What's Going On

• Bode's enjoying kindergarten and making new friends. One classmate lives maybe 10 houses away. We're working on playdates since he's home at 11am everyday. Too early for my taste, but...Still waiting for some learning to happen at school. Lots of recess and gym class and snack, but no reading, writing or math. Today was the first day he's come home with any sort of "work." It was the Letter F. Circle the letter F. Circle which word starts with the letter F. Trace from this side to this side. Um. This is the type of stuff i'm going to start with Keegen. Is this appropriate for kindergarten? I honestly don't know. I'm going in on Thursday to volunteer, so i'll get a first-hand look.
• Bode finally starts OT again today. We stopped the home programs during the summer and we've been waiting to get into OT since late May (after I decided against doing the STAR Center in Denver). I hope this will be worth the wait.
• Bode is learning to ride his bike sans training wheels and doing remarkably well. And he's so cute and excited by it! Doug took the training wheels off last night. Bode gave it a few tries. Tonight we added some elbow and knee pads that came with his helmet a couple of years ago and seriously, away he went without Doug hanging on at all. Such a big kid! And Keegen is freakin' hell on wheels on his (2-wheel) scooter. He's so small and wicked fast. It makes me laugh. He crashes a LOT but takes it really well (maybe because he's so low to the ground already??).
  
• Keegen had a good potty weekend and i'm crossing my fingers the forward progress will continue. He's staying dry at night which is great, but, I DON'T CARE about nighttime right now!! Let's seal the daytime deal, kiddo!
• Keegen started a tumbling class today at the neighborhood rec center. Two days a week and while he was uber excited, he wouldn't join in. Which is a first. He's usually the first to jump in. He did the same thing in church nursery yesterday. Between this and the potty issues, i'm wondering what's going on? What's bugging him?
  
• I woke up in a panic the other morning, realizing that i need to have some sort of plan when it comes to my delivery. I don't mean a birth plan, but a plan for the boys! This is when having family around the corner would be really really nice. It was so smooth with Keegen. Bode was only 2 and already in bed for the night. We called a friend down the street and Doug was home by 2am so she could go home. How will it be this time? I'm also feeling the need to pack a bag and i'm re-reading Ina May's Guide to Childbirth. Little refresher. Nesting?
  
• I'm 33 weeks and woke up yesterday feeling like 43 weeks. Is this a third child thing? I've felt like i'm slooooooowly splitting in two and yesterday was THE WORST. I could barely walk. Lovely. I'm contracting a lot again but other than taking my medication every now and then, i'm basically ignoring it. My OB doesn't seem to care (i haven't been super psyched with him this pregnancy. I looooved him with Keegen. This time? Meh) and while my cervix is starting to shorten, at 33 weeks, they don't care. Hopefully i won't go in a week and a half and be dilated a bunch. I don't mind if i deliver early, but i'd really like to make it to 37 weeks. I'm cranky and worn out. Did i mention that?
  
• The nursery is basically done. I just need Doug to move one dresser out and put the other in. We kept it simple. I had all of these ideas but in the end we just painted it beige, put on a cute pink, brown and cream crib skirt, hung a funky Ikea light fixture, slipcovered the formerly blue glider and ottoman (thank you Overstock.com!) and called it good. Maybe i'll get some fun pictures on the walls, too. We'll see.
• Doug's company is being reorganized (it's been a very slow very painful reorg beginning LAST NOVEMBER). He's supposed to travel to DC and Florida sometime in the next two weeks after the announcement is made regarding his new position (the announcement that SHOULD HAVE BEEN MADE 2 MONTHS AGO!). I'm not excited about this. It stresses me out. I've told him to tell his boss (why is he so unnecessarily slow?) that he'll have to be my labor coach while Doug is away. And that he's a dead man if that happens.

That's all from shiny, happy me for today!