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As much as I am ready to regain complete and full possession of my body again, I couldn’t quite help freaking out a little when the calendar flipped to June. That means next month we are having a baby. Next month?!?! Admittedly, it is the other end of next month but just being able to say it in those casual terms makes me feel a slight panic attack coming on. It’s not like saying “Oh I need to get the oil changed in the car next month” or “What about going hiking next month?”. I am bringing another small human child into this world next month. I know people do it every day but surely they are people who have some idea of what they are getting themselves into. People who don’t still eat ice cream for breakfast sometimes. You know – grown up people. I don’t care what my drivers license says – I am not sure I qualify as a grown up some days.
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Conversation with my mother last night:
Mom: How are you feeling?
Me: Huge but otherwise fine.
Mom: *laughs* I have to tell you that you don’t have any idea what huge is. You won’t believe how big you get in the next 8 weeks.
Me: *not laughing* Really? Is that the way you want to go with your cranky pregnant kid? I’m well aware the worst is yet to come but is that really what you want to point out to me right now?
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Sabrina has gotten over her hatred of shoes. She now thinks it is great fun to play with mommy’s shoes. This usually means when I am trying to leave the house, I can only find 1 of each pair.
And I found a little chair just her size at the grocery store last week. Best $1.50 I’ve ever spent. She carries it around from room to room with her and sits her stuffed animals in it if she isn’t sitting in it. If the dog goes near it to sniff at it, she yells “No! No!”
I am glad I am not the only one that doesn’t feel “grown up” on most days!
Good Luck!!! The next 8 weeks will fly by!! 😉
I *so* wish your cranky knocked up arse lived closer.
I just twittered about that today: I am due NEXT MONTH!!!
And every day I wake up aching and finding less and less clothes remaining that will fit, it cannot come soon enough.
She looks so proud of that chair!
What is it with mom’s and giving the harsh duh realities. My mom did this to me this morning. I was telling her how excited I was to see her on Thursday and she said – I bet you’re just huge. And I said, Yeah, I am. And then she said – it’s crazy but you’re just going to get bigger, ya know? And I was all “yeah, I farking know mom….I didn’t think that this doritto and strawberry ice cream diet was going to make me start to shrink”. Jeez Louis.
Bless your heart! As the Momma of a “July Baby”…….I feel your pain sistah! I do, I really do!! Now, just be glad it’s not AUGUST…the end of August like my sister!! 🙂 Hang in there and soak those foot!!!!
I spent 10 minutes (that I didn’t have) looking for my other shoe this morning before going to work. I finally found it somewhere where Alex had taken it. At least it’s your daughter who likes your shoes – I have to deal with my 2 year old SON wearing my shoes and carrying my purse around the house. (while clutching his Cinderella dolls and commenting on how buuutiful the princesses are)
Haha..I bought that exact same chair for my son at Harris Teeter last week. He carries it around to!
Ice cream for breakfast makes you a cool MOm.
Yeah, you are rounding the corner.
I need to get Reese one of those chairs. He has taking to sitting on any stool that we have.
Girls andshoes!! She will never look back now. I have so many pics of the girls in my shoes. Not Reese, he has boots, all shoes are boots,and he really just wants his puddle boots. Drawback to boys!!
She’s still too cute!
Yeah, the home stretch sucks, but hey, it’s hard work growing a whole new human being! 🙂
Time really flies when you’re pregnant……… I guess. I CAN’T believe it’s only 2 months away! It seems like you were just in Guatamala!! I can’t wait to meet number 2. It’s amazing how people try so hard to have a baby and after they adopt it just happens. Just take the next 2 months easy and enjoy all the “free time” you have now with just one. I’m sure your wonderful husband will be right there by your side to help out! Your lucky to have found one like that because there’s not many out there. You’ll be fine.
My experience… I finally stopped growing the final month or so and did not gain any weight. Perhaps it was because I was too hot to eat, to big to get up off the couch, too tired to care!
AND my grandmother told everyone at one of my baby showers (thinking that I could not hear her) “she usually does not look like that, she is all swole”… is that even a word much less a condition that she had to excuse my appearance for????
As a mother of an August baby..I feel your pain!! You know the reality is that I got pregnant 9 years later (while I was adopting from Guatemala) and still wondered how much bigger I was going to get!! I was so glad when Olivia was born and I could see my feet again! Hang in there 8 weeks will fly by!
Vanessa
http://www.mommyslilblessings.blogspot.com
Know that you are in the company of women who understand! Chloe was a July baby and I wasn’t even running after a toddler! One of my heavenly things to do was go swimming (well at least get in the pool). It gives you such a break from your body, although the getting out part really sucks. At the very least, I suggest a relaxing soak in the tub and a glass of wine.