Misty's Paintings

Peter Rabbit 3
Originally uploaded by Peter and Misty.

This is the first wall of the room. Peter Rabbit's mum is heading into town and asks Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton Tail and Peter to head off to pick blackberries for dessert. Peter's already got other ideas. :)

Click below to see the other pics:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dampier/sets/861870/

Grant's room ready!

Misty finished painting the "Peter Rabit" theme in Grant's room last night. Photos to follow once we tidy the room up!

One week til babyville

Well.. one week left. I've been feeling really run down for the past couple of days and literally did NOTHING today at home. I had great plans to do painting or sketching Grant's room to finish it off but it just didn't get done. I had another appt. at the doc's office today to monitor my blood pressure. The urinalysis came back with protein in it which is another indicator of preeclampsia. I'm really hoping I can make it through this week without getting it. I don't know why but I really don't want them to induce. So I realized that I hadn't felt the baby move much today and mentioned this to the nurse. She told me they'd probably send me the hospital to monitor the activity of the baby and my blood pressure over the span of an hour. I started getting worried about the same time she put the blood pressure cuff went on so of course my blood pressure was elevated again. So they sent me off to the hospital to get monitored. It was very weird, almost like a dry run for when we actually go in to deliver. I had to get these monitors strapped on to monitor the baby's heartbeat and the other to measure contractions. She also put on a blood pressure cuff that sucked the living life out of my arm every 5 minutes. I then had a beeper for the nurse in my left hand and a button in my right hand that I was supposed to hit every time I felt the baby move. Of course the minute I was strapped in Grant started wiggling and kicking like crazy.. so it wasn't an issue. My blood pressure was also pretty normal. They had to monitor this for an hour. I must have been tired because I totally crashed out despite the fact that this blood pressure thing was squeezing my arm like crazy every 5 minutes. Anyway, all was ok for one more day. Six or so more to go. I have to go in again tomorrow to take my bloodpressure again. Hopefully I'll have a bit more energy to get some more painting done so I can post those pics by weds at the latest. :)

-misty

Car Seats

Well fitting a car seat is a major pain! Our car is meant to have the "Latch" system for attaching car seats (2003 model and all 2003 models in the US should have it) however the car manul only mentions IOFIX. So far it seems the straps to attach the car seat base are to short to reach the "Latch" anchors.... I think I'm just going to wait till we go to the hospital car seat class and get them to show us....

Our hospital also has a web page for pictures of newborn babies - That will likely be the quickest way to get a photo of Grant to begin with:

http://www.growingfamily.com/webnursery/hospitals/template/hospitalpage.asp?hospitalID=5333

10 days to go?!

I woke up in a panic in the middle of the night and realized we have less than 10 days to go until little Granty is due. Where did the time go? It seems like only yesterday I was taking multiple injections, pills, and getting sick every day. I told Pete yesterday that in spite of the rough time I had early on in our pregnancy that I think I'll miss being pregnant. I kind of like the daily little unexpected/expected moves. Since I first felt him kick he seems to have a pretty regular kickboxing routine that starts at around 2-2:30pm every day.

We've been incredibly busy with our remodeling projects and our house still seems to be turned inside out. I've got a power weekend planned to get as much sorted out as I can but I really have to make sure to take a lot of breaks and not just power through it like I normally do. The frustrating thing is everything seems to take me 4x as long. :P People keep telling me that all we need are a few diapers and a warm bed for him to sleep in. Currently that warm bed seems to be full of relocated things that need to be put away in our bedroom. With any luck I'll at least be able to finish painting the 2nd to last wall in Grant's room this weekend and have the final wall sketched out. I'll post pics when it's finished. At least all of these things haven't given me much time to develop strong feelings of anxiety over labor and the whole birth thing. Best to keep busy I suppose. Speaking of which, break time is nearly over so back to work we go. :)

-misty