Phew, I made it.


Sars guys, not a lot to say right now because me and babers are mega busy eating and sleeping. Here's the run down with more details coming when Ira learns how to use Blogger:

Ira was born last Wednesday at 11:30 AM, after a 9 and a half hour labor. He just kind of blew in with the wind! We stayed in the hospital for about 4 days. My sense of time was pretty warped because I was on some heavy duty anti-seizure meds. So what else? Labor? Ouchy! Breastfeeding, also kind of ouchy. Hospital food? Salty! Baby Neon? Total preciousness!

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Orange squashy things


First orange squashy thing: our pumpkin this year. A couple years running we had some fun ones, Homestar Runner characters, MF Doom's mask...but this year we couldn't decide what to do. Finally I channelled some mellow energy and freestyled a unicorn on this year's pumpkin and Leon carved it out. Voila. A touch of whimsy!

Second orange squashy thing: Anasazi butternut squash soup via heckasac, from epicurious.com.


It came out pretty good. We made all the appropriate vegetarian subsitutions though with soyrizo and veggie broth. Another modification I had to make was adding a little oil in with the onion and garlic sautee because soyrizo does not render the ammount of fat that regular chorizo does. My only complaint is that this one took forever to prep.

Labor watch 2006 update!
Teeni's intuition says baby Neon is hatching in the next 3-7 days!

Labor watch 2006


I keep having mega braxton hicks contractions, but no baby yet. I saw the doctor today and he said that baby Neon is engaged and ready for hatching, but my cervix (sars, if this is TMI) is still closed. This means that baby is not likely to hatch this week. Thank goodness because I have a lot to do still. Like next week's last hurrah party for Tower on Tuesday and our interview/meeting with McKinley Montessori on Wednesday. It's never too early to shop for preschools, right?

Okay, Top Model last night? WTF? After one bad picture AJ is off? Jaeda has been stinking every week and also totally bombed the challenges (in my opinion worse than AJ did), and she gets to stay?

Then Project Runway? Ugh! I still think that Neck Tattoo cheated and it's totally unfair that he won. I was really rooting for Uli towards the end there.

37 weeks


Oy. 37 weeks! That means I'm full term and baby Neon can pretty much hatch any day now. Not much new is going on this week except major baby and money anxiety. I have developed a bad pattern of waking up at 4 or 5 am and staying up. Here's everyone else on the 37 week flickr stroll.

I've got a lazy baby. Since Sunday, he hasn't been moving much. At first I wasn't too, too worried. I was really active on Sunday (walking around SF) and Monday (cleaning house), so I thought that baby was just chilling. So after I ate breakfast yesterday morning, and didn't feel the usual vigorous kicks, I started to worry. Then after a trip to Ikea, I grabbed a cinnamon roll. P.S., they're never as good as they smell. So when the cinnamon roll didn't get baby moving, I decided to call the doctor's office. They sent me directly to the hospital for assesment. I sat strapped up to a couple of monitors for an hour or so while they checked the heartbeat, movements and contractions (every 7 minutes at the hospital). Turns out baby is just fine, only lazy. We hit up Tres Hermanas for some spicy tamales afterwards and before dinner was even over, baby perked right up with a fetal mexican hat dance. Phew. I guess he doesn't have much room to move around in anymore.