I’ve been telling Mary Jane for some time that when mommy’s belly button sticks out like the cheap turkey timers, that that will be the time her little sister is born. And also when summer starts (which is as big as Christmas in her world) and she’d be 4 and a half. Well due date has come and gone and I’m officially spent! Time is up, body is all sorts of uncomfortable and I’m really not sure I have any control of any major limb or thought process, so I apologize now for the atrocious grammar and complete lack of sentence structure (don’t let my darling English major sweetie read this). I’m also getting really sick of this month of “pre-labor”, who knew? I didn’t even have a Braxton Hicks the first go round and now… just two weeks plus of total teasing. I keep telling everyone that I’m not going to believe it when it happens and will continue on rummaging in my kitchen cupboards (making eBay shopping lists of missing equipment that I will surely need for this summer’s maternity leave festivities) or wandering around the yard not really able to do much about what I see but certainly able to scheme or ask MJ to pick up items below my knees.
If this little girl doesn’t arrive soon I’m going to start charging her rent! I barely survived MJ’s first dance recital (being at full term) and had to rest the cankles in my new deck chairs afterwards and ever since. She was so incredibly excited, I’m not sure about the performance; make up or attention from older girls… must have been all of it.
She’s already talking about the Nutcracker and Fine Arts Camp…. AGGGH! I can tell this isn’t going to be a passing phase. Plus she came home on Saturday from her final performance and was insistent on practicing her hula hoping skills till midnight (or at least until she could do it correctly. (Apparently you need to be 16 and a half to do a good job, in her words) It was too funny, a bit obsessive compulsive but funny to watch until the inevitable bloody lip happened which was followed by a father daughter squirt gun fight inside the house!!
So on my feet lifted to-do list today we have finish Baby shower thank you cards and contact relatives about upcoming and long overdue family trip to Washington and make a music play list for my dear grandmother’s 90th birthday party. Anyone have any standards from the 30’s and 40’s please let me know… so far it’s consisting a lot of me buying the “Boys on the Side” soundtrack on iTunes and mixing in a few 60’s and 70’s classic country western favorites. Then it’s on to initiations, guest list, food lists (I can’t wait to shop at Pike Place and make a spice run at World Spice Merchants!!)
Which is also bringing me back to my little must hit spots in Seattle, so far on the list, Molly Moon’s Ice Cream of course to be combined with a trip to Bottleworks and Archie McPhee since we’ll have the girls with us for a leisurely stroll down 45th to also include the Teahouse Kuan Yin and a short and hopefully not too expensive trip to the Bastyr Clinic I was thinking about trying to see some Sarcoidosis docs while in Seattle but at the moment I’m just waiting for this baby to show and see what happens afterwards, otherwise I’ll make sure to see Dr. Sharma in LA next spring. But we’ll be hoping for the best possible outcomes at this point and hopefully just some great memories with friends and my wonderful family.
Okay off to see what kind of trouble I can get myself into this morning in the kitchen (that be it without two of my missing kitchen aid attachments) I’m in a buttermilk scone kind of mood. Have a great week and I hope I'm posting baby pics soon and telling you all about my amazing water birth!
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