Tears and Fears

So, if you don't know yet, pregnant women are just a teeny bit emotional, at times.
We had a small meltdown last night ("small" as in, "Uh, where'd that glacier go that was here last year?")

It was a bit difficult to translate through the high pitched, dogs-can-only-hear speak and nose blowing fest, but I was able to ascertain that we have a lot to do and only 2 months to get it done by. Which means, for all of you who have yet to experiences this blissful time of life, "GET YOUR ASS IN GEAR OR I'M GOING TO SHOVE THAT... ". Well you get the idea.

Anyway, I've been helping Mom-2-be to get the rooms cleaned, shelves up, and generally just being there for her when she calls. This, by the way is the best way to succeed in a relationship. Ignore all that Dr. Phil, "You need to be sensitive." crap and just be sure to never to be out of earshot for more than a few minutes.
During this "blissful time" the amount of time she has to wait for you is in inverse proportion to how happy she will be when you do finally show up to help her with something.

We took apart an old futon we had and I'll be using the wood from that for some future projects. Mom-2-be will be out today doing a little shopping (nesting) while I finally get back to work on the cradle, which at my current pace will be done sometime around when the kid goes away to college.

Good news is I'll be headed to HomeDepot today which for me is sort of like a hardware Nirvana. I think spending the afternoon there better explains why women spend so much time in scrap booking stores.
Oh, and the amount of time you get to spend in HomeDepot is also a direct reflection on how much time she had to wait for your help with that last task.

As for baby news, everything is going well.
We've had several classes and only one to go. Last week we met with students from the last class and it was very informative. Two of the couples actually had the same birth team we have so we were able to interrogate them a bit and we did find out the name of one nurse to be on the watch for. Cool beans.
Mom-2-be is doing well. The baby is getting very active and the Braxton hicks contractions are getting more prominent.
The other night we tried something different. We read somewhere that the baby might react to a flashlight placed on the mothers stomach.
WOW, did it ever. I mean this thing was kicking, moving, and pushing. We didn't do it for long as we can't tell if it liked it or not. My luck I'll end up with a child who is afraid of the light.

On a sad note though, I've had to give up my membership to the He-Man Woman Haters Club as I was caught using the phrase, "I just read this article in Mothering Magazine". In my defence though the article was about a legal issue. Ok, yes the issue was about breastfeeding in public, but still it WAS a legal issues.

Anyway, that's my post for the day.

HikerDad