The ABCs of Pregnancy

A - Aches (back, feet, hips...)
B - Bathroom anyone?
C - Charlie horse
D - Dry skin
E - Endless appetite, at first anyway.
F - Forgetfulne... Wait, what was I talking about??
G - Granny panties
H - Hernia
I - Insomnia
J - John John (as Noah likes to call him)
K - Kicking at all hours of the night
L - Ligament pain
M - Morning sickness (or so I've heard)
N - Numb spot
O - "Overactive" bladder (did I already mention that?)
P - Pinched nerves
Q - Quick trip to the bathroom...again.
R - Relaxin (Ouch!)
S - Stretch marks
T - Tests
U - Ultrasounds
V - Vivid dreams
W - Weight gain (Seriously, how can you gain 25-35 pounds and the baby only weighs 7-8 pounds?)
X - X-ray free (what else can you say of X?)
Y - Yucky glucose drinks (Ick!)
Z - Zipperless pants (But I still feel the need to periodically check to make sure they are in fact zipped.)

Baby Boom

I have 6 friends at church who are also pregnant. We're all due within 2 months of each other. (Don't drink the water, right?) We've been trying to get a picture of all of us together before the babies start coming. We couldn't get all 7 of us, but we managed 6.

We're in reverse order of due date: Shelly (due April 30, boy, #4), Kylie (due April 30, unknown, #2), Leslie (due April 25, girl, #3), Jennifer (due March 29, girl, #2), Kim (due March 19, boy, #6), me (due March 4, boy, #2). Some of us are a little bigger then others...

One of my mom's friends got Noah this alphabet magnet toy when he was born. I put it in the basement for safe keeping. I've been wanting to bring it up, but he has this other toy that has vehicle magnets. Every time I would go to the basement, he would throw all of them down the cat door. I thought 26 more pieces to pick up every time I went to do the laundry was a little much. He finally quit doing it... So, I brought up the alphabet toy. He loves it. (In fact today, he was signing the ABC's. He missed some, but I couldn't' believe how well he did.) He likes to get out my grandmother's Tupperware pie carrier and sit on it to play. (Excuse the hair... He'd had on a hat.)

Noah is obsessed with Christmas lights. Each morning when we get up, I have to turn the tree lights on first thing. When we're out driving, he points them all out and then says he wants another one. It's really very cute!

Noah went pee-pee in the potty today. I was changing his diaper and he wanted to sit on the potty, which is in his room. So, I let him. As soon as he sat down, he said he needed a wipe. He sat on it for quite a while and then he went. I'm not sure if he knew he needed to go or if it was just a coincidence. But either way, he did it. I made a big deal about it of course.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Better late than never, right???

My mom and dad came for Thanksgiving this year. My mom worked like a dog the whole time she was here. (It was her idea to do it over Thanksgiving.) Greg said I was a slave driver. She painted doors, the crib, a bookshelf... I just have the best mom ever to come and work so hard to help me out.

My mom's sister sent Noah a cute little hat. It's hard to tell from the picture, but it's got tiger stripes on it. First thing he did was break it. I taped it and Noah announced it had a band aide on it. Jinx also liked the hat. He was trying to drag it down the cat door. (It has a similar texture to flip flops which he loves to chew on.)

We had the works for Thanksgiving dinner. Noah's favorite: mashed potatoes. (And, no, he did not eat all of that food on his plate. Greg's eyes were bigger than Noah's stomach.)

Noah loves to play outside. He doesn't seem to care if it's hot or cold. He just likes the fresh air. Can't complain about that can I?

Playing on his swing set

Checking out the neighbor's nativity

Always on the go

Usually we take things to Goodwill a couple of times a year. We haven't taken anything in 2 years. I've been collecting things in the basement. We decided it was time to get it taken care of. Greg was going to take Noah with him when he dropped it off. There wasn't room in the car... That's a little sad really. But, hopefully someone will be blessed by it.