The baby room is finished!!!
The reason I haven’t been doing pretty much anything for the last three months, including posting stuff here, is because Ive been working on getting the house together for the baby. I had some help from some lovely ladies named juliet, patty, trish, jenny and of course mama erin spent all day sunday helping and motivating me put on the finishing touches. Here’s the final result:
I’ll put a slideshow up to as soon as it’s uploaded. Sorry if the picture quality is a little off, we had some bad lighting at the time.
Ok, here’s a link to the plain photos.
On cat torture…
I just looked at that picture that erin posted of me and alice playing the piano, and felt a little bad; i wanted to make it clear that i really like to never, ever torment or tease our cats. I actually was genuinely interested in seeing if alice or jane had any inherent musical ability (for the record, jane has a little more talent, but not much). And just for the record, in case anyone thinks its ridiculous that cats might have musical talent, well, i got the idea from a little cat named nora:
Thank you for the presents! (Look what we did with them…)
Our awesome neighbor, Susan, brought us over a delivery of 3 bags of baby clothes. She has two boys, so, is hoping we have another (which, if you don’t know the story of our block, it seems only boys are conceived on this end of Hawthorne). She also said, she is sure it’s a girl….
The clothes are adorable, my favorite outfit being a pair of red corduroy overalls, similar to the pair worn by my first cabbage patch kid. Aw…. Well, seeing as there’s no baby available quite yet, it didn’t take us long to wonder how a cat or two might look in some baby clothes. Actually, we were wondering how well the cats are going to hold up under future tortures, if, by chance, the kid has a similar obsession with animal dressup to the one its mama had (has?).
We need a kid!
Due to lack of options, Peter started teaching Alice to play the piano. She was able to play one note, two times. She has had one additional lesson…
On a personal note…
Phew! Week 18 finally found me feeling better. I have no nausea to report, and, I’m having trouble staying in bed for even 9 hours. Quite a change. In the earlier weeks, I had started growing tired of hearing, “Oh, next week will be great! Week 10 you’ll feel better…. Week 12, week 14….” I realized after about week 14, people had stopped saying that. But, here it is, week 18, and I’m finally feeling, as I described it to Peter, like a person again. Yeah!
I felt the baby at about 5 am last Thursday, Valentine’s Day. That was my first day of week 18. I felt a little thump against my swelling abdomen. I didn’t know quite what it was, but, I knew it didn’t come from me. I described it as very “third party.” It was a really strange sensation, and left no doubt there is definitely something/someone else now residing inside my body. Hmmm….
