The baby items are piling up in the baby's room, but nothing has been put away - or put together. We haven't even bought a crib yet. Thanksgiving - the week the baby is due (on JG's birthday) is also the same week JG returns from combat skills training for deployment and the same week we pick up keys to move into senior NCO housing, just a couple blocks from here. So, you can see there's no real sense in "getting ready."
We didn't expect to move homes this year - so in preparation for the baby we moved Edward into Zachary's room where he inherited Zachary's new bedroom furniture from last year. Zachary went downstairs into the basement, in the room Aunt Heather used to stay. He's been sleeping on the trundle, though, in the 'nursery' since we found out about the new house. It's at least 10 degrees colder downstairs all the time.
Last night Zachary forgot to take his nighttime insulin - so today he's been on the higher end of his target blood sugar range. He's come a long way in just two months - he's even giving himself nearly every shot he needs to take. His insulin doses are about half of what they initially were to regulate him.
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Sunday, October 23, 2011
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Crazy summer
A lot has happened since June. We discovered Zachary has Type 1 Diabetes, the baby we're expecting in November will be a boy, and I'm razor close to failing my first real college class. JG also has a deployment this winter and I'll be putting on another stripe and assuming more responsibility at work. Life just seems a bit overwhelming at the moment.
But, to mark recent successes, I bought a gigantic can of crushed tomatoes at Costco and didn't get grief for it. Crushed tomatoes = homemade pasta sauce, usually with beef ribs slow cooked for eight hours. Mmmmm. Zachary moved into the basement, Edward inherited Zachary's new furniture we bought last year along with his old room, and the soon-to-be nursery is coming along. Four sleeper sacks, two gowns, baby over-boots, socks, and hooded towel are the only signs in the house we have a baby on the way.
The "flat daddy" of JG (life-sized poster from waist up mounted on foam board) is leaning up against the nursery wall. JG had this made right before he left for Japan earlier this year. Edward left some of his artwork on the walls for his little brother - though I think he forgot about his hot wheels holder that's mounted to the back of his door.
We toured the hospital where I'm going to deliver. I can't believe in just three short months we're going to have a baby in the house!
But, to mark recent successes, I bought a gigantic can of crushed tomatoes at Costco and didn't get grief for it. Crushed tomatoes = homemade pasta sauce, usually with beef ribs slow cooked for eight hours. Mmmmm. Zachary moved into the basement, Edward inherited Zachary's new furniture we bought last year along with his old room, and the soon-to-be nursery is coming along. Four sleeper sacks, two gowns, baby over-boots, socks, and hooded towel are the only signs in the house we have a baby on the way.
The "flat daddy" of JG (life-sized poster from waist up mounted on foam board) is leaning up against the nursery wall. JG had this made right before he left for Japan earlier this year. Edward left some of his artwork on the walls for his little brother - though I think he forgot about his hot wheels holder that's mounted to the back of his door.
We toured the hospital where I'm going to deliver. I can't believe in just three short months we're going to have a baby in the house!
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