Babies Babies Babies February 24, 2009

On Sunday, I took a little trek to Chattanooga to do some bra buying, some birthday card browsing and some Babies R Us bonding.  I went solo which can be lonely but sometimes, I just need to take my time, eat where I want to eat, and stare at things as long as I want to stare. 

At Babies R Us, I noticed something about non-gender and gender specific attire.  “They” have assigned certain items to certain genders.  Boys get puppies, planes, and sailboats.  Girls get cupcakes, most fruit or sweet baked goods, and snails.  The non-gender specific stuff is thr worst though!  It is usually giraffes, frogs, or lambs.  I just wonder how they come up with what they give to which gender.  Wil noticed that boys seem to get reptiles and girls seem to get sweeter things.  I guess that’s about right.

Well, the cutest thing I have seen is this hooded bath towel.  It is a shark mouth with dangly teeth.  We already have 3 or I would have bought it.

Tummy Turmoil February 12, 2009

Yesterday was a day for tornados and touching.  In school, we all knew the drill.  Usually, teachers had us line up in a fetal position in a non-windowed area.  It was usually near the lockers at my schools.  When I was teaching, we would all pile into this small passage way between mine and my mentors classroom.  Of course, the students thought this was great and someone always either pretended to fart or actually farted.  I never got to actually use all that training……

The sirens went off here on the mountain right around lunch.  Ironically, human ears are not able to hear the sirens from indoors so most of us did not know they were going off.  These sirens are so eerie sounding.  If you’ve ever watched or played Silent Hill, they sound just like those sirens.  I half expect the world to change in front of my eyes to death and metal linked fences.  I heard the sirens here at Sewanee because I was getting out of a car.  So we rushed inside to find most of the seminary hanging out in the downstairs hallway and we joined them.  It was sort of  “lock-in fun” and only lasted about 30 minutes.  The wind was fierce and the rain was swirling around outside.  I don’t know of anyone that got hurt (thank goodness) but there were definitly trees down and power outages.

So, that was that.  I went to my EfM group that night and one of the other members pretty much molested baby Keith.  I am totally fine with people touching the baby bump, talking to the baby bump, even had someone kiss the baby bump.  This lady….she might as well have been applying body butter to it.  She was all over the place with her hands, getting awfully close to things not yet related to baby.  I, being way to polite, just smiled and waited for the buffing to end.  She didn’t even ask!  It is weird how a baby bump is seen as everyone’s property. 

At the doctor’s office this morning (we went for our check up), I totally got busted!  The doc was all, “Your glucose levels are kinda high.  Did you eat a sugary breakfast?”  Um….yeah.  I had a pop tart.  A chocolate Fudge Poptart.  So I got a little bit of the food guide pyramid speech.  Somebody sue me!

Rise and Shine February 5, 2009

Here I am.  33.6 weeks pregnant.  It’s been a good ride so far.  I had the bit of nausea, a bit of backache here and there, a little out of breath but all in all, it’s been a good run.  That’s why I feel totally justified in saying that the tables have started to turn.  Tired, droopy eyed-ness has come on full force.  Weight gain has started to find my face and has already made camp at my thighs.  My belly proceeds me through open doors and food has found a new place to land besides my lap.  I am awakened by baby body parts pertruding from my ever growing belly which causes a pee pee need chain reaction.  I also have started to be unable to process things like numbers and words.  At EfM, they told me to turn to page eight thirty and I could not wrap my head around what that meant.  In my defense, they needed to say eight hundred and thirty.  Am I wrong?  And my patience….gone.

The Asheville baby shower was so amazing and overwhelming and quick!  I blinked and it was done.  We recieved so many fabulous things for baby.  Wil proceeded to put them all together when we got home which I loved because that daddy stuff is pretty darn cute on him.  However, one of the gifts we recieved wasn’t the one we registered for but I did not realize this until Wil had it almost totally put together.  I thought I was going to get kicked out of the house when my reasoning for wanting the one we actually registered for was “it has owls instead of bears and I don’t like bears”.  Yeah, that’s like the only difference but it seemed important to me so I won and the gift went back into the box and is ready for some exchanging.

As excited as we are about this upcoming addition to our family, the world is heavy right now.  People are having so many problems of all different types.  It weighs  on me and I wish I had good ways to help but I feel so fortunate to have all that we have plus this baby in my belly….thanks be to God.