Sprinkle Surprise!

It's been forever since I last posted.  I've been a little bit busy, a little bit boring, and a little bit too damn tired to sit down and write a blog post...but here I am!  I'm sure there's a bunch of stuff I haven't posted about in the few weeks since I've been on here, but let me start with my sprinkle.

A sprinkle, you say?

Yep...a sprinkle.  It's like a baby shower (for moms who are working on their second or subsequent baby) where you "sprinkle" mom and baby with love, rather than a shower. I LOVED it!  I went to my mom and dad's house Saturday afternoon expecting to get my hair colored (good God, my grays are getting ridiculous) and when I walked in the door...SURPRISE!  About 35 of our closest friends and family, all gathered to celebrate the baby.  I wish I had pictures, but I don't...yet.  I know there were a bunch of people with cameras, though, so it's only a matter of time before I start harassing them for the photos.  And when I do, I'll load them up here.

We were ridiculously spoiled, and I honestly can't think of anything else that we could possibly need for the baby now.  I can say with certainty that he'll be the best dressed boy in town when he decides to make his appearance.  Now we just have to wash the last of the clothes and bedding, and sanitize all the bottles, binks and pump parts...and we're good to go!  I feel blessed...

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In other news...only 6 weeks left!  Hopefully.  I'm praying that this baby decides to be different than his sister and actually show up on time (though, early would be nice, too).  I'm ready to start feeling like myself again, that's for sure!  Between the pains, the waddling, and the sheer exhaustion I've been dealing with the least few weeks, it'll be nice to start getting back to being ME again.  Although, I'm not looking forward to the middle of the night feedings.  And I'm still trying to figure out how to keep one kid asleep if and when the other one wakes up at night.  Bailey's something of a light sleeper, and her room and the nursery are close to each other.  We'll see how that goes.

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Bailey just finished up yet another no-sleep phase, and THANK GOD for that!  For about 5 weeks, she was waking up at least once (more like twice or three times) in the middle of the night.  Like me, when she's up--she's up.  So she'd come into our room and stand next to the bed, poking my face and quietly whispering  "Mommy...mmmooooommmmmyy.  I awake!"  I'll admit that quite a few times I ignored her in the hopes that she'd get bored and go back to bed.  Or, at the very least, that she'd get bored and go poke Scott instead.  Never happened.  So, without fail, I'd end up dragging my tired butt out of bed and waddling down the hall to her room to sing a sleep-scratchy lullaby to her until she dozed off again.  Wash, rinse, repeat.  Every night.  For WEEKS.  But the last 2 nights *hallelujah* I've gotten a full nights sleep (and by that I mean that the only times I was woken up were when my bladder was threatening to burst and I'd have to roll out of bed and hightail it to the bathroom).

Not too much else to talk about just now.  Bailey has an "observation" class for dance class on Saturday, so expect a lovely post (hopefully with video!) from that...I'm excited to get to watch her!  They've got a recital coming up in June, so it'll be fun to see what, if any, progress she's made since she started.

Stay tuned!