Macy & Family

7 quick takes!

1. Just verified that our new insurance DOES cover this pregnancy! This means that the delivery and midwife fees are covered 100%. Wahoo! Considering we started this pregnancy planning to pay everything out of pocket, since we had no maternity coverage, this is great. It will save us thousands of dollars! More money to put towards our new house.

2. I’m 34 weeks and change now. Wondering when this baby will arrive. We have family coming to stay with us for three weeks. First my mom for a week, then my sister for a week, and then my dad for a week. They will start arriving around 37.5 weeks. Hopefully the baby will be born when one of them is here, so we have someone to leave Greta with. Otherwise we will enter panic mode and hope that someone from Matt’s family is available and able to get down here in time to watch her so she doesn’t have to come to the hospital with us. This is the main problem with moving somewhere where you know no one so close to the baby’s birth.

3. We have been here a little over a month and are getting mostly settled. Greta and I went to storytime for the first time this week. She didn’t love it, but we will keep going for a while. I also need to join the playgroup that is at one of the local churches. We know where most stuff is, and have even found a handy car repair guy for my car. My car has had some pretty big repairs lately, and that along with new tires, hopefully will last it a long while. Volkswagens are meant to last right? Mine is 9 years old and has about 115,000 miles on it. Hoping to get another couple years out of it (at least until we need a bigger car to accommodate a third child).

4. Last week we lowered the price of our house in hopes of getting some new (hopefully higher offers). People really seem to want to get a good deal and are offering very low and ridiculous offers. We keep countering with something a little more reasonable in hopes that they will come up somewhat. Currently we have an offer in which both parties have agreed on a price. The house is not under contract yet, so there is still time for them to back out, but I’m hoping and praying this deal goes through and the house is gone soon. It will be nice to not have to pay double mortgage/rent every month.

5. We are trying hard to get ready for babies arrival. I have washed all of the clothes and diapers, so they are nice and clean and ready to go. Our crib screws got lost in the move and I ordered new ones. They came in the mail yesterday, so we are hopefully going to assemble that this weekend. Hopefully this baby likes the crib a bit more than Greta did. The crib will be in our room and as of now Greta is still sleeping with me.

6. Greta is mostly nightweaned now. We took the sleep with daddy approach. The first time she woke up and I wasn’t there she cried off and on for about 45 minutes. After that it was minor whimpering, and Matt was there to comfort her the whole time. After two nights I went back to sleeping with her, since Matt can’t actually sleep while holding her. Greta decided she wanted to be held the entire night when sleeping with Matt, while she lets me sleep next to her. I still occasionally have to tell her no milk, but usually I can satisfy her with water and some snuggles. She still wakes up at night, but is sleeping a bit longer of stretches these days and can sometimes put herself back to sleep. This week has been rough, I think her last canine tooth is trying to break through. Hopefully it is done soon. Then we will be done with teething until the 2 year molars show up. I’m hopeful that she will be sleeping most of the night by the time Bubba Mae arrives.

7. I’ve been on a baby wipe making frenzy. I bought some flannel a long time ago and am finally making us some new wipes. While the original ones I made before Greta was born are still holding up find, they aren’t quite soft and I think we made need some more with two kids. And here is a cute picture of Matt and Greta making facing in the computer (we love our new Mac, with photobooth!).