Patience is a Good Thing
People swear that pregnancy doesn't last forever, but I think that was said before April the giraffe came along to prove that pregnancy actually can last forever. (For the sake of future me who will be completely lost at this point, April the giraffe was a literal giraffe at a zoo who had a live webcam on her as she was "about to give birth any minute." I think it all started a week or so ago, so "any minute now" sure is taking a long time.)
In the time that April has been supposed to give birth "any minute now," I have:
- Begged Mila to stop licking food off of the floor. THREE TIMES.
- Told Mila to stop licking food off of her shirt.
- Yanked Mila from the top shelf in the pantry.
- Glared at Alexis for dumping half of a jar of Nutella over some animal crackers and then eating the messy little mountain in front of her sister.
- Cleaned the other half of the jar of Nutella off of Mila.
- Sat through 135130958 hours of dance class, give or take an hour.
- Told Mila not to open her umbrella until we're outside 6 times.
- Wrestled an open umbrella out of the car 6 times.
- Picked up toys off of the family room floor at least 9483224532423 times.
- Make that 9483224532424 times.
- Ripped the batteries out of a certain doll three times.
- Put the batteries back into a certain doll three times following having my head ripped off by a small toddler.
- Thrown away two shirts because of toddler-imposed food stains. One of the shirts was mine.
- Plungered the toilet once because a certain toddler thinks it's hilarious to throw an entire roll of toilet paper in there.
- Dreamed of sleeping five consecutive hours, as if that's some sort of lofty goal worth dreaming about.
- Ignored countless hours of talk about fifth grade drama.
- Spent hours arguing about whether or not we eat paper.
- Lost many, many arguments about whether or not we eat paper.
- Cleaned up ... uhhhh ... something on the chair.
- Carefully peeled a dozen Trolls stickers out of the dog's fur.
- Worn my own Trolls sticker to work because attempts at removing it were met with toddler yelling and then I forgot about it.
And on and on.
So, basically, what I'm saying is that it's okay that April hasn't had her baby yet. She should probably enjoy every minute of the calm before the storm.
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Reader Comments (2)
We're up to 7 days today if April hasn't had the baby since I looked once yesterday. Or maybe today is 8. I haven't followed that closely.
This is amazing info Soon i will a mom I need to learn more about it. Thank You