This past week has been a week of mixed emotions. Having made it through 2 natural disasters in the past 10 days (although we are still left without power or running water from that bitch Irene. Do you know how much it sucks not having a running toilet when you have to pee every 10 minutes?!), and a very sad death in our family, I am ready to welcome September with open arms. September means decaf pumpkin lattes, pumpkin bread, squash ravioli (you sense a theme here?) and 30 days closer to being October.
We spent one day this past weekend shopping for 8 hours straight. Not in preparation for Hurricane Irene like everyone else, but in preparation for Baby! We shopped til we dropped (and we happened to drop at one of our favorite restaurants, BOLU Trattoria in Basking Ridge, and ate a 5 course meal. If you haven't been there- GO! It's awesome.) and we did a lot of work in the nursery. We started organizing all of the baby paraphernalia and hanging some more of our pictures. Our custom printed Beatles inspired photos were framed in our beautiful glass and wood frames (which I found on clearance at Target for $4. 24 each - so exciting!) and hung on the wall by our rocker/recliner. And we hung 2 of Matt's electric guitars on the main wall on either side of the loveseat(the black & white one and the signed Weezer guitar I got for Matt a few Christmas' ago).
Some of our newborn baby clothes were washed, along with receiving blankets, bibs and those adorable mini socks (I am kind of obsessed with baby socks, they are so cute and small!).
And that was just the beginning of our weekend baby activities...we also took our "Prepared Childbirth" class and maternity center tour at our hospital.
It was a full 8 hours of videos of babies being born (Matt, nor I, really liked that part), breathing (and lots of mimicking of the famous breathing scene in the "Bill Cosby, Himself" stand up comedy act...not by the entire class...just by Matt and I. Glad we took it seriously) and then we took our tour of the maternity center. Pretty nice digs, I have to say. As we passed by the nursery, the nurse on duty brought the one lone infant that was there up to the window for us to see. OMG. This little munchkin just melted my heart. He was adorable and I actually had tears in my eyes when I looked at him. I have a feeling I will be a blubbering mess when I see my own little one all swaddled up in a few months. Or, in 7 weeks and 4 days to be exact. CRAZY!
It is truly going by so incredibly fast. I have 5 more weeks until I go on maternity leave and 7 weeks until I give birth to our son. OUR SON. Still totally trips me out.
Everytime I feel him roll around in my increasingly growing belly, I smile.
Every time. Even when he kicks me so hard in my lady parts that I wince. I still find myself smiling afterward.
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