Last week

I spent most of last week resting, so I wrote the news a little more concisely this time, or at least I tried...

On Monday morning we finally had the NT-ultrasound, which I was excited and a bit horrified about. Horrified, because there's always the risk that everything wouldn't be okay. When we were leaving the house, Eerikki asked if I was nervous. I said no, but also that I'm not at all sure that we're going to get good news today. The day before I had finally heard Minimini's heartbeat with the doppler at least I was fairly sure that it was the heartbeat, so it gave me some reassurance that everything would be ok. The nervousness didn't really hit me until I lied down on the examination table. I squeezed Eerikki's hand and said that now I'm scared. Fortunately, the little one seemed to be doing very well and we had a really nice midwife doing the ultrasound. I had been so nervous, that for the first ten minutes of the ultrasound, I just shed tears because I was so relieved.

My mother took care of Jordan during the ultrasound, and Eerikki and I went for lunch at Southpark, which seems to have become our Monday tradition. Even the waiter wondered, are you really coming just the two of you? as usually we're always there as a family.

On Tuesday night we had our weekly pub quiz again and for the first time I was feeling so lazy I almost didn't want to go. Ever since Eerikki came home on Saturday-Sunday night, I had spent almost all of my time lying in bed. I don't know if it's Jordan's difficult nights for the last three weeks, being alone with him for a bit under a week when Eerikki was away, or pregnancy fatigue - probably a little bit of everything, but I was just exhausted. I had a really bad conscience about just lying in bed because of Jordan but I just couldn't do much else. Luckily this was Eerikki 's week to be home with Jordan the whole week so I was able to just lie in bed. So I felt like skipping the quiz, but on the other hand I knew, and Eerikki said the same, that it might be just what I need to get some energy. It's a good thing that I went, because the evening was really nice again and I felt that it really gave me some energy for the following days.

On Wednesday, we went out for a family lunch again. This lunch is worth mentioning for two reasons. First, Jordan tasted Chinese food for the first time (he thought it was okay, though not a huge hit) and he was wearing a disposable bib from my baby days. It's a complete mystery why my mom has saved it for 30+ years, she's definitely not the type of person to be saving any unnecessary junk. Whatever the reason, it was really cute and it was nice to put it on Jordan even though the stickers were, not so surprisingly, pretty dry 😅. The bib, as the name suggests, was disposable but it was almost sad to leave it on the table to be taken away with the trash.

The rest of the week went peacefully, we went to the sauna on Wednesday evening. Eerikki was feeling a little sick on Thursday, so they skipped the toddler circus class just to be safe. We cleaned up a bit, the everlasting project of getting our home in good condition is still in progress and I baked a lemon pie on Friday for Saturday's brunch.

Saturday morning I woke up early and even though it was Eerikki's night and morning with Jordan, I decided to let him sleep and Jordan and I went to the grocery store. Jordan really wanted to take his shoes with him to the store, so I let him walk around at the supermarket with me for the first time and he just loved it. He diligently fetched all kinds of things in our basket and then gave himself a content applause. It was so sweet that I kept some of his picks, the ones we could use.

When we got home, I started preparing brunch and Eerikki, who had woken up during our shopping trip, started cleaning up. I had invited my sisters and nieces (all adults) to brunch and there were five of us in total.

Eerikki and I shared the day with Jordan so that my relatives got to play with Jordan for a while, but we also got some adult time, when Eerikki went baby swimming with Jordan and played with him at home. My big sister said that she could take Jordan at her place for the night which was fine with us. Jordan had been there before and always liked it there. One of our friends was visiting Helsinki and joined the evening too, and so in the end it was my little sister, one of my nieces, my sister's friend and our friend from Lahti spending the evening at our place. I should probably mention that for us, brunch almost never means that people leave before nighttime. At 11 pm I couldn't keep my eyes open anymore and so the guests left to continue the evening elsewhere, Eerikki went to the bar next door with our out-of-towner and I went to bed.

Our friend had stayed the night at our place after the bar and we had a long talk in the morning. Eerikki and I went to eat out before I went to pick up Jordan from Kamppi. I had missed Jordan and decided that we wouldn't go to the spa on Easter as we had planned. I didn't want to give Jordan for another overnight stay right away. Usually I'm always happy when we get a little time together, but now it felt like I'd seen Jordan less than usual when I'd been so tired and I didn't want to be away from him for a whole day. We went to vote and spent the afternoon just together as a family watching the election broadcast. Well, I actually also made another lemon pie, because I thought the one I had made for brunch was so good, and Eerikki did a little bit of work in the evening.

That was our quiet week, let's see if I have a little more energy next week!