Dixon Baby Newsletter Vol. 8 (1/8/2003)

Baby name suggestions:

From Julia:
  Olivia

From Marlena:
  Joseph William 
  Abigail Elizabeth

From Selina:
  Magen
  Morgan

From Peige:
  Olivia

We want to thank Shane, Selina, and Cheyenne for
graciously donating all their baby wares to us.  This
has been a very big help to us!  It was like going
to Babies-R-Us during a truck load sale!   Thank you
guys so much.

Also, Joseph and I have created a baby wish list.  Now,
I have to say, this goes against my grain.  I feel 
uncomfortable asking folks for certain things.  But, so
many people have asked us what do we want/need for baby,
and they honestly want some direction.  Plus, what is the
difference between a baby registry at a department store 
and a personal wish 
list?  It can be alot, when you are baby shopping.  With the
wish list, you can go whereever you want to get a goodie.  We
love bargain shopping and want to encourage it.  :)  

Also, we love "recycled" goodies for 
baby.  Babys grow so fast!  They outgrow clothes and toys
quickly.  So, thrift stores, garage sales, and the back of
folk's closests can yield the most goodie for baby with the 
least buck.  So, we came up with a list.  We'll gladly share 
it with whoever wants it.

In addition to our personal baby wish list, we created a 
book wish list at Amazon.com for Wee Dixon.  You can find
Wee's wish list by going to www.amazon.com, click on "Wish List"
at the top of the screen.  You'll then see a "Wish List Search"
on the right hand side.  You can search for "Wee Dixon" or
"weedixon@dixondata.com" in the Name or E-mail blank.  These
are mainly books for Wee's library or toys.  :)

No more food craving spurts lately.  Baby just has me eating 
indescriminately like a raveonous hog.  I'm starting to get 
concerned that I may
be eating TOO well.  I'm going to talk to our doctor at our
next visit about my weight gain to make sure it is within limits.
I'm not concerned about my post-pregnancy figure.  I can 
worry about that later.  But, I just don't want to gain too
much weight which might interfere with wee one in some way.

My sugar test is scheduled for the next doctor's visit.  I
hope it reveals good news.  I have been craving sweets again.
I chowed down the other night on some delicious bannana pudding my
brother-in-law made.  

Although we had
a very good holiday and an overly productive one, we still feel
we really didn't get a vacation.  We are both just pooped.
But, we were ultra-lazy this last Sunday before we went 
back to work.  We also plan to schedule a little Joseph and me
time in the months to come before wee one arrives.  We don't 
have anything fancy in mind.  We just want to hang out together
and not do any home projects, work, or thinking.  I think that
sounds awesome!  :)

Want some laughs?  I'll share some of my latest zaniness with
you.  Walking into a room to get something and forgetting 
why I am there is now pretty common place.  I wasn't expecting
this sort of behavior in myself for at least another 20 years.
I hope pregnancy is just giving me a preview and this is not
early onset dementia.

My vocabulary is gone.  I don't know where I lost it.  But, 
"seat belts" have now become "a car strappy thing."  "Poplarville"
is now "that place where we used to live...below Hattiesburg."  
And, a personal favorite...."bedroom" has become "sleep...lay
down...house...room."  :)

No great spills lately.  I just have been dropping the phone,
fumbling with things, nothing major.

Oh, something else I have lost is my sense of humor.  Joseph 
made a joke yesterday, and I went into this long explanation
why that just wasn't true.  Of course, that was why it was 
a joke...what he said wasn't true.  It was exaggeration
for effect.  

My sis-in-law made a joke about a woman waddling during her
first trimester of pregnancy.  I didn't laugh.  All I could
think was..."I am going to HAVE to waddle.  I'll be huge."  
Of course, this train of thought was missing the entire point
of the joke.  :)

I'm rationalizing that my humor is only temporarily lost because
I am trying so hard to hold on to the last remenants of 
intelligence.  I'm "thinking" everything out to reassure myself
that I am smart enough to still figure things out.  
Of course, that means that I am missing some good belly laughs 
and "appearing" to others dumber than I actually am...yet.  :)

Wee one has been kicking.  Joseph is having a hard time feeling
it.  I'm sure it will be easier to feel for Joseph once the 
baby gets bigger.  I think I totally missed the "butterfly" 
sensation stage.  What I am feeling is kicks and nudges.  We
aren't having a butterfly, that is for sure.

Last night, Joseph and I made a concentrated effort for him to
feel the wee one kick.  I'd say, "You feel that?"  "No," he 
would reply.  A few minutes later, "You feel that?"  "No," he'd
say.

Then after a few minutes, POW!  Wee one gives Joseph a really
good kick.  Joseph jumps back and says, "Wow!  Does she do 
that all day?"  :)  

We continue to frustrate folks by not finding out what our
wee one will be...a boy or girl.  This has been bugging 
everyone but us.  We even had a friend say, "You can just
ask the doctor, and he'll tell you."  :)  So far, our 
curosity hasn't been enough to change our mind about waiting
until it is born to find out.  We still just alternate calling
it a he and she.  

We've been trying to prepare the cats for the upcoming shift
in positions.  They are used to be the kings of the house, but
they will be playing second to the wee one.  We've put the
cats on a schedule.  They come in during the day...sleep...
then, at night, they go out.  This schedule is working out
good for the song birds visiting my feeders, too.  They don't have
to be pestered with watching out for the cats now.  I hope it
is having the opposite effect for the mouse population at
night.

We've also restricted the cats access to certain parts of
the  house.  They don't free range any longer, and we are teaching
them to stay out of the nursery.  Hero is taking to these 
new arrangments very well.  King Silas, however, is an 
incurablly nosey cat.  Since we've been changing so much in 
the house lately, he wants to be involved in all of it or at 
least nose around in the middle of it. We have to take him
on guided tours so he can investigate all the changes.  Then 
he is satisfied (for a time).  

So, now you know what has been going on around here.  Hope
everyone is doing well out there!  :)

Kay