Porter Post

Parenthood. Jayce and I are parents. There is so much more loaded into the sentence after just two weeks of being a mom. I realized today that I'm just beginning to fully understand the need for a Father's Day and a Mother's Day. The purpose of those two days holds so much more meaning for me now as I realize what my parents went through bringing me into the world. Have you ever realized how human babies are the most dependent on their parents for survival? A human child has no hope for survival without a provider and protector. Talk about a lesson on learning to be selfless. I can't just shower when I want to, I shower when Cameron has been fed and is ready to fall asleep again. That's a petty example and I'm not complaining about caring for Cameron, I love my new darling. :-) I'm just coming to realize more and more what bringing a child into the world really entails. The pregnancy, the labor and delivery, the recovery, the feeding, the waking up in the n...

Jayce: A few nights ago, the baby and I were having one of our first bonding moments! He was super active and started punching and kicking Sarah all over the place. I would scratch Sarah's belly in one spot and then he would start kicking right after in that same spot. He kept doing this over and over for some time. It was like our first conversation. ;) So, I got right up to Sarah's stomach and told the baby to tap twice if he was going to stay in there until after the MCAT. Low and behold...two taps immediately followed in that same spot! We were both shocked and pretty excited! Now the real question is, was the baby being honest with his parents or not? Only time will tell. :)

Here's to 33 weeks! I couldn't believe how big I was then and now I'm here: 35 weeks! I looked at myself in the mirror in the bathroom at church and literally busted up laughing. It was good thing nobody else was in there. I just can't believe how funny it looks! I have a basketball growing out of my belly! I can't believe that my due date is in one month too. I think about it all the time without it really sinking in. I'm going to get to the week before my due date (that is if he doesn't come early) and then have a panic attack upon realizing, "Oh my gosh I'm due to have a baby!" The whole ticking time bomb thing hasn't quite sunk in. Maybe after exams are over next week I'll have more time to let it sink in. Here's to having babies!

A few weeks ago we had a visit from the beloved Nardone family! Josh gets spring breaks now that he's in dental school...so excited for Jayce to get those later. So, they drove on down and spent a fun week with all the Porter's in Provo. I'm sure they'd say that their favorite part of the visit was sleeping on our couches/air mattress... :-) They picked the perfect week to have spring break though because neither Jayce nor I had any tests that week. It was amazing. It gave us more time to play. We watched BYU play their last game of the season, fun, but also kind of crushing. Jimmer-we wish you well. Every once in a while during basketball season Jayce would stare out into space and say, "Wouldn't it be nice if I was Jimmer right now? How awesome would that be?" referring to his fame, his soon-to-be fortune, his basketball skills, etc. Well Jayce Face, I'm terribly happy that you are my Jayce Face. :-) Of course we finished off the week by going up to ...

So, I'm basically using the blog as my journal at this point, thus my need to post just about everything. I don't want things left out when I print this sucker off! Here we have some Porter updates I didn't want to be left out of documentation: Mom and Dad sent us a start-up package for the baby and we were so excited!! THANK YOU! Center Stage's ballet department put on Peter Pan last month. It was quite the ordeal, but it all came together and it looked great. My classes loved performing on stage. Performances really are the best. Below we have my fireflies (don't be offended Virginians, I know they don't look like real fireflies but the red costumes and lights were beautiful on stage!) and my little pirates, quite the entertainment. My old roommates still love to do fun things. They already have an annual Pumpkin Party around Halloween time and this year they decided to do a ShamROCK party in honor of St. Patrick's Day. Green and gold galore! It was such a...

Jayce Face came home from one of his two hour Altius prep course classes with a Wendy's frosty in tow. I came to learn that Jayce had gotten every single practice problem correct and that the frosty was his reward! Apparently the teacher will treat anyone who gets a 100% that night to any dessert they want. One time a guy asked for a Cold Stone cake! Jayce was the only one in the entire class last night to receive his very own complimentary dessert. WAY TO GO JAYCE!!!! I just had to brag about my smart man for a moment...hope you don't mind. :-)

So, I was having a pity party the other day for really no reason. Literally. I can't think of a reason, I was just in a bummer mood. Do you ever have those days? You have to dig yourself out of a pit all day and you don't even know why you put yourself in there? I think it's partly because my pregnancy is fiddling with my brain now. Lots of hormones going crazy, emotions are heightened, and I get grumpy easily-ESPECIALLY if I'm getting hungry. You don't want to see me hungry. My brother-in-law was over for dinner that night and I made some complaint about how none of our furniture matches because it's all odds and ends that we inherited when we got married and we're too cheap to buy anything nice right now. Normally this doesn't bother me, but it was a bum day, even minuscule things bother me on bum days. Anyhow, my brother-in-law nicely piped in a story about his friend from Brazil who just got married to a girl in the U.S. and how they are barely sc...