I have added a new page at the top (Boy or Girl?) for everyone to be able to follow along with my “symptoms”, so I can have some people to co-obsess with me over whether I am having a boy or a girl. I know that this obsession could be easily solved by just finding out right now what we are having but it’s way more fun to annoy my mom & my mother-in-law (and Deetza and Triplet-Jen and many more) by not finding out! There will also be a link to the official Baby Arlo poll on the right side so keep an eye out for that.
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The pumpkinhead head has a new routine. For the past two days, as soon as we get home from school, she goes to her room, tells me night-night, and curls up on her bed with her paci and bear and has some quiet time. This lasts for about 30 minutes (and allows me to get some stuff done around the house) and when I go to check on her and ask her if she’s ready to play, up she goes and is ready to go. She has been taking GREAT naps at daycare and has actually been sleeping through my shower this week (which has been her wake-up call the past two weeks). Is there such a thing as a 23-mo growth spurt?
Oh, and YES – my pumpkinhead is TWENTY-THREE MONTHS OLD (as of yesterday). She is one of the “big kids” in the toddler room and I can’t believe it!
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Tonight she noticed the old big wine jug we have by the door that we use to throw our change into. She wanted me to bring her the piggy bank from her room and she proceeded to empty our change jug into the entryway and then divvy up the change between our jug and her bank. But she was putting the pennies into our bank and the quarters into her bank.
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In pregnancy news, I think I have started to feel little kicks. It is hard for me to remember what the early movements felt like with Mallory; I only remember the “OH MY GOD WILL YOU STOP KICKING ME” movements from the later stages of my first pregnancy. All the times I would sit and stare at my belly during meetings because it looked as though I had an alien under my shirt and all the times I would say “Rick – watch this!” as I gave one side of my belly a poke just to see the baby kick back.
As I’m getting bigger every day, I remember what a buddy told me last time – “just think – you are smaller today than you will be tomorrow!”. And after seeing my friend Jen’s big tummy, I really don’t think I should be allowed to complain about my belly. Ever.