From the yearly archives: 2008
The bags are packed, the batteries are charging, the memory card… well, it will be in one of the two DSLRs (we may yet get out and pick up bought another 2 gig cf card so both DSLRs are primed and ready to shoot – yipee!) all with [...]
David aired up the tires and filled up the gas tank in the blue car there on the right. We’re hoping to be able to take that car to the birthing center and leave the van with the boys’ car seats for the grandparents to bring James and Lowell to the birthing center to visit [...]
So I’ve been making hats. “Lots-m-lots-m hats! Mommy!” I figure the longer I stay pregnant, the more hats this baby girl or baby boy will have. And the more of the other color ones I will get to send to new mommies. Here are the pink ones… I might not have a chance [...]
James, as we’re driving away from the birthing center (that’s the front door to it you can see from his window). I would like to note that every time I buckle him in, I put the oval shaped thingy even with his armpits and he wiggles it down to his belly as soon as I [...]
Sixteen days until our due date. I gained almost 4 pounds in one week. Hoo-rah. No internal check because the midwife was running 30+ minutes behind and in a hurry. She said she’d guess that we’re 100% effaced and 2-3 cm dilated but there’s no telling until she checks but then she never got around [...]
Buy another memory card. One 2-gig card is Not. Enough. when you have 3 cameras in constant use (and are about to have a baby!); the closest camera to the action will never be the one with the memory card in it. Murphy’s Law.
Buy another battery charger for the rechargeable batteries for [...]
I know it’s a little late in the game to be thinking about pulling together a nursery, especially when you consider that the “nursery” is a crap storage room right now. I don’t know how people actually put together anything coordinated … or that they actually USE the room for the baby in the first [...]
I had some kind of freak inspiration yesterday morning and decided to sew Kate a twirly skirt for her 4th birthday party (today) instead of heading to a toy store to pick up a packaged toy for her. I know this way, I used up some flag [...]
Says the midwife. But then again, this same midwife said I had two more weeks left the day before Lowell was born. I had the strep swab today. 140 pounds (23 pounds gained, woo-hoo!) blood pressure 102/60, fundal height 36 cm (measures at 36 weeks, same as 2 weeks ago so the baby is probably [...]
Yeah, I don’t get any.
James and Lowell both have a cough and very runny noses. Lowell’s fever has stayed under control with tylenol, but now I’ve got the post nasal drip. My cleaning/mothering skills were kinda low today, probably due to the reduced energy levels and increased size of my belly. I may only [...]
I never announced it, but the inspiration for taking pictures everyday this week was the a week in the life challenge, though only the taking pictures part. I did not keep a written journal. I did not collect things from our daily lives to add to a book. I am not scrapbooking any of [...]
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