Winter!

Winter is here (every time we go out, Izzy says "crunch-crunch-crunch" - We are 30 weeks and things are moving along! As soon as I wrote the last post, the bug started to make his presence know. I can finally feel him from the outside and LOVE laying in bed at night and feeling him punch up against W's tummy. Its weird, but whenever  I feel it, I get a similar sensation in my belly, as if muscle memory can remember how it feels from the inside.

Joys of ho-hum

There is something positively ho-hum about this stage of pregnancy and I am SO thankful for it. I remember feeling this way with Izzy and luckily The Bug is following suit.

We had our 28 week check-in yesterday and W's uterus is measuring right on track. Being the overly anxious parents we are, we would have loved an ultra-sound (its been 10 weeks since we've seen him!) but since this is a "normal" pregnancy, she passed the glucose and anemia tests with flying colors ("you wouldn't even be considered anemic if you weren't pregnant") and the last scan showed that all was developing on-target, it seems like there is no need. Because of W's anterior placenta and the few extra pounds of padding she had prior to pregnancy, she has felt very little activity other than a few dull jabs several times a day. I remember that movement (in Izzy's case, of the very rambunctious kind) was my favorite part of this phase of pregnancy and, of course, reassurance, so I am sad for W that she is missing out. For me, this was the sweet-spot before the real aches and pains of late pregnancy, when I was big and round, and enjoying it. I hope/think that W would say all of those things, but I am still sad not to have felt him from the outside yet.

The last few weeks and next few will be a whirl wind between holidays (Thansgiviakaah reined large in our house this year), birthdays (mine, W's, and W's mom), Xmas, and then the stretch of January before Izzy's birthday, followed, hopefully by the arrival of a new family member. In that time we are a) moving izzy to her big-girl room, complete with loft bed,  and b) likely doing a major house remodel. Crazy you say, YUP, most likely.  On top of it all, I am working like crazy to wrap up some work projects by the end of 2013 and W ended the semester (yesterday) and is at the end of job application season.

Oh ya, and 2.5+ is really starting to feel like the terrible 3s. There are some high highs, but some really low lows. This morning for example, "why is there butter on my toast, its touching my eggs, so I wont eat ANY" -- a quote from a girl who last week would ingest a stick of butter on.its.own if we let her. And what convinced her to eat them? "So I can be big and strong...and be the leader of the line all week (??)" --  also a direct quote from the very bossy line leader at school, apparently. (le sigh)