Baby update - 37 weeks

I went to the Dr. today for my weekly appt. I am currently getting close to 2 cm dilated and progressing well. I have spent the last few days off washing little pink clothes and getting the hospital bags packed just in case. We shall see when little miss Lesko wants to grace us with her presence. :)

Christmas Lesko Style

We had a great Christmas this year, Tristan actually got the whole unwrapping presents thing, he had a great time playing with all of his new toys and games. Here are a few pics of his big day :). I also made my first turkey.

Daddy Issues

What two words convey more heart ache than these?

She's such a small girl, and every where she looks people are telling her how beautful she is, or how cute. She has a need to be seen, like all kids do. More than anything she wants to be validated, loved, and accepted. So she dances, and the boys look. Even that one boy who hasn't told her she's beautful. The one whose compliments mean more than everyone else because he only whispers them at night. So she laughs when she wouldn't, and makes time for things she doesn't care about until he sees her, and finally he does.

Then he presses, and she isn't ready. His disappointment bites at her heart until she gives into him, just like she did with the last boy. She just wants him to be happy with her.

How can a man raise his daughter to embrace a full life, and find her security in Jesus? Do I only need to love her enough? Maybe if I take her on dates she will learn what it means for a guy to treat her well. Maybe if I pray with her every night she will learn to see how God loves her throughout her day. Maybe if I tell her I love her enough she will understand that love comes from somewhere deeper than the skin.

Even if I do all those things will she understand? Will she know they can't see her beauty in a dance? Or will she still have daddy issues?

36 weeks...let the count down begin

I have begun the countdown to the big baby day...I am going to the dr. every week now, last week I was dilated 1 cm and "starting to soften". I go back tomorrow at 10am so we shall see if there is any more progression. Until then here is a photo of the belly.

Christmas Tree

Our first official tree is up and BeaUtiful :) If I do say so myself. Tristan was a big helper putting all the ornaments on...

Pics from the Sidebottom Rehearsal - Thanksgiving week

We went to Austin for Thanksgiving to celebrate our friends Lainey and Brett getting MARRIED :) WhooHoo! Here are a couple of pictures of Mickey and me after the rehearsal dinner :)

The Blogiverse

This whole thing about blogs is an enigma to me. I currently have a "blog", but really it's more of a journal. The simple truth is, its really convenient to journal on a blog because it is searchable, and accessible from anywhere, and frankly I type faster thanI write these days. The thing about journals though, it just isn't possible for me to be completely honest with God when I have an audience. The depth of the expression is constantly tempered by asking, who is reading this, what will they think of what I've written, will they hear it as I mean it, is this theologically sound? In my private journal my thoughts are only seen by God and me. There is no fear of discovery, or judgement. I am free to be totally unfettered. So, Journal = PrivateBlog.

Then "we" have this blog, but I don't see any of the fellas posting on the blogs maintained by their wives. Most of them have their own blog available for public consumption, and lets be honest, it's better that way. Girls like to talk about things girls like. Boys like to talk about things that are cool. I mean the ultrasound pictures of our wildly anticipated baby girl just aren't as poignant when I follow them up with the picture of a jet engine, or 16" inch deck guns. No guy in his right mind can continue to focus on baby pictures when there is a jet engine diagram to study. (Secretly, I think the girls care more about the jet engine than the baby too, but I can't prove that.) So, Lesko Chronicles = PublicGirlBlog.

Which leaves me with the option of posting my thoughts to the world on the PublicGirlBlog or starting a 3rd blog. In my mind starting a third blog is kinda like buying a 3rd cell phone. It's just a little excessive.

This ironclad logic has convinced me that I should be posting semiregularly on the PublicGirlBlog. Y'all tell me how this works out.

34 weeks and then some....

I went to the dr. yesterday and I am growing on track. I gained 1 lb this week. Little miss Lesko's heart rate was good, her head is down and her but is in my left rib :). I had to have an ultrasound last week to check my gall bladder because I have been having some pain on my right side, but all is well. No surgery to remove it no sign of gall stones or inflamation. So we are trying pepcid AC everyday for the next week to see if it is just acid reflux presenting "weird". I think she is starting to drop a little lower so her little feet aren't kicking the "bad spot" as we call it at the house as easily so that is helpful.

Stay tuned for some family photos, we have a wonderful friend Paul who took some pictures for us and I will put some up as soon as we get them.

I am now on a weekly dr. visit schedule. So more updates I am sure will come.

Until then...

Husband of the Year...again

Some of you know we have been working on a little bathroom project lately...and it is finally done! Thanks to my sweet husband who surprised me on Monday with a tile floor! They finished putting it in on Saturday...YAY!!!