Zak is right in the middle of midterms right now and has been working feverishly trying to make sure he is caught up and a little bit ahead so that if the baby makes an appearance soon he will not be scrambling. A few days ago he worked for two days solid (yes, that includes through the night!) on a big paper that is due in a week. He had two 20 page papers due the same day, so he wanted to have one of them finished in advance. I admire his motivation to do that! I got to proof read it and I think it is a very good paper. It's on the book of Judges. I think it was a little discouraging when he showed up to class the day after he finished it and the professor pushed the due date back by a week! Unfortunately, the other 20 page paper (on Romans) is still due on the earlier date.
He's been one busy guy these past few days especially, but they say this is the worst of it and if he can make it through October the rest of the semester won't seem so bad. I hope for his sake the baby decides to wait to come just a little late.
Now, if we were talking about my sake...I'd be ready to meet BZ2. I think I am getting a little anxious! Of course as soon as I start feeling like I'm really ready then I think of all the reasons I'm not really ready to be a mom of two, yet. One of those reasons is that Koa has suddenly stopped sleeping through the night! For a while now he has been waking up once or twice a night by kicking his covers off and would call me to come cover him up again. I would do it and then make one of my nightly trips to the bathroom, so it didn't really bother me enough to empower him to figure out how to get the covers himself. However last week he started waking up like 8-9 times a night!! Sometimes he would just lay in there awake and then call me like every 15 minutes at the top of his lungs! He had every excuse in the book for why he needed me...covers, drink, too hot, too cold, "I need something", "Can I get down?"...it was infuriating! So, I pose this question to all you moms out there...Is there some explanation for this that I haven't thought of?
I have started being a little more rigid with when he goes to sleep and when he wakes up since that has always seemed to make a difference for him. We also have started being more purposeful about spending family time. We try to make sure he sees Zak and I spending time together and also making sure he has daddy time for a while each day in case it is an insecurity thing. The combination seems to be helping. He hasn't been lying awake at night, but he is still talking a lot in his sleep and having very active dreams. Usually when he calls me I go in there and he is still asleep. So, at least one of us is getting sleep now! It just makes me a little nervous about how it is going to go with him and the baby sharing a room...
Due to the lack of sleep there for a few days we all came down with a cold last week. Fortunately we got over it pretty quickly and the symptoms never got too bad for any of us! That was a real blessing!
Another great blessing we received last week was a beautiful new Moses Basket from someone we met on craigslist! I had responded to an ad of someone selling a Moses Basket and let her know we were interested. She apparently followed the link to our website that I have in the signature on my email and saw that we are new to the area and Zak is a seminary student and offered to give us the basket as a "welcome to Oregon" gift! She recently graduated from Warner Pacific College, a Christian liberal arts school in the area and could relate to our situation. How cool is that!? It is a beautiful Moses Basket and now BZ2 has a place to sleep!
Speaking of BZ2, I don't have a lot to report. I go see our midwife each week now and they do all the normal checks to make sure everything is working well and we are both healthy. She is willing to check my cervix to see if there is any progress, but I opt not to since I know that doesn't really tell you much of anything in regards to when you will deliver and I'm concerned that if there is progress I will get all anxious and antsy and he or she will be just like Koa and not come until I am well beyond my due date. So, I will just try to be content in knowing that God knows the time and I don't have to...
We have made some updates to BZ2's Most Wanted list for those who are interested. We don't have a lot of things we need this time since the essentials are left over from Koa, but we came up with a few items for those who really want to spoil the new little one.
Lastly, I don't think I ever gave the final update on our insurance saga. Anyway, I hope it is the final... They have agreed to pay 70% of the birthroom and 90% of the midwife after our deductible. So, the $900 (plus the insurance premium which ironically comes out to almost exactly the cost of the entire prenatal care and birth!) we already paid is the remainder of that. Ideally, the rest of the bill should be covered by the insurance. That's good to know since we are less than two weeks from the due date and I'm exhausted from all the haggling!! :) Thanks for all your prayers in the midst of this.
