I don't have a new picture to add but maybe I will sort one out tomorrow. I do have a full week until the "due date" not that that day will mean anything, as I am told. The research says that only 4-5% of women actually deliver on their due date, so I am a preggo in waiting at the moment. Anytime from a few days ago until 2 1/2 weeks from now is "race day". What a weird feeling to be waiting. It seems more anxious to be waiting now, that it is impending, than it did for the last 38 weeks!
Today Bryce was in a multisport race with two other guys from my PE department at school. Bryce did the 30km MTBike section, then Richard did a 16 km run and then Tomo did a 12 km paddle. The boys came 2nd in their category and 3rd or 4th overall, which made for a pretty exciting race. not so exciting that the baby came early mind you. There were some moments last night that made me wonder if labour was afoot and we considered what to do about getting someone to take Bryce's place for the race. Luckily, everything stayed intact and they got to compete together.
I have a week ahead of just trying to fit things in, in my schedule which is free for the first time ever. I think I will miss the structure of the school day, although with diapers and feedings, I might hate structure in a few weeks. So I am encouraging myself to just enjoy this week as much as possible before my freedom goes......
The sweepstakes for when I will "pop" began last week with staff from school having selected a few days early. More people have opted for me going late. Will be interesting to see who gets the closest guess. It is daunting to see their guesses for how big the baby will be. Someone has put it at 9lb 12oz. My brother Tim was about that size and I was 9lb10oz. Aye aye aye. Let's hope Bryce's genes override the Knight "big baby" gene....for my cervix's sake anyway.....
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
The Thorns
I haven't been able to get the photos up here from two weekends ago when my volleyball team (who we have called ourselves the Thorns this year) won the Regional Tournament. I couldn't have been more proud and thrilled to get such an achievement underour belts. Our school has never won this tournament and have only come 2nd one time before. The girls truly dominated throughout the entire tournamentm and were undefeated the whole time. It was a pleasure to hear that other schools were scared to play us.....
The picture we have of all of us just after we won is cute, but the camera person took it just before Elly got to put her arm around Amelia. She's not actually trying to get Amelia to smell her armpit, even though it looks like she is....
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Still over a week till due date, but....
So I have my first official day off and I choose to spend it with the vball team at the Nationals. So weird not to be with them all week, but after I got home from the hour drive each way and the intenseness of playing in the top division, I was exhausted and would not be able to cope with the whole week of games!. They are playing the top team in the country this morning so I hope they enjoy the competition this morning.
I am supposed to focus now on getting myself ready to be a mother and start nesting and all that. I am an addicted "pile-maker" and have too many piles around the house I need to sort out before I can even begin tidying our nest.
I just got a copy of a picture of me from the last day of school in 2009 (december) when our PE dept dressed up as a baby group, with me being the mom/mum and the other staff dressing as babies. It's too weird to see that photo now I(and see less of a tummy!) and think that the picture will soon become my reality.
Off to work on the nest....
I am supposed to focus now on getting myself ready to be a mother and start nesting and all that. I am an addicted "pile-maker" and have too many piles around the house I need to sort out before I can even begin tidying our nest.
I just got a copy of a picture of me from the last day of school in 2009 (december) when our PE dept dressed up as a baby group, with me being the mom/mum and the other staff dressing as babies. It's too weird to see that photo now I(and see less of a tummy!) and think that the picture will soon become my reality.
Off to work on the nest....
Saturday, March 20, 2010
My brother......
http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/781782--pastor-s-good-friday-parable-turns-into-police-takedown
Check out this article from the Toronto Star, front page...
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In his church office cluttered with bags of candy, pictures of his cherubic children and Very Berry hand lotion, it’s hard to imagine pastor Rob Knight as an armed and dangerous criminal.
But that’s what Cobourg police feared they might be confronting when they surrounded his family minivan — child seats and all — during a dramatic “takedown” on Wednesday afternoon.
“It was all a misunderstanding,” a sheepish Knight, youth pastor at Cobourg Alliance Church, says as he recalls the incident on the city’s busiest downtown street. “The funny thing is there was maybe only two minutes when anyone could have seen the guns.”
Unbeknownst to the passerby who called police, the “guns” were harmless props in a video that Knight, 34, was filming with three Grade 10 students in a covered walkway just off King St.
The video, which he’ll be showing at a Good Friday youth rally in Scarborough, is a “modern day analogy of the sacrifice Jesus made for mankind.”
The storyline: two brothers meet in an alley, one of them an armed robber in a balaclava who’s held up a liquor store, the other a martyr who takes his place by assuming his guilt. They represent mankind and Jesus Christ respectively. The third character is a police officer who’s arresting the bad guy.
Several people walked by unconcerned as Knight and the teen actors “were all laughing between takes,” he says. “I wouldn’t have thought that it looked at all like a crime scene.”
Police apparently thought otherwise as they surrounded the minivan at the end of the shoot.
With a bit of prodding, Knight admits it was a true TV-style takedown involving as many as four cruisers and eight officers.
“They told us to put our hands up and had two of us in the front seat get up so they could search us,” Knight told the Star Thursday.
“It was a little dramatic,” he says, describing the officers as “very professional.”
The drama only heightens in the police version of events.
Four men were spotted rushing into a van while brandishing two guns just after 2 p.m. on Wednesday, according to Const. Terry Stanley.
“He saw the pastor had a balaclava on, and he saw him with the guns in his hands,” says Stanley. “I’m sure it was horrible.”
The four men could have terrified the entire neighbourhood, Stanley says.
“Especially when no one knew what was going on. They were so silly. They just weren’t thinking. This kind of thing would get worried people frantic on their cellphones easily.”
Officers confiscated the toy guns — one black and one silver — which Knight says belonged to one of the students.
A remorseful pastor never imagined anyone might misinterpret the scene. If there’s a next time, he says he’ll notify police first.
While Knight isn’t sure how all this will go down with church authorities, he’s trying to see the humour in the situation.
“It does seem like a scene from a comedy movie.”
With files from Carmen Chai
Check out this article from the Toronto Star, front page...
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In his church office cluttered with bags of candy, pictures of his cherubic children and Very Berry hand lotion, it’s hard to imagine pastor Rob Knight as an armed and dangerous criminal.
But that’s what Cobourg police feared they might be confronting when they surrounded his family minivan — child seats and all — during a dramatic “takedown” on Wednesday afternoon.
“It was all a misunderstanding,” a sheepish Knight, youth pastor at Cobourg Alliance Church, says as he recalls the incident on the city’s busiest downtown street. “The funny thing is there was maybe only two minutes when anyone could have seen the guns.”
Unbeknownst to the passerby who called police, the “guns” were harmless props in a video that Knight, 34, was filming with three Grade 10 students in a covered walkway just off King St.
The video, which he’ll be showing at a Good Friday youth rally in Scarborough, is a “modern day analogy of the sacrifice Jesus made for mankind.”
The storyline: two brothers meet in an alley, one of them an armed robber in a balaclava who’s held up a liquor store, the other a martyr who takes his place by assuming his guilt. They represent mankind and Jesus Christ respectively. The third character is a police officer who’s arresting the bad guy.
Several people walked by unconcerned as Knight and the teen actors “were all laughing between takes,” he says. “I wouldn’t have thought that it looked at all like a crime scene.”
Police apparently thought otherwise as they surrounded the minivan at the end of the shoot.
With a bit of prodding, Knight admits it was a true TV-style takedown involving as many as four cruisers and eight officers.
“They told us to put our hands up and had two of us in the front seat get up so they could search us,” Knight told the Star Thursday.
“It was a little dramatic,” he says, describing the officers as “very professional.”
The drama only heightens in the police version of events.
Four men were spotted rushing into a van while brandishing two guns just after 2 p.m. on Wednesday, according to Const. Terry Stanley.
“He saw the pastor had a balaclava on, and he saw him with the guns in his hands,” says Stanley. “I’m sure it was horrible.”
The four men could have terrified the entire neighbourhood, Stanley says.
“Especially when no one knew what was going on. They were so silly. They just weren’t thinking. This kind of thing would get worried people frantic on their cellphones easily.”
Officers confiscated the toy guns — one black and one silver — which Knight says belonged to one of the students.
A remorseful pastor never imagined anyone might misinterpret the scene. If there’s a next time, he says he’ll notify police first.
While Knight isn’t sure how all this will go down with church authorities, he’s trying to see the humour in the situation.
“It does seem like a scene from a comedy movie.”
With files from Carmen Chai
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Newest pics
Here are some more pics of the "masseeeeeve" belly. The pic on the deck was taken yesterday, at 37 weeks. The other one, was from last weekend when Bryce and I hiked up a short track to watch the start of a bike race. He just took some fun "watch how weird it is to see the belly when I am hiking" photos. Some of the other ones were shocking and really just looked like I have been drinking too much beer and eating too many big macs! I am pleased with the weight gain I have had. I have not held back at all, and eaten when I want, but have tried staying active. I have gained 14kg, with more of that weight being added in these past few weeks. Supposedly, thats normal to gain more in the end of the pregnancy. I am keen for the end to come. NOt super keen for the birth but I really am intrigued to how its all gonna feel and how I'll cope. I am hoping I will be a trooper and not fight the pain (as many people say the more you stiffen up and resist the pain, the worse it can be). Either way, I look forward to "race day"!
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