As Elana's first birthday is fast approaching I got to thinking about how a year isn't such a long time and yet it's an eternity at the same time.
At precisely this time last year - 3:35pm I was in my mum's backyard attending my own baby shower. It was a Saturday and it started at 2 and went until about 4 or 5.
Lots of my friends and their mothers were there, I got lots of presents and played a few games like guess how fat trina is! - I still have the ribbon with everones initials.
I can quite clearly remember BEGGING Elana to JUST GET OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was so sick of being pregnant I just wanted it over and done wirh.
That afternoon I went for coffee with two of my friends - I think I had a milkshake and James and Alex were at my house - Nick made risotto with mince and red wine -so it was kinda purpley/grey - mmm and later we went into the city on a citycat and met other friends at the pancake manor. - Something impossible to do when Elana goes to bed at 7pm.
My days according to my diary consisted of sleep, tv and sleep then nick would come home we'd have dinner watch some tv or something - he might go out or we both would or someone would come over or he would be working and then I'd go to bed again.
I watched Sunrise, Three Sisters, Days of Our Lives (b4 they fast forwarded) or the midday movie then Stingers/Popular, Reba, Wheel of Fortune and MASH. Oh and I read ALOT - in the month before Elana was born I'd read about 12 books.
The Monday I had a Drs appointment 39weeks. Wednesday night Nick went Go Karting with his works social club/xmas party. Thursday (the day I was 39wks) Nick & I went Christmas shopping and Friday morning I woke up feeling funny,
We decided I might be in labour and I really didn't want Nick to go to work - the previous week - friday I think we went with a false alarm so I wasn't taking any chances I'd just stay put until I knew.
I made Nick make me an apple pie and we ate it before calling his dad to say okay it's time. I arrived at the hospital around 4pm and they strapped me to the monitors and said Your contractions have stopped I think it's those pesky Braxton Hicks again but maybe we should do an internal - after about 10minutes they decided to do the internal exam - Oh yeah they're fun! And found I was 5cm already - so they booked me in.
Elana Grace was born 6th December 2003 at 1:21am weighing 7pound 15ounces or 3.6kg (3600g) she was 50cm long with a head circumference of 35cm (Interestingly I found my hospital record of when I was born and I was the same length and head circumference as Elana but I was .52kg lighter (3080g) and I don't know what Nick was.
My "baby" is almost one - she doesn't fit in my arms anymore - I can't cradle her, she doesn't fall asleep on my chest or drink her bottle while being held . But she does mutter mumumumum, she does crawl and toddle over to me pulls herself up and puts her head on my lap and sometimes when I pick her up she'll put her head down for just a second to give you the hint of a hug. And she does have a smile that could melt a snowman, and she does annoy the crap out of me by crying everytime the phone rings and pulling it off the hook so it doesn't ring. And she does light up at the sound or sight of her daddy.
*sigh* one