Our Dr. called yesterday afternoon and the test results for Maeve are already in – “no other follow up is recommended” So I guess her thyroid is fine… thanks, God! We’ve really been enjoying this laidback week just being a family at home, though with a trip or two to the “big city”. We actually forgot her diaperbag yesterday and had to come home sooner than originally planned. We didn’t discover that we didn’t have it until we figured she could use a diaper change :-) We’re not at all looking forward to going back to regular work on Monday… but I guess at the same time we’re thankful for a way to provide for our family. You can think of us as we figure out how everything will work with this little punkin. Also, I (Christina) messed up my back/neck yesterday, making it pretty hard to do stuff and we’re not going back to the chiro till Monday. Blah.
Maeve is 12 days old today, not quite two weeks… we took her to her first dr. visit yesterday and the saying is “growing like a weed”, but I think it would be more appropriate to say that she is growing like a beautiful flower :-) she left the hospital at 7lbs 1oz and she is already 8lbs and 20.5 inches. She had to get her heel pricked for the repeat test, but we won’t get those results for 7-10 days… now we’re watching a lymph node behind her ear! Sheesh, will it never end?! I asked David if he had anything he wanted to add to a post and he said “her belly button’s off, YES!” I suppose you know what he means :-) in any case, she’s still precious and we’re still figuring out her schedule – the balance between too rigid and too lax… and we’re so incredibly glad to not be back to work until next week!!! Did we mention that’s the smartest thing we’ve done so far??? Here are a few pictures.
I can’t believe we took this long to announce! Yes, I was timing contractions when I wrote that last post. They started during the night on March 14, albeit only about two an hour, they were a minute long and regular. When it was time to go to work I told David that we should maybe take the hospital stuff with us. So we scurried around and were a little late for work. I timed them throughout the day and they just got stronger and stronger all averaging a minute long and sometimes as close together as two minutes. I pretty much didn’t do anything all day. When David got off of work he fixed something on the car (go David) and then we went to
I keep thinking I’m going to write something and I keep not doing it. I would have posted yesterday but our lappy decided to be a butt and butts do not make very good computers, let me tell you. Fortunately, Jeffrey kind of resurrected it, but I think we are still fed up enough with our ghetto laptop that we will soon be purchasing a replacement. (ghetto=battery connection doesn’t work, screen casing is cracked, power cord is duct taped – let’s just say it’s taken a few for the team) At the moment I can’t really remember what I thought I could write… so I guess this will just be a random “just because” post.
Remember when I said our car sounded like an airplane that day? Well, I think that is due to some loose fan or something on it. So yesterday David decided to go in and take a look. (we were going to clean out the car also, but we didn’t do such a great job on that) anyway, he took the glovebox out in order to see in where the sound was coming from, and somewhere in the depths of the car he found an old dried up mouse. Kinda gross. It’s still stuck in there somewhere cause he didn’t have the right tools and couldn’t really do anything. He ended up just leaving the glovebox off since I guess he is planning to do something else, and so he let me drive this morning so I wouldn’t have to sit there with the car guts. (and dead mouse) we have some errands to run this afternoon, so I wonder if he’ll put it back before then?
Recently there have been whole herds of deer congregating around the road on our way to work. it’s definitely a team effort to make the drive safely.
That we know of, no less than four people have dreamt about me and Baby D. Two nights ago Karla Neusch alone had not one, not two, but three or four dreams about it! In one I had the baby at our apartment in two pushes. Rock on.
Well, this was a dull and fairly short post, but soon enough I suppose we’ll have something more interesting to you all to report on… if it’s two pushes then so be it :-) I will post the most recent pic later.
So yeah, I don’t really post that much, but this is something that kinda made me raise my eyebrows a little. I work at an Organic dairy plant and we come across these little tidbits once in a while … so let’s chuck another one to “dollars and NO sense”.
