one week from today...

We'll have had our baby girl! I'm scheduled for 9:00 a.m.

I'm NOT looking forward to the actual procedure as I remember it being quite scary as they pulled and tugged while I was awake (obviously I couldn't feel the actual pain).



But I am looking forward to that first little cry, meeting our new daughter, and seeing her as tiny as Cam was here.

journals

My mom has two journals she wrote in when my sister and I were very young. Unfortunately she lost steam early on and there aren't very many entries. I LOVE reading what she did write, like about when I was telling my playgroup what I had in my lunch box. I proudly announced, "I have apple juice because my B.M's won't come out!". :)

I've never been very good at journaling for myself, but I'm determined to be better for my kids. No, I don't intend on writing daily, or even weekly. But I have been pretty consistent in writing a good size entry about every other month since Cam was born. Mainly I write about things worth remembering, be them big or small. I'll write about his current favorite books, something funny he did or said, etc. Basically they are things that only his parents would find cute and that he'll hopefully enjoy reading when he is older. For instance, most people could probably care less that he loves these trains and today insisted on carrying them to bed, in the car, down the stairs, etc. :)

the numbers

11 Days until my scheduled c-section (in case you are wondering, I had one with Cam b/c he was breech, so I have to have another one).

8 Times on average I wake up during the night feeling incredibly uncomfortable.

2 Sundays in a row we had to stay home from church due to Cam's runny nose. Am I being too picky about this? Seems like we miss far too much church b/c of snot.

83 Degrees in Palm Springs today which is where we decided to go since we didn't go to church. Here are my too cool dudes:



0 Money spent on these coin run cars in the mall. Fortunately Cam didn't know they were supposed to move and was therefore content to climb in and out. :)



39 Cents per ounce on some delightful serve-yourself frozen yogurt we bought on our way home.

74 Times Cam yelled/cried "truck!" on the way home (yes, we counted) when we refused to give it back to him after he kept throwing it on the floor. It was a LOOOOONG ride home.

3 Episodes of Lost we are behind on Tivo. We just can't get into it this season as there are too many twists and turns to keep track of.

3 Episodes of Southland we have watched...our new favorite show.

2 Costco bags of chicken Chris and I bbq'd, chopped, and bagged yesterday in prep for baby coming

thanks

Ana and Jeremy came out yesterday to spend the day. Jeremy and Chris went golfing and Ana and I hung out here and went to the park for a bit. It was such a fun day and we'd like to do it on more of a consistent basis. Ana made me a DELICIOUS chocolate cake which I devoured a second piece of after they left (despite the heartburn I knew would follow). Thanks Ana!!


p.s. Her cake did NOT have raspberries as that would have been a travesty!

For those mommies out there, if you want to read an encouraging and cool post, check out my sister's recent post...it's a good one.

stroller

After way too much research, we decided on a double stroller. I love it and it's the easiest/smoothest one I've every pushed. I took it for a spin today and realized I hadn't been on a walk that long in a while. It will surely be my last until baby comes as my back (and really whole body) have been killing me all day. But I'm still very excited to have it. :)

ladybugs and cherry limeade

Our new favorite drink. Tastes like summer...

neti pot schmetti pot

My sinuses have been bothering me going on 4 days now.  To be honest (and Chris would completely disagree with me), I kind of feel like cold/sinus medicine is a crock.  I don't think it speeds up the healing process, nor helps alleviate the symptoms much anyway.  I think Advil can help you feel better overall for a while, but that's about it.  Anyway, I have heard amazing things about the Neti Pot and finally decided to break down and give it a try.  

Basically you are pouring a saline solution through one nostril until it comes out the other.  Sound uncomfortable?

 It's actually not that bad.  The point is for it to break up all the yucky stuff and flush your sinuses clean.  I had high hopes.  Too high.  Yes, it does make it so you can blow your nose right afterward and get some lovelies on your tissue, but it doesn't help the sinus pressure AT ALL, which I had assumed the "flushing" would do. So I guess that was $15 down the drain and I'll just have to ride it out like usual.  :(