Tidbits of life

It has been a while since my last post. Life often gets in the way of goals and intentions.

All of my resources say you are now the size of a pecan or a blueberry. They don't seem to agree with each other always.

Mommy is feeling pretty rough this last two weeks. I am very tired and my legs are cramping like crazy. I've read that this is normal but it is not fun at all. You are worth it all though baby.

All of our family has found out now. I got a call from your Papa and Nana D in Colorado. They are very very incredibly excited. They are going to work with your Aunt Shilo to try to find a way to get Mommy a very important chair for when you arrive. If it works it will be a lovely old rocking chair just for us.

Your Aunts and Uncles are very excited too. They all really wish we would move back to Colorado so they would be able to get to know you better. Though Aunt Kristy lives not far from us in Florida and I think she'd prefer we stay here.

Papa and I went to another soccer game and it turns out you like Cuban food.

Tomorrow Mommy and Papa might get to hear your heart beat for the first time! We have a midwife appointment. As long as we like the main midwife when we meet here we will be going ahead with the first prenatal appointment.


I'll update more soon. Don't you worry though, you are always on my mind and as always right there with me.

Love you baby. Please stay with me. We can't wait to meet you!

A long week

Hello lovely, soft, cuddly baby.

How is belly land? I hope you like it in there. Stay!

It was a very long week baby.

You are the size of a small blueberry. It was that knowledge that helped Papa and I struggle through work this week. Mommy is nauseated, has started crying a lot about the silliest things, and can't watch most commercials on TV without a emotional breakdown.

We've been taking turns reading you articles from our magazines, Papa read you a big long article about the idea that our universe is a holograph of a base universe. We are getting a basic understanding of particle physics and learning about the Higgs Boson and the CERN super collider.

He also has been reading you The Giver by Lois Lowry, it is one of Mommy's top four favorite books of all time. He is planning on reading you all the Harry Potters between twenty weeks and when you are born. Get ready for that!

Mommy has been chugging along on your blanket. Molly keeps laying on it though, so we hope you don't mind cat hair.

Mommy Going to meet the birth team. 

On thursday Papa and I woke up very early and went to meet with a midwife and birth team.


The first person we met was the nurse called Shannon and she practically sold Papa and I on the team as a whole with how warm and comforting and friendly she was. I could easily imagine her helping us welcome you into the world. We met one midwife and a midwife student, they seemed pretty nice. We have yet to meet the other midwife yet, her name is Diane and we are going to schedule an appointment for sometime in the next few weeks. Hopefully we can meet her then. If we like her we are going to choose them as our birth team.

Papa driving to meet the birth team. 

After that we went to a baby store and bought your first outfit and first pair of shoes. Converse, just like the tenth Doctor (you'll learn about Doctor Who later.)

Papa bought Mommy some preggo pops to help her not vomit all the time. He's been very nice about me being such a mess.

He can't wait to teach you to ride.

 The next day Papa and I took a long drive with your sister Bambina to visit a beach. In March, right before you come to meet us, Papa is planning to ride his bike nearly 100 miles from our house to Varn Park beach. We did a practice run of the path he will take. Its going to be a very hard and lovely trip for you daddy. We are very proud of him.

Bambina's first beach

The Atlantic Ocean

She doesn't like sand.

 Love you little one. We can't wait to meet you!

Oh the little things

Hi Baby B, how is life in there? Comfortable? Warm enough? Hope it is good. Stay there for another 36 weeks please. 

New this week; you are a pepper corn, I am nauseated. I am so tired, poor Papa is being very kind. He wakes up and makes me eggs when I finally feel like eating, then puts up with me when two hours later I have to go to sleep again. He gives me little meals and puts up with my mood swings.

We are planning a trip for next week to meet a birth team, they would do a home birth if possible. We're not sure we're going to stick with this one, it's hard to tell until we meet everyone, though I have to say options here are sparse.

We are going to tell your Grandparents about you soon. 

Love you

Mama