Woah, again time got away from me. Ah such is life I suppose and I don't suppose it's going to slow down any time soon. I have thought about updating often but just didn't do it. I found other things took priority, such as watching "The Bachelorette" (I didn't care for this season). Anyways I"m here now so let's update shall we?
I have a scheduled c-section about a week earlier than my due date because of the vertical tear in my uterus. I had an ultrasound the other day to determine the size (which is average) and fluid levels(which are perfect) and the position of the baby. Well baby has my sense of direction is facing the wrong way so it would have been a c-section regardless of the tear being there or not. My baby is a skater boarder punk already and is in the position of doing an Ollie (legs bent up behind) and is breech. I think that's all there is to update on Sprout. Although this morning I woke up craving root beer. Um…weird. It's only 6 am. Don't' think I'm going to cave into that craving. Normally I crave cherries and watermelon (same sort of things I craved with Kiwi).
Speaking of Kiwi. For the last week he's been waking up super early. I mean I have seen a 5 as the first number on the clock every morning. I walk him back to bed tell him it's still sleep time and he goes back to sleep. I however take 1-1.5 hours to fall back asleep which is just in time for him to wake up at a reasonable time and I'm exhausted for the rest of the day.
A couple of weeks ago now we had to evacuate our home due to a forest fire. What a stressful situation. I don't recommend it. However I am incredibly thankful for the emergency workers and how calm and organized the entire ordeal felt. I think this story warrants it's own entry though so that's all I'll say about it for now.
Nesting has officially begun as of yesterday. Just really random things scream out to me that they need to be cleaned. It's like an unofficial spring cleaning is taking place. Yesterday everything got washed. The carseat covers (yes Kiwi's too), I vacuumed out one of the cars (the other one is getting done today), Did laundry (which is normal weekly duty so it doesn't really count), cleaned out inside the fridge because you know the baby will definitely judge us if it weren't clean. While I was cleaning it I was like, oooh this is a bit irrational I must be nesting. haha. Because it was such a strong urge that it must be cleaned! And you get the point….cleaning it's never ending and I'm happy it's getting done so once I'm recovering I won't have these little things sticking out to me to be done.
In the nursery B drew animals on the wall and I am painting them in. It is so relaxing and I love doing it. I do have to take a million breaks as I get fatigued rather quickly. But the room is looking super cute so far. We are keeping it gender neutral because even though the first ultrasound they told us the gender the following 2 ultrasounds they couldn't get a clear picture and it came back as inconclusive so we decided we would not tell anyone (outside of our immediate family) what the gender is supposedly in case it is wrong. So gender neutral nursery it is. We painted the walls mint green and the animals are actually dark brown silhouettes. We are doing a forest theme in this room. The other day B and I came into our room and laid on the bed and looked up and realized we have some art work above our bed that is a tree and our bedspread is tree branches/leaves. That's when B said, in all our rooms we all have some sort of tree going on. Funny I thought. Guess we're a bunch of tree lovers.
I am not looking forward to the recovery time of a c-section. People keep telling me that it won't be so bad this time because it's planned and not emergency which will help immensely. I am still sad that I won't be allowed to pick Kiwi up, and that I have to take it easy for the first couple of weeks. I'm not good at sitting still. I remember right after Kiwi was born I was sitting up in the bed to talk to some visitors we had and the nurse came in and told me to lay back down that I wasn't suppose to be sitting yet. Ugh…I just want that part of this journey to be over. Can we skip it somehow??
I am so excited that next Saturday my sister and her family come to town. I haven't seen them in person since Kiwi was born (just over 2 years ago). We have a pool party to welcome them next Sunday with some other family members and I am stoked! They will be in town for 10 days and I am so looking forward to spending time with them. I can't believe my nephew is 13 already and my niece is 9!! Seriously time is flying by.
My friend's little guy, the one who had the Berlin heart put in has just received a heart transplant and everything went very well. It's only 9 days post op and he's been released from the hospital. They are so excited and happy that they have a happy ending to their journey and that their home for the last 7 months is now a memory as they head home. It's such a bittersweet situation. You pray for a heart for the little person, but by praying for that you're praying that someone else has to suffer great loss as the heart has to come from somewhere (and at the age of the baby has to be around the same age). So really in this situation my heart is torn in two directions. Let's just focus on the rejoicing side for now though shall we(in blog world).
Well I think that's all there is to update at this point. Thank you for coming back and reading. I hope you have a great day and hopefully I'll update one more time before Sprout makes his/her appearance.
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