Good News

So I went to see my midwife today and we received good news. Yes, the baby has turned. :) And, here is the real surprise, I'm already dilated to a 1. At 35.5 weeks, that may not seem like much to some of you.... but at 41 weeks with Eva, I still hadn't made it that far. So here is to signs that maybe this delivery won't be quite as long and exhausting... That surely is good news. The only bad news was that apparently I'm not supposed to be traveling long distances from hospitals at this point, so I don't think I'll be accompanying Weston on our second house hunting trip to Logan this coming Thursday. Now I don't think I'll be having a baby any time in the next week... but really, does a stuffed whale need to go against doctors orders and try to beach herself. As my Dad would say, I think a long day of driving, two long days of house hunting, and then another long day of driving, all while taking care of my favorite toddler - all of this, at eight months pregnant, would qualify as "cruisin' for a bruisin'" So I'm disappointed though. Weston will have to go without us and will have to be gone for Eva's 2nd birthday and likely Halloween. We will miss him. But we do hope he finds a wonderful home for us, just like he did when I was pregnant with Eva and he had to fly out here to Great Falls alone to go house hunting...

So here are a few picts - one, so you can track my growth, which I think is at least mildly impressive - and two, so you can see the pumpkin we carved last night. Eva was at first a little scared of the lit up pumpkin, but then she thought the "flower" inside was very interesting. And well, who can disagree.... "flower" is very interesting...

Memories of Summer

Today it is snowing, and because most of the leaves are already down, the bare branches of the trees seen through falling snow feels like real winter. So when I downloaded pictures of the recently past summer just today, well, I fell to reminiscing. Here are a few of the pictures, so you can reminisce with me, if you feel like it....

I think about my life. This summer was busy, spent getting our home ready for sale, planting and tending a garden, making new flower beds, playing with Eva, being pregnant, and resting from it all and I have to say it was delightful. We may have only gotten to go camping three or four times and home to Utah only once. We didn't see anything terribly new, backpack into Montana wilderness... I only got to use my fly rod once... but still, content I was. Sunshine I got. And I just love my little family. I think to myself, can these golden days last. Well, the last four years have been golden - but not always easy. So maybe the answer is yes, so long as I always have my little family. Here's to the sunshine of summer, even in the winter. May it last long.





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Spin baby, spin

When I was pregnant with Eva, our doctor told us a cesarean was eminent if she didn't turn head down soon. We went to an acupuncturist, did moxibustion sticks, and I tilted till red in the face, literally. And we prayed a lot. At 37 weeks she finally turned. I give full credit to our the last resource named. Well, here we go again. The little lady currently in my womb is following suit. She wiggles more than Eva ever did, and for about two weeks she was head down. But alas, for a little more than a week, she has positioned her head near my heart and appears to be happy this way. See the baby in the picture. She is smiling. That is my baby.

Well sweet babe with only 6ish weeks to go, all I have to say is spin my darling, spin. And may the force be with you, all such good and merciful forces that might bring your little head downward... downward... downward.