here I am at 28.5 weeks

N ot much has happened since the last post. Last Saturday, Todd and I joined about 20 other couples in a prenatal yoga class. There, we learned yoga poses that we could practice to help alleviate some pregnancy pains and also relaxation and breathing techniques like deep belly breathing. It feels odd doing them, but if it helps… I don’t care! My teacher says we should practice together often.

Todd is busy preparing for his trip to Australia/New Zealand where he’ll get to travel and backpack and avoid deadly snakes and caterpillars and jellyfish with his brother. It looks like REI moved into our house! Soon, it will all be gone, and on a nice vacation!

We spent the last weekend on home improvement planning. Todd has been selling items on Craigslist to clean out the small room upstairs – soon to be the baby’s room. Today we took another trip to Home Depot to collect color swatches so we can get to painting. We think we’ve found it; and I hope to paint the room (using low VOC paint) while Todd is away. We’ve also been moving on the bathroom remodel, and earlier this weekend, we found the perfect old vanity at a corner antique store that we plan to turn into a sink cabinet counter. We still have to purchase a lot of items for the remodel, but we are both very excited to get this project moving too!

Even though it’s getting notably harder to get up and down and bend over, I still feel completely capable. I do seem to be getting tired a bit more often lately – naps are definitely my friend. The baby is still moving a lot, and the movement has changed from kicks to a more sliding like feeling and the baby feeling around like feeling. This week I start “kick counting” for my doctor. I have my next appointment on March 27th. I can’t slouch as much as I used to because she is needing a lot of that room, so I guess good posture is a nice side effect. I have noticed an unfortunate side effect and it’s my growing butt and thighs! I definitely need to stop indulging my sweet tooth.

All in all, everything is going just wonderfully.

H ere I am at 26.5 weeks. Time is flying by! I still feel great although bending over is getting more and more difficult. Todd actually had to buckle my shoes for me the other day. He got a kick out of that.

   

I had another doctor’s appointment last Friday. The baby sounds great and measures right on schedule. I had my glucose test on Saturday, thankfully Todd could come with me so I didn’t have to sit around for an hour by myself after I drank my prescription strength sugar drink. It actually didn’t taste as bad as I’ve heard. I had an orange drink that kind of tasted like a melted orange otter pop. I can’t believe I’ve already heard the results but, I have and luckily I am all in the normal range, which means no gestational diabetes or the big ol’ baby that comes with it.

Cassidy the wonder filer

We’ve all been pretty busy lately. I’ve still been working like crazy. I actually need to fly up to Portland for a one day meeting on Tuesday that I’m not too thrilled about, but it’s not much longer that I will be working, so I suck it up and do all I can in the in between time. My last day at work will be May 14. It’s already circled on my calendar! Todd’s been busy around the house and has also picked up another short gig creating a website for a book. Mostly Todd and Cassidy have been preparing for tax season. He’s been teaching the cat to file and to master long division. Luckily they got that task accomplished and our taxes are now done, whew!

 

Mudflap and Brownie

The weather has been spectacular lately. Today we decided to go out for a walk, have a nice lunch (then I had to go to work for a bit), but then after I got home we went for a nice bike ride. It was the baby’s first bike ride. We were sure to stick to smaller back roads and be super vigilant about cross traffic. Our bikes were so happy to be out together again. Later we enjoyed going to dinner with our super neighbors Matt, Abby and baby Evan. It has been another wonderful weekend.

%(caption)hick’s apple orchard, ny%

h ere we are in new york; enjoying the autumn air. nothing satisfies quite like a healthy dose of apple picking. pretty soon, our little package will be the size of an apple, and we’re looking forward to telling you all about it… and that’s exactly why we put this little blog up.

our hope is that we can commit to at least the seven more months of blogging before our baby arrives – that’s more than what we can say for our italy blog which sadly, dwindled off in late march. one day, we’ll update that, really. for now, we’re in baby land!

We can expect to meet the new addition June 3rd!

here’s a typical view of becky while we were in boston. at foureen below with wind chill, this was the coldest becky’s ever been. in fact, before we left the bay, she freaked out, mugged an eskimo, and scored herself a wintery parka.

please note: no eskimos were harmed in the making of this post. tutqiksuq!

I didn’t think work would have had a car prepared for me so soon- but they did. I didn’t really know how to get home from work in car. I only knew how to get back and forth walking. Two friends at work volunteered to help me try to find my way home. (you can’t get there driving the same way you would walking because the path is too small for a car). We drove around for and hour and a half. Went down dirt roads we weren’t supposed to and got stuck in very small alleys that required about 20 minutes of maneuvering to get back out of. All in all it was a bust. The car ended up being driven back to work and a co-worker drove me home.

The next day I had to call the landlord to find the proper way. He told me the very unintuitive way home (we live down a dirt road that isn’t on any maps). A co-worker went with me to make sure it was the right way and it was. And I finally found my way home.