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altarflame) wrote2005-10-26 10:41 pm
altarflame) wrote2005-10-26 10:41 pm
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2 Things, and some miscellany
1, Re: My Update Earlier.
It sucks so much that the trampoline is gone! It's ok, you know, we're one of two houses on our street that has electricity, and my dad's house in the keys was completely flooded. My Aunt Michelle lost her car. But now that we've prayed thanks a bunch of times and felt blessed and cooked a real meal and are cleaning up the yard...sigh. The whole time I was pregnant I was itching to get on that thing with the kids and waiting for the moment I could, and the moment I'm recovering...it's gone! I watched Grant and my sister and my little brother and Robby and even my mom jump on that thing with envy, and now I've missed my chance!
2. JAKE!!
We talked to HIS doctor today, and for awhile, and have Saturday afternoon set as homecoming, now :) It was seeming impossibly long, but then I was talking to Ananda on our way home from the hospital today and explaining it like "This is Wednesday, tomorrow is Thursday, then Friday, and Saturday he can come home" and all of a sudden it seemed really soon. When I got up there today, his nurse had him out of the bed in a little infant seat, playing with him with toys. So I automatically liked her and felt glad about that, but then she also said that she had told people all day that you can tell he's had nothing but breastmilk because of his perfect complexion :D I don't necessarily buy that, Ananda and Aaron and Isaac all had nothing but breastmilk and also had plenty of jaundice and infant acne, but hey. It's better than last night's nurse who was saying formula's better because it "packs a punch - breastmilk is too light". :::head explodes:::
Misc.
-I got a birthday card from Sara today - thank you :D Jumping and trusting that the net will appear is just how life has been, lately...
-Isaac has been cracking us UP. I wish I could explain it to all of you. He's just so hilarious and adorable, all the time. He's been wearing little flannel shirts, and his hair is getting so long. When he nurses he hums songs.
-And Ananda is so helpful, and sweet. She and I spent some time alone today and did a lot of reading last night, and I am just overwhelmed by how great she is. And how big, and old, and smart. I hug her and it's like she's as big as I am and we've grown up together.
-Aaron and I have shared lots of affection and a decent bedtime story, but I'm finding it very trying to be patient with him. He's increasingly unresponsive, to a very very frustrating point. It's a paradox though, as far as patience and tolerance, because the more impossible he's being the more important it is to be nurturing and extra careful, or he just gets worse. And taking time out to really go one on one with him is the only thing that fixes it, just when it's hardest to say "Aaron, we need to do a puzzle together, just the two of us" or whatever. Grant and I both are having to step back and recognize SID several times a day, and work with it rather than fight against it.
-I've lost two more pounds, putting me at only 1 1/2 pounds over my prepregnancy weight, though my belly is still bigger than it was then. My cut and stitchedness is still swollen, under the skin.
-We were going to make cookies with my mixer tonight, but after searching half a dozen closed or empty stores we decided it wasn't worth wasting the gas that Grant waited in a two hour line for.
It sucks so much that the trampoline is gone! It's ok, you know, we're one of two houses on our street that has electricity, and my dad's house in the keys was completely flooded. My Aunt Michelle lost her car. But now that we've prayed thanks a bunch of times and felt blessed and cooked a real meal and are cleaning up the yard...sigh. The whole time I was pregnant I was itching to get on that thing with the kids and waiting for the moment I could, and the moment I'm recovering...it's gone! I watched Grant and my sister and my little brother and Robby and even my mom jump on that thing with envy, and now I've missed my chance!
2. JAKE!!
We talked to HIS doctor today, and for awhile, and have Saturday afternoon set as homecoming, now :) It was seeming impossibly long, but then I was talking to Ananda on our way home from the hospital today and explaining it like "This is Wednesday, tomorrow is Thursday, then Friday, and Saturday he can come home" and all of a sudden it seemed really soon. When I got up there today, his nurse had him out of the bed in a little infant seat, playing with him with toys. So I automatically liked her and felt glad about that, but then she also said that she had told people all day that you can tell he's had nothing but breastmilk because of his perfect complexion :D I don't necessarily buy that, Ananda and Aaron and Isaac all had nothing but breastmilk and also had plenty of jaundice and infant acne, but hey. It's better than last night's nurse who was saying formula's better because it "packs a punch - breastmilk is too light". :::head explodes:::
Misc.
-I got a birthday card from Sara today - thank you :D Jumping and trusting that the net will appear is just how life has been, lately...
-Isaac has been cracking us UP. I wish I could explain it to all of you. He's just so hilarious and adorable, all the time. He's been wearing little flannel shirts, and his hair is getting so long. When he nurses he hums songs.
-And Ananda is so helpful, and sweet. She and I spent some time alone today and did a lot of reading last night, and I am just overwhelmed by how great she is. And how big, and old, and smart. I hug her and it's like she's as big as I am and we've grown up together.
-Aaron and I have shared lots of affection and a decent bedtime story, but I'm finding it very trying to be patient with him. He's increasingly unresponsive, to a very very frustrating point. It's a paradox though, as far as patience and tolerance, because the more impossible he's being the more important it is to be nurturing and extra careful, or he just gets worse. And taking time out to really go one on one with him is the only thing that fixes it, just when it's hardest to say "Aaron, we need to do a puzzle together, just the two of us" or whatever. Grant and I both are having to step back and recognize SID several times a day, and work with it rather than fight against it.
-I've lost two more pounds, putting me at only 1 1/2 pounds over my prepregnancy weight, though my belly is still bigger than it was then. My cut and stitchedness is still swollen, under the skin.
-We were going to make cookies with my mixer tonight, but after searching half a dozen closed or empty stores we decided it wasn't worth wasting the gas that Grant waited in a two hour line for.