so close, yet so far away

When I went into my doctor this week, she informed me that I've not dilated at all. I was disappointed, but since I'm still about a week and half away from my due date, I'm not TOO concerned.

I'm concerned enough though, to start asking people to pray that my body will go into labor on it's own. I went 8 days late with Alexis, and then had to be induced (more because of insurance than a medical reason though). I did not enjoy the inductment experience one iota, and have been hoping to avoid it this time.

So. Pretty please, if ya think of me or have a spare second, just send up a little prayer for my body to start labor on it's own. I would appreciate it muchly.

random 'shiver' memory

Before I was married, I worked at 'Reve', an expensive, classy salon/dayspa. During the 6 training months, I would regularly shampoo the owner's clients, and assist her in tending to them.

I became very good at giving relaxing shampoos (if I do say so myself), and had many clients who would always request me to shampoo them (several even asked about coming in every morning for a scalp massage/shampoo--of course I told them they couldn't afford me ). My technique involved a good firm massage for the scalp, and I was told multiple times that it was awesome for headaches.

As I was vigorously massaging/shampooing one older lady's scalp/hair, she suddenly grabbed my wrists. She then beckoned me forward and whispered 'Honey, please be gentle, I just got a face lift, and I don't want you to loosen the scalp incisions.'

Even now I shiver when I think about it. Needless to say, I didn't touch her scalp one more time, and finished that shampoo in record time.

*shivers*

the banana that swallowed a watermelon

not my favorite pic...but I figure that at 38 weeks along I won't be happy with one till the child is OUT...so there it is.

my munchkin

lexi-loo


her crazyface...usually done with her hands on either side of her face, fingers spread.


After taking the first pic (of her crazyface) it was all I could do to get her to stand still. She kept walking around behind me trying to see the picture on the back of the camera...ya, she's vain like that.



and of course we had to get one of her on the computer (her cast was still on, obviously--so the pic is a few weeks old). She loves to sit there "typing" and moving the mouse around. Today she managed to invert David's desktop 180 degrees. David had an interesting time trying figure out how to fix it as everything was upside down. And when you moved the mouse up, the arrow on the screen would go down...moving the mouse to the left meant that it would go to the right on the screen. Very weird to work with--it messed with my brain just a bit.

bad mother

Our movie went a little late last night, so when we arrived to pick Alexis up, she had already been lying down for about 20 minutes--which is just enough time to make her drowsy, and extremely clumsy. We'd been out with David's sister and her husband, while David's mom and dad watched the grandkids.

As we lounged around talking about the movie, Lexi stumbled around between the relatives and her toys. She kept returning to a little riding toy, but was too tired to push herself around on it. After she finally clambered into the seat (which is about 8 inches off the ground), I watched as she sleepily started tilting, and then fell over and off, onto the floor.

There were 3 women in the room at the time, my mother-in-law, my sister-in-law, and myself. Two of the women immediately began the 'mother's moan' (which consists of 'aww...poor baby...are you ok?'), and one of them burst out laughing.

I can't help it that it looked hilarious--whenever I see anyone fall over it just cracks me up (unless it's a serious fall, of course). So I'm a wicked, unloving mother...I laugh when my child tips over. I try to be more discreet when it's people outside of my own family of course, so as to not spread my evil (and warped) sense of humor.

just wondering what people are thinking sometimes. Take, for example, the large man in the parking lot this morning. I would assume that people know a parking lot involves vehicles. I would assume that people realize that the vehicles must drive up and down rows to get to parking spaces, so as to park the vehicle. I would then assume that people would logically conclude that since vehicles are being driven about, they need to watch where they're going, look around them, open their eyes, maybe work on being more aware...

In the parking lot this morning, I braked the car to allow the afore-mentioned large man to walk in front of me. I'll never make that mistake again. I waited for him to choose a side to walk on, but he either: 1) forgot which side of the row he'd parked on, or, 2) was blind, and didn't realize that he was making it impossible for vehicles to pass him.

For the entire length of the row (and we're talking some distance here people), he plodded down the middle. It was seriously a 5 minute procedure...and I couldn't get around him.

Apparently we can't all pay attention to the things happening around us. Maybe it's like they say--'ignorance is bliss'...that is, until I run over your inattentive hide.

smack down

As Alexis and I were looking at the adorable little puppies in the pet store, I heard one of the older lady workers comment to a customer, "Oh, look at that beautiful little girl!" as she nodded at my daughter. The customer agreed, telling me that Lexi was an absolute doll, and adding "She is gorgeous, just like her mother."

Needless to say, I beamed (compliments at 9 months of pregnancy are hard to come by) and thanked her, feeling that my day was just made much better.

The worker then inquired as to my due date, and was shocked that I was 4 weeks from delivering. I'm used to people being surprised at how far along I am, because I usually run a bit smaller.

But before I could let her know that I run a bit small in my pregnancy size, she blurted out, "Are you carrying twins?!?!"

My smile sort of froze, and I shook my head dumbly. "Um, no, I'm just having one girl."

"Are you SURE?! Have you had a sonogram to make sure there's only one baby in there?" Ms. Iflunkedtheschooloftact persisted.

"Yes, I've had several sonograms, and believe me, there was only one child growing." *baring teeth in an attempt at a polite smile*

"WOW. Well...I sure hope they were accurate, cuz it looks like you could be carrying twins."

So much for my feel-good compliment.