It’s been a while…

Wow, I truly did not realize how long it has been since I have written! Laying in bed the other night, my always lovely, very pregnant wife asked me when my last post was. My reply. I don’t know. So, I thought I’d log in and check it out. Yowzer! August 22^nd, 2011! I truly could not ask for more in my life these days, and am ever ecstatic that in a few short weeks we are about to welcome our newest addition, a baby girl. Yep, the EDD is creeping ever close! With O, we were two weeks early, and the labour was about 6 hours (of long, hard labour for J). At our midwife appointment (we visit every two weeks now, and in two weeks it’s every week!!), she said that usually 2^nd time moms deliver early, and the labour is 50% quicker!! Holy smokes I thought! She could see the expression on my face, and told me to just call her as soon as we think we’re in labour, and the games will begin.

Lately, things for J and I have been crazy! Raising a toddler, working full-time and getting ready for winter and a new baby are no easy task. When we get home after work, our 2^nd and favorite job kicks in, playing with and raising our little boy. He’s been a little terrorizer lately, like all 18.5 month old little boys should be; running around the house, eating every hour, messing toys, opening cupboards, throwing diapers in the toilet, tormenting the dogs, etc. Lately, his favorite thing to do is play “rosy” (aka ring-around-the-rosy) with me, and when “we all fall down” he likes to keep me down, grab a blankey and cuddle up with me (ni-ni daddy J ). He’s an all around fun little boy already, and I look forward to each new adventure he takes me on everyday.

About 3 weeks ago, he started waking up in the middle of the night for really no apparent reason. This has been completely unheard of in our house for at least the past four months. O usually sleeps right through the night, and J and I had gotten used to it. 3 weeks ago though, baby girl decided it was time to get her big brother to retrain J and I on not sleeping through the night. I admit, it is something we definitely need to get used to, but O was really giving us a great time with his sleeping through the night. But alas, we realize that shortly we will once again see all of the hours that exist in the middle of the night, when our baby girl joins us, and I couldn’t be more thrilled!

J and I decided to get some holiday shopping done early, and managed to pretty well strike off the things on O’s list that we made! He is pretty well done, and we just have one more thing to send to Santa’s shop! Of course, with baby girl coming sometime in December, we really need to get a move on it and get things ready for the holidays. I put our lights up last night, and we will likely start organizing the decorations so that it isn’t a mad dash to get things up and our house doesn’t look like the Grinch’s during the holiday season. We’ve also tackled the nursery for baby girl, and are really excited for her to make use of the room. J and I had some leftover paint from when we did O’s nursery in our old house, and so we decided to do the same kind of theme (Winnie the Pooh), but a different painting style. Setting up the nursery furniture was way easier this time, and we are slowly but surely getting things ready for our baby girl to move into when she is ready.

All in all, we are ready for the new challenge that will come with having an infant and a toddler. I look forward to holding my daughter for the first time, and seeing O with his own baby sister. J is ready too, and is into the single digit countdown at work!! Getting more pregnant and always beautiful everyday, she looks forward to holding her baby too and growing our family by one. As for the dogs, I know they will be just fine. O and I will be slightly more outnumbered, but will have a blast in a house full of women and estrogen. Love to my family!!

Sorry for the long post. We’ve been busy, and I wanted to let my readers know how things are going as we get so close to a new chapter in our lives.  By the way, I read this online the other day, about Johnson & Johnson products, which we use on O, what do you think? (http://www.forbes.com/sites/amywestervelt/2011/11/01/as-report-reveals-toxic-ingredients-in-baby-shampoo-johnson-johnson-goes-public-with-plans-to-clean-up-products/)

Trust birth,

Blair