An Interesting Easter Weekend

I had some pain in my left side on Saturday that reminded me of the kidney stone I had when pregnant with the mini and it lasted over 12 hours, so I called the hospital and they told me to come in for some monitoring. We got there and they hooked me up to a fetal monitor as well as a contraction monitor. After about an hour, I started contracting and eventually wound up with contractions every 2-3 minutes. However, I had no other "labor" symptoms, so we think that whatever was causing the pain in my lower left side was irritating my uterus. Anyway, they pumped me full of anti-biotics and I spent the night at the hospital. By Easter morning I was feeling much better and the contractions had tapered off, so they let me come home, with the admonishment to "take it easy." How do they expect a stay-at-home-mom to do that? At least I was not put on bedrest. I was glad not to have to stay in the hospital, but somewhat sad that I missed seeing the mini wake up to find her Easter basket.

Luckily for us, some wonderful friends let us bring the mini over to their house for her very first sleep-over. DH took a bag of her things, as well as her basket, so that she would have something when she woke up. Our friends then got her dressed in her Easter outfit and took her to church, where DH met up with everyone. I stayed home in bed.

I didn't miss out on everything, though. We set up an egg hunt in our backyard, and the Easter Bunny left a trail of jelly beans up the stairs to her room, where she discovered that he also brought her a brand new bicycle! So I got to see all of that, happily. I'll post pictures another time. I hope everyone else had a much less eventful, but joyous Easter!

I've Never

Been this pregnant before. Four years ago, I delivered the mini as of yesterday (33 weeks and 4 days). I am now 33 weeks and 5 days along. And so far so good - at this point there is nary a sign of kidney stones, pre-eclampsia or pre-term labor, all things that I experienced in my first pregnancy. Wish me luck that I can keep this bun in the oven until May!

The Home Stretch

Not that I can ACTUALLY stretch or anything, but....I'm now 33 weeks pregnant and everything is so far going beautifully. Not a sign of kidney stones, pre-eclampsia or anything nasty with this one. Six weeks to go (unless he decides to come early). Now we just have to finish getting everything ready.

Dinner Conversation

Heard at our dinner table tonight:

Mini: "Mommy, I love you."
Me: "I love you, too, baby."
Mini: "I'm gonna keep you forever."

A mom can't ask for more than that.

Technology Smechnology

So we are having computer issues. Again. At this point I can't download/upload/reload/whatever-load any pictures anywhere. And I have some great pictures. Frustrating. You'd think things like this wouldn't happen in a household where one of the adults deals with computers on a daily basis, huh?

Facebook Changes

Can I just say grrrrr! I am NOT happy about the recent changes to facebook! I can't find anything anymore and the darn walls are not as easy to navigate! Why do these silly people think that making things different automatically makes them better?

Snow Angel

It started snowing on Sunday afternoon. We, of course, went out of town overnight, but when we got back, we had 7.5 inches of snow blanketing the yard. It was beautiful. But the most beautiful sight and sound was the mini outside, laughing as she played in the cold white. I think this is one of my favorite days in the last four years!