well...maybe today??? (part 3)

Still no baby on the outside, but he's certainly chillin' on the inside. Maybe too comfortable in there... But we're having fun getting lots of rest and down time and maybe too much time to think. Hey if you are reading this blog, make a comment or something so I know someone's reading it! How about baby advice? We'll take that too... Here's a link to our cool doula Michelle LaDue, she has been coming over and giving me acupuncture treatments to get things rolling. She is a fantastic labor supporter! Once this does get going, I am excited to see the team of people we have working together. Our midwife and her partner, Sandy Woods and Corrie Macqueen are wise and experienced ladies and we are excited to see them in action. And, we're birthing, hopefully, at The Birth Center, at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hopsital, a place with top notch labor nurses experienced in natural delivery. So, once this gets going, I think it's going to be pretty cool. I have no clue what to do once we get home though, and they send you home pretty soon after you have your baby from The Birth Center. But I keep hearing I'll have a mothering instinct kick in. For our son's sake, I hope so! So, keep praying for us and soon, we will have good news to share. All in all, I don't care when he comes (though I would like to get my feet back, they look like duck feet right now) as long as he's healthy and strong. Love and peace everybody. ~Sarah

Maybe today???....(Part 2)

Hey everyone,
That's right, no baby time yet. Our due date was yesterday and although I experienced some very strange occurrences which I will not describe here, it seems that I am checking off the list of things that happen before you go into labor quite thoroughly. We needed to have a change of scene around here so Brent and I headed to Rockaway Beach and Riis Park for some oceanic adventures. It was actually pretty cold once we got there, so we just sat on our little chairs and read baby books for a couple hours. It was us and about 10 other people there which was delightful. The ocean air and deep blue Atlantic did us right. We're excited to take our boy to the beaches around here someday (we keep forgetting that we actually do live in a beach town! We'll have to make up for that in coming years.) Okay! So if anyone is interested, back to the montage.

(I think I am doing this more for myself to document this transforming year so bear with me!)

Doug was definitely starting get curious about his mom....

And then I got bigger and bigger... at this current point of 40 weeks and 1 day it looks like I have 2 watermelons in my tummy, but hey who's counting. The belly shots get a little too huge for public display here.



And some final shots that I'd like to call "Before We Were Four" (featuring Doug, our first born. ;)




We're not sure Doug is totally cool with the new brother coming, but we think he'll dig him soon enough. Okay, this has been really good, and fun(?), though it has continued to support the fact that the Dickinson's are not technically inclined in any way. (this took way too long!) But, we promise to keep you posted the best we can when the human Baby D comes. Keep praying for us, all four of us!

Love, S & B & D

Maybe....today?

My first update since September! Ah yes, it's been quite a 9 and 1/2 months you could say... We aren't sure but today might be the day we welcome our son into this world. (we think my water might be leaking? Not sure yet...) So please keep us all in your prayers. On this the possible day of our son's birth I thought I could at least catch you on on things a bit (at least until the contractions start kicking!). First a photo montage.... First shot, right when we found out I was pregnant. I was sure that I could see a difference in my stomach.... Then we went to Tulum, Mexico for a little babymoon as everyone calls it now. People kept asking if we were on our honeymoon and I was like, no I'm 5 months pregnant, can't you tell?! Then back from vacation and back to work (60 hours a week at 3 jobs for me, and doing my CD. It was a bit much but thanks to Brent and strength from God I made it through...)

All right you can start to see a little bit of baby right?
You get the idea, time goes by, I grow. More time, more belly and baby. It really has been an amazingly special and blessed time. Even in the midst of all the craziness of this year we've had a blast watching our baby grow, exclaiming "What the hell have we gotten ourselves into!?" and sharing special alone times together.



We went to an infant care class and this is the baby they gave us to practice on. He didn't have a hand and he looked like an alien! We wondered if this was an omen of things to come.







We did a photo shoot for my album in February and we couldn't resist doing a little family photo shoot. Thanks for Denny Renshaw for putting up with us all day and night.


I kept telling Denny how huge I was, he was disappointed. But still I made him photoshop out my belly in the CD shots. They look great and we are so excited to share the record with everyone this fall. (check for a sneak peak later this week on Myspace.com/sarahlentzmusic !)


All right, we're back from the hospital. We called our midwife and she wanted to check out this mysterious leakage..4 hours later and we're still in the clear. It was some sort of pre-leakage thing that I won't get into. But we are glad. Better to have the waters break and go into labor then them having to induce contractions. We doing a natural birth at the Birth Center at St. Luke's Roosevelt. Hoping for an exciting and medicine free entrance for our little boy. We'll see how I feel about that afterwards!

This blog thing keeps not working. I'll try to post a continuation of the montage soon. love to you all!