Ithaca: Year One

Spencer has just completed his first year of law school. I don't know who is more relieved, him or me.
It will be nice to have him around more often over the summer to help out when we have two babes.
We have loved getting to know Ithaca, the people that live here and everything else about our first year at Cornell.
This year we hiked a lot of waterfalls.
Hit and killed two squirrels.
Tried a lot of local food joints.
Discovered Purity's Almond Joyous ice cream.
Ate a lot of Thai food.
Learned about the world of midwives, and that I am not a suitable candidate to have one.
Became avid recyclers and cut out Styrofoam use after being reprimanded.
Fell in love with Wegmans.

     and those are just the things I can think of right now.

This year a Chipotle and BJ's were built in Ithaca. Who knows what other advancements will take place in our next two years.

We ended the school year with a lot of packing and cleaning. Spencer ended it with 14 hour school days. There is only so much you can do at 33 weeks pregnant so we had a lot of great help from friends. We put all of our belongings in storage for the summer and trekked west for a summer internship... to Utah of all places. We just can't seem to stay away. Spencer will be interning with the Utah 4th District office (whatever that is)... He successfully lured me out here on the fact that Dr. Draper would be able to perform another c-section for me. We have already had a reunion appointment and are anxiously awaiting the arrival of our little miss.

I finally have been given reign over Spencer's laptop while he is at work which I was hoping would mean a lot more blogging (or blog stalking), but we are unfortunately without internet for the summer. So we will see how often we blog about summer festivities.

We are without a car and internet for 9 weeks... we really have trekked out here, embracing the entire pioneer lifestyle.

Here is the last picture I took in our old apartment before we left. Drew passed out on the floor of his bedroom.

Shower

There was a baby shower for our little miss a few weeks ago, complete with a game of Bunco.

We had a couple of tables going and when it was all over I was sweating like a crazy person from yelling "hot hands" every time we were rolling dice. The decorations were beautiful. The food was great and we all had a lot of fun.

 Even though we aren't at all prepared to have two babes in our home, we at least have lots of pink girly clothes for her to wear.

200 days

Today is the 200th day of this pregnancy, 28.5 weeks. After the dramatic events of Drew's pregnancy I've felt that less is more. As in, the less I blog about pregnancy the faster it goes (for me and for those around me) Didn't last time just drag on? However, I felt that hitting 200 days and the third trimester was reason for a pregnancy post. Although Spencer was sure to say "just don't post a weird side profile picture of your stomach" - which I actually had all intentions of doing. Oh well.

Things are going well. I'm up to weekly appointments now, and have been driving 120 miles round trip to Syracuse, NY to see a Perinatologist there. The fact that Drew was born at 37 weeks is good to know so that I can at least go that far without having anything rupture or tear out. The abdominal cerclage that was put in 2 years ago, is still doing it's job and keep everything shut. I've been taking P17 progestrone shots since 14 weeks. The little miss is growing right on track and the time is just flying by. I'm on a modified bedrest- which means being lazy and sitting down when and where I can but obviously with a toddler around that isn't always that easy. We spend most warm days outside lounging with sidewalk chalk and bubbles.

Whenever we ask Drew where the baby is he points to my stomach, followed by his stomach and then Spencer's. So apparently we are expecting triplets. I'm just the only one in the family gaining weight. After weighing in at 202lbs the day Drew was born, then working over a year to lose 70lbs, I've been a little paranoid about gaining weight. I'm already over what my initial goal weight was for D-day and I still have 12 weeks left, so oh well, I guess it's just a number- and I'll deal with that number after she makes her debut.

200 days down, only 80 days to go.

Easter

We're only a week late posting about Easter. So since you've read about everyone's Easter, I'll just keep it brief with pictures since we did all the normal things

Saturday Easter egg hunt at the park with friends

 Sunday: Went to church with a cute outfit and had a little egg hunt at home after a nap.

Drew also woke up to a little basketball hoop in the morning. He was ecstatic. Ever since we watched a lot of March Madness he has been saying basketball and throwing things into baskets. It only made sense that we got him a little net his size. It also is nice to have something Drew can do independently while I lay on the couch and get large.

Mullet

Until we moved to New York, Drew has been bald most of his life. Must be something about that moist Finger Lake air that stimulated some growth. And once he had some hair, I found it hard to cut it- even if it was a curly little mullet at the back of his head.

When our friends started to mention things like "Well at least his hair will keep his neck warm during the winter..." which then turned to "Well you don't have to worry about his neck getting sunburned" when the weather turned warm- We decided we had to do something about the corn silk locks.

So we finished off spring break by giving Drew a nice little chop, and turned our little baby into a little boy.

SB twenty twelve.

I had really high hopes of blogging a lot last week about what we've been up to lately but Spencer was at school from 7:30am-11:00pm everyday. Which was also the same week I took Drew to the emergency room for a perpetual cough accompanied by vomiting phlegm. An xray later determined pneumonia in the lungs. We slept together a lot on the couch and saw Spencer for a few minutes a day. Luckily that week is behind us and we are now all caught up on laundry.

Cornell had a week off for spring break in March which was also during a time of record heat. We didn't even have to go anywhere to get some sun. We stayed around here with my ever growing stomach being the culprit for ruining fun. However we still did a lot of interesting local things.

Saw the church historic sites in Palmyra, NY.

Drew looking sassy at the top of Hill Cumorah

 Explored the Corning Glass Museum with the Hales.

Drew standing in the middle of 600 casserole dishes.

 Ventured around Syracuse Zoo.

Had a BBQ with friends at the lake.

We also went to the Waterloo outlets and played at (what feels like) every park in Ithaca. Spring Break was awesome, and I only wish it could have lasted longer. After Spencer went back to school Drew would stand by the window the first few mornings and say "'Ere's Dadda?"