Cory and I had a busy Saturday last weekend, as we decided to paint Carter’s room. Of course, the plan was to go to Home Depot first thing in the morning and get started early, but an after-breakfast nap took priority for me. We ended up starting the actual painting about 6:00, but were comfortably finished and in bed by midnight. We started with plain white walls and are pleased with the way the Oxford blue looks. The furniture, which is being borrowed from Luke, also looks great against the blue. The final product will come later, as a wonderful friend of Janie’s is going to be painting a mural along one of the walls. Since the theme is frogs, I think the plan is to do some sort of pond mural on one wall and some additional lily pads along the others. We can’t wait!
I’m officially on the every two week schedule at the OB. However, things have been looking great. Carter is a little over 3 1/2 pounds and is measuring about a week and a half early. He is sooo active, enough so that I briefly had a thought about whether you could start your kid on Ritalin while still in the womb. Although, he tends to be shy when other people try to feel him moving. He’s great with Cory, but it took three attempts for my mom to feel him, and he has yet to cooperate with Janie. Mom says he’s stubborn like me, but I think he’s just shy.
We had a little bit of a scare yesterday afternoon, as I started having some cramping (perhaps contractions). I called the doctor and was told to drink lots of water, lay on my left side, take 2 Tylenol, time the cramps, and call back in an hour if they weren’t gone. After about 45 minutes of cramping every 2 minutes, they subsided. Once the cramping was gone, I was just sore…like someone had kicked me in the belly. Wonder who would have done that? We took it easy the rest of the day, and all is well this morning. Getting plenty of rest this weekend is probably a good thing, since the showers and childbirth classes will consume the next three weekends. I guess I really am going to have a baby!!!