This pregnancy is FLYING past! We had another of our “getting to know you” visits with one of the midwives in the group that we had yet to meet this past Thursday. It is SO hard for me to believe that our second son will be here in just 5 or 6 weeks. I guess we have been so involved with (and amused by) Ayden in the recent weeks and months, that we’ve hardly had the chance to recognize how soon we’ll have another beautiful boy in our lives?!?!? Having a house move on one’s horizon can also keep the mind occupied! As soon as baby #2 arrives, our house becomes instantly short a bedroom, so we’re frantically finishing do-it-yourself projects around our home in anticipation of listing it for sale. And of course, listing our house for sale means we have to be searching for a replacement one! No wonder I haven’t had time to think about our pending arrival! And to top it all off, Patrick and I are currently trying to come to grips with the fact that “our baby”… well, isn’t, anymore. Ayden is becoming quite the little B-O-Y, in every sense of the word. His vocabulary is blossoming, he’s growing like a weed (and much into the proportions of a boy, rather than a baby - yes, he’s finally growing into his HEAD!), his crazy personality and independence are shining through, and he tells us that he wants to do things like a “big boy” now. That’s heartbreak for a mother!!! At least I take some comfort knowing that I have baby-boy-round-two right around the corner to look forward to! We can’t wait to meet him! 
Monthly Archive for March, 2007
Well, the Whisler household has really started off 2007 with a bang… or a cough, wheeze, sniffle, sneeze anyway! Between the three of us (four, if you count my mom), we have been sick continually since the sounds of Old Lang Syne filled the air. Everything from rashes to canker sores, stomach bugs to the flu have kept us busy - shopping the local pharmacy for anything vaguely referring to the ailment of the moment… each of us hoping to find the one that will help us slip into that self-induced coma that will take us away! Even as I sit here writing this, I have my trusty box of tissue sitting right next to the keyboard. And in my case, being well into this pregnancy limits greatly the medications that I can safely take. Oh joy, the perks of pregnancy! Anyway, I’d like to think we’re all on the mend now… and then Ayden wakes up with pink eye (3 days ago)… which “traveled” across the bridge of his nose during the night into the other eye. Oy vey. Will it ever end? 
I suppose this is also one of the many underreported joys of parenthood. We are exposed to many many more germs than ever before in our adult lives, thanks to Ayden and his associates. Kidlets in general seem to lack any “mucus management” skills. When do we learn the basic skill of sniffing anyway?