Baby Brain Bloopers!

Wednesday was a day full of baby brain bloopers.

1. Each day when I begin my lessons with my students who wear hearing aids we go through the same drill, they tell me about their week/day/evening and I test their hearing aids/FM systems to make sure everything is in working order. One of my students, I'll call him Bob, is in grade 6 and very capable of telling me if something is wrong with his equipment but we go through the drill anyway so that I know for a fact all is well.

Wednesday afternoon I sat down with Bob and he began chatting away telling me all about his weekend. He passed me one of his hearing aids and I slid my stetoklip onto the mould. A stetoklip is similar to a stethscope, it looks exactly the same with the two little bits that slip into your ears but it has a rubber bell on the end of it rather than a flat disc, the bell shaped object slides over the hearing aid mould and then I can hear what my students are hearing through their hearing aids through the stetoklip. Make sense?

Okay, so Bob gives me his hearing aid and I go through my routine of testing it while he chatters away. Ten seconds into his chatter I stop him and ask if he has been having any trouble with his hearing aid, he tells me he hasn't and I explain that I'm getting no sound through his aid. I ask if his battery might be low and he says it's possible. We change his battery and I test the hearing aid again: still nothing. Bob suggests that he listen to his hearing aid and he sticks it in his ear, he looks all confused and says "Mrs. M it's working fine!" I take it back from him and listen, once again I hear nothing. I suggest that I check the other hearing aid so he hands it over... same thing, no sound coming through.

Bob continued to chatter away and it took me another minute to realize what the problem was. I started laughing and Bob asked what was so funny. I told him I figured out the problem and suggested he might be able to as well if he looked carefully at "this picture" (while making a circle motion around my head). It didn't take him long to realize what I had finally figured out, the stetoklip works really well for listening to hearing aids when you place the tubes in your ears! Yep, the stetoklip was around my neck and not in my ears where it should have been. Brilliant.

2. I left the last student I needed to see today with the intention of heading back to my office to finish off some paperwork, I took the on ramp to the hwy and realized within moments that I was heading East instead of West. Unfortunately this meant having to drive another 15 minutes before I could exit and get back on the highway going the right way. Duh.

3. Feeling really greasy and sleepy after a long day so I decided to go upstairs and splash some cold water on my face. Turned on the tap, bent over and proceeded to splash a big handful of water onto my face... and glasses. Yep it would help if you remove your glasses before washing your face.

A day full of baby bloopers, he must be growing!

Update: Week 23

UPDATE: Jess is going in for her C-section on March 4th!! Whoops, I was jumping the gun by saying March 2nd, wishful thinking on my part. :)

I haven't been keeping up on my blogging or writing in my baby journal (sorry Smidge!) so here I am with a quick update.

I've been feeling good the last few days, my back isn't quite as sore as it was previously thanks to a fantabulous new bed and the pillow nest I put together before curling up to sleep at night. I'm pretty sleepy by the end of my work day but I suppose that's to be expected considering I have a little man inside my belly cave sucking up as much energy as he possibly can so that he can grow big and strong.

And yes our little ninja is definitely getting stronger, his kicks have more oomph and are happening more frequently. The other night I was laying in bed after a session of serious karate chops and I decided to lay the cold remote control on my tummy, Smidge hoofed the remote almost instantly and caused it to teeter totter wildly. I can't help but smile and/or let out a little "oh" every time I feel Smidge moving, it's like he's nudging me to remind me that he's in there. I love feeling him wiggling and it's even better when he kicks hard enough for Mike to feel him too. It blows me away at how in love I am with the little man in my belly and it scares me a little to think that this love will be expanded by a zillion when I lay eyes on him.

I had mentioned Jessy and her awful back pain a few posts back and there is now an end in sight for her: March 4th at 2pm Baby Mac will be entering the world via a planned C-section. I CANNOT wait to meet him! Thankfully Jess has found a way to sleep somewhat comfortably so she's getting more than 5 minute chunks of sleep now. Granted she still only passes out for a few hours at a time but like she said, it will make getting up a million times with the baby easier for her since she's had lots of practice.

We had Mike snap a pic of us on the weekend after my birthday dinner, figured we better get a shot of the boys in our bellies before Jess deflates!

I'm 23 weeks and Jess is 38 weeks in this shot. It's funny, I remember when Jess and Colin called to tell us they were pregnant and it doesn't seem like it was that long ago... now it's only a week until their son will be cuddled in their arms! Oh yes and he'll be cuddled in mine too.

On Saturday Mike and I bought paint for the nursery!! The decals we ordered (which I am SUPER excited about) arrived last week and silly me hadn't read the part where it says "Apply ASAP after receiving" until after I had ordered them. Oops. I was assured that we would be safe to wait a few weeks if need be but we decided to go ahead and paint sooner than later.

I'm going to save pictures of the finished produce until we have the decals up but here is a sneak peek of Daddy covering up the hideous paint that was on the walls in the nursery. Yep, he painted with the broken foot and all. I suggested that he let me take care of the rolling (edging was my job) and he said "No, I'm painting my baby's room." Such a good daddy!

I will tell you that we chose a beautiful pale blue for the walls and we are crazy happy with the result - I was a bit worried that it was too light when we first started painting but once it dried it ended up being the exact colour I had imagined Smidge's room to be.

I promise to post more soon!

New Beginnings

2010 is going to be the best year of our lives: Smidge will be joining us on the outside, how could it get any better than that?

For those of you wondering what the hell is going on in the picture above: we had an 80s themed New Years Eve party at our home last night and mullet Mike aka Big Daddy was giving Smidge a New Years smooch. Good times were had by all and needless to say there were a lot of laughs!

Five of my favourite girls spent the evening with us along with their amazing men plus a few fab singles and there was a whole lot of belly loving going on.

Happy New Year to our growing baby and to all of you!! Wishing you nothing but happiness in 2010!

Loving Every Moment

I am 11 weeks pregnant now! Tonight is the night we are more or less "going public", we are telling our close friends who don't know yet while mom and dad share the news with the Dougherty clan at the annual siblings Christmas party. They are going to call me before they tell the family so that I can tell Grandma that she is not just expecting one GreatGrandbaby in the new year (my cousin Kris and Shannon's little nut) but two! This will make 13 great-grandbabies for her assuming I'm counting right. Tomorrow we will make some more calls and in another week we'll really spread the news. We go for our first ultra-sound on Friday which we are super excited about! I can't wait to see Smidge!

I'm feeling really really good. Still experiencing a little nausea but just in the morning, I'm a little less tired than I was before and my appetite has increased big time. I'm definitely showing now but still haven't had a significant weight gain, maybe a pound or two but I'm still in my regular 5 pound zone - albeit the higher end of that zone.

I don't remember ever feeling this healthy, then again Jessy had a good point last night when we were comparing feelings of pregnancy fabulousness: no drinking, eating well and lots of sleep might have a little something to do with the healthy feelings we are experiencing. Ha!

I felt Jessy's baby boy kick last night, such a cool feeling! I can't wait to feel Smidge moving around in my tummy.

Mike has starting taking weekly photos of me and Smidge so I think I'll begin posting them here rather than emailing them to my girls. Every Saturday a couple shots will be posted and if you click on the link to the Belly Chronicles you'll see all of the photos in a row making it easier to compare.

I'm off to go shopping for a new shirt to wear out tonight, one in which I can proudly display my tiny protruding tummy. xoxo