stiiiiill waiting...

This is not my favorite game.

I know today is only second day past his due date but I wish he were out now. It's not terribly uncomfortable to have him in I'm just nervous that I'm doing things that are slowing him down. Like sitting down or laying on my back while I sleep (accidentally) or not walking around all day up and down hills or eating a burger... and they just get more ridiculous from there. But honestly I've been trying the various natural labor induction things like walking around and I feel like they're silly because it seems that Rowan is pretty much calling the shots no matter what I do. I guess we'll see at our appointment tomorrow how long they'll let him chill out in there.

On the bright side we got to carve pumpkins, they're beautiful and I have chicken strips! Mmmm...






































Logan spotted this at the mall and just haaaad to have it ;) I think it's cute.

still waiting...

Well, Rowan is still hanging out inside but he is showing signs that he might be thinking about wanting to start heading out soon. I've got to almost 2 cm dilated and 80% effaced (which I was a week ago) but as of my appointment yesterday afternoon in a week he's dropped from a negative three station to a negative two. So he's making his way, slowly but surely :) I suppose that means he'll be a laid back little guy. His dad and I have been using this time to get his room ready, we're going to be getting a sweet blue rocking chair from Logan's grandparents which I'm excited about. Here's a shot of it with Murphy rockin a bit of a Vanna White vibe ;) though not quite as smiley....

Aaaaand we just finished painting! ... almost, there are a couple spots I want to touch up on the blue and green but we could get by just fine if I don't get a chance. It still looks good :)Here the green look a bit more yellow than it actually is, this smaller picture is a bit more true to life. I think they're nice baby boy colors, they remind me of winnie the pooh.

Other than painting I've busied myself with washing and folding clothing and bedding. Even though I'm not up to much I feel like I'm going a bit nuts. The other day I started five or six different small jobs like washing dishes, cleaning off the coffee table, putting Rowan's stroller together and cooking a grilled cheese sandwich without finishing any and had two or three more things in my head that I wanted to start also. I feel scatterbrained :P (just incase you're wondering I only burnt the sandwich a little bit) I hope I have everything ready for this little guy when he decides it's time to come out. I wish I at least had a window of time...

a good start

I went to the doctor last week and inquired so the midwife checked and said that I was about 1 cm dilated and 75% effaced :D I know that I could stay that way for a while or even be more so and still wait days or weeks for my little guy to show his face but I'm still excited. That's 1 centimeter that I my body won't have to worry about during active labor and 75% of thinning that I'm already done with. A good start indeed.




Oh, and Aunty Kara needs to create a blog so she post comments to my face that I should update.
I love you Aunty Kara, we want to see pictures of you and yours!

running out of room

Someone please convince my son that it is quite impossible for him to stand up inside me... I don't think he believes me... With regard to my earlier post (below) I wonder who is rubbing off on whom the inclination to rebel against their physical situation... ;)

Of course I know he's not consciously defying the confines of the womb... it just makes everything a lot more fun and bearable to attribute motives and/or specific actions to his movements :) 'cause it seriously does feel like he's trying to do a handstand on my bladder sometimes :P and it's in those moments when a sense of humor really helps. I like to imagine being able to see in there with one of those xray screens from old cartoons that I could just step behind and see a silhouette of my body and Rowan inside a white oval doing gymnastics and p.t. with a boxer's robe and headphones on with some little Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee posters on the wall.

illogical

I should not get hungry before 6am... even if I have been not very asleep since around 4:30am


I tend to mentally rebel against my body at this time of the morning, not the best thing I'm sure but it just doesn't make any sense to me. I fell asleep later than usual and woke up early and felt hungry shortly thereafter, what's up with that? Logan does not agree that this is unusual or illogical claiming the apparently numerous times he has woken up hungry at very early hours. I pointed out that he most likely did not do so after eating a decent dinner the night before. All of his times were probably on the ground of the backside of some mountain in Georgia after hardly eating anything for more than a day, marching a lot and it was probably cold.