Packages

I love getting things in the mail!!!! Letters, postcards and even more so - packages. It makes me happy. I look forward to the UPS guy, the Fedex guy and sometimes even the postal worker (I loathe USPS as a general rule). So, today will be a good day because these goodies are arriving:

Lovely brown/cream zebra print bathing suit
from Land's End that will camoflauge
my post-baby belly during Henry & I's
Memorial Day trip to East Hampton:

I hate that all H's clothes are crazy with prints & animals & other stupid things, so when I discovered American Apparel sold solid, non-pastel colored baby clothes I was all over it. These pants are coming for H in black, white, brown, navy & red and these onesie's in brown, navy & red:

Z & I have a wedding to go to on Friday night. It will be our first big night out together since H arrived! The wedding will be outside in Grant Park's Rose Garden if the weather cooperates. We bought the bride & groom these monogrammed wine stoppers & a $100 GC to Binny's Beverage Depot:

Like I said, today will be a good mail day :-)

Three months later...back to work...

Can you believe we are three full months from Valentine's Day?! H is three months old today and I'm now back at work. I'm working from home 5 days a week and we've hired a nanny, Katie, to be here at the condo watching H. And already, as you can read, I'm working very hard ;-)

Not to bombard you with H photos, but I do think he looks rather smashing in his Beatles t-shirt...

Whew!

Well, now that I've entered the proper post that he has arrived, I can update on our journey & our lives since the little man arrived!

It has been a LONG, tough couple of months, but the fog is starting to clear. H is now 11 weeks old, weighs nearly 12 pounds and is becoming more predictible and more fun. He smiles lots in the morning and really enjoys his bouncy seat (read: time for me to shower and get things done!) and his activity mat.

Today our nanny, Katie, started. I have such mixed feelings about it - letting someone else care for H, but I have to go back to work next week. I will be working from home 5 days a week so I will be here, but just not with H all the time. She is putting him down for a nap right now. It's weird having someone else do things with him. I'm not worried about her hurting him - I really like Katie, but I guess I feel guilty and jealous at the same time. Oh well.

I have such mixed feelings between getting my life back to some version of it's old "normal" and not having much time with H!

Who'd want to leave this?!

Baby B has arrived!

Well, it happened! This is LONG overdue, but here are his stats for posterity:

H. T. B.
Born February 14, 2007 at 11:53 p.m.
7 pounds 15 ounces
20 1/2 inches

Labor started at 6 a.m. on Valentine's Day. We went to the hospital around 10 a.m., after I had showered and eaten a lovely Eistein Bagel and had my favorite, a Chai Tea Latte from Starbucks We checked into triage, where they determined that yes, in fact, my water had broken. The only bad thing - I'm not sure when it happened, so it was slow leak and they worry about infection when that happens.

After a couple hours of monitoring, we moved to Labor & Delivery. Contractions really weren't that bad. Not the most fun thing ever, but not bad. I won't get into all the gory details, but I started pushing around 9 p.m. and nearly 3 hours later Mr. H (or HDog as we like to call him) arrived!

9 MORE DAYS?! Get out of my belly!

Well, now I'm done. Little guy is fully "cooked" and I'm ready for him to come out. Techincally there are 9 (well really 8 - there are only 2 hours of day 9 to go as I write this) more days until my due date, but I'm puffy, huge & uncomfortable. Baby B's being paged to the outside world and he needs to answer soon!

I blame my OB. I figured I'd go a full 40 weeks. Then I went in at 36.5 weeks and she said - we have 1 cm, 70 effacement and his head is at station -1. In non-prego speak, she said - I think he will be here in the next two weeks. Well, the end of that "next two weeks" was this Wednesday. When I saw her at 37.5 - she said she didn't think she would see me for my next appointment - which again, was this Wednesday. A full moon, suspected to send pregnant women into labor, has come and gone! I'm now at 3 cm and wondering how it's physically possible for me to cruise around like that?!

And so I wait. Wednesday I got a fresh pedicure. Today I got a haircut. I strolled the aisles of T.J. Maxx at a slow pace over lunch because walking was sort of painful. I made Z take me to Target tonight for more walking/shopping. I am ready. And waiting. The car seat is installed & in the car. The tiny clothes are washed. The diapers are in the dresser. Beetle B. - come on down!