Baby Shower

08.14.08

Here's an update of the past three days...LA has been sick the past 4 or 5 days with a sinus infection. She has lots of congestion in her nasal cavity. I know she's she struggling breathing because she started snoring or as some people call it "breathing heavy". Hopefully, she is on the downside of it.

We got surprised last night (Wed) at the weekly movie night for the Youth. Ross and others planned a surprise baby(diaper) shower for LA and I. It was nice of them to bring us our first diapers. We hadn't bought the first one yet. We have enough to get us started now. They filled up the middle seating area of my Yukon XL. I am pretty sure that will last about one week based on the 8/day estimate we've been given. I'm just going ahead and letting everyone know we will only be using 4/wk. We're cutting the diaper expense in half - tight times, haven't you been reading the paper and watching FOX/MSNBC about the economy. We might have to wash a few extra sheets but we will still save $$$. If you don't change them so often they won't learn to accept that you'll take care of it when it happens and they'll want to be potty trained quicker - watch and learn people, this is going to be revolutionary and you read it here first. Back to the shower, we had pizza and a nice cake. Thanks to everyone for being so generous and thoughtful. Our friend Clark Williams hooked us up with a hand made onesy. You need to check back to see the pictures of it that I am going to post. It's funny. Thanks, Clark! I guess we can say we are unofficially ready - we have diapers, some clothes, a crib and a car seat.

No baby this week...We went to the doctor today for our weekly visit. The wait time was acceptable but we still had to wait and we had the first appointment time after lunch. It's still a mystery to me. I'm running out time to figure it out. We had a good visit with Dr. McCusker, today. She has great people skills and is always asking LA about how she is doing and how's school. She wants to talk to you about whatever while asking the same questions about baby movement, contractions,...etc. It's more informal and she still gets all the info she needs. We like her. LA is right on schedule - 37cm and the baby's heartbeat is 132 bpm. Her cervix is about a finger tip (maybe 1-1.5cm dilated by my estimation) and she is about 50% effaced. Just in case you need some education about those terms-click here for a refresher on dilation and effacement. As confident as the doctor was about "no baby this week, right on schedule", I couldn't help but remember that Minde was 2cm dilated and 50% effaced and was assured "no baby this week, right on schedule" and within 24 hours she went into labor.

Upcoming events this week:
LA has a girls shower tonight with the ladies from work (teachers) and the women's bible study. We are getting together Friday night with LA's brothers and their wives for a party at Waylon and Amy's in St. George. On Saturday, we have a baptism class to attend with Dr. Howell. We figured we would go ahead and get the class over with so we wouldn't have to wait for the next class.

LA has been coaching volleyball the past two weeks and starts school on Monday with teacher work days and the students on Thursday. Hopefully, she will get 2+ weeks of teaching before getting her 12 week vacation. So she has been off roughly 8 weeks, will teach 2-3 weeks, get 12 weeks off, teach 3-4 weeks, and get two weeks off to finish 2008. So from basically June to December it will be 22 weeks vacation and 5 weeks of work. You add the vacation to the new wardrobe, her husband taking constant care of her every need (foot, massages...etc) and all the other little perks of being pregnant and she's going to want to have kids all the time.

I am planning to just update the blog weekly for now on Thursday or Friday unless Baby Carter comes sooner...Don't forget to get your guesses submitted (see the link on the upper right or click this link - baby guess).