A Month in Review or Long Time No See Blog

A lot has happened over this past month plus few weeks. The day, or I should say night, after Thanksgiving Paul and I spent the night at the hospital after I started having contractions. I was 26 weeks along at the time. Things were done at the hospital to stop the contractions (for the most part) and I was sent home and have been taking meds to control my contractions since then. I have been pretty good about managing the contractions, but of course still get several (or more) a day, especially on days where I try to do anything besides rest. I only have a few more weeks until I completely stop taking my meds at 36 weeks and then my doctor says I am pretty much on my own after that. So I have a feeling this baby will be coming sometime sooner rather than later.

Christmas was great especially with Ella understanding what actually is going on. We had two attempts at meeting Santa. The first was in November and the picture of her is hilarious. She was angry and trying to escape from his lap. A few weeks later she told me she wanted to see Santa again and that she would not cry this time. Those were her words. So we ventured out to the mall and she was very excited this time talking about how Santa would like the dress she was wearing and that she was not scared. Everything went well on this second meeting except for the part where she would not smile for the picture, but hey, she hasn't ever smiled for a Santa picture and we have been doing these since her very first Christmas.

I just realized that this year Ella will not be alone on the Easter Bunny's and Santa's lap. She will get to share this experience with her new little brother, Quinn. Yep we agreed on a name and started calling him by his name to Ella so we figured we are stuck with the name because it would be too confusing for Ella if we change it now. Now if only we can agree on a middle name.

New Year's Eve was spent by the three of us at home. I had a sudden strong urge to nest and was stressing out that Quinn's room was still packed to the brim with all of our junk. So Paul spent the evening cleaning out the closet (Ella's too) and finding places to store our stuff other than his room. It's not exactly finished, but it's getting closer and I feel better about it. Not the most exciting New Year's Eve, but Paul and I were never really into going out ever before and this year was no different. We always tend to stay in and I always tend to fall asleep right around 11:30 P.M. each year.

The tiredness has definitely set in this last trimester. I just found myself spacing off for the last minute or two, so I am thinking this is a good place to stop this post. So, until next time blog. Does that even make sense? My mind is too tired to work that out. There you go.