Still waiting ...

We're still in our holding pattern, although with a few more sniffles and coughs than last week. Matt and I are both hoping that baby waits for a few more days as we came down with some colds over the weekend. Matt is trying his hardest to get over his cold quickly because he knows how much he'll be needed very soon. I don't have much chance of getting over a cold quickly these days as I'm not really sleeping very consistently so we'll all get to experience how life with a newborn is when Mommy has a lingering cold. Oh, well.

At my check-up last week, Dr. Jenny gave me the official go-ahead to have this baby (and besides having a cold right now, Matt's also given me the "okay" in terms of his work stuff) so I was out planting potatoes this weekend trying to "encourage" baby :) My blood pressure was still okay, although a little higher than the previous check-up; no worries however. It just means that if my bp is still a little elevated this week then we have a reason to talk about scheduling some kind of induction ... hooray!

Besides waiting, we've really been enjoying being outside. Matt took last Thursday afternoon off (it was his 31st birthday!) and it turned out to be a beautiful afternoon. Anna got some quality time with her Daddy building (and destroying) castles, mountains, and tunnels in the sandbox.




Then we all played for awhile with bubbles. After working pretty hard on the concept of "taking turns" with blowing bubbles, Anna has gotten the hang of it and will say "yast time" (last time), then voluntarily hand over the bubble wand to Matt or me and say "Mommy turn" or "Daddy turn".


We've also had the first big bloom of dandilions and violets in our yard. Anna thinks they're great since they're the only flowers she gets to pick.

She not only likes to give me dandelions, but also appreciated the dandelion necklace I made for her :)


We'll keep this blog posted as we learn more about when to expect Anna's little sister!