If you’re not a Facebook friend of mine, you might not know that I’ve had violent diarrhea for the past four days straight. (What, you don’t use Facebook as a means to keep family and friends updated  on the consistency of your stools?) It’s been awful and I feel drained (ha! I mean that literally) and exhausted and I kind of miss my appetite (we’re usually quite close). And if I hear one more person tell me that diarrhea is a sign that labour is imminent, I am going to go and take my next watery dump on her doorstep. Because that’s a LIE. I actually went to the doctor today and she’s pretty sure I just have a 5-day viral case of The Squirts. If it keeps up, I get to walk into a lab tomorrow with my head held high, clutching some vials of my excrement, and see why I still feel so crummy. Just what a 38-week pregnant lady needs.
I am tired and hot and trying to enjoy these final days with the girls, which would be a lot easier if they would stop fighting and pulling each other’s hair and wanting to TALK TO ME.
The baby’s room is ready, my bag is packed for the hospital, the breast pump is sterilized, the carseat is installed…I am ready! Which means, of course, this kid is going to come two weeks late, right?
In other (slightly less grumpy) news, a local artist we know did a couple paintings of Avelyn from photographs I had taken. Anyone recognize these?
The originals are for sale at Sleeping Giant Winery in Summerland. Kind of cool to see our girl immortalized on canvas like that!
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I love the lake one!
Hope your stool returns to a normal, slightly more dense consistency soon.
ha! i saw these paintings in the store and thought to myself..”these look really familiar. huh. weird”
Ugh. I hope your squirts stop and your baby comes soon and puts you out of your misery!
Those paintings are INCREDIBLE!!
xoxoxo
Hope your baby comes soon and your GI system starts to co-operate. I’m sure you’re just counting down the days to get the squirt (no pun intended) out of the oven.
I love the lake one. So neat to see those. Hope you feel better soon, and I won’t say it any more that stool conditions suggest the arrival of a baby. Let’s just pray that this girl of yours gets sick of your uterus and vacates!
I think the virus is going around, Isabelle had it for almost 10 days, we were changing like 10 poopy diapers a day but it stopped a week and a half ago, just intime for me to have it for 3 days (I was somewhat thankful for it though having been in the constipation stage of pregnancy for weeks. Dr just told us to stay hydrated and away from dairy. Hope you’re feeling better soon!!!
Those are so great!
Hope you’re better. I had that when I was pregnant with Emily and it sucked. Boo.
See you tomorrow!
You make me LAUGH in such a HUGE way down in Alabama!!
~Mad
What is with you and the summertime diarrhea? Don’t you do this every year? Have you been having too many CL slushies again?
I hope you are feeling better! I love the painting of Avelyn in the lake. Makes me smile. :)
Some of your more lurky fans read your blog during their lunch break. Haha, no seriously hope you feel better, that sucks.
Paintings are really cool though. :)
How lucky are you to have these paintings of your girl, to have such vivid memories immortalized. Sorry about the trots, though…
I was 41 weeks, 4 days overdue with my second. 3 years later, I have yet to forgive him for this =) Legs uncrossed for you…
Jenn
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