Baby Shower Part 1

We're overdue for another post, so I thought today would be a great time to provide a brief update.

Grandma Livingston and Auntie Tammy held the first of many baby showers for young Bean. Grandma Nyhlen came down for the weekend from Grand Forks for the celebration.

I, on the other hand, was at home doing homework. OK, I played a little baseball on the PS2, but I did get a lot accomplished.

I just finished reading Tracy Hogg's Secrets of the Baby Whisperer. As far as pregnancy/child rearing books go, it was a pretty good read. Our friends Adam and Beth Roesch recommended it to us, and after watching their masterful parenting, how could we turn it down? The book centers on creating a bond between parents and baby, listening to and respecting what the baby is trying to tell us with her crys and body movements, and establishing a routine.

And I still need to change my first diaper.

This weekend, we'll be attending a class at Mercy Hospital called "All About Babies." I really need this class because I really have zero experience with babies. I probably didn't hold my first baby until a couple years ago, and the few I've held since then never quite felt right. While I'm told that I should expect to feel inadequate and unprepared no matter how much studying up I do, I think I'd rather go in at least knowing about how not to drop a baby.

Bean is constantly moving in the womb. I have fun caressing fists/feet/head/bum and any and everything that pokes out of Judy's stomach. Every once and a while, Judy will startle with an, "Oh," place both hands on the sides of her stomach and say, "Bean, go to sleep."

It never works.