Saturday, February 18, 2006
Approaching the End of an Era
Here we go; one of the last pictures of Sadie before the sister starts hogging the spotlight. This was a few days ago, before last night’s trimming of the bangs. (Can you say “moving target”? Sure you can.)
We’re pretty much ready to go. Today I’m going to pick up a crib, mattress and infant car seat for Valerie.
We have two hand-me-down pack and plays we were unsure of, but I unpacked and setup the better of the two to check it and found it in excellent condition. Curiously, Sadie latched onto it as something cool. I put her in it to be funny, then she wanted to go back in when I presumptuously rescued her. Go figure. But good, because she’s going to have to sleep in it when she’s staying with Sharon, Emily, Katherine, Julia, and some of Sharon’s family here. If those were no good, I’d have picked a new one up today.
The plan is the pre-op stuff is Monday at 10:00, and we won’t find out until then the time we have to be at the hospital Tuesday for the delivery. In any event, watch this space Tuesday, probably not before late morning, for news. Sadie will get dropped off Monday night or possibly Tuesday morning, depending. I’ll go to the Cape and get her on Thursday, and after that leave her with my mother and grandmother as needed. All nice and smooth.
The last ultrasound we had Thursday was cool. The hospital is heavily involved in education, particularly a school of nursing. Not sure how it fits in, but there had been a really cool student at three of the previous ultrasounds, just observing. This time the ultrasound was performed by the guy in charge, with her as a one-on-one student. Not yet hands on with her driving the machine, but with lots of questions asked of her, and things shown and explained to her. We got to see a lot of stills in great detail, and see exactly what they look for, how they orient themselves, and so forth.
Anyway, it’s very exciting. Just a couple more days. Poor Sadie won’t know what hit her! But she’ll probably get to go to work with me regularly while Deb is recovering (if not beyond), to make things easier.