Passing the time...

I find there is rarely a moment when I am not wondering when I will go into labour. This makes it difficult to pass the time. It is turning out to be a nice week and I would love to spend time at the park, but the "crotch stabs" I have been having for the past few weeks make it impossible to walk to the park without stopping every few meters and crossing my legs. Ok, sometimes that doesn't happen, but I have usually used that time to grocery shop. Or, it won't always be nice outside that day. We do get outside, but it is usually to go in the sandbox or play with sidewalk chalk. However, it would be nice to have a morning and afternoon activity which didn't involve tv or a movie.
It is just impossible to get it off my mind. I do try my best to enjoy my alone time with Paige. On Sunday we watched Princess and the Frog together. Last night we went as a family to Boston Pizza. Not sure what we'll do the rest of the week besides my Thursday morning doctors appointment.

Still waiting...

I can't believe when I look at the countdown above that it has come to an end. AND...I am still waiting! A couple of months ago I was sure that the baby would arrive early. Technically the due date is tomorrow, at least that is what the doctors have written down. When I plug the dates into any due date calculator, though, it comes up as today, the 17th. But my doctor added a day. She also did this for Paige.

Because of the recent illness I had, I am happy this baby is still in there. But now that I feel better, I am hoping that she will decide to come out soon. I am anxious to shrink my stomach back to a more normal size. My next doctor appointment is on Thursday, and I'm hoping to have the baby before then. If not, I'm sure she will schedule an induction date just to have something on the calendar. She said that would be 7-10 days past the due date.

So that is the update for anyone waiting and wondering!

Princess for a day...

Paige was painting this morning and as her paint bib was in the dryer she inevitably got paint on her pyjamas. She told me she wanted to go upstairs and put on her dress. ??? This was a first! I thought she meant her Easter dress, but the one she meant was this princess skirt. And she needed the wand as well. So I told her she needed other clothes underneath, but she could wear the skirt on top. We'll see how long she wears it.

Busy Bodies...

We took Paige to Busy Bodies on Saturday. We told her we were going there while she was eating breakfast and she was REALLY excited. It was nice for the 3 of us to go there so Mike could run around with Paige while I sat on the couch! We should have got a picture of that!

This is not happening...

I have a raging cold. Sneezing constantly. Dripping nose if not completely clogged nose. Body aches. Remember--I CANNOT TAKE COLD MEDICINE!

Last night I slept with a Winnie the Pooh cool mist humidifier blasting in my face, and a massive box of kleenex. I can take tylenol for body aches, but nothing else to cure any other symptom. Mint tea actually works wonders, but that's about all I can do for now. I just have to let this cold run its course and hope I don't go into labour....like Jen did. She had a massive cold when she went into labour...not cool.

I told Paige that I had the Pooh humidifier in my room because my nose was stuffy. She claims to have a stuffy nose now too, in hopes that it will be transferred to her room. She actually claims a lot of ailments lately in hopes of getting things or not having to eat dinner...owie tummy, owie bum, stuffy nose, etc.

Success!

Paige's 2nd class of On My Own was a success! Not that the first one wasn't a success, but for this one I was outside of the room the entire time and she managaed fine all by herself. At the beginning of the class I walked her in and made sure she knew where I put her snack. I told her I was going to get a drink and would be outside of the room for a while but would see her later. That gave me the option of coming back if she looked like she needed me, or just staying outside. After I got a drink I peeked in the classroom window and she was doing fine. I sat down at the table and played with my new phone for a while and then got up a few times to see her colouring, playing with playdough, doing a craft, reading a book with a few kids and a teacher, participating in circle time and going down a slide. While she was doing this I sat with a group of moms who scared me, I mean, talked to me about labour the 2nd time around.

I was worried about Paige getting her snack out all by herself, but I spied on her and saw her sitting at a table with a few other kids, munching away on her crackers with her water on the table. After that she wasn't sure what to do with her bag and the instructor zipped it up for her and gave it back. She then put it in the bin, and lined up with the other kids to go to the gym. She paraded past with the kids and didn't see me until she was in the gym, where she ran by the window with a huge smile and a wave. In the gym when the class was coming to an end, the class played with a big stretchy hoop. Paige was way across the other side of the room tossing foam blocks over her head, and needed the instructor to come and coax her to join the group, which she did easily.

At the end of the class she came out of the gym and grabbed my hand and kissed it. I took that as she was happy to see my again. But she definitely had a good time by herself. There are 3 instructors to 11 kids, so there was lots of hands on time with all of the kids. So anyway....phew. There was 1 little girl who cried a large majority of the class and would even come over to the glass window crying her eyes out and looking at her mom. I don't know what I would have done in that situation...probably cried right back and taken her out of the class until the next session! Wouldn't have been able to deal with that with everything else that is going on!

Ummmm....

I'll set the scene--

Paige and I were looking at a Wonder Pets game on the computer with the intention of watching a movie shortly after. We finished the game and I said, "ok, we're going to get a popcorn snack and watch a movie, but first I just need to check something on the computer, so I'll put you down and you just have to wait for a minute". I started to check email or whatever I was doing, and I noticed she had started to go down the stairs. She had gotten halfway down when I told her to be careful and keep going, and that I was coming. I got up to go meet her halfway and she got to the bottom of the stairs fairly quickly (I am not super fast anymore!). She almost immediately began coming back up the stairs quickly while whining and complaining. I asked her what was wrong. "I have a rock in my nose!!", she says. !!!??? What? She had time to quickly shove a rock in her nose? She has never shoved anything in her nose before, so why she chose to shove a rock in her nose on the way to make popcorn is beyond me. And how did that happen in the 20 seconds that she was downstairs by the front door where the rock apparently was?

Anyway, I didn't believe her at first, but was pretty sure I could see something way up there. I assumed it was small and tried to see if I could get it out with tweezers. The tweezers went up and clunk! There was definitely something up there, but it filled the nostril too much to get a grip on it. She was saying "I want it out!" and getting upset. I told her I had to call someone to help me, so I called Grandma Val. While we were on the phone, Paige lost interest in the fact that there was a rock up her nose and started to do things like jump off the couch and ask if we could go make popcorn now. Since she hasn't been sick for a while she has forgotten how to blow out, and couldn't use that as a strategy. Grandma Val was asking me if I pushed on her nostril could I feel the rock, and I couldn't--it was that far up. I was about to take her to the medicenter when I remembered we had a nasal suction thing from when she was a baby. It never seemed very suctiony, but I decided to give it a try. I stuck it against her nose, pushed the bulb and out came the rock! She had a huge smile on her face when that happened! I could not believe how big it was. She obviously put it in a bit, panicked, and tried to get it out, only making it go farther and farther up.

I never in a million years thought she would do something like that! After it was out, we had a nice talk where she agreed she would not put things up her nose anymore.

Easter Dinner...

Easter dinner started with a little egg/present hunt around the basement at Grandma and Grandpa's.

And yummy appetizers and food were had by all! A little less for me since I can't eat as much anymore with this monster baby. But I wanted to! That spiral ham with the pineapple salsa was certainly good!

Favourite song...

Paige now has a favourite radio song..."Wavin' Flag" by k'Naan. I downloaded it on itunes for her and she asks to listen to it again and again. And she waits for it to come on in the car. She sings along with the words..."when I get older, I will be stronger, they'll call me freedom just like a waving flag..." It is way too cute. She is picking up on some of the words in the verses too, and it is too funny, but I can't laugh or she won't sing it anymore.

Easter Egg Hunt...

A huge success! Mike brought Paige downstairs when she had just woken up so she was a bit groggy. She very quickly awoke though when she saw the egss hiding around the living room and kitchen. Every time she spotted another one she would gasp and point! She continued to look for eggs long after she had found them all. And she has been carrying around her basket of eggs for the last few hours.