2 Weeks To Go

Today is 2 weeks exactly until Baby Day. I am soooooooo very excited. Oddly enough, most of my excitement is revolving around not being pregnant anymore. Other than for a 3-month break in between having Addy and getting pregnant again, I basically have been pregnant since May of 2006. That's over a year and a half. And anyone who has had a baby knows that 3 months is barely long enough to get through the post-partum stage, it's certainly no break.

Actually, I find it very strange that still at this stage it hasn't really sunken in that I am going to have another baby. That in 2 weeks I won't just be not pregnant anymore, but that I will have a newborn. With Addy, every time I saw a baby or a picture of a baby I would get excited because I knew I was going to have one, but this time, it just hasn't seemed to click. Sometimes it does, but for the most part it doesn't. I suppose that probably has to do with the fact that this pregnancy has brought on so many mixed emotions. I certainly was not ready to get pregnant and have another baby, so the adjustment to the idea of adding to our family again so soon has been a difficult one.

I have been having alot of B.H. contractions today. They're very irregular and vary in intensity and length, but they are definitely noticeable. My low back and hips are also alot more sore than usual today as well. And every so often I get this pain in my lower abdomen. It's like a stabbing pain and I know it is my muscles going through hell and letting me know. Not so pleasant.

Today we went and met with the lady who did our wedding cake and my baby shower cake about getting her to make Addy's birthday cake. The plates, cups, napkins, invitations, etc we got are all pastel colors with a teddy bear, and the streamers and balloons are all pink, purple and yellow, so we ordered a 9x13 inch cake that will be white with pink, purple and yellow decorations and say 'Happy 1st Birthday, Addy" and then for her individual cake we ordered a 3D teddy bear. It's fairly big (she said it's about as much cake as a 9x13) but it's so cute I couldn't resist. So that will be pink. One of the pictures she had was actually the bear on a 2-tiered cake and it was really hard for me to resist getting that, but that would just be too much cake.

So the party is a week from Saturday. The dogs are going in to be groomed 4 days beforehand so I think I will pick up what party food I can that day, and that will give Jamie less to do on the morning of. His list for that morning is already long...Pick up the cakes in town here, go to Veg to get a haircut, the rest of the food and the helium balloons. And then of course there is the cleaning up and decorating to do at the house as well as getting all the food ready. So it will be a busy day, but she's only going to turn 1 once, so it is definitely all going to be worth it.

Anyways, the laundry is calling so I'm off to take care of it.