WEEK THIRTY-SEVEN - Week of November 2 - Easing a PG woman's mind with education

Baby Girl did her civic duty this week and participated in the Presidential Election that ended up voting in the United State's first black president. She was pretty quiet during the voting process, but once she learned she was going to get a Krispy Kreme donut for participating, she got very excited and started kicking quite a bit.

In unrelated news, PoopCam has officially confirmed that Bob is refusing to use the litter box for his #2. Now the trick is to catch him mid-act and "encourage" [aka shove his pooping butt into] the litterbox. He seems to wait until right after we turn off the lights to go to bed or we have stepped momentarily away from the monitor.

We attended our first childbirth class on Friday. I have been so scared about labor and delivery and then the whole being responsibility for a baby part that follows it. I'm feeling a little bit better since having our class though. We spent some time practicing some various breathing techniques, and she talked a lot about the different stages of labor and what we can do during each one to make it less painful. MH is realizing that he won't get to rely on Bob Cat to help me through this emotional experience, so he's really stepping up to the plate and preparing himself for the task ahead.