"Outside....Walk..."

These are Maddox's two favorite words right now. She is always asking to go outside and she is always asking to walk after you take her out of her car seat INSTEAD of just going directly inside the house. However now she would prefer to walk on her own rather than ride in the stroller but we can still get her to go in the stroller for short distances. She LOVES to be outside and today was a great day for it. ( It was a good day for a trip to Pancheros and Dairy Queen too!!) We spent the majority of the day outside, right up until we came in just before bedtime at 7:45! And she must have been tired because she didn't fight me to come in which is a rarity!! Grammy found us a cool Little Tikes picnic table sitting alongside the curb in her neighborhood ready to be be picked up by the garbage man. It had a little split in one of the seats but we taped it up with some brightly colored duct tape and it was good to go. Maddox thought it was pretty neat. She LOVES to play in the rock beds....much to our new plants disliking. She goes straight over to pick up rocks and tosses them to a new bed and carries them around the yard. We are always careful to make sure ALL the rocks end up back in the beds to keep Dad and the lawnmower happy! I can definitely see 2 teeth on the bottom and she hasn't been quite so whiny in the last few days which has been nice. Mr. baby Kies is being very stubborn and is still heads up despite my daily visits to the chiro this week to receive the tried and true Webster Technique as recommended by my dula. I even went 2 times on Friday but he just seems to be happy up where he is. I saw my midwife on Friday and advised her that we are hoping he will still turn around with the continued chiro visits but if he doesn't then we'll just go ahead with a c-section. So that means next week for my normal midwife visit I get to meet with one of the Dr.'s instead. They sort of do a meet and greet and pre-op visit and talk about the c-section etc. since the midwifes can't actually do the c-section one of the Dr.'s has to. So Eric and I'll do that next Friday. We are still hopeful that he'll turn but I don't know....he moves out of the 'up' position for a bit, not totally turning 180 degrees, but then he seems to float back up to where he has been the last couple of weeks. He is sort of in charge it seems right now...funny how that is....as he isn't even on this earth yet! I am still using Grandpa Jim's inversion table ( thanks for bringing that over Dad!! ) and putting ice on my belly where his head is every now and then but it does not seem to be very effective....but we'll keep on. He sure is kicking a lot and getting bigger so the prospect of having a c-section a little early doesn't sound all that bad. His little feet seem to dig right into my bladder sometimes....little stinker. We are happy to have him whatever way is going the be the safest and healthiest for he and I.