Updates

Everything with this pregnancy is going swimmingly so far! I've had two of my 17 weekly injections of the progesterone shot...and while they aren't exactly pleasant (the side effects are worse than getting the actual injection!!!) I'm hoping the discomfort will be greatly overshadowed when my little guy is born. I'm REALLY hoping I can take him home with me and not have to visit him for 11 days in the NICU like I did with Claire. It was hard enough to do it with just her, I can't imagine having to find someone to watch her 2-3 times a day while I go visit him!!! I'm trying to not think about it that way, but it's hard not to!

I think we've officially decided on a first name. We're still up in the air about a middle name. We want it to have special meaning and so far we have a few good candidates. I don't know when we'll settle on something though. I think we've also officially decided not to circumsize. Hope that he doesn't hate us for it when he's older, but he's too little to make the decision right now. ;)

This weekend we are taking Claire to the zoo for the first time! We're just going to a tiny one in Michigan City. It's only $5.50 for each adult and Claire is free...I'm pretty sure parking is only $2.00 too. No sense in spending the money to go to Chicago when we're not even sure how Claire will react. We will also be going to the 4th of July parade here in Hobart. I'm excited about that...we're meeting some of my cousins up there so that should be fun. I hope the firetrucks aren't too loud for my little lady! I guess I'll have to cover her ears instead of mine!!!

We are officially full-time cloth diaperers!!! Well, except for at bed time. We use a chlorine-free diaper for night time since they absorb more and it allows us all to be better rested. My mom has recently started cloth diapering Claire along with us so I'm excited about that. I can just feel the savings adding up! :) Can't wait to CD my little guy too. I can't wait to say that I have a son AND a daughter. That's gonna be pretty awesome.

I keep having crazy pregnancy dreams. One recurring one is that I have a contact lens in front of me that is the size of a small dinner plate and I just can't figure out how to get it in my eye. I always wake up feeling overwhelmed. I think this has to do with the fact that I am freaking out about having two kids under the age of 2 at the same time. No need to interpret that dream any further! I had another dream last night where I was in labor in the hospital, my epidural was working great, but Eric wasn't around and once my doctor realized that I was 'complete,' she left the room and told me to not push until she got back. I was like...what exactly am I supposed to do??? She never came back either! The next thing I knew, I was sitting in my bed, obviously had already given birth and I couldn't find my baby. I got up and started searching the hospital (which had an old fashioned battleship underneath it in a weird sewer thingie) for him. I finally found him in the NICU, with my entire famiy surrounding him. No one would let me near him and I was crying and emotional because all I wanted to do was just hold him...I didn't even know what he looked like. I woke up and had to grab my belly to make sure I was still pregnant!

That's my story for tonight. :)