I am officially another year older - though thankfully not deeper in debt - as of last Saturday, which is going down as my most disappointing birthday in memory. I woke up Saturday morning to find Ren lying on the couch with a trashcan in front of her, never a good sign. She had apparently gotten sick early that morning, and spent the entire day napping on the couch and hurling every time she tried to eat anything. This, understandably, put Denine in a bad mood all day. The highlight of the day was when Jamie and I spent the afternoon running errands and acquiring a rare Pokémon; I did discover that a game I've had my eye on went down in price to $20, so that's birthday-money-expenditure #1. Friday night was our traditional birthday dinner with my parents at a relatively expensive, which was nice. Denine couldn't resist the urge to tell the server that it was my birthday. This netted us a free dessert, which I let Ren eat so that I could get tiramisu and illicit my mother’s annual questioning of why I love tiramisu when I hate coffee (FYI, I don't get it either). And, no, I don't think the cake had anything to do with Ren getting sick, though in hindsight I am glad no one had to pay for it. Sunday was a pretty standard "LTC practice and life group" Sunday. So, the weekend as a whole wasn't bad, it was just that my actual birthday was disappointing.
We splurged and bought electronics for birthday / tax return presents this year. She got a new laptop to replace her old one with a messed up screen (everything has a purple tint) and I got an iPod Touch to replace my Sansa Fuze+ (the touch screen is impossible to use in the car at night). I am ashamed to say, I'm now an iPod junky; I never really cared about having a smart phone before, I don't even have texting on my phone, but this thing is making me really wish I had an iPhone. Not that that is anywhere near in the cards, but I'm just sayin'...
In baby-related news: The nursery is, insomuch as we are responsible, done! One of the errands we ran Saturday was to buy some cord for curtain tie-backs, which I put up Tuesday, and I convinced Denine to finish scoring the quilt while we were out. So, excluding the decorative things that Mom is working on (which we can't have until after the family shower she's doing) and getting the rest of the extraneous stuff out of the room (which won't happen until after our garage sale donations are picked up) we are officially finished.
Ignore the toys on the floor; our nephew decided to break in the nursery for Asher.
The crib quilt. Design by me, execution by Denine.
This Saturday is the main baby shower, which we're kind of pumped about; it's like an extra Christmas! We also had the first of the weekly doctor visits Tuesday, complete with regular pelvic exams; the official status is 1cm and 0% effaced - better than nothing, but I'm sure Denine was hoping for more with all the contractions she's been having. The nurse told us that almost all their patients having been delivering two weeks early lately; it just dawned on me, that would be the week of spring break.
Okay everyone, pray/cross-fingers/whatever that Denine will go into labor sometime between the 11th and 18th of March. I'm counting on you!
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