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5 days:: due date
The late winter sun shines through the windows with tangible heat. It makes geometric patterns on the floor, shining through the slats of chairs and the mullions on the windows; it refracts through the glass jar on the table filled with fragrant eucalyptus and tiny purple flowers; it dapples the rumpled sheets where Sprout [...]
3 days
Sprout is three days old. It is snowing outside, and has been all night long, and our house is tucked into a snug blanket of silence and whiteness.
He is beautiful, and when he smiles in his sleep his dimpled grin makes this tiny world of mine explode with sparklers.
I am delirious. The [...]
He’s here…
The little Sprout is here. Born at 10am on Friday. 7lbs 14oz, 20 inches.
I am currently attempting to remember the fine art of one-handed typing.
It makes everything so much easier to have already done this once. People probably told me this, but I somehow I didn’t hear them. Things are so much easier this [...]
Today seems to be the day
Heading off to the hospital now…
Bean is 4
He’s four, and going to be a big brother any day now. It kind of takes my breath away. Instead of a letter, here are his responses to an impromptu interview done on his birthday.
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Favorite color: purple, pink, blue, red
Favorite candy: chocolate, all of the candies at the candy store downtown.
Favorite game: Scrabble, my [...]
Still pregnant & bumbling
In case you were wondering. Feeling the soporific effects of sunshine. Also feeling rather hippo-ish and bumbling. I napped for about 3 straight hours this morning after a ridiculous night of waking up a zillion times. Woke up feeling entirely out of it and have been sort of stumbling around the house ever since.
I [...]
38 weeks & babbling
So you guessed anywhere from next Wednesday to the following Friday, huh?
I’m totally for the 20th. I also kind of hate anyone who even dared mention a date beyond the 25th, because seriously, if I have to wait until the 27th or 28th, I will gradually begin banging my head on the wall and [...]
Possibly pregnant forever.
I am feeling like I might never go into labor. The baby’s head is lodged in my pelvis. Sleep is a joke. Time for some entertainment:
When do you think the babe will arrive?
Day? Time? Weight? Length?
He’s due the 25th. Closest one to guess will get a pretty postcard in the mail when I’ve recovered. [...]
Advice, please
Birthday party goodie bags. Yea or nay?
Bean is turning 4, and aside from the fact that I am utterly dumbfounded by this fact, we have actually pulled off inviting a few friends to come play with him at our local lake aquarium for an afternoon. On Valentines day, because his real birthday is on [...]