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It’s no surprise to anyone around us that Riley has been a handful. From the first day he came out screaming and hasn’t stopped since. 7 days ago that all changed.

During one of our baby classes an instructor mentioned the book The Happiest Baby on the Block as a good resource for parents. It’s chock full of tips and techniques for soothing a angry baby. At our wits end, we picked it up last week.

The main technique the book outlines is a 5 step process for calming your baby down. Court gave it a whirl last week and had the kid quiet within minutes.

We were absolutely astonished how well the techniques worked. For the last week we have been practicing them religiously and Riley seems to be responding to them. We had started feeling like we were failing as parents. When your kid will only give you the stinkface for 3 weeks straight it’s hard not to take it personally.

One week ago, today, Riley was waking up 3 times a night. He never went longer than 2 1/2 hours without fussing. We had a hard time putting him in is bassinet because he cried every time he was out of our arms.

Last night Riley slept for 5 1/2 hours straight, in his crib. I was flabbergasted this morning when I woke up at 3:30am. I did a double-take to make sure I wasn’t dreaming. I was so excited that I couldn’t fall back asleep.

Do you know what’s worse than emptying a Diaper Champ at 3am? Emptying a Diaper Champ at 3am that does not have a bag in it….

Well, today is the day. It’s 5am and Courtney and I are just gathering our things. We are heading to Caribou (it’s early, folks) and then to the hospital. By 10am Riley will be welcomed into this world. Because of the c-section Courtney will spend a few more days in the hospital. We’re hoping she’ll be able to come home on Friday.

Until next time…

Okay folks the big day will finally arrive tomorrow! Courtney and the doc had it out this morning at the appointment and came to an agreement to get Riley out as soon as possible. We’re scheduled for Halloween morning at 9am to have Riley! w00t!

Sorry to disappoint but there was no baby this weekend.

Courtney and I spent a good part of the weekend walking around. Tired of waiting for the “miracle” to happen by itself, we started to take drastic measures.

On Saturday we went and walked around a corn maze in Shokapee. We had an awesome time. It was fun getting lost with about 500 other people. The only unfortunate part was some of the maze had been trampled down by all the running around. Regardless, we made it all the way through. It took us about an hour and a half.

On Sunday we decided to get out and walk around Lake Calhoon. Sunday was absolutely beautiful outside. It was nice to enjoy one last day of sunshine.

We bought three pumpkins earlier this month assuming we would be able to enjoy them with our new baby. Courtney spent Saturday evening carving Riley’s. Instead of carving a pumpkin face she carved in “Riley Where R U”

Courtney has a doctor’s appointment in an hour. The doctor should finally give us a date for inducement. We’re hoping it’s sometime this week. If not, then the next week will be hell. I don’t suggest calling…

….unless you have food.

Well, today is Riley’s due date and I’m fairly certain we’ll see it come and go without much fanfare. Patience is not one of my virtues.

Last night at Target I kiddingly asked Courtney if she wanted to walk down the baby isles. At this point we have those isles damn near memorized and we’ve bought everything in them. Court hooted and hollered about it, which was my full intention. A nearby lady snickered and said it was funny that the GUY was suggesting going into the baby section. Her husband would never do that. She went on to comment about being 5 months pregnant herself. I wanted to point out Courtney to the lady and say, “THIS will be YOU in 4 months!”

We’ve come to terms with the fact this kid isn’t showing up this week. After 9 months, what’s another week, right? ~sigh~

Last night Court and I finally hit the wall, we were both sick of waiting and watching T.V. We’ve been in “chill” mode for about a week or so. Our routine after work has been:
1. make dinner
2. cool out
3. go get chocolate
4. chill some more
5. go to bed

But last night we finally became done with the cooling out part. We’ve done all this waiting and now we’re being told to wait some more. We decided we should have a baby to fill our time. We went to bed and hoped for the best.

Unfortunately, no baby this morning. I equate it to waiting for the tooth fairy to show up.

I think this one is going into extra innings, folks. The doctor told Courtney yesterday that there’s a potential physics problem between the baby’s size and her pelvis. It seems Motylinskis breed ginormous (the official medical term) babies. Courtney is too petite for the size of the baby and may require a c-section. Right now this is mostly speculation, but the doctor said babies that haven’t moved lower in the abdomen at this point are typically bigger than what will fit in the lower nether regions. Court asked him if that meant there’s little chance that this baby will be an easy 6 pounder. He laughed and said she passed that mark weeks ago.

Courtney has a scheduled ultrasound next Monday to determine just how big this kid is. It will also help determine whether we should attempt an inducement or go straight to the c-section.

We have been waiting for a curveball the entire pregnancy. I think this might be it. For those that don’t watch “A Baby Story” religiously c-sections are quite common but also quite painful to recover from. Mom typically cannot lift the baby for the first week and also needs time to recover from surgery. It’s nothing severely traumatic to mom or baby but just not one of those things that you really want to go through.

On the flipside, the birth will be less painful and the kid won’t have a conehead.

Yes, I’m still at work.

We spent a long weekend hoping that the new moon would shake things up. Unfortunately it did not help. Courtney has a doctor’s appoitnment this afternoon which should shed a little more light on when she might have this baby. Right now we are planning for an inducement either this weekend or next weekend. It’s a little weird to plan to have a baby on a particular day. But then again, it is the 21st century.

My parents were kind enough to make up some frozen dinners for us for the week after the baby arrives.

Right now we are in a circling flight pattern just waiting for our turn to land.

If you’re curious, I’m still not a dad. Riley is still in the hopper.

Yesterday we had a practice run of the emergency baby call system. Lets just say I failed miserably.

My cellphone has been strapped to my hand for the past week. Yesterday I accidently left the house with Courtney’s car keys. She noticed the missing keys around 9am. She called me on my cell, at work, and msg’ed me, all to no avail. I was sitting in a meeting drawing a whiteboard with my cellphone across the room on a table set to vibrate. No one including myself heard it ring 2 twice.

Court pointed out this morning, though, that regardless of how the next 7 days go, we are guaranteed to be parents by November 4th.