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Name: tulipmama
Interests: sahm, montessori trained, waldorf reading/loving/crafting, married to musician/woodworker, gardening aspirations, dreams of living by a river, milk giving mama who enjoys her chai tea latte, walking on dirt roads, perpetually reading, journaling, singing to my daughter and snowboarding in the trees
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7/18/2007
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| hey i am just figuring out the 2 kids thing....well figuring it out as far as i can at this moment. i am sure it will constantly be changing! novi sky was born on april 23 which is a very special day to me....my best friend from the time i was a baby was born on april 23 and she passed away several years ago from cancer....i feel like she is with me so often, but to have my daughter's birth happen on the same day makes me feel even more connected with her still.
the vbac was successful and oychee painful, but an amazing experience that i wish i could experience again now that i have a little perspective on it. i really had no idea how giving birth this way would blow my mind!!! and to go all the way to the edge of reality, passed it even, and then once she was born, the second she was here, boom, i was right back here in my body, in my mind. loved it tho you wouldnt have guessed by the screaming ;)
lila moon is an amazing big sister who really wants to be novi's mommy. she is very helpful with little babe and so far, at 11 weeks in, we havent seen anything, well, weird in terms of behavior or adjustment. in fact somethings have gotten even better, like bed sharing. lila is in her own room now for the first time....we never even tried before because we LOVE having her in our bed (i miss it soooo much) but really with the four of us in there it just wasnt working. only the little ones were getting sleep so lila moved into her room and that was that.
otherwise our cabinets are going in the kitchen which is pretty much the last step thank goodness. of course then its on to the bathroom (at least thats a small room that you dont need to hang out in all day long!)
other notes, i am trying to figure out if i want to purchase a program for homeschooling when the time comes, or combine, or wing it. i dont think "wing it" is a very good option for me because i really need some sort of guidance and method to help me stay on track. we are already getting plenty of anti-homeschooling sentiment from some family and friends which is annoying, but when i explain myself they seem to agree with what i am saying my concerns are and what my intentions are, yet still feel that homeschooling is the wrong choice. anyhow i at least want to see how it goes.....if i stink or if it doesnt seem to mesh with lila then we will rethink.
more to come. my posts are farther between as my internet time has drastically decreased...for now, peace~
pictures:
novi sky 2 months old, sleepy lila moon, more babe pics, and a sideways sisters shot (sorry about that orientation!)
    
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| maybe just a quick post to say prodromal labor is the happening of the week here. sat night last week had ctx every 8 minutes for 4 hours, monday morning ctx every 4-6 minutes for 2 hours, friday night ctx every 5 minutes on the dot for 6 hours!!! so now i am sure i wont know when its the real deal until its almost really really about to happen! i didnt have any of that with lila. midwife says def dilation occuring, lots of prodromal mamas have the baby super fast , like 2 hrs start to finish when baby actually comes since body has already prepped. shes been LOA but maybe having trouble getting way down in there or getting positioned better during these "practice" sessions. i dont want to actually get dilation checked since i am gbs+, urg, was with lila too, so i will just wait and see (obv my water isnt broken or anything i just want to keep checks to min)! i dont mind too much except it can be a bit tiring and each time i am hurrying around trying to make sure the house is in order for birth. possibly my mental wanting my primary midwife to be here is holding me back??? she gets back wednesday...lila has been saying that little sister is coming out on wednesday, not sure she even knows what that really means in terms of days of the week (she def knows what baby coming out means, has watched vids and looked in books), but she does have a good prediction record so far: my baby girl, friends baby girl, friends baby boy. who knows. other news: we went to an egg hunt with mooni on sat morning that was over before it had even began....if she had been one yr older it might have been devastating, but she didn't seem too phased and was happy to have the basket to carry around mostly. today a potluck with daves whole family which was so fun and we stayed on late as usual talking for hours with the few who were left in the philosophical level of conversation mainly pertaining to what games we all play to be a part of society....eventually leading to talk of a community type living//being sustainable//stop talking abstractly and start doing and when that shift takes place? always talking....mmm. okay my mind is totally occupied with being pregnant and having baby and all that entails. goodevening~
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| well i am at least going to try to keep it up again for a while! i guess i needed a break and things got pretty hectic around here, life just taking its course, but we have a lot of changes and itd be nice for friends and family to be able to know whats going on with us, and i imagine see photos too (thats one of my favorite parts of the whole blogging thing)....it has been coming up on a year this summer since i was blogging so i have deleted the older posts as i am allowing outside viewers now and perhaps being a bit more restricted in what i write, but i think the pics are still in the picture blog.
so the very small update of the very long absence is that our house is mostly complete which is super exciting and relaxing too. there will always be more to do, but now dave can come home and chill out with us! he has been so busy laying floor, drywalling, painting, building cabinets, etc and i think he has just totally burnt himself out! he has finished his schooling for PV Solar Installer....tho i think hed like to design systems in the long term...anyway he hasnt moved into any kind of position with that as of yet because we wanted to keep this steady around here for a while since we are expecting again---
quite soon actually. i am starting my 37th week which is exciting because that means i can legally have my homebirth from here on out and also this little one is head down!!! (unlike big sister lila moon, my little breech baby:) i have my same midwives from last time and also have backup at the birthing center midwives in the hospital and we will just hope all goes as it should. i am getting excited and a bit anxious, feeling great tho i have lots of BH contractions again this time (those are increasing quite a bit at this point and i am only a little nervous because my main midwife is out of town from the 5th until the 15th...hopefully i will go longer than that tho!). we had to do an ultrasound to see where placenta was located for a vbac and at that time found out (with whatever certainty they can offer...she said 90 percent) that we are having another little girl which lila apparently knew all along. we'd say it could be a boy and shed say, not really mom. she is thrilled as are we (plus i dont need any clothes:) lila keeps asking when the baby is EVER going to come out which is quite sweet and she is convinced she will catch her head....hmm, i dont think so. i am also really getting ready to nurse again, i miss that so much with lila, tho we did have a lot of time together in that aspect of our relationship!
continuing with things missed....i had thought about writing again (after the first few months of pregnancy for which i was super sick:( , but just when i did lila got sick and that sort of took over everything....being pregnant with a child in the hospital was quite challenging. lila had RSV which at 2.5yrs may not have been such a huge thing but at the same time she contracted a bacterial pneumonia and a third, unidentified infection in her lungs (this started 3 days after we substituted at the school, hmmm). scariest thing ever for our family. it really took her down and after a bit we were able to get her moved to childrens hospital in denver which was amazing and the environment was just more comfortable over all. we werent thrilled with the doctor at the other hospital, but her nurses were wonderful and supported our family doctor in having her moved. anyway i dont need to get into the ramblings of all of that, but she came home on oxygen and we really had to keep her at home for a bit. she was amazingly brave thru all of it and i somehow was able to keep it together in front of her. my parents were also able to help me remember to take care of myself and growing baby which i hadnt been doing really well with...lila is definitely back to her healthy little self (it has been 4 months since) and i guess with that and with our new little one almost here and moons 3rd birthday coming up i feel more like getting back in the loop, or at least writing again!
we had our homevisit today and the house is ready, now its the waiting game (i have gone thru several nesting periods thus far, but i guess i can always find more to organize if it comes to that:) (i was 38 weeks with lila, will keep posted on what it turns out to be this time!) here is me and baby 1.5 weeks ago:
and little lila moon visiting grandparents
 peace~
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