I called my doctor's office on Friday and talked to a nurse about rescheduling my regular appointment on Tuesday for an induction instead. She reassured me that they wouldn't let me go past 41 weeks... while at the same time saying they wouldn't do anything until 41 weeks. So, which is it?! Then she either hung up on me or the connection was lost on her end, and she didn't call back. At which point I muttered an insult I won't repeat here and proceeded to just get madder and madder. I had a rough night last night, and a few contractions this morning, which made me optimistic about having this baby on Travis's birthday (tomorrow) but it's been a quiet afternoon so I'm back to figuring I'll have to show up Tuesday at that appointment and cry.
So I'm going to try to use this post to talk about the great things my girls are up to lately.
Audrey is really into puzzles these days. We have a few 24piece, age 3+ puzzles that she whips together like nothing, and even a 35-piece puzzle that she has the patience to do at least twice ("Wan do ageen?") if I'm sitting with her, conversing about the pieces she's putting together. I'm thinking this will be a great activity for her when I have to sit with my arms full of baby, and can't physically interact with her or Emily. And it's amazing to watch her figure it all out. And Audrey has been talking a lot more lately. She's getting easier to understand, and she's finding it satisfying that she can use her words to solve a problem. She has a fantastic little giggle that comes out when she's gotten her way because she was able to tell me how to fix things. That's gotta be a thrill, when her only tools up to this point have been howling and hoping.
Emily and Audrey were over at my neighbor's the other day, and got to work with some washable paints. They were SO thrilled, but the funniest thing was the difference in their artwork. Emily made 6 or 8 neat oval blobs of each color on the page, while Audrey brushed probably at least 10 different colors all right next to each other, but not overlapping. It was crazy, the difference - Emily's looked like an organized analysis of color while Audrey's was art. We also watched a video of a friend's boy who was singing along with the piano as he played a C scale up an octave. Audrey sat with me and sang along, while Emily ran to the piano and did exactly what the boy did. It was fun to see them jump at the idea like that, like, "Cool, can I do that too? Yup. Cool." I set them up with the kiddie swimming pool, and instead of putting water in it, I left it on the porch and put a bunch of scrap papers and scissors in it, and they cut like crazy for a week. They're both pretty skilled with their scissors!
Emily is so excited to meet her sister. It's been crazy to see her be so grown up lately. What a little lady!! I wish I could recall specific examples of how she speaks, because it's so delicate and vocabulary-rich. And thoughtful! She often, out of the blue, says, "Mom, I love you!" and Audrey parrots, "MommyAyeLawwYou." Emily really had a good time with one of the busybag activities that had a phonics exercise, spelling rhyming words using paint chips. She's just starting to think about how to sound out a word; sometimes she's really up for thinking about it, but often she just wants to read the book. At Easter, I made her hunt for the word "egg" on the page, in addition to finding the eggs in the picture, which she thought was fun sometimes but didn't want to think about other times. I sure don't want to push her, but it's SO fun when she's ready to absorb information, just watching the gears in her head go, and seeing her get excited when she figures stuff out. Or tries on a new word that she just learned, like, testing it out to see if she had it right. What a great little brain.
I've made connections with a potential nanny candidate, who I think seems very promising. She is trying to get her own vocal studio going, giving lessons during the day, but I think she has a tough challenge of finding students, especially ones that could come during the day instead of after school. She's going to get back to me at the end of the week, at which point I should have news of baby, and maybe we can find a time to chat after that. It's nice to have a lead, but also nice to know that I've got the summer ahead of me before I must have a solution.
I don't think it's worth documenting on this forum the disaster I had with HR last week. Basically, they won't actually act on the promotion that's been approved for me because they don't think I'll be at work on June 1, meaning the pay increase won't go into effect until after I come back to work in the fall because my boss was two days late with paperwork. I probably could be still at work on June 1, at this rate, so it would be interesting to see their reaction when I report the baby's birthday as June 2. But I guess I'd rather just have the baby, even though it would be satisfying to prove those jerks wrong. The situation is actually more complicated with apparently HR imaccurately relaying things to my boss that I thought I had said in the confidentiality of an HR office, but I'm trying to just let it all go. There truly is nothing I can do about it, which is maddening in itself!! This will mean that two out of my three maternity leaves, I'll have left work on such a note that I'm too pissed at HR to sleep at night. Let's see if 5 years of maturity has gotten me anywhere... rats. oh well.
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