bank and to get PC's van, then it was back to school to get Nathan. Im exhausted. I decided at the very least I needed a Starbucks since I can't have anything with a good amount of alcohol in it.
It was a really dumb thing to do. I would have never done that in the United States. I think I was mostly just upset by the fact that I caught him doing it and wasn't about to let him get away with it. Had it been 10 seconds later I never would have seen him and would have just have spent the rest of the day wondering where all my coffee change went, thinking I must have lost my mind. Live and learn right?
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( 2.9 / 57 )Thursday, September 11, 2008, 01:38 PM
Im so tired of waking up every morning, turning on the news and seeing what new attack ad, that is a Complete MISrepresentation Of The Truth, John McCain has come up with. And the problem is that too many Americans are stupid and take things at face value, do no homework and then believe this garbage. Im not looking to turn this into a political debate, Im just so tired of the way our political system works, like may the slimiest mudslinging campaign win. Lord help us all.[ 1 comment ] ( 2 views ) | [ 0 trackbacks ] | permalink |
( 2.8 / 51 )Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 12:59 AM - Nate The Great
I've never liked that show. And yet it holds some magical charm for Nathan. He is sick (again) with a nasty cough and snot nose and so Saturday before PC left (oh yeah, did I mention he is gone again?) we went to the shopette to rent some movies for Nathan. He picked Little Einsteins and I was thinking it was going to be a waste of $1 because he wasn't going to watch it. I was wrong. Unlike when he watches other shows he sort of plays and watches at the same time, with this he just sits totally entranced and will even sing/body motion along in the appropriate parts. Its been really nice having that ace in the hole because with it being the weekend and with him being sick (read: no school) its given me 30 minutes of much needed "quiet time."[ 5 comments ] ( 42 views ) | [ 0 trackbacks ] | permalink |
( 3 / 42 )Sunday, September 7, 2008, 08:57 PM - Nate The Great, McSassy
This bat OR the fact that there is going to be another trick-or-treater in our family by Halloweeen?
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