Christmas 2012

We had a nice Christmas. Our last with just the two of us. I didn't really want to go down to Rotorua and spend it with the family that we usually do. I wanted to stay close to home just in case and have a calm holiday. And that we did.

Sunday night after church, we went with friends to see a city Christmas 'tree'. It's lights in the shape of a tree. They're all LED and they get the colours going in cool patterns. Then we walked up the only street in Auckland where most people decorate the outside of their house. It was a good night. A kind young lady even let myself and another pregnant woman use the toilet before her, which was nice as I was dancing around by that point. :-)

Monday morning, Jer went to the beach with friends. He had a great time. That night, we went over to a friend's house with a couple of other families for a taco night and to watch Polar Express. The kids really got into having a ticket to punch and hot chocolate to drink at the same time as the movie. I'm not sure how they drank the hot chocolate, it was rather hot in there!

Christmas day, we were invited to another friend's house (the same he went to the beach with) for lunch.  That was a nice relaxing day. The only hurry part was getting ready to go as the family had called before lunch. I can't say we've ever talked to all our family in the space of so little time, let alone on Christmas Day. Oh the pleasures of technology.

The next day, we had dinner with some other friends. That was fun and more traditional for us. We enjoyed talking to the kids about their new toys. Jer got to play with a few of them. We weren't so keen to get on the new trampoline as it kept raining and when it wasn't, they came in all wet from the trampoline itself. :-)  Jer did play legos awhile, but not with the kids, with one of the sets of parents!

Over all, we had a nice relaxing time. Having this week off work has given me time to organize and clean in a slow manner, which is nice. I needed regular breaks between everything anyhow. This kid is exhausting. I know, I know, just wait until he comes. :-)

5:15am

So, it's 5:15am. Rocket has finally turned over and is constantly kicking my stomach now. I've eaten a bowl of cereal, as I can't sleep due to the constant kicking and realized how hungry I am.

Let me just say that the ice pack trick really worked for me to get him to turn over. I tried on his head twice. That got his top half moving around. He refused to want to move his feet though, so I tried other things. That didn't do so much, so I had the bright idea to ice his feet. That's what I did this morning. At first he just kept trying to kick away the ice pack. lol  Then at some point in the day, he managed to turn him self over. He's been kicking my stomach ever since.

I'm relieved that he has turned. After talking to my midwife, I wasn't optimistic about having a breech child. She said the skills of the OBs don't generally include delivering breech anymore, as they've not done them regularly in about 20 years. I think I could have tried delivering breech, but it would have been a fight b/c they would have strongly encouraged me to have a c-section. Now I pray, Rocket stays the right direction, so that I don't have to make such a decision.