Beer Baby

He looks like he's at happy hour for goodness sakes! Funny kiddo. He got hold of my ginger beer bottle and had a great time pretending to drink it.

I had my latest prenatal last week. Nothing to report really. Everything looking okay so far; bp fine, protein level fine. The midwife gave me a birth-plan to fill out so that they know what I want. I have started to look into hiring a doula to attend to me during the birth. I haven't met her yet but have plans to do so soon.

I have started working on my meditation room. I am battling wall paper...whomever invented the stuff should be shot! James came in to help me. I asked him to let me struggle with it on my own; a huge leap of faith for me. It means I am depending on myself to actually get it done and to accept my creation. It would have been so easy to let him scrape away wall paper while I pouted on about how hard it was how it was never going to get done...and I suppose since I have now asked that he let me do it alone, it may never get done.

And then there is actually creating the room in time and not rushing to just have it done; actually letting the flow of me flow into the room and know that the pace is right. It is so difficult for my personality to have a project that I can't finish right away. And with kids it is even more difficult because I know that when I start I can't just keep going until it's done. And so my temptation is to do nothing at all that takes more than a nap time to do.

I will try to keep you posted on the room. Right now it is empty of stuff except for the computer chair that I use as much as I can (my feet hurt!). One wall is slowly giving way its ugly wall paper only to reveal even uglier wall paper. The bottom layer is not sheet rock...it's brown woody stuff that makes the uglier wall paper hell to get off. Hmm maybe I will post some pictures. Smile.

Easter cookie from Ohio

Today when I got home there was a box that had arrived from Tipp City, Ohio, with chocolate goodies from Amish country. Isaac was having a cottage cheese snack at the time and we thought, why not add chocolate cookie to the mix? Isaac certainly did not object. He walked all over the deck carrying the cookie and taking bites. Then he came up to me and grabbed my shirt (yucky) with a huge smile on his face and showed me his cookie! When he started doing somersaults and cartwheels we decided to take the rest away and save it for another time. He put up mild protest but with his great reasoning mind and adept ability to understand spiritual energy he quickly realized that Daddy was not being mean; he would get more cookie later.

As for any lasting effects of sugar, there won't be any. After enjoying his cookie, Isaac decided to indulge in a rouge potato chip that fell on the floor from Daddy's late lunch; upon which he choked and threw up. No longer red-faced and gagging, he was free to then play in what was a new, strange and wonderful liquid substance on the floor.

Happy Easter!

Easter cookie pictures

"Look Mama! A cookieeeeeeeeeeeeee!" Little dirty hands all over Mama's clothes! :)

Registration links and other links

We are registered at www.babiesrus.com and www.onestepahead.com Both are under Kirsta McElfresh.

And here are some cool links.
This one is especially funny if you are Deaf or an interpreter.
http://www.funnywebvideos.com/2006/02/10/watching-two-worlds-collide-ice-ice-baby-2002/

This one is mi madre singing at a Franklin Graham event in Troy.
http://www.photoreflect.com/scripts/prsm.dll?eventorder?photo=0A3I00AA000047&start=0&album=0&adjust=-1&d=0&nphoto=0A3I00AA000048

And this one is a bit more sobering; a site to help you look up registered sexual offenders in your area.
http://www12.familywatchdog.us/>http://www12.familywatchdog.us/

And if you haven't done so yet, here is the link to put in your guess about our baby!
www.expectnet.com password IrishTwins2 (case sensitive)

Isaac in the buff

My favorite. I took these a couple weekends ago. Isaac loves the sunroom, especially when he can have his clothes off!

A Classic!

Catching up

HI!
It's been a while since I posted. I am now 27wks pregnant and doing fine so far. My last appointment was good. I was with a nurse practitioner instead of my midwife and she was very open and talkative. I was able to ask her a lot of questions and get a lot of answers!

Overall I have gain an average amount of weight...my bp and protein levels are fine and I "passed" my diabetes test. It was a yummy test :) I had to drink orange soda (tasted like it) and then have my blood drawn an hour later. I am not diabetic but I do need more iron. I am not going to take the iron pills they recommended because I already know i don't eat enough fiber and i don't want to be constipated. I am using Floradix (wild oats) and it doesn't constipate me. Plus my dear mother and friend Shirley gave me a list of high iron foods. Besides the chicken liver, I like most of it. smile. I have been taking my other supplements and trying to get plenty of protein. I need to start drinking a protein shake (yuck) to get more I think. I believe the magnesium sulfate that I have been taking is keeping my blood pressure down.
I think my next appointment is with a doctor to have a VBAC consultation. And after that I have appointments every two weeks.

I still need to make a list of interpreters that we are comfortable with as well as have all the phone numbers in order (phone tree) for any information that needs to be shared. Maybe I will put a phone tree together and send it out for everyone's approval. That way Lucy/carroll can make one phone call to begin with. I have asked Lucy to be my immediate on call person for Isaac when the need arises. After that I will want someone to be around to care for him while I am in the hospital, because I want James to take care of me. Smile. It would be nice if my mom were here, too. I know also that some of James' family will be here if humanly possible since they missed the first one.
We still plan to deliver at Central Maine Medical Center which is only a few minutes away.

Isaac is entertaining himself in the "playroom". It is too cold to be in the sunroom today. He is walking now! He started march 19th when we were at Cappy's house. We were standing around talking and all of a sudden he takes about 5 steps in a row before falling down. I just sat there with my mouth open. Ofc, I knew it was coming soon; he had been taking one step before this without realizing it. But I was still blown away and if you looked closely you would have seen tears in both my and James' eyes. So now we know what it is like to chase a little one around. Fortunately we have baby proofed enough to relax at home without having to chase him constantly.

James is outside with a friend playing with the new lawn mower that we bought at Lowes (thanks Dad!). We didn't have a lawn mower...now we do!