Kelsi's Blog for 2009

We're pregnant. I finished my first trimester recently, and amazingly, like clockwork, my textbook first trimester symptoms are disappearing. I got my first night of good sleep last night in at least two months; actually slept until 7:30 am!!! many sleepless nights which has been awful for my concentration at work and general energy level. Also, very glad to finally have an appetite again.

I still am looking forward to doing a year in review with photos, but am waiting on Drew to catch up on photo tagging.

Fifteen minutes after putting my wedding rings on the edge of the bathtub, Drew's keen ear heard a metal sound in the bathroom. He came and asked me how many rings I had. He found my wedding ring, but my engagement ring was missing.

We searched around for a bit, Drew even gave Apollo a ball of foil to see where he may try to 'hide' it. However, with each minute, I became more concerned that this would have bad health effects.

We have access to a metal detector, so we ran the metal detector over Apollo, even though he sort of ran away from it. I was sure that the detector was giving a 'positive' result, however, Drew was not so sure. It was definitely unreliable.

Still panicked, we called vet and got referred to an emergency vet in Palo Alto. Again, feeling a sense of urgency, we took him to the vet. After a 2 hour vomit induced visit with an x-ray, totally over 300 dollars, still no ring.

We returned home, ready to resume a search, while checking to be sure Apollo didn't find it first.

Of course, we found it plain view in the front bedroom within 3 minutes of being home, since we weren't clouded with the fear or panic that he may have eaten it. He just 'transported' it.

Today apollo was missing for about a half hour to an hour. Our electrician left the gate open and he got out. Drew called me and I left work in record time without saying anything to anyone.

Driving home was very scary as last night we were at the dog park at dusk when a small black dog got loose. We looked for him for about an hour, but I don't think the owner had found him yet. I was upset about this for a lot of last night, only to have a similar thing happen to us the next day.

We're so lucky to live in such a nice neighborhood. One woman apparently found Apollo. A different neighbor I came across down the street told me about the woman who found a nice dog. While Drew and I were out, the same woman must have returned the dog to our electrical workers. We never got a chance to thank the woman who kept Apollo safe, but we hope we meet her soon.

I asked drew last night if he thought Steve Jobs bought his new liver. He immediately replied that he wasn't sure but if anyone deserves to pay for an upgrade, it is him.

I laughed harder than I had in weeks. Drew has heard my complaints about upgrading my first generation ipod touch software, which I put off for 1.5 years, such that it cost me $5 rather than $20. Open source programming is very important to drew. That said, I'm pretty sure I'm on the verge of purchasing the iphone GS; though I am still intrigued by the Palm Pre, and loyal to Palm since they have been the maker of my smartphone for 5+ years.

I'm wrapping up this pregnancy. Officially 8 months; with a little more than 4 weeks left. We're having a boy; the room is painted, bassinet is ready, cloth diapers and clothes are washed. We're still trying to wrap up some home projects before he comes, but this is hindered by my new need to have a daily nap after work. I feel the baby move less than everyone would like, and was sent to labor and delivery yesterday. The non-stress test was okay, though he still didn't move much (3 times in 75 mins). My doctor wants me to be seen more, so I will be back on Monday.

Apollo is doing fairly well though since my last post, he was severly ill in May (for 6 days; constant diarrhea and vomitting for 6 days) and he was attached by a doberman at our local 'dog' park 11 days ago. Most of his wounds are doing well, but one has gotten worse rather than heal. We went to the vet today and he wasn't too concerned; just monitor and more neosporin as it apparently is okay if he licks some neosporin as the antibiotics aren't absorbed orally.

That's it for now. Perhaps I will be posting some more as I take a 6 month leave from work soon. But maybe not.

Today was my 29th birthday and, coincidentally, my last day of work. I have a 6 month maternity leave. I thought taking ~2 weeks before the due date was extravagant, but I really think it is best. I was starting to have a pretty hard time getting through the day.

Not much else is new. We get a lot of questions about names; we have a list of many names but aren't spending much time thinking about them now. Rather, we just add to the list whenever we hear names we like and figure we'll figure it out when we need to. It is hard to imagine what to name someone we've never met. I'm not worried about it being hard to choose once we see him. In the meantime, if you have boy name suggestions, please pass them along.

I'm at a loss for more to say. Hope to have some sort of 'nesting' instinct kick in soon, as there is still a lot that could be done. But nothing critical. Except have a baby. Holy crap.

My due date begins in less than an hour, but as of today, I have not 'progressed' from 3 weeks ago.

I am feeling alright and am taking the extra time to get chores done. In fact, I had a ridiculous spurt of energy this weekend and got the following accomplished (some with drew's help):

On top of all of that, drew did some fancy hacking into our palm pre phones which I'm sure he will blog about soon. We will have a baby blog soon; drew is making it and it will use openID, which (I think) uses gmail and yahoo mail IDs to authenticate users. So if you're interested in reading about the baby, email me your gmail or yahoo email address and we'll add you to the list.

I'm taking a break now; trying to rest as I got a pretty bad head cold and want to be better by the time I go into labor. If I have no signs of labor by Thursday, for various reasons, my doctor will probably have me induced that night at the hospital. But hopefully something will happen before then. My mother gave birth three times within a day of her estimated due date. Maybe the same will hold true for me.

In other news, my brother's wife is far into labor as I type this. She wasn't due for another ~10 days or so, but baby said otherwise. I wish I could be there, but Sacramento is too far to go at this point in the game. She is lucky as my sister's mother-in-law is the head maternity nurse at that hospital, and making sure they get great care. Lucky them!

We're taking a lot more photos with our phones now that we have fancy palm pre with nice cameras.

Not much new here in ~3 days, but I did sell my car. It was a two seater (Honda Insight Hybrid), and not very practical for carrying a baby around. I'm quite proud as I owned the car for ~6 years, and sold it for not very much less than what I bought it for. But really it was just luck-I bought my (used) hybrid when gas was ~$1.60/gallon. Not expecting to be as lucky on the next car purchase.

I talked to my doctor yesterday. We decided to hold off on inducing until after the weekend. If nothing happens on its own, I will go in Sunday evening to begin the long process. But I'm *really* hoping something will happen before then. I'm still not over my cold, so hopefully the extra time will give me a chance to get better. Also, I'm still feeling relatively okay, though definitely more tired; and in need of a nap everyday. In the meantime, I'm continuing to do a little tidying and organizing, and watching the great show "Battlestar Galactica" on DVD.

Well, it has been almost two months since I wrote here, at ~40 weeks pregnant. The baby is about 7 weeks old, and doing well. We're busy over here, but I hope to still post to this blog from time to time. Life is very different here; we run on cyclical 3 hours schedules of sleep, but still manage to get out to do 'normal' things like see a movie or visit friends; usually just abbreviated versions of these pastimes though. We just returned from celebrating our three year anniversary in Mendocino, with the baby and the dog. :) Other than that, not much to report.

I have been somewhat keeping up with the baby blog Drew made for our baby boy. However, it is private, so if you'd like to see what he is up to, email me your yahoo, gmail, or aol email address (or other openID account name). I'm way behind my other projects, and other little things I want to do. A running list:

Store baby's newborn clothes and organize 3 month+ clothes for wearing now done, and repeated. 9 month old wearing 18 month clothing

Finish 'thank you' cards -I think I've finally done most of these. some were very embarrassingly late

Organize details for upcoming TX and east coast trips been to TX and East Coast with Ari

Go to a 'mother's club' event went with Jaime 1/2010; kind of a bust--but I love the babysitting co-op

Go to another empty movie theatre with Drew and baby and watch another movie uninterrupted we did this 5 times!!! I think these days are over now

Establish a more regular daily routine for baby and me which involves us leaving the house every day