I'm thirsty, Bert

Evan's all better now, for those of you who were concerned. Really, he was only coughing much at night, which led to lots of snuggles and me not sleeping. But last night Ev was back in his own bed and not coughing, so we figure this small sickness has passed us by. Hooray for winter ending soon (I hope).

The last two mornings Ev has been dressed and ready for the bus a full hour ahead of time. Let me tell you what a long hour that is. Honestly, for the last fifteen minutes of it he's standing with the front door open yelling, "Hey! Bus! I'm ready!" It's very cute. I'm glad he likes school and the bus so much, and you can bet I'm blogging this to show him when he's 13 and I can't bomb him out of bed in the morning.

You know those "Big Brother/Little Brother" shirts I bought a few weeks ago? Evan found his in his dresser yesterday and he fell in love with it. He put it on immediately, and didn't want to take it off. Then he walked around with the "Little Brother" one in his hand for a while so he could show me that they matched. I think he likes the shirt because it has all his favorite sports stuff on it, because he also insisted on wearing it to school today. I thought it wasn't exactly appropriate since his brother is still incubating, but whatever. I can't bear to crush Evan's excitement about anything.

I'm doing fairly well this week. The contractions continue, but as long as I spend some time on my left side each hour I'm okay. There's no real pattern to them either--sometimes they come after I'm active, sometimes they come when I've been laying in bed for an hour. It's very odd, because I never felt contractions when I was pregnant with Evan at all. This is new territory for me.

I've also started giving myself little pregnancy goals. I'm hoping that by breaking up the next 13 weeks into chunks, I will feel like things are going faster. My first goal is April 2. I want to make it that far because the Erie Blogger Meet-Up is March 30th (7 pm, Panera on 12th, be there) and I don't want to miss that, and my baby shower is April 1st (I really really don't want to miss that!). If I make it that far, I'll set another little goal. Makes things interesting.

That seems to be all that's going on here. I'm going to take it easy for the next few hours while Ev's still at school. Thursday afternoons are our busiest, and I want to make sure I'm up to the challenge.