Well, the count down has begun. Less than 9 weeks until my due date. Are we excited? Yes. Are we ready? Not really. Moments ago I ordered our midwives home birth kit and over the past week or so we've begun gathering the supplies off our home birth list. It's gonna be a pretty wild ride, but an exciting one! Here's what I look like these days.
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| 31 Weeks! |
Since my last post a number of things have happened. My parents came for a visit and while they were here, Jon and Amy had their baby! She is a little girl whom they named Luna Rose. They had her at home and near the end there were a few complications. Jon called us at 1:30am on March 1st telling us the good news that Luna had arrived and then asking us to come over so we could drive their car to the hospital while they rode in the ambulance. We burst into action (Mark more so than me. I'm actually not super good at bursting into action after just waking up) and made it over there in record time. Luckily for everyone, they ended up not needing to go to the hospital and so we spent an hour or so with the newest member of the Pepe/Sund family. It's pretty amazing to meet someone when they are less than 3 hours old! Here's a photo of Luna the next afternoon when she was about 16 hours old. Tomorrow she'll be a month old and she's growing like a champ.
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| The Lovely Luna Rose |
Amy was 3 months ahead of me and Mark and I have really been marking my pregnancy by hers. We figured we didn't really have anything to worry about until Amy gave birth. Well, that's all said and done and now it's really settling in that we are going to have our very own baby to take care of in 2(ish) short months!
Other things that have been happening are as follows. I have been getting bigger. Mark started doing Cross Fit at the end of 2012 and he's been getting super into it and also getting super fit. His goal this winter was to be ready for the farm season and I think he's accomplished it. He's also been doing a lot of x-c skiing and general outdoor adventuring. For Amy's blessingway (I think I've talked about these before, but it's a ceremony where a bunch of women get together and tell the mother to be how much they love her, basically), a bunch of people made quilt squares and then I sewed them all together. Mark also made a quilt square:
Here's the finished product:
My parents visit was pretty mellow. We got a nice dumping of snow the day after they arrived and they spent one afternoon shoveling our driveway so their rental car could make it up.
Other activities included hosting a dinner for some friends, going on a snowshoe to Cheever Falls with my childhood friend Therin who lives in Burlington, sitting by the fire, feeling the baby kick around and eating lots of good food. We also went to Community Dinner in Hardwick and visited High Mowing Organic Seeds. The week went by too fast, but the goodbye was made less sad by the fact that we'll see them again when the baby arrives! We also just bought tickets to Montana for mid-July so I can be a bridesmaid in my dear friend Ivy's wedding. Let's hope that flying with a 6-week old is easier than I'm expecting it to be!
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| Family photo |
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| Belly time. What is that baby doing in there? |
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| Mark, Therin and Me at Cheever Falls |
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| Therin and my Pops |
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| Mmmmm..Pulled pork taco with sauerkraut, spinach and sunflower shoots. |
Aside from having a baby, the big news for this summer is that Mark's taco stand, 'Tacos Con Gusto' got accepted full season into the Montpelier Farmer's Market. This means that every Saturday from May 4th-October 26th, Mark and our friend Jon will be serving tacos to the good people of Montpelier. Mark started the stand with our friend Matt two summers ago, but Matt moved to South Dakota with his girlfriend/our friend Emiko so she can get a nursing degree, leaving the stand in Mark's capable hands. I'm hoping to help out as much as possible, but what with giving birth and all I may be otherwise occupied for at least part of the summer. I will certainly help with Friday food prep and I hope to be at the markets starting in August.
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| New tortilla roller and 4 burner propane stove |
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| TCG banner. If that's not eye catching, I don't know what is. |
Well, it is a lovely Spring day (by Vermont standards, which means 40 degrees and sunny with a foot of snow) and this baby and I need to get outside and go on a walk. Mark and Maggie are at our friend Jonah's helping him strip the plastic off his greenhouse. Plans for this evening involve eating tacos so we can try out the new tortilla roller and sample some of the 100lbs of organic masa that arrived in the mail today. Not only do we have yellow masa, but we also have blue! Let's hope it tastes as good as it's gonna look.
Happy Spring everyone! I'll try to post again before the bambino makes his or her appearance, but no guarantees.
