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where is baby r?
By heather | July 10, 2007
It’s Monday. Hot. But I have nothing to complain about, because I’m on vacation.
My sister-in-law, however can complain all she wants. Because she is officially overdue – due date: yesterday. We knew when we planned this trip that there was a chance (a good one apparently) that we would not get to take the planned photos of all the babies in matching outfits.
This morning I walked from my in-laws house down to Brittnee’s house to see the nursery and visit while Brett golfed. I used to always wonder why no one ever really walked down or up the hill to visit, when it’s RIGHT NEXT DOOR (lazy!) and now I know.
Walking down with Alex in the stroller was like running down a roller coaster track and walking up was like that scene in the 10 Commandments movie where they are building the pyramids pushing and dragging rocks. I had butt soreness the next day, and what with teaching cycle and all I should be in good enough shape to walk up a little hill in the country.
Upon return, I collapsed, heaving, before reaching up to turn the doorknob and let myself in for a cold drink only to discover that the door had locked behind me and I had no key. Back down the roller coaster. Brittnee saw me coming and kindly gave us a ride back up the hill because I don’t think I could have walked it twice.
She was remarkably cheerful even though Baby Roan still had not even stirred. Although that could have something to do with not being required to go to work in an office where the majority of people are old enough to be your parents, all of whom have advice on when/where/how their wives gave birth. I could have been cheerful, if impatient, with just myself and Brett. But putting on a happy face all day was just too much to ask and no naps were allowed. (Incidentally, although I knew my face wasn’t happy I didn’t think it was quite as fat as it photographed on my work badge, which I stupidly renewed exactly one week before giving birth and now must live with until 2009.)
Anyway photos…note both the pink and blue onesies that matched the blue ones that Alex and Kacen had. I have to admire people with the fortitude not to find out the sex of their baby. Particularly if you live far away from a Babies R Us, as they do.
Lucky they also live far away from me, because I have no patience and would have incessently bugged them to find out. Faced with something unknown like that on a daily basis, especially when you COULD know would have been too much for me.
Slideshow: Where is Baby Roan?
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