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Merry Christmas!
Dec. 26th, 2007 10:20 amI hope everyone who celebrates this one had a great holiday! We spent it in NC with my family this year (we alternate between mine and his in Colorado). My cousin Julie has a brand new baby and so wasn't there, and her sister was in New York with her partner's family, so there seemed to be quite a few of us missing! It was fun to watch my nephew (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aidan_memoirs) open his presents, though, and to imagine that there will be a lot more little children running about next time I'm here for Christmas.
My family decided to only give presents to children starting this year, and to my surprise our own little pre-baby got quite a few presents! I feel like I've had a baby shower already, hee. Lots of cute little clothes and some baby supplies, including lovely books, and a sling and some cloth diapering supplies. My family passed the cloth diaper around with looks of curiosity on their faces, as if they weren't quite sure what to make of us for going that particular route! It's funny that I know so many people in Austin who use cloth diapers, but I think that may be a little pocket of environmentalism that is more unusual to find in other places.
I'm staying here for another week and a half to spend time with family while it's still relatively easy. Next time I come here it'll be a bit more complicated. ;-) I'm also hoping to help my sister get her baby room organized and ready. It's been fun to see her with a belly like mine and to know that these two little cousins will be born so close together.
Boo seems to be spending more of his time head-down these days. When I feel him moving around, it feels distinctly different in my lower abdomen, less like kicking and more like something big twisting and turning. Every now and then I get a weird pain higher in my body, like he's kicking me in the liver or something. He seems to get wiggly when I am even remotely hunched over, so I have started trying to sit in ways that give him more space. He has three more months to get bigger, so I think this is just the beginning of the two of us jockeying for space. :-P
aidan_memoirs) open his presents, though, and to imagine that there will be a lot more little children running about next time I'm here for Christmas.My family decided to only give presents to children starting this year, and to my surprise our own little pre-baby got quite a few presents! I feel like I've had a baby shower already, hee. Lots of cute little clothes and some baby supplies, including lovely books, and a sling and some cloth diapering supplies. My family passed the cloth diaper around with looks of curiosity on their faces, as if they weren't quite sure what to make of us for going that particular route! It's funny that I know so many people in Austin who use cloth diapers, but I think that may be a little pocket of environmentalism that is more unusual to find in other places.
I'm staying here for another week and a half to spend time with family while it's still relatively easy. Next time I come here it'll be a bit more complicated. ;-) I'm also hoping to help my sister get her baby room organized and ready. It's been fun to see her with a belly like mine and to know that these two little cousins will be born so close together.
Boo seems to be spending more of his time head-down these days. When I feel him moving around, it feels distinctly different in my lower abdomen, less like kicking and more like something big twisting and turning. Every now and then I get a weird pain higher in my body, like he's kicking me in the liver or something. He seems to get wiggly when I am even remotely hunched over, so I have started trying to sit in ways that give him more space. He has three more months to get bigger, so I think this is just the beginning of the two of us jockeying for space. :-P
