So I've been reading to the LAB before bed at night in an attempt to coax some more reactions out of him. Specifically, I wanted him to do the can-can in Kate's tum-tum. (Yes, I know... baby talk and the LAB's still 4 months from showing up- sue me.)
Some of what I've been reading to him so far:
Guess How Much I Love You
Fox in Socks
Green Eggs and Ham
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
The Sleep Book (Thanks Auntie Myra!)
I'm fully aware most of these are Dr. Seuss books and make absolutely no sense. That's Ok. Kinda like reading all the parenting books... I'm pretty sure the whole process is simply to give us something to do to keep from going nutzo waiting for the LAB to show up. And honestly, it's kinda hard to carry the stress of the day over to bed with you when you have to read the following:
"Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew.While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew.Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze.Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze.That's what made these three free fleas sneeze."
I should have started reading these years ago. Maybe I'd still have some hair on my head if I had.
And the reading has apparently provoked some sort of response. Katie says that every once in a while during story-time she'll get a good kick or two from him. We even took it so far as to tape record me reading the stories so she could play them back to him. I'll explain...
That loop-da-loop on the roller coaster I mentioned a few weeks back? I had to take a short-notice trip overseas to the United Arab Emirates for work. I was gone for a week and immersed in a culture completely foreign to me. Between that and getting ready to take a shot at my PE licensure exam this Friday things have gone from crazy to completely insane. I'm averaging about 5 hours of sleep a night and worrying that that's too much.
So anyway, to keep up the story-time routine at night we recorded me reading the stories on a small digital voice recorder so that at night Kate could just hit play, lay the recorder on her belly, and Gideon got his story; even when dad was 10,000 miles away (literally). Like I said, we do these things to keep us occupied. Anyway, she said that while I was gone, and he continued to grow, the kicks have been stronger and more frequent.
So maybe it's for baby too, but call me a skeptic. I just feel good doing it.
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How was the 10,000 mile trip and the PE exam?
The trip was good. I have some pics to download and post here that I wanted to do over the weekend. It may have to wait a few more days but I promised some people some new "material" and so that's coming first.
As for the exam... in Katie's own words immidately fater picking me up at the testing site afterwards: "You're a lot less pissy this time."
So I got that going for me, which is nice;)
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