Saturday, December 27, 2008
As much as I'm sure everyone enjoys seeing Adriel's bare bum when they come to my blog, I thought I'd post because it's 4:15 am and there's nothing else for me to do but be in pain every five minutes or so...
That's right! It's happening. I'm having contractions. I know I'm kind of jumping the gun, not writing about Christmas, but let me tell you a little about my evening.
Ann does a special dinner for us and Aimee and Scott's family on boxing day. There's food, and then she does this box thing. The box is full of shredded paper with strings hanging out and the kids each have their own string colour. They take turns pulling on a string and out comes a Christmas cloth bag with different knick knacks in them for the kids to play with. Adriel's favourite that he got was a wooden whistle that sounds like the choo choo of a train. Adriel loves Nolan and Paige, Aimee and Scott's two older kids. Him and Nolan play well together and they were quite cute all evening. Actually Adriel was especially sweet and obedient tonight. He can be so sweet sometimes. It's fun to sit back and watch how he interacts with others when he doesnt really know I'm there or watching.
The plan was that we were going to put the kids to bed there and then play games afterwards. Adriel was to stay the night, but Aimee and Scott were taking theirs home. So around 9:15 I got Adriel ready for bed and took him into the spare bedroom. Since it's not all the familiar for him to sleep there, I have to lie down with him until he falls asleep. I wasn't expecting it to take very long because it was way past his bedtime already. However, we could hear everything that was going on in the living room. Paige and Nolan weren't going to bed. Ann was very loud. I finally went out there and requested some quiter speaking. I ended up being in there with him until around 10. When ever he'd almost be asleep, some loud noise would happen and he'd wake up again. Also, Nolan and Paige weren't being put to bed, so I was confused as to what exactly was supposed to be happening. Just before he fell asleep, he wanted to hold my hand. He took it and clutched it tightly to his chest. Every time I tried to discreetly remove it, his hands would reach around until they found it again and then bring it back to his chest and he'd hold it there snuggly with both his hands, making it even harder to maneuver it out again. At the time I wouldnt say it annoyed or frusterated me, but I was sort of in a hurry to leave and visit with people again. Now I feel guilty for not enjoying him a little longer. I know I'm being dramatic but it's almost as if he knew that it would be his last night with just me and him, that he wasn't going to be my only baby anymore. I've tried to spend lots of time with him lately, just playing and cuddling and loving him because I know this is the end of an era for him and I, and it makes me feel sad. I know it's kind of silly because having another baby is a wonderful thing and we are definitely excited about it. But, with Christmas happening and everything, we've been busy and there hasn't been the usual amount of downtime for the two of us. So I'm feeling a little emotional about him.
By the time I came out, Kyle already had his coat on and was ready to go. I thought we were playing games. Everyone was too tired. This didn't surprise me, I was tired too, and a little relieved. So we packed up and left. Just a few minutes after we got home Laura got home from Katie and Brent's. Kyle started playing rock band. We all noted that it was our night to be loud since there was no Adriel in the house, and Kyle wanted to watch a movie or something. By this time it was past 11. He pointed out that neither one of us had to get up with Adriel, and we could sleep in. I was thinking there's no way I'll stay awake for a movie, so I opted for making up a band for rock band and playing that instead. It took a while for Laura and I to create our characters, to which Kyle was quite impatient. My girl had pink hair and Laura's had orange and purple. Kyle had this huge white afro and really broad bulky shoulders. We made a pretty cool looking band, if I do say so myself. Lately at night I've been feeling sort of gassy and uncomfortable, which is what i thought was happening tonight. But a few songs into it, and after a few consistant twinges, I knew they were contractions. A little earlier I was thinking to myself "you know, you never know when you could go into labour, and maybe staying up late and partying isnt a wise use of your time. You should get sleep while you can..." But I didn't listen to it. We did a bunch of no doubt songs and a few others with me singing most of the time and Laura playing bass, and Kyle on the drums, of course. Laura and I switched a few times. Then I insisted that I needed to go to bed and try and get some sleep incase it turns into the real deal.
Once we finally made it into bed, I layed there for a while and the contractions didnt come. I thought maybe it was a false alarm, and that maybe I could get a good night's rest afterall. Not so. I did manage to sort of drift off and on for a while but not really. So I finally got up and here I am. The computer chair is much more comfortable for contractions then lying down on my bed was, and I can sort of rock back and look up at all the pretty snowflakes and bide my time while pain takes over my body. The thing that I'm dreading is that I know it gets so much worse than this. Right now the computer and writing sort of takes my mind off of things. Why does an opening cervix have to hurt so much???
Now about Christmas... I dont really feel like writing about it right now, which means I may never, but hopefully other people will write about theirs and you can get an idea of how it went. I will say that it was definitely a nice Christmas, and that I had lots of fun watching Adriel open things and enjoy all his presents (which of course, he got too many of). I also got to enjoy the company of family, which is a christmas must. I got spoiled by Kyle as usual. I'm going to try and rest again.
ps- Laura's name in our band was Lurfa palooza. That's some information that everyone should know.
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Sarahstottle posted @ 4:15 AM