a hippie with a minivan

Hallowe'en…

Well, yesterday it was Hallowe’en, one of my favourite days of the year… it was rainy and wet, but at least not too cold… Simon came home from early and we watched a few hallowe’en cartoons and got into the mood…

Colin dressed up in the snake costume that we have that I had found garage saleing a few years ago for 2$ and was Xavier’s costume for 3 years and is often used as a toy also… He wasn’t too happy at first, he hadn’t napped and was in a bad mood but once we got outside and walking he got better…

Xavier finally decided on a green ghost as a costume… so I bought some material about 3 weeks ago and got it done last week… it turned out pretty well though I hadn’t figured in the chance that it may rain and weigh down the material so that he had a bit trouble at the end going up stairs… it wasn’t too bad though and he caught on that he could hold onto the front a bit and he wouldn’t trip…at least the drizzle that was falling when we first went out stopped after about 20 min and though the ari was humid and the ground was still wet it wasn’t unpleasant…

I debated whether I was to go out or not with Simon and the boys especially because my pelvic pain is getting worse and worse… but I just love Hallowe’en and walking in the streets, seeing costumes and decorations and watching the boys trick or treating… reminding me of when I was a little girl doing the same thing…. I told myself that I would come back home before them if my pain was too bad…. the problem with this pelvic pain though is that it doesn’t show up as much when I am walking or doing things really, but hits afterwards… especially at night… and then I regret it…

So we walked and walked…. and walked…. for 2 hours and the boys went from house to house and got candy… building up a loot that I would have been jealous of as a child but now see as a mountain of sugar that I don’t want the kids to consume…

Here are a few pics…

The loot 🙂

Ouch…. I just fell….

It is really yucky today… but we had a few things to do outside before it gets too cold and especially since we had our first frost and though it is drizzling, wet and windy it is not raining as much as it was yesterday so Simon decided to go do it today…

So, Simon has been outside all morning (since about 8am) putting things from the yard away and I dressed up the kids all warm and headed out with them too… I started draining the pool and went to put something in the shed and I slipped on the ramp infront of the door.. i banged both my knees pretty bad and scraped one of my palms a bit but I am OK… one of my knees took the fall more then the other and it is a knee that I already have problems with and it is already swelling… I really didn’t need this… This is the first time I have fallen while pregnant… it isn’t something that I like…

I also have a feeling that babe may have engaged a bit more during the fall… since it happened I have a bit more pressure on my cervix… just hoping that it won’t jumpstart labour before babe is ready to come out on its own…

Got my birth pool today!!

The delivery guy arrived at the door this morning with a big box with my birthing pool….

It jut makes things seem so much more real…. I mean… this thing sitting in the hall way is what I will be hopefully giving birth in a few short weeks…. I can’t wait to do a test run and sit in it for a little while and try it out…

There are only a few things that I need to get for the birth and then I am all set to have this new babe….

Hmmm…. why don’t I just list the things that I need to do here…. it will probably get me to do it more quickly…

get the baby clothes out of the shed, separate just what we need and wash it.
get the newborn diapers out and place them somewhere handy
make a basket/box with everything that I need for the birth so that it is all on hand and in one spot
write a “birth plan”… not a conventional birth plan of course… just something to have quick reminders on for both Simon an I….
Buy some embroidery floss and braid it
buy or find a new pump for my birthing ball (mine broke when it fell) and the ball needs a bit of air…
Make a few more meals if I can…

There might be more of course….
OH… and about two weeks ago I decided that we needed a new fridge…. (after having to re-duct tape the shelves in our current fridge that we got free 6 years ago) it was supposed to arrive in a few weeks but I got a call saying that they will be able to deliver it on Thursday!! Don’t ask me why but I am really excited about it… weird huh!?

36+ weeks…

I can’t believe that I am already in my 37th week!

Colin was born at 38 weeks and if this babe decided to do the same that would mean that I would meet the little one in 2 weeks… Though I would like that for reasons of being uncomfortable and in pain… I would actually prefer to have this babe a bit closer to mid-november…

I have been having tons of BH lately.. some that are downright painful… With the boys I had a few painless BH and never really experienced labour in front… this time, I feel all of the BH in the front and I can really guess what labour will probably feel like… I am a bit excited to think that I will probably get to experience real labour instead of back labour..

I have decided again that I really want a waterbirth… I had thought that I didn’t for a while and that I would try to use my bathtub if I needed water but it really wouldn’t work at all… the bathtub is WAY too small and the water doesn’t cover my belly at all.. also, we have one of those rectangular shaped bathtubs with a steep back so you can’t really lay back and relax… anyways… I ordered “La Bassine” last week and should be getting it this week and I went and picked this up from an aquarium supply store so that I can fill and empty the tub easily….(I won’t be using the gravel cleaner ;))

I have a few supplies ready but just need to get them together so that they are all at the same place and ready to go if we need them… and I still have a few things that I want to pick up…

It is so hard to imagine that very soon I will be holding a new babe… a new little life…. this little person that has been moving around inside me for months… nursing and cuddling… and breathing in that newborn baby smell again…

Here is a pic from today…

No-poo…

Well… I decided to go no-poo before the summer… I washed my hair for the last time in June and haven’t looked back… Now more than 4 mos later my hair looks great. It is soft and shiny and manageable…

Once in a while (about every three weeks now) I will wash it will a bit of Baking soda… once a week or less I will rinse it with Apple Cider Vinegar… but most of the time I just rinse with water and that is it..

It took a bit of an adjustment period but we were in the pool often atthat time and it was summer so I just left my hair up and it really didn’t show much… after about 2-3 weeks it started to look great… now it looks even better then when I used shampoo…

here is a pic 🙂