The Weekend

During Friday and the weekend, I was pretty much consumed with trying out different strategies to get Ruthie to turn. The method I liked best and felt was getting us somewhere was lying inverted on the ironing board at a 45 degree angle which was leaning up against the couch. I coupled this technique with an ice pack at the top of my belly to discourage her from remaining high. After a couple 20-30 minutes sessions Friday and Saturday, we did notice that she had moved from being straight up to another position we can't quite figure out. Perhaps she is in a transverse sideways position? I felt for her head this morning and all I could feel was a knee or perhaps it was an elbow? Who knows? It could have been her little nose!

On Saturday morning, Lawson went over to the church to help paint our Sunday School room a milk chocolate color. It is actually lighter than milk chocolate - it is in the neutral family.

In between methods, I wrote more thank you notes, did laundry, folded clothes, cleaned, straightened up the house, walked on the treadmill and went on a "date" with Lawson since we both knew this may be the last weekend of non-parenting. We tried out a BBQ restaurant on Saturday night and decided it was one of our new favorite places. At Babies R Us, we purchased two cradle sheets (hopefully they will fit) and some other small things that we needed before Ruth made an entrance.

Sunday, we went to Sunday School and I was pleasantly surprised at how well the room looked with the new paint. It was much more cozier looking and I would not doubt if other Sunday School classes get jealous and copy our idea! The cozy factor may even bring in more people to join the class. We definitely have an advantage over other classes now! Who wants to have class in a white sterile looking environment?

For church, I sat with some people I knew in the congregation. It did not appeal to me to sit with the choir this time around since I would be standing up for a considerable amount of time and singing with a baby almost in my lungs is not very comfortable!

In the afternoon, we had lunch with Lawson's parents and helped them find a computer component at Best Buy. Afterward, we went to their house so Lawson could install the part on the computer and then we visited with Lawson's grandparents who came over for the afternoon.

During the early evening, we attended a World Religions class at church that Lawson had signed up for. It was very interesting to learn a little bit about the Muslim faith. The whole idea behind selecting this class was for Lawson to understand the differences between cultural and religious Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. He works with people on a daily basis of the Muslim and Hindu faith and understanding where they are coming from would be an advantage for Lawson to maintain conversations about faith when it is brought up.