After 2 Years

I finally finished the project I started when I was on bed rest with Alex. It's only fitting that I finished it during bed rest too.

It might take me another couple years to get it matted and framed. Maybe I'll have it done by the time Alex is ready to move out to college...

Once Again...

Apparently Baby S can't wait to show up either. Started getting contractions in the evening that were 7-10 minutes apart. After a couple hours, a shower, lots of water and laying down they were 4-6 minutes. I really didn't want to go to the hospital and was really hoping it'd stop but I caved. At least S was good enough to wait until her grandparents visited to act up. We left Alex peacefully sleeping at home and spent most of the night at HCGH. Contractions were a couple minutes apart but no dilation so that was good. I think bc I didn't wait to go this time it helped. A couple bags of IV and some really painful shot and S finally calmed down. We were allowed to leave around 430. But now I'm on bed rest. At least until Monday. Unfortunately, some test they did at the hospital came back positive saying that there's a higher chance of preterm birth. I think that's what the doc said. Need more research. Medical jargon just washes right over me.

Failed the Glucose Test

My 1 hour glucose challenge test came back "abnormal." So here comes the 3hr test on Monday. Not worried, just annoyed that I have drink even more of that sickeningly sweet koolaid. I believe it's double the amount this time. Sigh...

Talking... Sorta...

Alex talks. She talks a lot. But we don't understand her. She has inflections and hand motions and all the necessary linguistic tools. I think it might be Chinese, but I'm not sure. It's probably just toddler jabber. Sometimes I can pick out certain phrases. I don't know what she's telling me, so I just say "yes honey." We have a book that we read each night. Each page has a picture of a random thing, dog, cat, ball, car, fish, etc. She sees the fish and says "Yu" with the correct tonage. That's fish in Mandarin. She sees the dog and goes "go go, oof oof!", the cat "meeooww", the ball "ball", the car "bee bee". That's supposed to be "beep beep." With how much she jabbers normally, I think she'll be talking my ears off soon enough.

Two Poohs

It's that kind of morning.

Patasco River

All the kids were splashing in the river. They had a blast.

"Walking" Daddy's Shoe