Hi there! I'm waiting on all of my guidebooks on Portugal/Spain to make their return trip to the states before finishing up the blogs on my trip there since I can hardly remember my name these days. In the meantime....
Went to the doc on Thursday and got a great report! Well, great in that fluid levels are going in the right direction - up. She still wants me to rest and drink gallons of water, which I've been doing, and it seems to be doing the trick. While there I thought they had forgotten about me....they hooked me up to the non-stress test machine to measure contractions and baby's heart rate - and left me there. For like 45 minutes. I finally knocked on the wall and another nurse came in and apparently no one realized I was in there. Fantastic. Luckily she ran to get my nurse who had forgotten about me and also brought me some sweet tea & a brownie to encourage the baby to move around a little more. I do what I can in the name of helping my baby.
Jerry will be home on SATURDAY. I can hardly believe it. Some times it feels like it's been forever that he's been gone, and sometimes it feels like it's been 5 minutes. More often than not it's the former, but oh well. It's almost over! Jerry keeps saying he's going to mess up the "routine" Carrie and I have going. I say come on home and mess it up all you want :)
Carrie went to the "big girl" class today at school. She's obviously been two for awhile now, but the school waited till now to move her and several other kiddos from her 18 month old class over to the two year old class all at the same time to ease the transition. Thankfully there's a total of 6 kids going over there starting today, and one of them is her BFF Lauren. I'm not kidding - these two are like super glue on each other. They always have to sit right beside each other whenever doing crafts, story time, lunch, you name it. The teacher did say she had to separate them at naptime or otherwise they'd keep the entire class up chattering. I just find it utterly fascinating that this sort of social structure has started so early in life. I guess it's the psychology training coming out in me, but I'd love to spend a day just watching like a fly on the wall to observe all of this!
I am having a little bit of mommy guilt over the fact that I didn't take her on her very first day, but I will be picking her up. I didn't take her because getting her out the door and deposited at school and me at work by 8am is never going to happen and I had a meeting this morning at 8:30. I feel horrible not taking her on her first day of big girl class, but also felt silly asking to come in late on one of the only three days I'm in the office each week. I will take her in tomorrow, though. And my mom got to take her in today, so that was a "treat" for mom as well. Apparently as soon as they pulled into the parking lot Carrie announced "No Miss Lizzie class." Uh oh. She wasn't terribly happy from what I hear about going to her new class, but she waved like crazy to my mom from the window (I'm glad that this classroom has a window just like her old one does, so we can do the ol' "wave bye bye to mommy!" trick if necessary).
There are lots of new things going on in her class - no sippy cups, just regular cups (um, let me know how THAT goes) and stand up diapering in the bathroom to encourage potty training. I have to admit I've been terribly lazy on the potty training thing. I had a lofty goal of having her trained by the time Jerry got home. Obviously that hasn't happened. But seriously - have I had the patience and energy to go through that little process in these past few months? Absolutely not. Jerry seems quite committed to getting her potty trained himself after he arrives home, so I say go for it buddy. I am hoping that by seeing all the other kids in her class doing it she'll want to speed up the process. It may all go out the window in 3.5 weeks, but that's okay. At least she'll have a vague idea of what she's supposed to be doing.
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