Daddy is home, sort of....

Don ended up staying an extra day in NJ, due to the project needing to run all weekend. He got home about 1 pm today, and by 3 pm I had him in the car to the walk in clinic (I was impressed that they are open until 5 pm on Sundays! I had a much harder time finding a pharmacy open past 5 pm today!!). Anyway, he has an infection in his throat and ears and is feeling miserable. Hurts to swallow, and he can't eat anything at this point (and you should see the horse pills the Amoxicillian are!!). A kids favorite dinner: Ice Cream, Italian Ices, and soda!! So Bell got a VERY brief hug with daddy before taking her out of breathing range! She kept trying to get back over to him and cried at bedtime to kiss daddy. She really missed her daddy, as we all did!

The weather was finally nice here this weekend!! Austin pulled weeds in the driveway (love job Mom!!), and took Bell out to play a few times. She is just to hard for me to chase around at this point!! We a great new park nearby that is just perfect for her age, and she is such a daredevil!! I need to bring the camera there, she climbed up the curved money bars all by herself and there is a plastic rope ladder type thing she also scrambled right up!

I am hoping that Don is feeling better by weeks end, so I don't have to bail out on "Moms weekend". There are about 10 of us going down to Rehobooth next weekend for a beach weekend - just moms!! It is an annual thing the Mothers and More group does, and it should be a lot of fun (and relaxing before the baby comes!!) - we have two side by side condos right on the beach (one owned by one of the moms - so it is cheap!!). It is only about 35 minutes from home, so just in case the baby decides to come REALLY early, we will not be that far away!! I am coming home Saturday night to get up VERY early Sunday AM to take Don to the airport for his flight to Arkansas, for four days - should be the last of is travel until after the baby.

My Doctor wants me to go in for a "Growth Scan" (May 4th). It is a sonogram that measures the size of the baby, bacause I am measuring a little big. Well lets see, a 9.7 lb baby, then a 10.5 lb one, hummmm - I ALWAYS measure big!! But we will have it and see what they say. I had one with Bell 6 days before delivering her and they said "about 8 lbs", so I don't really have a lot of faith in the accuracy of them.

I had a couple come try on carriers yesterday (she is going back to work and he is staying home!), and their baby was 5 lbs, and one month old! She was a month early at 3.5 lbs. It always amazes me to hold babies that small, as mine are already so big! Bell was facinated by the baby when her daddy was carrying her in our sling (where she fell fast asleep!!). They bought a carrier for mom and one for dad :))

Well, that's it for now, I am off to check on my sick hubby and go to bed! I will post the picture of Bell and daddy to this tomorrow.

Karen