What is it? I've been a bad blogger and bloggy buddy. My blogging is so sparse and I had over 100 blogs to read in my reader, which I'll guiltily admit that I skimmed over. Could it be that blogging and reading blogs have lost its pizazz (spelling?) to me? Have I outgrown my need to spew out my personal life with the entire internet world as well as lost my interest in keeping up with my bloggy buddies? Perhaps I just have much less time to actually sit at a computer for leisure. Whatever it is....it's happening and I'm not sure how to change it or even if I want to change it.
And on to my update:
I'm 35 weeks pregnant and heading into the home stretch. Baby #2 who I swear is going to be another boy is due in just about 1 month. We're starting to get our preparations underway for another child, a newborn! Ack! The baby will get the crib, so we've bought Kaua a big boy bed (twin bed....why waste our time with a toddler bed right?) and he spent his first night in it last night. I'd say it was pretty much a success in that there were no significant changes from how he slept in the crib. He still gets up 2x a night, but now, we can just crawl into bed with him to help him fall back asleep (hey, beats bringing him into our bed which is what we've been doing lately). I did still give in and let him sleep with us for the last 2 hours or so when he woke up for the 2nd time. Let's face it, he's so used to waking up with someone sleeping next to him, I couldn't bear letting him wake up alone in the morning. I may just have to chalk this up to letting Kaua slowly adjust to sleeping on his own the whole night. I'm hoping for better sleep alone success with #2 since he or she will have their own room from the get go (where as Kaua had his own room only after he turned 1).
We're still stuck in the name game for baby #2. We have no clue what this kiddo's name is going to be. I've got a couple front runners for the english name, but nothing serious for the Hawaiian name. Oh man, I hope I'm really inspired when this kid is born.
We've been attending several birth classes over the past few weeks: a free two week course offered by the hospital and a paid 6 week course that I signed us up for. Since I'm going to be giving birth sans epidural, I better be uber prepared for dealing with this pain and I'm taking all the help I can get. Yesterday, at the freebie hospital class, we were subjected to an hour long video showing 5 couple's live birth stories and man-oh-man was that intense! They left nothing out and we saw full birthing shots, complete with juice gushing, untrimmed pubic hair, bloody smearing views. Some women got epidurals which was nice, but those that did not, wooooweee those women were in pain. I still cannot fathom why anyone would want to subject themselves to that amount of pain for such a long duration when there are pain free methods available. I really hope I can handle this baby's birth with a measly 2-4 hour long intrathecal.
Does Kaua understand that he's going to be a big brother? Not really. He does know that my tummy (specifically my belly button) is now referred to as a baby, and I try to show him pictures of a baby, and a baby in the womb to explain that I'm going to be having a baby soon, but I dont think he gets it. He likes to point to his own belly sometimes and call it a baby and will sometimes point to my boobs and call that a baby too. I really hope he'll adjust to the divided attention. My hubby and I have discussed this and we're both so over-the-moon with kaua we both feel so bad that some of our attention will be taken away from him to this other little one. But I know parents do this and go through this all the time (have a 2nd kid), so I'm sure we'll be just fine. I dont really see it as not being able to love another little one, b/c I already know I can do that, I just feel so bad for having to split my full attention from Kaua. I'm sure I'm making a big deal out of nothing and he'll be just fine. That boy is a trooper.
And he is definitely a boy....never sits still and has no fear. Freaks me the heck out when he wonders off out of sight and doesn't give a rip if he can see me or not. or when he sticks is whole face in the mall water fountains, for the fun of it, or tackles the waves at the beach b/c his daddy is stand up paddle boarding out in the deep somewhere.
ok gotta go, my hourly bathroom duty is calling (talk about peeing frequently, sheesh!!)
