kittytoo

eric put a temporary tattoo on seamus's arm. he told her it was a tattoo, but she seems to think he is saying cattoo because she keeps pointing to it calling it a kittytoo.

goopy eye and leather chair

this morning when seamus woke up her eyes were totally gooped up. once the goop was washed off though it looked as though the goop was coming from her left eye only. sirus was shooting out snot and coughing, so eric made a doctor appointment for the two of them this morning.
since i am addicted to the internet and to saving money i went to costplus.com and checked on the leather chair that we bought at the beginning of the month. i was just casually looking, not expecting it to be 38% less then what we paid for it. but it was so i said wholey shiat we need to do something about that. so i called them up asking for a price adjustment, but they told me it was longer then the standard two weeks after purchase, so i told them that what i really wanted was to get the price adjustment on the one we already bought and then buy another one. they were fine with that so we went and took care of it and then that was that and it made me happy. i love cost plus and think we will wind up getting our bedroom furniture there someday, too.
after that we took the bebes to the doctor and he basically said it looked like we all had colds but that seamus has a super infection, yes he said super. anyway its because she got a bacterial infection - the eye goop, on top of the viral thing everyone else has. she got some ointment for her eye ball and will eagerly tell you about her eye goop. i hope sirus sleeps well tonight and doesn't get any sicker. same for seamus, that would not be fun.

sleep, glorious sleep

so, last night was a night that we hope repeats itself - often. well, at least some of it. i have been feeling like arse the past few days. so has everyone else in the house, excpet for sirus, who has been feeling fine, so that is good. anyway, i started back at work on tuesday and combined with feeling like arse and waking up during the night i have been very tired. last night i was done. sirus went to bed 15 minutes early and even before seamus was tucked into bed at 8, i was in my room, lights off and ready to pass out. now here comes the glorious part that i hope repeats itself - sirus didn't wake up until a little after 1:30!! That means I got 5 1/2 hours of uninteruppted sleep!! it was beautiful!! I was back in bed by 2 and slet until seamus started crying at around 5. she woke up sirus, so i went in to him and eric took care of seamus. poor seamus has been sick with a cough and sneezy runny nose for quite some time now, i hope she gets better soon. when i went to check sirus, though, i was suprised to see that he had turned himself about 120 degrees counter clockwise. either that or he had turned himself 240 degrees clockwise.

so they all rolled over and one fell out

ok, so know one fell out sirus rolled over gain yesterday - a few times in a row. he and seamus were both laying on the tummys on the floor and then his giant noggin started to lean to one side and once it got far enough over the rest of him just kep going. seamus thought it was pretty funny so i rolled him back to his tummy and we both started cheering for him to do it again and he did. each time seamus laughed and then we would try it some more. finally we called eric in to see it since he doesn't quite beleive it, and we sat there telling sirus again, again, again - seamu even reaising her voice yelling it a few times and alas, it was too much pressure and the poor kid just put his face down on the blankent instead.
he has been sleeping very well the past two nights, which is making me very happy in anticipation of going back to work in just a few days. he got up a 12:45 and 5 last night and 1:45 and 4:45 the night before. things are looking pretty good on that front. i sure am going to miss these kids when i go back to work. i had the hardest time falling asleep last night and then a hard time each time i woke up after....

here are some photos

of the bebes:

ok ok ok

so, the hair i think may be getting better. it hasn't shown the extra pair of ears that it was originally doing and the color is good. i have an appointment for wednesday to get it fixed but maybe i will leave it.
when i opened my email this morning it said there were 87 new emails and not one was anything other then spam.
sirus slept well last night. i think he knew it was because we are going to try and help him sleep through the night this week so i can get some decent rest before going to work. anyway, he went to bed at his usual 730 and woke up again at 1am. thats a good stretch. i got up with him because i am ok with getting up once. then he woke up again at 418am. i got up again because that is close enough to 530 i decided. then we all slept until after 7 when eric got up with seamus and i stayed in bed until after 8. tonight we will try to push the 418 close to 530, and lets hope the 1am thing sticks.
i have been feeling quite inadequate and depressed the past few days. i am not sure why but its not a good feeling. i have also been having some pretty hefty allergy attacks, especially last night.
so today i start a new diet as i do almost every day. but it is the last week before i head to work again and i need to see some progress. i wore my super skinny jeans that eric got me for xmas last year but as i told him, sure, i was able to get them on, but i runneth over... i have to work on that runneth over part.

bad hair day

so, i went to get my hair done yesterday. i told the lady i wanted something dramatic and different, and my main thing was that i no longer wanted to look like a 30 something mother of 2. so i walked out looking like a 40 something tv sitcom lady. bad bad bad. but then it got worse. i washed it last night and it looked ok until i woke up this morning. i am so depressed. i have never been so depressed over a hair cut. i remember once when i was younger being so excited to go to get my hair cut and then they totally did some weird stuff to it with the curling iron and all and breaking down in tears on the way to the car. that was ok because as soon as i washed it out it looked fine. this is not the case this time its just bad and i feel frumpy, old and depressed, not young, pretty and happy. not one bit. they guarantee their hair cuts so i can go in and see if they can fix it, maybe i will do that if i can't get it under control today. ugh.

xmas tree

we went to get our mas tree on friday! it was an adventure! most of my photos of seamus are of her running away from me. this is pretty much the only one where you can see her face.

we have moved into the basement and now have a dining room table on which to have dinner as a family. here is sirus sitting on dad's lap at the table and then the kids giving a tour of the basement remodel.

seamus and sirus play nicely together
and sirus just is too darn cute on his 2 month birthday.

i go back to work very soon and i am sad about that. i have had so much fun the past 11 weeks that i am going to miss seeing my 3 favorite people all day every day.

and here is seamus napping. she is so cute when she is asleep, i can hardly beleive it!

huge!

sirus accomplished a huge milestone today!! he rolled over! 3 times!! this is huge since he is pretty young to be doing that!!

also, tonight is his first night sleeping in his crib in his own room! i hope he does ok! seamus has adjusted very well to her new room and seems to like it!

eric and i have asjusted quite nicely to our new room and i totally love it!

slappin that arse

so i had just rememberd something that i had to put down so i wo'nt ever forget how darn cute it was - the other day seamus was running around nekkid. i can't remember if it was after a bath or one of the times she had wanted to sit on the potty and then just be nekkid after or what, but she was nekkid none the less. while nekkid and running around, she was running the funny way that she does sometimes where she keeps her legs strait and kind of kicks them out in front of herself as she runs. she was moving all over the place very quickly like this and all the while she was slapping her little rear end with her hand. it was so funny and just so strange.
i was also thinking the other day that i need to make a list of words she knows. i was going to do it when she turns two - along with getting her a real haircut, but i think now would be a good time, too. maybe its because this past week is seems has she started calling me mommy which makes my heart melt. she will stand outside my bedroom door and call out mommy to me!
so these are the words she says through out the day. She will repeat many more and if you ask her to point to many more she knows what they are, but these are the ones she uses on her own regularly:
mommy, daddy, kitty, cat, puppy, doggy, cow, moo, pig, chicken, chick, duck, quack, birdie, elephant, eat, cup, green, yellow, blue, purple, red, tractor, truck, airplane, baby, bath, color, high chair, tv, teletubbies, bed, blankie, towel, potty, fork, pears, fishies, broccoli, bottle, help, farmer, lion, one, two, three, bye bye, car, seat, sit, jump, hand, head, teeth, cheek, chin, elbow, knee, feet, toes, boot, sock, pant, shirt, bike, swing, slide, park, out, no, whee, pillow, cracker, toast, grandma, back pack, hello kitty, pretty, bracelet, glasses, ring, whoa, elmo, happy
there are likely more, but those are the ones that come to mind right now.

big baby

so, its been a while and while not a lot has happened, a lot has happened. sirus turned 8 weeks on monday. he went in for his appointment on tuesday and weighed 13pounds 15onces! huge! 95th percentile! seamus was 95th percentile at her 8 week appointment too, but as a girl she was a little smaller. sirus is doing great, cute as can be and he will smile for us, too. his blonde hair is in an adorable fau-hawk, especially after i put pertolium jelly in it to try to help with the cradle cap.
(as i sit here, i hear that eric has just changed a sirus poppy diaper only to walk back in the living room to a seamus poopy diaper. i am safely hidden in the bedroom for a little longer - whew! )
seamus is growing her vocabulary in leaps and bounds. as eric was just commenting on it being his lucky day because of all of the poopy, she was spouting "lucky day" as he carried her into her room. when eating, she no longer just asks for more, but instead will ask for more of the particular item she wants - more pears, more chicken, etc. instead of askin "where'd it go?" she will now ask "where'd daddy go? where'd mommy go? where'd farmer go? where'd kitty go?" she is a cutie that is for sure.
eric is working hard on the basement. it is almost done! our tile is in and the carpet will be installed on monday! we should be getting our interior doors today, too. it looks so amazing! he has done a phenomenal job! once the carpet is in we will be moving our bed downstairs and seamus into our room and then sirus into seamus's old room. hopefully everyone transitions well. we have also started looking at furniture options for the upstairs - mainly a dining table. oh the drama and the stress of it all.
i go back to work in just a few weeks which i am sad about. i have had so much fun home with seamus and sirus and eric when he isn't holed up in the basement. we are planning on taking seamus sledding before i head back. i am totally looking forward to it and to getting our christmas tree.
that is all for now.

halloween

so, i have refound halloween. i used to think it was lame, but now with kids it is very fun. last year i started working on seamus's costume in august. i was very pleased with the results.




this year i had been planning for months and months trying to figure out a family theme, most of which involved eric dressed up as something that would inevitably embarrass him. it wasn't on purpose. it just seemed that every idea came to that. i settled on just dressing the babies.
but it makes me wonder - do babies imitate cats or do cats imitate babies?

rashy mcrashelstien has left the building

poor baby sirus - he had a rash. i took him to the docotr because no baby as young as him should have a rash. the doctor said it as a virus and that he most likely has a cold and the way he is showing it is through his rash. makes sense since both eric and i have sore throats and seamus has been super crabby, so she must be sick, too? at least she isn't showing any signs of the flu shot like she did last year.
so i was all depressed the other day. we went to the mall to pick up the family photos and the stupid lady from the photo place said they lost our photos. she said the would give us a call but then haven't yet. they are lame, i have had about enough of them - sirus isn't going to be 2 weeks old ever again so that makes me sad.
to make up for my sadness i convinced eric to get some video games and in exchange for that i would get some boots. i like my new boots. i opted for the pair that were $79 less then the other pair, so i was happy about that, too.
eric has been working reall hard getting the basement ready. its almost ready to paint! the new washer and dryer came - i am so happy with them - the clothes ome out of the dryer smelling clean which never happened with the old ones!

big

sirus went to the doctor today because when he went for his two week appointment his belly button stump was looking more like chiken fat then beefy. today it was looking quite beefy and not very much like chicken fat at all, so its on the road to a nice recovery. our doctor likes to speak in reference to raw meet products. but, the big news is that he gained another pound. he is now 11 pounds!! he is huge!!! but that is a good thing in the world of babies.

how it all happened

so, i figured i should add some info as to how sirus was born. on sunday around 4pm i woke up from a nap. i was having some conractions, which i had been having pretty regularly every evening anyway, but this time, they felt a little different and they kind of hurt, but not a lot. they were every ten minutes and not getting closer and not getting any stronger, so i just sat there and kept track of them. ALL DAY LONG. eventually eric came home from his bike race and i eventually went to bed. i was able to fall asleep so i assumed that meant they must have stopped or something, until 2 am when i woke up to the contractions being a bit more painful, but still only 10 minutes apart. i layed in bed for an hour trying to decide what to do. around 3am i decided i was going to call my mom and ask her to come down - just in case. i was going to let eric keep sleeping though - no need to wake the bear. just then i thought i felt something leaking - was i my water? was it that other mystery fluid that seemed to be haunting me all through this pregnancy? i got up to go to the bathroom and when i did i disovered that no, it was not water at all but blood. and a lot of it. and then a giant blood clot the size of my fist came out. i kind of freaked out and woke eric up and told him we had to go to the hospital. i made him look at the blood clot then asked him to call my mom while i called the doctor. my mom came and we left for the hospital. by this time contractions were starting to hurt pretty good.
we went to triage and they hooked me up to a monitor and i dripped blood everywhere. then they sent in the intern. not the stupid one from before but an a different one, an insensitive ass hole one. my contractions weren't showing on the monitor so he was saying i wasn't having any. then he checked to see what was going on and said he thought i was only about 2 cm dilated. at that point i totally lost it and started crying pretty much histerically. how could i be 3cm earlier in the week and now only 2? and why was i in so much pain if i wasn't having contractions? the nurse then checked and said i was 4 cm and i asked her why no one beleived me and if i wasn't having contractions then something was seriously wrong and they needed to figure it out. we think they had a talk with the intern because then he came in and was all trying to be nice. they finally admitted me and once in the birthing suite my contractions were showing up on the monitor. since i was bleeding the way that i was, i wasn't allowed to walk around which made the contractions a little tougher. i told them right away that i wanted an epidural. by 730 the epidural guy was there getting me hooked up. by 8 i was at 5cm and feeling great! eric and i started calling people to let them know i wasn't coming to work, and to arrange stuff with my sister so my mom could be at the birth. the nurse said she thought it would be around noon, so we told my mom to try to be there by 11. eric took off to make some calls on his cell phone and to get a snack. a little before 11 i asked the nurse if i could roll over. she checked me mid turn and said i was totally dilated and baby's head was right there! she told me to call eric and get him back asap and she would call the doctor. she had me do a practice push and then had me stop because baby was RIGHT THERE. when the doctor got there - my actual doctor who i really like and was so happy that he was the doctor there that day - he had me do a practice push again and then had me stop right away. eric got there just in the nick of time! i pushed through 3 contractions and out came sirus!! my mom missed him coming out but she was there for his first moments, so that was good, too. sirus was pretty purple for a while so they gave him some oxygen then they took him from me and put him in the warming bassinett so he could stay warm and use the baby oxygen mask. he took a while to get pink but he was crying a lot so he was breathing fine. what a cutie, i couldn't beleive how small he was!

where does the time go?

so, it has now been two weeks and two days since sirus got here. i can't beleive it has gone by so quickly! i can't even beleive we have another baby living at our house. we are so lucky! he is already 10 pounds as of his two week doctor visit, so he is on his way to being a big kid. he already looks like a grown up kid in this photo. i had totally forgotten how soft and cuddly new born babies are. sirus will snuggle right up to you and give you little warm nudges. he is so sweet. so sweet in fact that i told eric the other day that maybe we can have another one some day. not any time soon. not in the next 3 to4 years, but maybe after that. we will see, but boy, sirus is a cutie.
seamus totally digs him. she likes to "hold" him and give him hugs and wants to help with anything that has to do with him. maybe its a jealousy thing - making sure to stay in with the action, but its cute and she really does seem to like him.
we are in the midst of buying a new washer and dryer. i am so excited. i can't wait. i feel so old at being so excited about new appliances, but i am so excited to have a washer that actually washes and a dryer that doesn't squel like finger nails accross a chalk board and that dries towels in less then 4 hours. i can't wait.

introducing!!!!

please welcome our new little boy,

Sirus John Atwood

born monday, october 3rd at 11:29am
9 pounds 0.6 oz and 20.5 inches long!














we are all doing great, big sister seamus is very excited to have a new little brother, she thinks he is very neat! i will post more later once things have settled down a little.

should i get #6?

so, eric was the super nicest this morning. not only did he rub my back and shoulders, he went to starbucks to get me a tall, extra hot, non-fat hot chocolate, with whip cream and a piece of the pumpkin loaf. ahhh, i can now relax. i love the starbucks hot chocolate, there really isn't anything else quite like it. in an effort to save money, i have tried making the hot chocolate at home before work and i have tried making it at work, bringing in my own whip cream even, but its just never as good. when i go back to work i might resort back to making it at work though, if i can make it there... i told eric that i am going to get a coffee maker so i can have some coffee in the morning. i haven't had coffee regularly for several years - essentially since before i was pregnant with seamus. hot chocolate still has caffeine, just not to the same levels as coffee, at least that is what i tell myself and it is made with milk, so that makes it almost good for me to drink while i am with child.
so, no baby yet. i am starting to think that the truth will soon have to be revealed to me and they will have to tell me its a big old monster belly and there isn't really any baby in there at all. they are all very crafty at keeping their stories straight though, especially since i have seen so many different doctors and ultrasound ppl this time around. i especially find it interesting that they were able to "turn" it, too. they have this whole thing figured out.
i am almost out of the expensive stretch mark creme... how have i managed to go through 5 things of it this time around and with seamus i only went through 1.5. And this time, it isn't even working!! Well, it is, i am just monsterly huge this time so a few little marks that really aren't too bad have popped out. i am just worried that i am going to run out and then it will be anohter two weeks and then it will be a huge old mess. maybe i will just break down and buy another thing of it. the day we checked into the hospital to have seamus, eric and i were out shopping and i was debating as to whether to buy a new thing of it since i had just run out. i had decided against it adn next thing you know i was walking around capitol hill with a monster maxi pad in my yoga pants in case my water decided to gush all over the place. someone told me that the baby won't come until i am totally ready and accepting of it. when i think about how things worked with seamus it makes sense i guess. i am ready for this one, too, but i think it doesn't want to come out yet because its bed isn't even going to ship until oct 8!! i keep telling it that it doesn't have to worry, that we will let it sleep in the bed with us for that first little bit - something we never let seamus do. but i guess its just not willing to beleive me, or maybe it doesn't want to sleep in the bed with us?
i cleaned the house a little yesterday. its usually pretty tidy and generally has only a slight layer of dust from all of the contruction and a thin layer of hair from all of the cats. eric does a great job of keeping things together and even seamus who spends all day pulling all of her toys out all over the place has started to find it fun to help clean up. if i start doing something, she comes over and asks to help. so i let her. it takes a little longer but its worth it and she is just so darn cute, how can i resist! anyway, last night i cleaned some and it wasn't anything more or less then usual, but for some reason i had and still have a big sense of accomplishment from it. everything is in its place, for a little while at least, and it makes me happy to go into the living room and into the kitchen.
eric has two races this weekend. one tomorrow night and one on sunday. both are close by so there should be no issues as long as he answers his phone if needed. the race tomorrow will be fun. seamus has gone twice! once while i was pregnant with her and then last year, too. i don't think we will go this year because it doesn't start until 8pm. maybe we will go to the one on sunday though, unless its raining, or unless i am having a baby.

i'm not the only one

so i went to the drs and saw the nice dr. she isn't my normal dr, who is very nice as well, but the dr that i saw last wednesday. my appointment was already with her since my dr wasn't available today. anyway, i told her about how i didn't like the stupid dr and she appologized and said she felt bad that i had such a bad experience. the stupid dr was an intern, apparently a very new intern who had just started this summer. i would think that by now she would know how to find a cervix, but maybe that is asking too much. the nice doctor hadn't ever met her until that night either, so she really didn't have too much to say other then to applogize and to tell me that i can always turn down treatment from the intern. thats what we did when seamus was born. the intern wanted to deliver her and i said no. they have to learn somehow but not on me. anyway, the nice dr said i was dialated to about 3cm so that is good but no progress in the effacement part of things. thats ok because i was feeling much better after leaving there today.
so i went to my car which i had parked in the parking garage only to find that i was totally squished in!! i had made sure to leave myself a lot of room on the driver side and the person who parked next to me parked over the line and into my space! i couldn't fit!! so i tried the passenger side and there was no way. so i went to starbucks then hung out and then called security. the guy came and told me he couldn't move my car for me for liability reasons but we went to go look. by then the car on the passenger side had left and a minivan had taken its place. the minivan was nice and left me just enough space to get the giant belly in the car, but then i had to hope over into the drivers side. its all kind of funny.
when i got home we went for a walk since it is so nice out. seamus is sleeping and i am doing some work. eric has cyclocross tonight, maybe i mentioned that, but he said if the baby comes tonight itg has to wait until after rush hour so he can make sure to get to the hospital in time.
my day is going much better!

another wednesday....

so, yes, it is yet another wednesday and I am still pregnant. STILL.
Gory details to follow, so be warned! Last Wednesday i thought i was leaking fluid and the baby that is normally very active just seemed to not be active at all. I was in the car for 2 hours after work and it moves once i think. Yeah, that just wasn't right. So i called the doctor and they had me go into labor and delivery triage. when the nurse checked she said there was fluid leakage. but then some stupid doctor came in. it wasn't the doctor i was suposed to see and it wasn't a doctor from my doctors practice. it was just a stupid doctor who when she checked couldn't find anything. that is fine, that is not why she is a stupid doctor. she then went on to check to see if i was dilated at all only to not be able to find my cervix. WHAT?? its not that difficult. Its just right in there. She had to have one of the nurses come in and check. See, that is why she is a stupid doctor. After that I heard her making comments outside my room to the nurses implying that i was lying about the fluid and any contractions i had. finally the doctor i was suposed to see showed up and did an ultrasound to check to make sure the amniotic fluid was at a good level. the stupid doctor had no idea how to use the ultrasound machine so the nice doctor had to show her. the fluid was border line low, so i was told to go get another ultrasound on friday. anyway, i went home still pregnant and totally pissed off. At my appointment today i am going to tell the nice doctor how much i hate the stupid doctor and how there better not be any chance in hell that the stupid doctor delivers the baby when it decides to get here.

so i went to get the ultrasound on friday. that was a whole other story that i may tell about after my appointment today, but the fluid was fine so i went back to work. still pregnant.

the weekend went really well, i felt better then i have in a long time. eric had a cyclocross race on sunday and seamus and i went to watch. everytime someone would ride by seamus would say "wheee!" It was very cute. after the race seamus and i ran around. i didn't think we ran around too much but by the time i got home i was pooped. i had no idea.
ok, so i have my drs appointment in an hour - hopefully they tell me something good.

geez, this week is so long

so, yesterday i had a drs appointment. but when i got there the doctor was off delivering other people's babies. the nerve!! so i had to come back later in the day. instead of going into the office i went back home and did some work there. eric and seamus had gone for a bike ride so i was home by myself. they have been going on bike rides a bit lately. the other day they went around the south end of lake washington. quite a distance, let me tell you. but seamus is an old pro - she had done the Tour de Cure with eric in may i think it was. 50 miles! What a trooper!
anyway, when i went to the doctors i had my check up. here are the gorry details - i didn't gain any weight since last weeek, baby is still head down, apparently i am dialted 2.5 to 3 cm already. That means i could get my epidural - RIGHT NOW, well, as long as I am at 3. Ok, not really since I'm not in labor but you only need to be at 3 to get it. 70% effaced. so things could happen here pretty soon, or it could be another 3 weeks. i am over 38 weeks so i am hoping for it to be soon.
tonight would work. i would be ok with tonight. although i would like to watch the season premier of america's next top model. the best show ever.
so, seamus is the cutest baby ever and she is very smart. we put her in pajamas at night time and she is wearing them when we put her to bed for the most part. but usually she takes them off before she goes to sleep. last night when i checked on her she was just in a diaper and a diaper that was very wet. so i changed her otherwise it may have leaked during the night or in the morning and that would ahve been sad to have a wet baby in the morning. apparently i didn't do a very good job because this moring eric emailed me and said that when he opened her bedroom door a nekkid baby butt came running out. she didn't pee the bed, but there were two diapers on the floor and a puddle of pee over by where the diapers are kept. we assume she was over there trying to get a diaper for herself and then just couldn't hold it any longer. she is so cute and funny.
eric has cyclocross practice tonight so hopefully she is not too much today. i am sleepy and i hope she will play nicely!

i thought it would happen last night

so, last night while we were watching the world tv premier of lord of the rings the two towers i had some of the worst pain in my side ever. so bad i got off the couch and onto my hands and knees on the floor in hopes that would make it better. it didn't. after a while i just went and layed down because i couldn't take it any more. it did go away and then it came back and then it went away again. then i had a few contractions and then i got up to walk around i had some horrible other kind of pain all in my pelvis. i was not happy last night but i was hoping that it meant maybe baby was getting ready to do something. it was obviously doing something, but i am talking about something on the lines of please don't make me go to work tomorrow type of something. alas, i am at work this morning. 4 entries in the baby pool have been scratched off. there is one for today at 3pm. that could still happen.
i had thought that i could work up until the day the baby is born, but then i decided the other day that i think i might head out on the due date if its not here by then. after last night's pain and lack of sleep fest i am thinking i might try to finish up this week and then head out. i am having a contraction right now though, so maybe i can leave for real earlier this week? but since I have had contractions pretty regularly for the past few months, i just don't know. i would be sad about leaving a little early because that means less time at home with the baby once it gets here, but if i am going to cry every morning on my way into work, is it really worth it?
ok, so welcome to week 38.

seamus is the cutest baby ever

but first - i forgot to mention that i found out what kind of baby we are having. eric has known since the 20 week appointment but has slipped a few times and then has been weirdly wishy washy when i ask him for confirmation. i told him that i was going to ask when they were turning the baby since they would have an ultrasound there and he said ok. but the ultrasound lady wasn't able to see that part. it was in a shadow. i figured eric slipped her a $20 to keep it a secret a little longer. when i went in on tuesday they did another ultrasound real quick to make sure bebe was still head down and i found out. its a secret though.
now on to seamus being the cutest baby ever. yesterday she apparently helped eric and his buddy build a few bikes. she got very dirty and eric didn't clean her up! i met them out at marymoore park since the first cyclocross practice was going to happen and i couldn't believe how dirty she was. so we went home and after sitting in traffic for an hour trying to get accross the 520 bridge i stuck her in the tub. she had gone through a stage where she was not happy about having her hair washed and would totally freak out and try to get out when we tired to rinse her hair. she seems to be over that and will even try to pour the water over her head herself to help rinse it. that is cuteness number one. also, the last two baths i have given her she is very interested in washing herself. she will take the washcloth from me or take some bubbles off of my hands and rub them on her belly and arms and then will sit and wash her feet, too. its been very fun to watch. i was leaning over the side of the tub and she stood up, took some of the bubbles from my hands and then went on to wash my face with them. she was so gentle and so cute that i could barely stand it. after all the washing was done she took the little shark tub toy that fills with water and squirts and kept squirting herself in the face with it. every time she would laugh and laugh. she is a different baby these days for sure.
after the bath she was super hunger because it was way past dinner time so she had dinner and then she asked to color so we colored for about a 1/2 hour - until she ate one of the crayons. i wasn't able to tell what color it was because she tossed the whole chunk in there but i guess we will find out in a day or so.
she has also learned to say banana and cheerio.
so i lost the office pool as to when the baby is going to get here. i said today at 9am and it is now today at 948am. no baby. i almost cried earlier when i found out that britney spears had her baby yesterday because i want to have mine so badly. when i told eric he reminded me how lame britney spears is and that we should try to distance the birth of our child from the birth of hers. good point.
chris shephard, teammate of seamus mcgrath was just busted for EPO. that is a huge bummer.

more more more

so, the baby is getting more bigger. on monday we went to the hospital to have the baby turned. i likened it to getting my nose pierced - totally worth it but I will never do it again. it hurt. a lot. and my belly is all still sore. baby was fine with it though. it chilled out for a while, took a nap and then woke up again. then we got to leave. we came home and i felt great. i felt like i remembered being pregnant - where i could move around and almost as though i wasn't pregnant at all. ok, right, whatever. so i took a nap and when i woke up i swore that baby turned itself back. all of a sudden it was hard to sit up, i had to sit semi reclining and all the other stuff that i had to do before they turned it. i had an appointment on tuesday and they checked and said baby was still head down, so that is good at least! I apparently have no idea what my child is up to. i am glad it is still head down otherwise they would try to turn it again and i am not so into that.
i went through all of our baby clothes last night. sheesh! we have a lot of stuff. eric mentioned that now since i went through all of it we can give some away and i said no way!! i want to keep it all! there is such cute stuff that i don't know what i am going to do but it isn't going anywhere other then on new baby any time soon.
i have also been watching videos of baby seamus when she was very small. seamus is very interested in these videos as well and will sit and watch very intently. it is hard to beleive that the baby in the video is now so big and able to do so much!
anyway, i am going to go have some spicey something for lunch to get this bebe moving!

hugs

one other thing i forgot to mention - seamus now asks for hugs! she will put her arms out and say hug. its so cute. there isn't anything better then a hug from a baby!

baby gittin bigger

so its friday morning. i had a dotors appointment on wednesday in which i was convinced he was going to tell me that i was going to have the bebe that day. but, alas, that was not the case. the baby is still breech so we are going to have a version where they try and turn the baby on monday. i am prepping for today today to be my last day at work, but knowing how much this baby loves to be inside kicking and stretching and making everything uncomfortable, i will likely be back at work on tuesday and will remain at work for another few weeks. i sure hope not though. i am done. everyone get a fork.
other then that....
baby seamus has been cute and huggy lately. the other day i was so amazed by her because she told me she wanted to color! not in so many words of course, but she was able to communicate it to me in her own way. she is very good at coloring. her new words include elephant and cute.
did i mention the new counter top in the kitchen? it is so great! it makes the kitchen look bigger somehow. eric is making some very good progress in the basement. he has built all the walls and has started hanging sheet rock on them. its totally starting to take shape!

its monday, i mean tuesday morning

so its tuesday morning after labor day weekend. oh how i had hoped that the baby would decide to make me labor on labor day.... but no such luck.
eric was so excited to find out that i am only a few pounds lighter then he is. last pregnancy there was a semi bet that i would wind up out weighing him, but i never did. this time it might happen although he claims he won't try to lose any weight, on purpose at least, just to make it happen. i have packed them on this time, that is for sure. oh well. the other day i tried on some of my pre-pregnancy jeans just to make sure my legs were still within reason and i was happy to see that although my hips and arse are 20 times their oringial circumfrance, the jeans were able to at least able to be pulled up all the way. whew!!
the kitchen counter top gets here today which is very exciting. over the weekend eric's dad came for a visit and they hung all the sheet rock for the celeiling, eric wired all of the lights, built the walk in closet wall and put in a laundry shoot. all very fun stuff.
will the baby come today? i go to the doctors tomorrow and he better tell me that the baby is on its ways or i might break down and cry to him again.
baby seamus was super cute all weekend, as always. we took her to get her 18 month photos even though she is really 19 months. she cried at first and didn't want to be put down at the photo place but after a little bit she totally got into it. she is a cutie, i can't wait for the photos to come back!

i am soooo huge!!

This is a photo of me the week before the baby seamus was born.

i mentioned that i was huger then ever, with 3.5 more weeks to go! see how huge i am? how can i ever get more huge then this? see! now, do you beleive me????

since i am once again part of the cool set...

i thought i would enter some photos of the baby seamus sporting her dad's cycling jersey. these photos are actually a little old, from the beginning of july. she is very big these days. 95th percentile for her height, 90th for her weight and 100th for her head. that means that her head is bigger then 100% of all other babies her age. she is also a super model and i will live vicariously through her. so, i am pregnant right now. 35.5 weeks about. every day i hope that this will be the day that it will come out. this has been a long standing hope since i have been on the uncomfortably huge side for quite a while and only get huger by the second.
i really don't have it that bad, i just don't like it. it could be worse. a lot worse so i am thankful for that.

whoa! I have a blog, too

i just found out that i set up a blog almost a year ago. well, i guess it is a year ago since today is september 1 and apparently i have been blogging since september 2004. coolio. i am at work.