Friday, February 02, 2007
This Week, in Too-land
1) I have gotten SO used to calling this baby Too, that it will undoubtedly be an actual nickname when he/she is born. I am amused. I have only used the baby's actual name a handful of times... Too seems to flow more naturally. But no, I haven't considered changing the actual name to Too. ;)
2) The nursery is FINISHED except for a crib mattress and some knick knacks to put on the shelves I hung last night. :) Tom found me standing in the hallway before bed last night just staring into it saying, "Look! There will be TWO kids... one in here and one in there... TWO kids... look we have TWO bedroom!! Two bedrooms for TWO kids!!" Yeah, I'm losing it.
3) I started working on Too's baby book last night. I'm so very determined not to fall into the second-child syndrome thing with that. Too WILL have a completed baby book and, as long as I can keep my act together, a pregnancy book and first-year book full of JUST pictures of TOO. (of course there will be pictures of Ben meeting Too in the hospital and whatnot... but the majority of the pages will be devoted to just the baby... every child deserves that.) I realize those of you with multiple children alrady are reading this and shaking your heads, thinking, "Just wait... you'll see" and I don't mean to be throwing out one of those annoying, "I will never do x with MY kids" statements (hate that hate that hate that... but it's a whole other post)... but I HAVE to try. I might not get everything done i want to, but I can at the very least make the effort to take tons of pics of Too alone.
4) Definitely less movement these days as it gets more and more crowded in there. When there IS movement though, my stomach moves ALL over the place. So freaky. I want to try to capture this on video.
5) Tom and I were talking last night about how nice it will be to be PREPARED for what we are in for this time. Also how nice it will be to not obsess over milestones and whether this or that is normal. I'll document them all (see #3), but I'm not going to start googling autism if we don't hear full sentences by age two. ;)
6) 15 weeks to go! :D But I'd take a Mother's Day birthday... that would be SO cool, not to mention shave a week or two off that due date. ;) We'd just like to avoid the uncles' May birthdays. Hopefully that will work out.
7) Still puking. But you knew that.
2) The nursery is FINISHED except for a crib mattress and some knick knacks to put on the shelves I hung last night. :) Tom found me standing in the hallway before bed last night just staring into it saying, "Look! There will be TWO kids... one in here and one in there... TWO kids... look we have TWO bedroom!! Two bedrooms for TWO kids!!" Yeah, I'm losing it.
3) I started working on Too's baby book last night. I'm so very determined not to fall into the second-child syndrome thing with that. Too WILL have a completed baby book and, as long as I can keep my act together, a pregnancy book and first-year book full of JUST pictures of TOO. (of course there will be pictures of Ben meeting Too in the hospital and whatnot... but the majority of the pages will be devoted to just the baby... every child deserves that.) I realize those of you with multiple children alrady are reading this and shaking your heads, thinking, "Just wait... you'll see" and I don't mean to be throwing out one of those annoying, "I will never do x with MY kids" statements (hate that hate that hate that... but it's a whole other post)... but I HAVE to try. I might not get everything done i want to, but I can at the very least make the effort to take tons of pics of Too alone.
4) Definitely less movement these days as it gets more and more crowded in there. When there IS movement though, my stomach moves ALL over the place. So freaky. I want to try to capture this on video.
5) Tom and I were talking last night about how nice it will be to be PREPARED for what we are in for this time. Also how nice it will be to not obsess over milestones and whether this or that is normal. I'll document them all (see #3), but I'm not going to start googling autism if we don't hear full sentences by age two. ;)
6) 15 weeks to go! :D But I'd take a Mother's Day birthday... that would be SO cool, not to mention shave a week or two off that due date. ;) We'd just like to avoid the uncles' May birthdays. Hopefully that will work out.
7) Still puking. But you knew that.
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I agree with #3. I'm going to try my darndest!!!
I think once you get in the habit of doing it...then you just do it.
Every year Laney gets a birthday video set to an appropriate song with clips from the past year, a Shutterfly photo book, about 3 albums of pictures (holding 200 each) and a calendar where I write something on it every...single...day for what she did/said, or what we did together.
I want Haven to have all of these things too...or I'll feel like I failed her there. Like I said, I'm going to TRY.
I think once you get in the habit of doing it...then you just do it.
Every year Laney gets a birthday video set to an appropriate song with clips from the past year, a Shutterfly photo book, about 3 albums of pictures (holding 200 each) and a calendar where I write something on it every...single...day for what she did/said, or what we did together.
I want Haven to have all of these things too...or I'll feel like I failed her there. Like I said, I'm going to TRY.
In our experience, as we have always thought that #2 would be the last, we are WAY more relaxed about everything. I was not in a rush to start solids. I did not feel the need to get her to take a bottle - breastfeeding was just fine, and now I'll do it anywhere! I didn't want her to start crawling.
I want her to stay a baby...she's my last, and I want to savor it. But, life is happening way to fast for that. Having a 3-year-old (on Feb 12!) means that I am constantly busy and don't necessarily have time to "smell the roses". But of course, I can always smell the poopy baby diapers instead!
I want her to stay a baby...she's my last, and I want to savor it. But, life is happening way to fast for that. Having a 3-year-old (on Feb 12!) means that I am constantly busy and don't necessarily have time to "smell the roses". But of course, I can always smell the poopy baby diapers instead!
Sorry, my comment was not related to point #3, but to point #5! I hope it didn't sound too bad. I just wanted to echo the not obsessing over milestones and such. It's much nicer the second time around!
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