bless my birth

It’s been a weird week here in the Stankovits Household. Sid broke his ankle skateboarding last Tuesday. He’s been in a cast with the doctor’s orders to have his “toes above nose” since Thursday. I’m now 35 weeks pregnant, wow! This pregnancy has picked up some momentum. I’m so grateful that: #1 Sid didn’t have to get surgery, #2 This pregnancy and baby are healthy (as far as we know at this point) and I am strong enough to keep up with the housework, #3 That we have had the blessing of Sid being around with us all the time, I wish it could be this way more, but now is a time when it’s super cool as we’re getting closer to baby’s arrival, #4 That the injury didn’t occur closer to my due date. There’s a sublist attached to each of those numbers, too. Life is weird, but good weird, I think this will be one of the periods in time that we look back on often and say, “wasn’t it crazy, but so cool?” A lot like the period of time surrounding the birth of our third child, if you’re unfamiliar with that story, you could check out The Story of June’s Birth under “birth stories” to the right.

Here are some photos of this weird week.

He was eating this up! This was before he got his cast, the day he had seen our Primary Care Physician. He was stoked because without the injury he never would have been lying on the couch long enough to allow for this! He knew it and so he savored it. To the left is a sheepskin for the baby which had just arrived from here. I had read that, aside from the wonderful benefits of putting babies to sleep on them, one reason they use sheepskins in hospitals in Germany, is because it speeds up the recovery time of those who had undergone surgeries, so Sid rested his ankle on it a lot before the cast was put on. Two birds, one sheepskin =)

There’s the cast behind June. A nice way to pass the time, he was completing the next painting in his Revelation series. He got it done! And it is amazing, like the others. Crutches next to the waiting baby bassinet (with a blanket over it so the cat won’t sleep in it) . . . weird week.

By the end of the weekend the kids were crazy with cabin fever, so Monday we headed down to Baby Beach. I have a couple of great videos, but still haven’t found a way to post my videos on here, yikes Jennifer, get with it! So here are some photos from that much needed respite.

Those three!

Thankfully the trash bag worked and no sand made it into the cast.

I almost can’t believe that’s my boy when I look at this photo! He’s so grown up.

She was exhilarated from her swim in the ocean and it was contagious!

She asked to borrow my “glassies.”

I like the way life’s weirdness stretches us in ways we aren’t used to, we get to see how capable we really are and we get to rejoice in a new awareness of all we are so richly blessed with. Wishing you and yours, only the very best weirdness life has to offer =)