Rhinestone Armadillo

More Waiting

Loooooong days.

We're eating lots of popcorn.

Sharing with Mooskies, of course.

I was thinking---don't you hate trying to figure out where all the dishes are at someone else's house?  Since a few people are staying post-baby to help, I thought I'd take a quick photo of our cabinets.  Then, I'll tape the photo to the corresponding cabinet and they can tell at a glance where things go.  (I wish my cabinets looked more catalog-y, but they just don't.)

Adam had some nice Chinese cookie fortunes in the past few weeks.

Popcorn with Mister Squirrel

I'm making please-don't-kill-us-bribe-brownies for the nurses.  Since I have nothing but time on my hands, I also made a 'thanks' sign.  It's probably paranoid, but I live in fear of hacking off a nurse or a doctor, then having them give me or my loved ones sub-par treatment. 

Just in case there is any confusion, I want this attached to Baby Girl #2's bassinette at the hospital.  Hmm....have I mentioned lately that I'm a total control freak?

Stuff while I wait

Look at Little Miss Smarty Pants.  She said, "Look Mama--I made 'Violet'!"  That's pretty dang close.  I think her understanding of letters far exceeds her manual dexterity in drawing with a crayon.  I always wonder how much she understands, but can't quite verbalize.

Ug--the calendar.  I've resorted to X-ing off the days in red. 

I decided to make a Moby-style baby wrap.  Paying $59.95 for a long rectangle of fabric irritates me, so I made one. 

Here's a link to making your own from Rookie Moms.

I'll give you a super quick set of instructions, though:

1. Buy 5-6 yards of stretchy fabric.  I bought 60" wide fabric.

(A good rule of thumb is to match the length to your height---short?  Buy 5 feet.  Tall? Buy 6 feet.)

2.  Lay it all out (down a hallway is handy), folded in half like they roll it off the bolt at the store. 

3.  Cut it into 3 super long 20-21" wide strips. Final measurement of each: 5 or 6 feet long x 20-21 inches wide.  Each strip makes one baby wrap.

That's it!  If you bought a knit, you probably don't need to hem.  I hemmed mine.  You don't have to.  If you want to, sew something on the edge to mark the center...a button, a tag, a piece of fabric, whatever.

 
The center front is marked by the Moby tag to help you with placement, so I sewed on a square of fabric with a cute vintage bunny.

So....I bought 6 yards of fabric at the remainder bin at Walmart for $1.50.  So, $1.50 x 6 yards = $9.00 + $1.00 for thread, $10.-- total.  This makes 3 baby wraps. 

$3.33 per wrap vs. $59.95 - I can live with that.

Oh, and I'm going to dye the other 2 lengths to make 2 more wraps in different colors.

 

Here's a video that shows how to put a newborn in the wrap, kangaroo-style.

Waiting

Waiting and waiting and waiting.

Due to preterm labor difficulties with Violet and having contractions with this baby since 18 weeks, my goal was simply to stay pregnant.  Making it to 36/37 weeks felt like a big achievement, and I'm quite happy about it. 

However.....now the time is starting to drag on.  And on and on and on..... 

My doctor says, "I'm really surprised you're still pregnant.  You could have the baby at any minute now."

So....imagine having all your bags packed for a trip.  A not-so-pleasant trip to a place you don't really want to go to with an itinerary you're not so excited about.  Now, imagine that whenever a beeper goes off, you have to leave.  Right that very second. 
So...that's where I am right now.  Waiting and waiting for the baby beeper to go off.  I can't really get engrossed in a project, I can't go anywhere else, and I'm huge and exhausted I can just barely manage to get basic things done.  And I'm so uncomfortable and gripey.

That's my life right now.

Whine.  Gritch.  Moan.