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| Me and Joe |
One, Joe turned 26! Yes, I know the blog is typically all baby news but he was pretty proud to reach this milestone and still be alive, so I figured it was blog worthy!
We had a great time celebrating his birth, with a wonderful dinner at PF Chang's plus a number of desserts, including an ice cream cake with a robot design (the folks at DQ thought I was getting a cake for a 5 year old) and some home made root beer float cupcakes, compliments of Sara!
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| Some of the party guests are sporting their orange mustaches! |
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| Joe's robot cake |
Second big milestone includes more nursery progress. We got our furniture in from Babies R Us and we're working to prepare for our baby girl in May. With that addition to the room, we're almost set on the furniture and are just getting our decorations and bedding put together now. O yea, and we need an area rug - if anyone knows of a good place to get rugs, I feel like I've looked everywhere.
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| Joe's practicing reading to our baby - hoping he always looks that happy when reading! |
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| We got one of those fancy lifetime cribs so our little one will be able to grow with the bed! |
Third and maybe the biggest milestone for this month was our first childbirth class! Our full classes begin this Thursday, but we just couldn't wait so we kicked the education off with a workshop on natural child birth. Specifically, we learned a lot about pain management using natural techniques as opposed to an epidural.
We were a little unsure of what to expect, and it turned out we were in for a full 3 hours of torture, with educational purposes of course - so that we could turn around and learn to deal with the pain that will be replicated during childbirth. Now, I'll tell you the same thing our teacher told us - they used the only option that the hospital wouldn't get sued for...ice. Basically, our tolerance of ice and more so our ability to ignore the pain the ice inflicted was the exercise we repeated over and over again. I unfortunately don't have a good tolerance for cold things, but it turned out the pain coping techniques did work. The main idea was to focus in on your other senses - including sight, sound, touch. My favorite was the sound because we got some dancing in the mix!
And that wraps it up! For at least a week - like I said we have our whole series of classes starting this Thursday, so we'll see what that has in store. Don't worry, I won't share too many details about the videos they make us watch.
Love,
Corby & Joe
