The Boo Game...and the Waiting Game

Deven's favorite game lately is BOO! These shots are from us playing together. He's hiding along the side of the bed, and popping out to surprise me. It's now my favorite game, too. :)


Notice in the background, the green exercise-ball and the blue thing. Both are useful for birth. That blue thing is a rented Aqua Doula birthing tub we've set up to help ease Cupcake's arrival. It will be lined with a disposable plastic liner, into which we pour LOTS of hot water. Enough hot water that my dad asked for the dimensions and we did some quick calculations together...and decided that we shouldn't reach 1 ton of water here, but we shouldn't overfill the thing...

No word yet on the outcomes of my latest GBS test. We'll get the results by Friday. I've been taking my probiotic cocktail and doing what my Midwives said to do, faithfully (ok, still eating too much sugar, but otherwise - I'm doing all I can) - so fingers and toes crossed it comes back negative.

In general, we're not ready for Cupcake's arrival yet. We still haven't found all of Deven's newborn-sized clothing & receiving blankets; don't have a dresser for Daadi so don't have enough storage space; don't have a contract for the new Nanny yet (though we like her, we're offering it to her only Thursday and though she seems happy with us so far too, there might be something we're missing). I just brought on a new employee @ work and have some unfinished-business there, too. The new employee is great, but he's also not up to speed yet. Our home papers are a total mess - important things buried in a big box yet-to-be-filed...and I groan to think about the photos loose, online, unfiled/unprinted/unorganized.

And no, I haven't come NEAR to being ready with Christmas shopping, or card-design-making, and I've been nagging Yogesh to set up the tree NOW so if Cupcake comes, we at least have a proper Christmas tree. But it's not done yet...So no, we're not ready. At least we paid the property taxes and credit-card bills due this month.

If my ankle would just heal, maybe then things would be more ready, despite all the unfinished business. Oh, and we have our Birth group coming to our house on Saturday morning - assuming I'm not in labor yet then; and I'd kind of like to have Daadi meet them so she's less nervous about the whole thing. We'll see!