Things are going well, better than last week for sure. I wrote out a post that listed a bunch of my anxieties but I didn't publish it because it was just a way for me to get some of my thoughts out. I'm feeling better about things-despite being sick again. We had a nice 3-day weekend and this time we did not push ourselves too hard nor did we really have any plans, thus leaving us with some much needed relaxation time. It was a beautiful day last Saturday and Brett and I with a couple players from our Spring team got out to play some tennis. We were expecting another person but they didn't show up so I ended up playing an entire set and a few extra games afterwards. The fact that I felt well enough to do that was very encouraging. I couldn't move quite as fast, and didn't push myself to either, and Brett's ankle was still bothering him a little bit so we had to change up our game plan a little bit:We had to play smart-working more on placement and technique rather than pure athleticism (lol) but seriously, it was interesting, and we won! Not that it was important to win, but it was kind of fun after not having played in a while!
I also thought that the tennis game correlated a little bit with how our life is going. We have had to do some things a little differently recently and modified the way we go about our daily lives just with balancing time and money, etc. and it has been successful. Brett and I are able to communicate even better every day, strategize with budgeting, figure out what necessities we need for the baby and ourselves, as well as make sure we do some fun things just for us before there's three! We had a gift card from Christmas to the movie theater so we went and saw The Hobbit-so good! It was fun to go to a movie just the two of us as it's been a while since we've done that. We also went and got some necessities with a Toys R Us gift card Brett received as a gift from some teachers at one of his schools. He had become increasingly concerned with the prospect of if the baby arrived much earlier than expected, he felt under-prepared and wanted to make sure we had things like a diaper pail, some diapers, wipes-things that he wasn't as familiar about purchasing if he had to do so one his own, so that was fun to go do that as well.
It's nice to feel that we are pretty much as prepared as we can be for little Finn, not only with "things" but we are also very comfortable with our birth plan and ready to have a little one at home. We haven't ironed out the details of night times and the responsibilities we each will be adding on, but we have a general idea.We are just so excited for his arrival. He is getting so big and strong! He has found my ribs and is making himself known by lodging his little feet in there especially at night. It's kind of crazy to think that our tennis season starts March 8 and I'll be just about 36 weeks which is technically full-term. I don't think he'll come THAT early but it is fun to think we could have a brand new baby next month!! I'm really interested to see how Katara reacts to a screaming human in our house. Luckily she has established some safe places to hide and hasn't once tried to jump in the crib or the cradle-let's just hope she continues to stay out.
Everything pregnancy wise is still going just fine. My final ultrasound will be on the 28th. The reason I'm having so many is because of the initial scare with downs/cystic fibrosis. I'm kind of glad I get to do a few because it's fun to see him in there and her how much he is growing! I still haven't had any cravings...I mean there have been times when something sounds really good like awhile back I had bacon with just about everything for a week and then hamburgers were really appealing and then pizza, but nothing weird and nothing that I had to have right then and there. Sometimes I'll see ads on tv and that triggers a "craving" one time it was Greek yogurt. I almost feel like I've had more aversions to food. Like yesterday, I had some chicken nuggets for lunch but only because nothing really sounded good. We were about to go to the store and Brett was like maybe we can get a corn dog! Nah, that's ok... What?! A corn dog DOESN'T sound good? I know... It's weird. Oh well! To be honest, though, having a smooth pregnancy has really been what we both needed with all the stress we've been dealing with over the last few months. I definitely can't be grateful enough for that!
We had a co-teacher of Brett's over last night, along with her husband and almost 3-year old, for dinner. She had donated a huge bag of baby boy's clothes to us a while back and this was our way of thanking them as well as to introduce she and I as she is also pregnant again and due in May! It was fun to have a little toddler over. He really liked me right away, it was so cute. He came over while I was cooking to show me his monster trucks and motorcycle toys and he was definitely "showing off" during dinner-playing with his food, haha. Brett and I were just so content watching him and observing him, it's been awhile that Brett has been around little little kids. It was also hilarious watching Katara's interaction with him. At first, he was a little noisy and she was freaked out so she was hiding in the depths of our closet. After dinner I reintroduced her and she just stared and didn't really know what to think. Good practice for a few weeks from now!
I did have a really funny moment the other day-it's kind of personal/embarrassing but it made me laugh so hard. I was hanging out at home, and it was quiet so I think Finn was sleeping as I hadn't felt him move in awhile and I had to pass gas (one of those super fun side-effects of pregnancy) which I did and he totally twitched. I was laughing so hard thinking that I had just startled him like that. It made me even more excited for him to get here!!
Anyway... Here are a couple pictures of my progress!!
