Sideways Baby

Right now, and for the last couple of weeks, Nina has been transverse. She's basically lying sideways. It's making for a very uncomfortable mama. She needs to switch her position in the next couple of weeks. Ultimately, it doesn't matter because I'm having a scheduled c-section, but I imagine I'd be more comfortable if she were breach or head down. Right now, when she moves I have contractions. I can directly tie these contractions to her movements, so I don't worry. It took a while to figure this out, but my brain has completely quit working over the last couple of weeks.

I am here to publicly admit that I am beyond spacey. I lose words and their meanings. I am constantly pausing in the middle of sentences while Todd's interruptions of "what's that thing?" and "yeah, finish what you were saying" and then I just lose it. It's frustrating and annoying. I have lost items, put clothing on inside out or backwards. I misplace my keys, phone, purse, etc. Thankfully, I haven't lost the outside baby yet and inside baby is impossible to lose considering she's still, you know, attached to me and whatnot.

Jack is now addicted to my iPhone. We're considering getting him his own iPod Touch for Christmas, but might have to reconsider the timeline and invest in one "from Nina"

We finally closed on our refinance. To celebrate, I purchased some new burp cloths, a new diaper bag, pink binkies, a ladybug Boppy cover, and since BRU had a sale on Pampers we picked up some newborn and size 1 diapers. We're about ready for Nina to come home. Her crib is now "Ninafied" with her bedding and mobile. I would post pictures, but I've been known for posting things "too early" (read: EVERY TIME I POST A CHRISTMAS TREE PICTURE BEFORE CHRISTMAS EVE) so you're all going to have to be patient. 

I think I mentioned last week that I got the car seat and swing/bouncy seat covers washed. This week was focused on getting home improvement jobs finished. We hung new curtain rods for the living room. The others had a nasty tendency to fall down and the curtains didn't really glide very well. After a hefty Ikea trip, we now have three new rods, blackout curtains for our bedroom, a rod for our bedroom, a light for the kids' room, and some new storage bins.

I love our curtains. They're chocolate brown, so they complement our bedding. They hang along the back of our bed so they look like an accent wall. The problem with Ikea curtains is they come in 96" lengths and needed to be hemmed to 84". Ikea is great because they give you hemming tape. Todd and I suck because we fought the entire time hemming was done. Our third curtain was the only one done right. The 4th "just in case" curtain was the breaking point. Thank the maker we didn't need it, because I laid the hem tape down the wrong way and melted it to my iron. My favorite iron. The best one I've ever had. We accidentally touched the tape once or twice and it's easy enough to get off, but I've been lazy for the weekend.

These are actually from a couple of weeks ago when Jack helped me make cupcakes. 

My kitchen is much cleaner now.

We're trying out another week of prepared freezer meals. The only one I'm not confident enough freezing is pot pie. I will make the ingredients ahead of time and assemble them at cooking time. After this week's exploding lasagna disaster, we're a bit hesitant to use the oven (because it still smells like burned tomato sauce and cheese) but the weather is supposed to be nice enough that I should be able to open the windows as the pie bakes. The coming menu consists of pot pie, turkey meatloaf, Yankee pot roast, salsa chicken, meatball sandwiches, baked spaghetti, and lemon chicken (plus various sides). I'm excited. Most sites that have recipes list enough ingredients for two or more meals. We're cutting them in half for one meal to try out how we like the plan ahead cooking. It's also for portion control. In order to ensure leftovers, we have to force ourselves to cut back on the amount we eat for dinner. So far, we're 6/7 on successful meals. We're focusing on crock pot meals to avoid a huge cooking day. The exception to this is my giant vat of red sauce. I will freeze it in preparation for meals and throw some in with some frozen meatballs for said meatball sandwiches.

Todd took a belly picture! 11 Mondays left!

11 Mondays left! YAY! We're getting prepared and very excited. Mama can't wait to sit/sleep/stand comfortably again and Daddy can't wait to meet his princess. Jack rubbed my belly today at the grocery store. I had to stop what we were doing in order to remember the moment. When my firstborn acknowledged his sister by feeling her. He usually won't hold his hands long enough on my belly to feel her. It was a big moment. The 5 other people in our aisle just had to huff around my little family as I basked in this big brotherly attention.

I wonder what I'll decide needs to be done next weekend. Probably the storage unit. YAY Todd! It's time to enlist some buddies for the big furniture moving you're going to be doing in the next few weeks.