I’m up again at 4:30 a.m. and thought I’d jot down some of my recent thoughts since I’ve been such a blog slacker lately.
Cate and I are watching Finding Nemo for the gazillionth time. I do love this movie but I’m tired. I woke approximately four hours after going to bed to the sound of Billy trying to coerce Cate NOT to want her mommy and not to get out of bed. She was coughing, crying and loudly agitated. I woke up of course. I was dreaming about rainbow colored ribbons. It was weird.
I love that child so much. It really isn’t a burden to me to snuggle with her and love her. I am worried she might have asthma. Sometimes when we go to Pump It Up and she really works up a frenzy her face is red and she coughs like she can’t breathe. She gets this way at night sometimes, too. Poor little Cate w/ her eczema and dramatic issues. Billy’s personality is so much more like Emma’s that I am just not sure he knows how to deal with her.
Yesterday I took the girls to church where I was annoyed when I once again had to crawl over a person so they could retain their aisle seat. Then we went to Sunday school where my class is studying the Song of Solomon via DVD. I was so incredibly uncomfortable in the wooden seat that I thought I would die of the pain. Somehow I made it through the 30 minutes but I doubt I’ll be back next week.
One week from today I’m scheduled to be induced. On Tuesday I have a doctor’s appointment and she said she could try “stripping membranes” to get things started. I’ll be 39 weeks on Wednesday. Emma was born at 39 weeks. She weighed over eight pounds as did Cate almost two years later. I wonder how much little Audrey will weigh. I’ve gained a total of 17 pounds since my eight week visit months and months ago. Not too bad, huh?

Above is an actual bare belly shot *gasp* from just last week.
I do feel fat but not as big as I was with Cate or Emma though I think my weight is about the same as what it was when I had Cate.
I’m looking forward to meeting this sweet baby girl, breastfeeding again, having my body mostly back to myself and being able to bend over comfortably. Ha!
Cate had a nap yesterday afternoon. Maybe that’s why she is now so wide awake. Maybe she’s about done with naps but she seems so much better in the evening if she has one.
We went to my in-laws’ for a bit and I had a pleasant conversation with FIL. MIL was pleasant as well for a change. She fixed soup and sandwiches for the girls and I had some, too so for the fourth night in a row I didn’t cook dinner. Nice, huh?
When I came home, Billy had cleaned up the house a bit and had his shower. We got the girls to bed and then relaxed in quiet for a few hours. He never has much to say but then he gets mad that I don’t talk to him and instead lounge in the recliner happily playing on the laptop. What is there to say? When I talk he seldom has a response to what I share and it often makes me feel like I’m just talking to a wall. I’d rather have a virtual conversation with people who actually give feedback.
No energy to blog and yet I ramble on and on. . .
Cate’s looking like she could fall back to sleep if I put her down. Nemo’s almost over. I should pack Emma’s lunch before I crash. I have to get her up around 6 and then it’s rush, rush, rush to get her ready in time for the bus that comes so early. After she is gone, Cate and I have no plans whatsoever and are free to vegetate as we like. I didn’t go anywhere on Saturday and maybe I won’t today either. It saves us gas and then I don’t spend money at all.
*yawn*
A few recent shots of the girls. . .
Our sweet little Emma enjoying a rainbow cupcake on Saturday. So happy.

The girls playing dress up earlier that same day. They love to make me even more laundry.


The rainbow cupcakes in all their red dye #40 glory.
(Also made a cake but had leftover batter.)

Beautiful sky Friday morning before Emma caught the bus – I love sunrise.

Silly Cate eating her Dora soup after preschool last Thursday.