Wow. I guess I’m a bit behind here….
January is pretty much a blur.
Rick was away for a few days for a work thing and had a nice visit with some family while he was up there. I didn’t go anywhere or do much myself. I was getting pretty pregnant, and it was cold/icy/snowy out so we pretty much stayed inside. Marshall found a my little pony that he had gotten at McDonald’s a while back and wanted to play with that. And then he declared that the pony didn’t have a hous to live in, so I said why don’t we make one? I got a box and cut a hole and I helped Marshall decorate it. He decided to name her Pony, and I suggested Pony Baloney and he liked that. And now that’s her name and she lives in a beautiful house with her name on it. (pic to come)
Work started getting really busy and I was preparing to train my replacement who was starting Feb 1st. So the weeks flew by.
Marshall had been invited to a birthday party that got postponed to February, so he was disappointed, but was able to go play at Mary’s house which he really enjoys.
Marshall got to have a nice weekend at Gram’s (we try to have one once a month or so). Rick and I had a fabulous weekend – we got lots done around the house, and went out for wings and nachos and a movie.
Then, the last Sunday of January, Gram had to come to Moncton for a course and stayed at a hotel with a pool. Marshall decided he wanted to stay there with Gram. So cute! So she took him swimming for a couple of hours and then we met them for supper. Then Marshall stayed overnight in the hotel with Gram.
Unfortunately, he woke up the next morning complaining of a tummy ache, but we figured it was probably a muscle pull from all the swimming since he didn’t have a fever. All he would eat was yogurt. He had yogurt for breakfast, only drank the yogurt drink out of his lunch box, and when I asked what he wanted for supper that night, he suggested yogurt. Odd. We gave him some advil before bed to help with pain and to help him get to sleep.
February so far…
The month started off with Marshall throwing up all over me and my bed (Feb 2nd). I guess that stomacheache was a warning sign? *L* Note to self: when child wakes up thirsty and requests 3 drinks of water in a 20 minute timeframe: WARNING WARNING PUKE IMMINENT. I had already showered, but was wearing a very absorbent robe! 
Rick stayed home wiht him since I was training someone at work and as it was her 2nd day, there wouldn’t be anything for her to do if I didn’t go in. Thankfully, that was it. He was fine, though sleepy and nervous about throwing up again all day and held on to his “barf bucket” for a good part of the morning. He never had a fever though.
The next day, Rick stayed home with him again and I picked them up around 1130 to head to Saint John (see baby news below for details). Sadly, Suwana was closed until the 13th. Boo.
The party that was postponed to February got cancelled and judging from how disappointed Marshall was about it being postponed, I knew he was going to be pretty sad about it being cancelled. So I told him we’d have our own pretend birthday party. And why not make it into a Valentine’s party since it’s February? So we invited a few kids over, and I made individual heart-shaped cakes with my special pan (kinda like a muffin pan with 6 cakes made at a time) so each kid could have their own cake and blow out a candle. I may have gone slightly overboard… we made a trip to Michaels, Bulk Barn and the Canadian Dollar Store and arrived home with a trunkload of craft supplies, candies, and balloons. We got each kid a present too (around $2-3 each) to open just like a birthday party.
On Saturday of that weekend, there was a mixup and some guests weren’t going to be able to make it, so we turned it into 2 parties. Saturday Jorja came over and I was able to get to know her mom Ginny, so it was a fairly quiet party day and they did the valentines crafts and decorated cake and opened their presents.
On Sunday, Jack, his brother Connor, Will and his cousin Allie all came over and had a blast. They weren’t excited about doing the craft though, so we skipped that part.
Each child got to take home their little present (a book), and a helium balloon tied to a treat bag. I think a good time was had by all and everyone in this house was exhausted. BUT. Rick was busy making turkey dinner while we were partying it up So we relaxed for a half hour or so after our guests left and then got to work again. Mary, Val, Randy and Dad arrived around 4 for turkey dinner. We had leftover heart-cakes and delicious McBuns lemon pie (thanks guys!). Since we had dinner so early, we got Marshall to bed at a decent hour and ourselves as well.
On the 13th, he and Rick went to Marshall’s first movie birthday party for Phillip, where Rick was able to enjoy the Tooth Fairy in its glorious entirety. Marshall sat through the whole thing!
Marshall is currently on his February Grammy weekend away – so I’m catching up on a few things. Like this blog!
Baby news
I am now 37 weeks pregnant and my last day of work was friday. My coworkers took me out to lunch on Thursday at what I have to say is becoming my favourite restaurant in the city: Calactus. They loaded me up with a couple of bags of pink cuteness – much appreciated and super adorable! And a really nice card with personal notes inside. I will really miss this job and the people there.
I then ran off to my weekly Dr. appointment. My belly measured 38cm – a week ahead – big girl! And I gained 2.5 pounds. The doc checked me out and said he didn’t think I was going into labour this week. Though I noticed my feet started swelling and some other signs…
I haven’t had any news from Dr. Sanderson in Saint John about my blood donation.
I don’t think I’ve mentioned the blood thing here yet. I built up antibodies in my blood when I was pregnant with Marshall (anti-LutheranB). Lutheran B is in 99.somethingsomething% of people’s blood, so that means if I need a transfusion at some point I need special rare blood. It turns out that they have some frozen at the Saint John blood place (you know, the one they’re moving to NS sometime this year?). The doc here says he is concerned that it won’t get here and thawed fast enough if they need it, and wanted me to meet with Dr. Sanderson in Saint John to discuss potentially inducing me a week early there so the blood is handy if I need it. Though it is very unlikely that I will need it, they don’t want to take the risk.
Feb 3rd, we all went to Saint John for my appointment. He was a really nice doctor. He got right on the case. He told me I could potetially donate my own blood to myself and he would work on hooking that up. I had to get some more blood tests done in the SJ hospital since apparently they aren’t allowed to transfer results from hospital to hospital or something. They need my blood tests there anyway in case I deliver there so that’s done. He also checked my hemoglobins to make sure I can donate my blood.
I heard back the following week that it looked good but that it was taking some time to arrange everything. I haven’t heard anything back yet, and I think this whole donation thing was supposed to start in my 36th week, so I’m not really sure I can do it now. I’ll be giving him a call on Monday to see what’s up.
In the meantime, the doc here told me there’s fresh blood ready for me and it’s good until February 25th. After that, there’s supposed to be another donor going in, but you never know. And if someone else needs it before I do, then I’m out of luck, so they still want to pursue this donation thing.
That pretty much brings you up to date on that situation. And now I have the sinus cold from hell. Not sure if that will impact the donation or not… hang in there baby girl! Wait til I get better to come out ok???
Mostly been lazing about this week trying to get better, but I’m going to have to start making those curtains soon!
Mel 2:06 pm on February 26, 2010 Permalink
I can sympathize – Jake was induced at 36 weeks. We went in for an appointment, and were told I’d be put on the induction list that day. Luckily, it took a couple of days to get the call to come in.
I hope you feel a LOT better before Ella’s arrival!
LANA 8:09 pm on March 1, 2010 Permalink
Sounds like my guesstimate may be on target for the arrival date???