Oh Thank God

Just got all my grades for second semester and I passed everything just fine and even made the Dean's list again. Thank god having a HUGE round tummy helps people disregard attendence (or lack there of).

I feel like there was so much more I wanted to talk about, but I can't remember a damn thing these days.

Lance & I had fun watching a newborn care instructional video. The nurse demonstrating was so nervous, it was really cute. This is the second one of these that we've watched and I feel a lot better now. I was worried that there were tricks that I didn't know and that we were going to totally screw up. Now I'm much more confident that Parker will survive, we just need to help her eat & sleep, change her diapers and occasionally bathe her. All of those we can handle. I hope. At least there's nothing all that tricky or complicated about them. Again, I hope.

I've been reading a book about raising an eco-friendly baby. It seems that it will be impossible not to pollute the hell out of Parker and ruin the planet while doing it. It did have a nice suggestion of teaching toddlers to count (or at least recognize numbers) but using the recycling codes to sort plastics. And our washing machine is apparently a very eco-friendly choice. I switched the bottles on our registry for a safer plastic. We were going to use fragrance free plant-based laundry detergent, but now I know to use baking soda for fabric softener (and toothpaste for that matter.) I was also pleased to find out that a dishwasher actually uses less water than washing dishes by hand (at least with the water running). Now we just need biodegradeable dish soap. Oh Parker, do we really need to worry about your carbon footprint before we see your feet?

Tomorrow marks the first of the weekly obstetrician check-ins. It'll be nice to have someone else to maybe GUESS if parker is anywhere near ready to pop out. I swear she's lower...

People keep asking me about pregnancy cravings and the only one I've really had so far was, in the first trimester, whenever I was nauseated, I really needed vinegar to settle my stomach (although I also know now how much I need white vinegar as a natural cleaning product...) I'm happy to report that I couldn't sleep this morning because I URGENTLY needed to go get a croissant. The bakery didn't even open until 7:30, but I luckly found one at a muffin shop. So there. Now I've had a pregnant craving. With jam. And it was good.

Must elevate my feet and nap imediately. Get it while you can, they say...

xoxo