Happy Birthday Mike!

Happy Birthday to my wonderful husband! And for his birthday, we spent about 3 hours in the labor & delivery ward of the hospital last night! I thought I had been having contractions for several hours yesterday evening, so we finally decided to head in and have things checked out. Some good friends came over and stayed at the house with Miles and we got to know the L&D staff. Turns out I was contracting, and when we first got in and hooked up to the machines, the contractions were coming about every 3 minutes. Luckily, everything else was closed up tight and looked good. So I was given some medications to stop the contractions, and a few hours later, once the medications did their thing, we were on our way home. Happy Birthday!

For his actual birthday present, Miles and I got some maternity pictures done and gave Mike a framed collage of Miles & my belly. Here is one of the poses that we got.

Trying to see the baby

Yesterday Miles asked to see the baby. I told him it would be a while before the baby comes out. So he goes to his toy toolbox, gets out his little plastic wrench and brings it over to me. Miles then says that he is going to see the baby. He puts the wrench on my belly button and tries to (I believe) open up my belly to see the baby.

Nesting?

I think that I have begun to nest, and I have started to clean and get rooms ready for the baby, but I've begun to wonder about 'nesting'. There are many times when the urge to clean comes when I find myself sitting on the floor because I just can't squat or bend over like normal. Then I stay there longer than usual because the thought of getting up seems too tiring. Then, of course, the actual process of getting myself up is somewhat amusing. And during all this, I have time to see places in my house that I don't normally see, or, apparently, clean. So my question is this, is it truly nesting or just seeing dirty places that don't normally get seen?

Baby Shower

Today my Mommy friends threw me a surprise baby shower! It was a wonderful surprise and lots of fun. The kids had fun playing together and us moms had fun chatting. There was great food - Miles had more dessert than lunch food, so he had a blast. The Moms got me the sit-n-stand stroller that I really wanted, as well as some boy onsies and other new baby essentials. All afternoon todays date was kind of sticking in my mind, so I checked the baby book I started when pregnant with Miles and found that the baby shower my work threw me for Miles was also on June 24. Hmm, Jennifer helped plan both of these, did you remember that Jen (or do it on purpose?!)

Again, to all my Mommy friends, Thank You! You are a special group of ladies and I feel lucky to be part of this group of Mommas.

Chicken Festival

Today we went to the Chicken Festival that is being held in town this weekend. It was, for the most part, a typical festival with the rides, food & craft booths. In addition, they had an antique car and corvette car show, with quite a few cars. There was an actual race car there, which Miles wanted to drive! And there was a nice kiddie area and baby chicken tent. Miles loved the baby chickens. They had one elevated pen with baby chicks that you could pick up and hold and pet, and they had an enclosed pen/incubator with eggs and chicks and chicks hatching out of the eggs. Miles got to hold some baby chicks and pet them. This pic is one of the first times he held a chick, he got much more comfortable and held them more by himself as he held more chicks. Miles loved seeing everything, he got to blow bubbles in the kiddie area, and he got a balloon - that later gotten taken away when he decided to try and eat it.

Baseball, Clydesdales & Firetrucks

Last night we went to the local minor league baseball park to see the ball game, and before the ball game, there were both Budweiser Clydesdale horses out front for the kids to see and pet, as well as firetrucks out front for the kids to see and get in. Yes, more firetrucks in one day, and yes, Miles was just as excited to see and crawl in the firetrucks for the second and third time in one day! This time Miles was able to wear a fireman's hat and 'drive' the firetruck - which is what he wanted to do all day.


Miles' eyes were huge when he saw those big horses, and he talked all night about petting two big horses! I was proud of my little man for not being afraid of the horses. We later found out that the Clydesdale horses were from NH, the announcement only said NH, but I assume that they were from the Merrimack, NH stables that were across the river from where I grew up. Perhaps we can bring Miles back to visit these horses next time we visit Grandma & Grandpa.

Then of course we went into the ballpark and watched most of the baseball game. We went with some friends, and the kids had more fun playing with each other than watching the game. The kids got a special treat when the team's mascot came to our seats and played with the kids.

All in all it was a very fun night.

Trip to the Fire Station

This morning Miles and I went on a tour of one of the local fire stations with our Mommy group. We were shown all around the fire station, we got to see the gear room, with all of the fire coats, hats & boots, and we got to see the fire trucks and ambulances, and best of all, Miles got to get in one of the fire trucks and look around. A very fun morning.