It has been another crazy week. Our cat-baby continues to have kidney troubles, apparently a very common thing for kitties of her age. A lengthy trip to the vet on Wednesday ended making everything feel topsy-turvy for the rest of the week. Hence no posts for a couple of days.
While we were at the vet, Lis commented that she felt she grew another four inches outward overnight. There was definitely a noticeable difference. Every day she says that she can't imagine being able to get any bigger, and yet somehow it keeps miraculously happening. This week we've also noticed this more exaggerated feeling of there being no going back on our kid decision. Obviously we've felt this theoretically for awhile now, but when the pregnancy becomes so visible, it gets harder and harder to forget about what's going on.
One of the biggest psychological effects of this feeling of inevitability is that we've both been able to imagine more vividly exactly what it'll be like to have a little person joining us in a few months. In time, he'll be a little tyke asking us questions about every weird little detail of daily life. I have to say I'm looking forward to that. I want to encourage an explorer of the world. I want him to feel the world is a place of no intellectual limitation. I often feel that learning is a fundamental human activity, every bit as important as eating and sleeping. Think about it: learning is the mechanism by which we go from being totally reliant on others to (mostly) functioning and independent. It always baffles me when learning is discouraged or forgotten after a certain point in people's lives. You think of how absolutely vital it is early on, and you wonder what people could be if they actively became lifetime learners (or at least I wonder about this, but I'm an alien).
Anyway, we're through another week of this crazy adventure. We're coming up on the third trimester in a couple of weeks, which is bonkers. This weekend we're going to buy our crib and a few other baby essentials. Very exciting! It's truly amazing to me that this little imaginary person is going to soon be sharing our abode. It's hard to describe knowing what it's like to have generated this new life-to-be!
While we were at the vet, Lis commented that she felt she grew another four inches outward overnight. There was definitely a noticeable difference. Every day she says that she can't imagine being able to get any bigger, and yet somehow it keeps miraculously happening. This week we've also noticed this more exaggerated feeling of there being no going back on our kid decision. Obviously we've felt this theoretically for awhile now, but when the pregnancy becomes so visible, it gets harder and harder to forget about what's going on.
One of the biggest psychological effects of this feeling of inevitability is that we've both been able to imagine more vividly exactly what it'll be like to have a little person joining us in a few months. In time, he'll be a little tyke asking us questions about every weird little detail of daily life. I have to say I'm looking forward to that. I want to encourage an explorer of the world. I want him to feel the world is a place of no intellectual limitation. I often feel that learning is a fundamental human activity, every bit as important as eating and sleeping. Think about it: learning is the mechanism by which we go from being totally reliant on others to (mostly) functioning and independent. It always baffles me when learning is discouraged or forgotten after a certain point in people's lives. You think of how absolutely vital it is early on, and you wonder what people could be if they actively became lifetime learners (or at least I wonder about this, but I'm an alien).
Anyway, we're through another week of this crazy adventure. We're coming up on the third trimester in a couple of weeks, which is bonkers. This weekend we're going to buy our crib and a few other baby essentials. Very exciting! It's truly amazing to me that this little imaginary person is going to soon be sharing our abode. It's hard to describe knowing what it's like to have generated this new life-to-be!
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