Children and their thoughts about my belly

At preschool, the children know I have a baby in my belly, and many have had their own personal experience with a new baby in their family this year. But that doesn't stop their curiosity about the growing belly.

Mary, a bright 4 year old asked me when I was 7 months along, "If babies are so small why is your belly so big?"
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Just last week a cute 2 1/2 year old redheaded boy asked me why I had a big belly. I quizzed him back, "why do you think?" thinking he knew why as everyone did.

"I think you ate too much snack in the Big Room," he cleverly replied. "My belly gets big too after I eat snack."

"Oh, yeah that could be, but I have a baby in my belly," I responded.

He looked at me for a full minute deciding if I was telling the truth, then said, "No, I think you just ate too much snack." He proceeded to pat his belly as he finished his snack.

Baby Shower

What a wonderful shower! Just how I wanted it with baby's dad there to share the love and support from family and friends! It felt great to be surrounded by so much love! Thank you!

Big thank you to Dawn and Heather for throwing the party, you girls rock!

For those of you who missed the shower I plan to have a celebration at some point with baby to welcome him in our world! I'll keep you posted.

For those of you asking me, I still have a registry up at Amazon.com.

Anyday?

14 days to go... or how about tomorrow??

Hyper-nesting nearing

I'm not sure if its because I had the baby shower last night...but I was up all night full of endless thoughts and plans... if I had the energy I would have been cleaning and organizing according to such plans. Instead, for two hours, I wrote out my ideas, intents, and pending projects.

I feel like the hyper-nesting mode is nearing. In fact, if I didn't have to work, I'd be cleaning, shopping, and freaking out right now!

Feet

When waking from a nap baby boy pokes his feet out. If you place your hand on my belly you can feel a foot! The other day I felt the coolest thing ever... I put my hand over his foot and felt a little fluttering... he was wiggling his toes!

Nesting Instinct or irrational odd behavior the past two days...

This all sounds familar. I've organized all the closets and drawers in every room in the house the last two days. So is it the "Nesting Instinct"? Is it a sign of labor to come soon?!

from Pregnancy Weekly:
... the "nesting" instinct can set in. This is an uncontrollable urge to clean one's house brought on by a desire to prepare a nest for the new baby, to tie up loose ends of old projects and to organize your world.
Females of the animal kingdom are all equipped with this same need. It is a primal instinct. The nesting urge can also be seen as a sign of the onset of labor when it occurs close to 40 weeks of pregnancy.
Nesting brings about some unique and seemingly irrational behaviors in pregnant women and all of them experience it differently. Women have reported throwing away perfectly good sheets and towels because they felt the strong need to have "brand new, clean" sheets and towels in their home.... Cleaning the kitchen cupboards and organizing everything by size to the point that you make sure the silverware patterns match when it's stacked in the cutlery drawer. Sorting the baby's clothes over and over again is a favorite theme. Taking them out of the drawers and re-folding them, putting them away and doing it over and over again.

A little laugh borrowed from Babycenter.com

Five things you never thought you'd say:

• "Let me just finish this can of frosting."
• "Would you mind tying my shoes?"
• "Does my stomach look too small to you?"
• "Can you please massage my perineum again?"
• "Help, I can't get out of bed."

Yeah for Sleep!

I'm taking a personal sleep day tomorrow! Looking forward to napping all day between ...oh perhaps a little nesting if my body allows.

Big Belly

Is that a basketball I swallowed or a cute boy that kicks my ribs?

Free time

The other day I was asked what I do in my free time. I blanked, realizing later that I've spent all my free time the last 8 months sleeping.