By the time I arrived home (and exhausted!!!) on Friday night. The crib had arrived and I was optimistic and gleeful about setting it up. By the time Tim arrive home from work of Friday night, I was in a meltdown. I have just been so tired and moving so fast and trying to do so much, that I just wilted and set on sobbing it out. Once we got through that, I got a better night sleep which left me bright eyed and ready to go into Saturday morning.
We spent the morning doing all those really unglamorous errands for items that I will need to go into the hospital and once I return home. Things like nipple cream, tucks medicated pads, maxi pads, and boatloads of diapers for our little one. I tell ya - that is an easy way to spend a lot of money on items that don't provide much delight! We rewarded ourselves with a job well done at a nice outdoor setting restaurant in Redwood City - the day was hot and gorgeous and just what we needed to lift ourselves up and into Babies R Us where we picked up our glider.
When we got home around 3:30 in the afternoon, we relaxed before the big assemblies. The relaxing actually wore me out, and I napped from 4:30 - 6 while Tim assembled the chair. After I woke up, we got take out chinese and set to work on the crib. It was amazing day to start it with a completely empty nursery and end it with a crib and a chair/ottoman. We finally finished up the crib around 10 and set off to bed.
On Sunday, Mom and Dad Reeth came over first thing. We all had breakfast together before Debbie and I headed off to a shower hosted by my Mommy-mentor Beth in Pleasanton and the boys went off to play. The girls spent the better part of the day chatting and giggling about babies and life. Joely, up from Texas for the event, even took some ghastly photos of me!!! If I ever get them, and I get over the shock, I will post them up here. There is nothing quite like having your picture taken when you are 36 weeks pregnant...
When we got home, the boys were back. By the time I had come downstairs from changing into comfy clothes, there was another entire pile of wrapped presents on the floor in front of Tim with another chair next to him!!
Apparently, Debbie's family back east had a surprise shower for us at the end of January. Surprise! We weren't even invited!! But they did all get together as a family, and take pictures of on another as they bought our bedding set at our online registry. They sent it all to Debbie who wrapped it up for us. We then spent the rest of the afternoon putting together the nursery. We are still missing a couple of items, like the mattress which is on it's way, and the changing pad which I will pick up once I am on leave, but Monday's room is starting to look like a room for a small child -- which relieves me greatly and further gets me excited!!!
We are both so grateful for the outpouring of generosity from our friends and family. The surprise shower was certainly a surprise for us - but all the gifts, advice, and love has been an truly amazing thing - it really is amazing how a child can bring people together!!
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Thursday, February 7, 2008
The days are getting longer
Can anyone else see it? Spring is coming!!! And for us, spring means our own little spring chick (reeth). Last night I drove to see a pediatrician and noticed that the sun hadn't set by 5:00 and was setting here around 5:30 or a bit later. We've been so buried under rain, that we haven't seen the sun in a while, but it's there, and it's coming back into our hemisphere!
Though the Vernal Equinox isn't until 3/20 (or 3/21 depending on your time zone), I have always thought of our little man as a spring time baby. It seems like everything is getting ready for Monday's arrival: my body, our house, the weather...
Though the Vernal Equinox isn't until 3/20 (or 3/21 depending on your time zone), I have always thought of our little man as a spring time baby. It seems like everything is getting ready for Monday's arrival: my body, our house, the weather...
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Nesting? Or Panicking?
Really, it's hard to tell...
This weekend was very much a nesting weekend. I was "determined" to clean out Monday's room from being the move-storage room that it has been, to actually being a place we could bring a person home to. And while everything is cleaned out, if Monday comes home tomorrow, he'll be sleeping on the floor...clean as it may be.
We have a couple of showers coming up and gifts en route that include such critical items as the crib and stroller, but I am still feeling a little behind the 8 ball....or maybe in front of the 8 ball as it is rapidly bearing down on me headed for the corner pocket.
Monday is fully baked in 12 days. And while I can't wait for our little man to be here, I don't have the home ready enough to feel comfortable. I guess that is why we have weekends and California SDI (which allows me 4 weeks paid prior to the due date)!!! I am really looking forward to being allowed to stop thinking about Intuit and start really focusing on Monday.
This weekend was very much a nesting weekend. I was "determined" to clean out Monday's room from being the move-storage room that it has been, to actually being a place we could bring a person home to. And while everything is cleaned out, if Monday comes home tomorrow, he'll be sleeping on the floor...clean as it may be.
We have a couple of showers coming up and gifts en route that include such critical items as the crib and stroller, but I am still feeling a little behind the 8 ball....or maybe in front of the 8 ball as it is rapidly bearing down on me headed for the corner pocket.
Monday is fully baked in 12 days. And while I can't wait for our little man to be here, I don't have the home ready enough to feel comfortable. I guess that is why we have weekends and California SDI (which allows me 4 weeks paid prior to the due date)!!! I am really looking forward to being allowed to stop thinking about Intuit and start really focusing on Monday.
Monday, February 4, 2008
That wasn't there yesterday...
Getting used to the extending belly is awkward. Neither Tim or I have perfected life navigating around the Monday Bump in my belly. Here are a couple of examples to highlight the issues:
- Tim has walked past me hitting Monday on the way by twice in the last 4 days.
- I have opened the restroom stall door directly into Monday as I was attempting to leave.
- Narrow parking spaces often require me to re-park as I can no longer squeeze between the door and the car.
- I don't generally give myself enough room through doorways.
35 Week Update from Baby Center
How your baby's growing: Your baby doesn't have much room to maneuver now that he's over 18 inches long and tips the scales at 5 1/4 pounds (pick up a honeydew). Because it's so snug in your womb, he isn't likely to be doing somersaults anymore, but the number of times he kicks should remain about the same. His kidneys are fully developed now, and his liver can process some waste products. Most of his basic physical development is now complete — he'll spend the next few weeks putting on weight. He will spend the next few weeks putting on weight at the rate of about an ounce a day.
Big Growth Spurt
Apparently the last several weeks that Monday is inside of me are his biggest. This is no surprise to anyone that has been through this, but is a little alarming to me. As such, he has taken particular interest in "addressing" my right-ribcage with prolonged battering and attention. He has also discovered that if he pushed just so with his head, that he can get my tendons to stretch out even more.
Thursday night's sleep was the worst in a while. I woke up with a stabbing pain around my left hip-flexer. I knew enough to know it wasn't labor so I wasn't worried. But was awake for several hours before the tylenol, a heating pad, and sheer exhaustion allowed me back to sleep. We had a doctor's appointment on Friday morning (awfully timely, I thought.., and Monday is doing great!) where the doctor just looked at me and said "yep, that's pretty much normal". The only "advice" I could gather, was simply just to suck it up and deal.
This stretching and growing left me aching the better part of the weekend. Tim tries to remind me that my pains are our little man trying to grow so he can get here faster. I value these reminders.
I am now on the weekly doctor appointment regimen. This takes place the last month of pregnancy to determine progress (if any) towards labor. Our little man will be here before we know it!!
Thursday night's sleep was the worst in a while. I woke up with a stabbing pain around my left hip-flexer. I knew enough to know it wasn't labor so I wasn't worried. But was awake for several hours before the tylenol, a heating pad, and sheer exhaustion allowed me back to sleep. We had a doctor's appointment on Friday morning (awfully timely, I thought.., and Monday is doing great!) where the doctor just looked at me and said "yep, that's pretty much normal". The only "advice" I could gather, was simply just to suck it up and deal.
This stretching and growing left me aching the better part of the weekend. Tim tries to remind me that my pains are our little man trying to grow so he can get here faster. I value these reminders.
I am now on the weekly doctor appointment regimen. This takes place the last month of pregnancy to determine progress (if any) towards labor. Our little man will be here before we know it!!
I Got Got - Tales from the office shower
I was hoping to have some photos of a particularly red-faced, but last Thursday afternoon, colleagues from the office successfully threw a surprise shower for me. And by surprise and successful, I mean, whoa-nelly.
I was having a transition meeting with Kristy, my manager. About 45 minutes into it, we were almost finished going through a document and she decided that the learning from it was incredibly relevant to a brainstorm going on with another group of people taking place at the same time. "would you mind if we stopped up there for a bit and shared your learning?" Right. So I blindly walked into a room of 25 people all yelling surprise and staring at me.
I think my blush persisted for about minutes. I was actually so flushed that my feet themselves were even blushing. Seriously. My feet were beet-red!
I am so grateful to the people that pulled it together. It was truly flattering that people would go to the effort to do it, and that so many people came. Becke, my old manager from the Quicken days even came down from Berkeley. Kristy even tried to have Tim there to surprise me. If I do get a hold of the photos from the iPhone, I will try to make them available here... unless I look way to horrified and horrible to show them in public. :)
I was having a transition meeting with Kristy, my manager. About 45 minutes into it, we were almost finished going through a document and she decided that the learning from it was incredibly relevant to a brainstorm going on with another group of people taking place at the same time. "would you mind if we stopped up there for a bit and shared your learning?" Right. So I blindly walked into a room of 25 people all yelling surprise and staring at me.
I think my blush persisted for about minutes. I was actually so flushed that my feet themselves were even blushing. Seriously. My feet were beet-red!
I am so grateful to the people that pulled it together. It was truly flattering that people would go to the effort to do it, and that so many people came. Becke, my old manager from the Quicken days even came down from Berkeley. Kristy even tried to have Tim there to surprise me. If I do get a hold of the photos from the iPhone, I will try to make them available here... unless I look way to horrified and horrible to show them in public. :)
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