December 14, 2007

Tomorrow?

One more day until the due date...but, y'know, whatever.

I mean, I would very much like to meet this kiddo, but I'm not going to hold my breath (baby needs oxygen and so do I) or, um, y'know, be shocked if the baby doesn't arrive before midnight on the Ides of December.

I keep talking to the baby and describing all the nice things in our house and outside, but I don't think it understands a word I'm saying. I really like doing it...it's kind of a little game to see how long I can talk to the baby before I start to cry because I'm so happy and incredulous that this baby I'm talking to is real and will soon be even moreso in an even more unbelievable way. C'mon, Squirmus!

I have various tasks spread around the house so I don't end up just sitting and waiting...like, how the bag to take to the birth center is in the living room with all of its to-be contents stacked on top and around it but is not actually packed. Or how our birth plan is in cryptic longhand but not typed up and printed out.

...or how I still haven't finished that work-related paperwork...

I have completed the morning rituals of waving to the roofers and taking down all the art.

Time to move on to a mid-morning snack. Today's selection will feature blueberry yogurt.

Oooo: big kicks and squirms! What are you trying to tell me, baby? (E. was over for dinner the other night and had her hand on my belly and yelped at one point because the baby moved so much. It was satisfying.)

Posted by Ida at December 14, 2007 10:08 AM
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A different baby update: Helmut Pham has arrived! December 12, around 8pm, 8.5 lbs. Perhaps it will inspire your squirmus to start?

Posted by: Rachel at December 14, 2007 11:04 AM

If this kid is at all like me or Yellow Dog, it will wait a respectable amount of days so as not to compete with small Helmut but to also assure that it's own birthday will be well-noted...which still seems like tomorrow would be quite reasonable.

(And, congratulations to new Uncle Pham!)

Posted by: ida at December 14, 2007 03:30 PM

I beg your pardon.

Posted by: Erin at December 15, 2007 11:39 AM