January 13th

I haven't been sleeping well lately for a variety of reasons - all of which are related to being pregnant. Most of them are physical things like hip pain. However, one reason was that I have been going round and round in my mind about VBAC vs. RSC (repeat c-section). Yesterday morning I decided that Paul and I should talk about it one more time and make a decision so that I wouldn't keep thinking about it. I listed out for Paul all the pros and cons of each that I could think of, and he had me look up a few facts such as the mortality rate for c-section (we already knew what it was for VBAC). If the decision were 100% up to me, I'd attempt a trial of labor, but I feel on a decision like this I need to defer to my hubby. His preference has always been RSC. So that's what we're going to do. I am not looking forward to being in pain for a couple of weeks, but if that's what it takes to have a healthy baby boy, it's definitely worth it! It does feel nice to have the decision made. I guess I didn't need to switch hospitals. Now I wish I had just stayed put because the first hospital is closer. If I hadn't needed to wait an hour for the bloodwork, I would have been in and out in 30 minutes this last time, and that never happened at the other OB clinic, so maybe it's all for the best anyhow. I'm actually not really crazy about Dr. S (whom I've seen 3 times now), but who knows who will do my RSC and I won't be seeing him that many more times as my next appt is at 32 weeks. Ian might decide to come sooner than 1-13, but that might be his birthday, and that's only 10 1/2 weeks away!!

Ian's clock came in the mail on Friday. Isn't it cute? We need to go pick out the paint color in the near future as Paul is going to paint Ian's room in about 3 weeks.

The last two pictures were taken yesterday. Next year we'll take Nadia trick or treating. Nobody comes to our house. Paul got Nadia a Halloween card, and Grandma got Nadia the pumpkin (which lights up). As you can see from the picture below, our penguin loves boxes!

Nadia has only been sleeping 9.5-10 hours at night lately. Hopefully we can get back up to 11 hours, which used to be the norm for her. The last 3 days she's either taken only one nap, or if she's taken two, one of them has only been 20 minutes long. Saturday and Thursday she only had morning naps, and Friday she only had an afternoon nap. I don't know if it's because of her runny nose or tooth #12 that is still coming in or the flu shot she got on Friday or a combination of those factors, but hopefully we'll get back in a good 2 nap routine in the near future. Of course "falling back" one hour this weekend doesn't help. We had been putting her to bed later than usual the last few days in an attempt to help her switch her body clock one hour. As expected though, she woke up at 5:15 (new time) this morning. Whomever came up with this plan couldn't have been a parent of a young child!

Her newest animal sound is "oo" (for an owl), and her newest word is "uh oh." A few days ago I recorded a short (32 second) video of Nadia enjoying her belly button and giving teddy bear a hug. I wanted to also record her saying "eye" when I pointed to a picture of an eye in a book, but she was too intent on hugging teddy to do that.