The Week Before Baby...

2 Years & 3 Weeks

Just a few quick thoughts about the week before the baby was born!  We got some cute pics of Ty that I couldn’t pass up.  I am back to having about an hour of time a day to get everything accomplished that I need, so this little blog has taken me about a week to get done.  I can’t remember much of what happened 3 weeks ago, but these are just the highlights.

We got Ty a baby doll to help him transition to the new baby.  Sonia had given Heath one when Amanda was born and she said it helped him tremendously.  We kept looking and looking for a doll for Ty, but none of the main stores (Walmart, Target or Toys ‘R’ Us) carry boy dolls.  I don’t know why I felt he needed a boy doll, but I did.  So we ended up ordering one online.  When the package came, Ty was really cute.  I told Ty that we had to wait for Heath to get home before we opened the box.  Ty, of course, was not satisfied with that.  So he got a hold of my keys and tried to open the box with the keys – sometimes he surprises me with what he knows!  I’m sure he has seen Heath or I do that before.  Well, I was able to hold him off until Heath got home.  We got quite a reaction when he opened the doll.  He said, “baby…baby!”  He right away wanted to hold it, cover it with the blanket, and he put the doll in the swing (that I had just finished setting up for the real baby).  He wouldn’t go to bed that night without taking the baby to bed with him.  He made sure the baby had his hat on and was covered before he fell asleep.  It was so cute! 

Trying to open the box with my keys

Meeting his "baby" for the 1st time

He knew just how to hold him!

Putting him in the swing

Ty sleeping with his baby that night!

There were a couple of things that Ty started doing that were cute that week.  He loves the word “2!”  Because he counts with Heath (“1, 2, 3, jump” and jumps into his arms)… he now says “2” all the time.  He knows that he is 2 years old and he says he’s “2” when asked how old he is!  He says it with such enthusiasm, it sounds like he has a French accent!  But what is so funny is that when I’m bargaining with him to eat something, for example… I’ll say, “If you eat your potatoes, then I’ll give you 1 cracker” and his response every time is to say, “2!”  It is so cute!  Another cool thing that happened that last week before the baby came was that it became very obvious that Ty was ready for potty training.  He has been patting his bum and saying, “poop” for awhile after he had pooped, but he actually said it that week WHILE he was pooping!  So I thought that was progress.  Also I was giving him a bath that week and we had taken off his diaper and he ran into the bathroom naked.  The water was a bit too cold, so I was adding some hot water, when he looked down at his weenie and said, “pee.”  Then he proceeded to pee all over the floor!  I was so proud!  It really couldn’t be a worse time with the baby coming to try to start this, but what can you do?

Ty doing more cute things... using his chair to get on the ATV on the back of his trailer

How he likes to eat raspberries - he puts them on his fingers 1st

I think this was ingenious - he used his milk nubbie to "gas" up his car!

The Wednesday before the baby was born was my last shift and it was an exciting day!  Last shift for 3 months – it is crazy to think about.  Of course it’s not like I won’t be doing a different kind of work!  It’s not a vacation! 

The Thursday before the baby was born was a busy day.  I did a full cleaning of the house and Ty was a bit of a pill I remember.  I don’t remember all of his antics but I do remember thinking that as difficult as he was, it was going to be the easiest cleaning of the house that I will ever do again!!!!  Since I will be juggling two children for the next cleaning!  On Thursday evening, we finally got our house refinanced!  We were able to refinance with our current mortgage company and since we waited so long (from when we first tried to do it) we ended up with an even better rate!  It is saving us $500 a month, which is perfect since we need to be banking extra money right now to save to build a house eventually (if we ever find land).  Thursday just happened to be the only day that the mortgage company and we could do the refinance.  They came right to our house and it was over in no time.  But then I had to boogey down to Manchester to go to the “midnight” showing of the last Twilight movie with 6 of my friends from work.  It was actually at 10 PM, which was WAY better than at midnight.  I initially thought that I might be having my C-section on Friday the 16^th, and then I wouldn’t be able to go to the movie… but thank goodness that wasn’t the case!  We had a great time and the movie was good.  I was hoping for a little bit more with the finale of the saga, but when you love the movies as much as I do… it doesn’t disappoint.    

The last weekend before the baby was busy too.  We went to Concord church with Shannon & Sean, had communion (they do family-style foot washing, so that was nice to do with Heath), and then went to Shannon & Sean’s for lunch.  Sean & Heath went looking at some land in the afternoon (it seems to be a no-go) and Shannon & I hung out with the kids. 

Heath giving Fin & Ty a ride in a LL Bean canvas bag

Sunday was the last day before the baby was coming!  I was psyched that I was able to go to CVS and get their “Black Friday” deals, since they were starting that Sunday.  I was so sad that I wasn’t going to be able to get the pharmacy deals for Black Friday (which is like the ultimate couponing experience that only happens once a year), since I would be in the hospital or just getting discharged.  But thank goodness, I was able to hit up CVS first thing in the morning and Heath stayed with Tyson.  I got $1243 worth of stuff and MADE $5!!!!  Heath worked hard on the bathroom and got the toilet installed for me, which is what he promised he would do before the baby was born.  Thank goodness I wouldn’t have to climb the stairs post-op to use the bathroom!  I have to say something about elective C-sections.  They are nice but also difficult in the case that you know exactly when your baby is coming!  The problem was that the last day was incredibly emotional for me with Tyson.  The last bedtime was especially hard.  I was reading him his bedtime stories and just couldn’t stop crying.  I couldn’t help but feel that everything was going to change and that we wouldn’t have these special moments together just the two of us anymore.  I know some of this was hormonal but I was also very nervous about how Ty would react to the baby.  Stick around for the next blog to hear how it all turned out!  Hopefully it won’t take me 2 weeks to get it done!

My CVS loot

Ty helping Daddy make pancakes