Sunday, May 11, 2008

Back from Absence

So i must apologize. I have been so busy the past month that i completely forgot about you... my Blog....
But i now have much to write about...maybe i'll bullet... it will be easier to read...

Jen is now 32 weeks. She has grown quite a nice belly. This is the home stretch....no turning back... this is the last phase. Are we ready? Well is anyone? really? Over the past 6 weeks we've attended Lamaze classes, infant care classes... and we still have a breastfeeding and infant CPR class to take. Jen had her baby shower last weekend, and it was really nice. We've got a really great family and friends that are showing so much support for us. We also got a lot of gifts from them too, so we've been ( i mean i've) been busy putting together high chairs, strollers, chairs... blah blah blah... This child already has more beds than i do. Actually the stuff is pretty easy to put together, i mean compared to IKEA this is child's play. One of my favorite gifts is this baby monitoring system. In case you don't know what this is...its ..... essentially a spying device for over-worrisome parents. So its a video camera that is placed above the crib and there is a video tv that you can put downstairs. The video TV receives the radio signals from camera above the crib, and you get to see (and HEAR) the little guy or gal while you are sipping on your coffee in the kitchen... Technology... gotta love it. Now this thing is high tech too, the camera actually has infrared lights, that will allow you to see things when its dark...
Now you may ask, what will you do with this device when you don't have any babies to monitor... well.... i was thinking we could put it in the kids room, ya know... like big brother... keep an eye on those kids.... make sure they are doing their homework....
OR, i could point it to those pesky neighbors... and keep an eye on them.... all in good fun of course.

One thing that i must blog about is this technology that i have been saved by. Yes I have been saved oh yes,.... by DVR.
I don't know how i survived without this invention. Its truly the greatest thing since sliced bread, especially when you have children....
So now i can record sports or anything else (i don't watch shows... so when i want to watch tv, i want to watch what i want to watch...) and not have to to watch it. So i can go off and do whatever it is i wanted to do that day, and when i get the chance, i'll watch the game.
ALSO, i don't have to watch those durn tootin commercials. Now a 4 hour football game is down to 1 hour... A 3 hour hockey game is down to one hour... a two hour basketball game is 40 minutes. A 90 minute soccer game is.... um..... 90 minutes... ok well not really since there is a halftime...
One of the greatest parts about this is that when i am watching something and Jen wants to talk to me I can pause it... and give her my attention. Before she would be unhappy when i would ignore her while watching a game or not pay attention to what she was saying. To women, not looking at them while they are talking is next to not getting them a card for valentines day... bad stuff. So DVR could actually be seen as a device that can help marriages... interesting eh?

So what's the deal with the whole birth thing here in the US? We're not finding out the sex of the child... So we get to the lamaze class and the woman next to jen says "You AREN'T finding out the sex? HOW ARE YOU DECORATING THE ROOM???" I thought to myself... Camoflauge...
Like the child can tell the difference (or knows) between pink and blue? I think alot of parents are so disjointed from parenting that they don't understand the difference between what is being done for the child and what is being done for them. They go off and waste their money and time on things that the child has absolutely no interest in whatsoever. These parents i like to think of as designer parents... they do it so they look good in front of other people, and don't stop to think what they are doing... and that the child won't know the difference. A child needs one thing and that is love, and i'm afraid that alot of parents these days don't have the time or care to do so.
Ok so back to this deisgner woman... So later on in the class we're going around talking about why we signed up for the natural childbirth class. She starts by saying "My name is blah, and i want all the drugs you can give me"... Anyway i guess i proved my point eh?

I just saw a documentary called "The Business of Being Born". It was about how the US culture has been duped by the medical and insurance establishment into believing that natural childbirth is anything but, and how different childbirth is in the rest of the world. I didn't realize how poorly women are treated here in the US as far as childbirth is concerned. We are becoming a very stupid society. We don't educate ourselves and question things anymore. its very disturbing.

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