Waddle, Waddle, Waddle....I feel like I have begun to waddle...It is really funny because it is like you can't completely control it, it just happens. Brad said I only do it when I am tired or my back is hurting, but still I have begun the waddle. I have reached 6 months today!! This second trimester has gone by so fast!!! The first trimester could not have dragged on any longer and felt like decades (I think only to me though) and probably because I was so sick all the time. Anyway the baby is doing great! He is still very active and weighs somewhere a little over a pound. His little brain is rapidly developing and so are the branches of his lungs. The newest trick he has developed is hiccups... they don't occur often, but when he gets them he likes to be sitting on my bladder, so then it feels like my bladder is convulsing. At first it was really cute that he had hiccups, but sometimes (like around 5am when he gets them and I don't want to get up) I wish he didn't have them.
I am daily amazed at how much I love him. I have never seen him, I don't know what he looks like or anything about him, but I love him so much! We have some friends who have been waiting to adopt a baby and this week they got a little boy. I was at a shower for her the night before they got him and it was amazing to me just thinking how even more life chaning adoption is. I get nine months to prepare and know that this baby is going to arrive right around a certain time. I have nine months to bond with him as well. But our friends, even though they obviously knew they were going to be adopting don't get much notice once a child is ready for them. She found out they would be adopting and would get him the following day. God had obviously prepared them so well and it was so fun to see how extatic she was the night before he was to become part of their family, but the bonding couldn't begin until they picked him up.
The day I found out I was pregnant, I began to write a journal for him to track the pregnancy, my cravings and aversions and just to write my prayers for him. My mom did something similar for each of us and wrote in it each year on our birthday and she gave them to us when we turned either 16 or 18. It was just a neat gift and fun to know her thoughts about me from the start. Hopefully he will think it is special someday.
Well Brad and I are excited (because we are dorks) because today is the once a year Really Big, Really Cheap book sale... We look forward to it every year to find books that we want. My goal this year is children's books for our little one's room. Childrens books are so expensive to buy them new from Barnes and Noble or some place like that. I want him to love books and again it is a memory for me of my parents reading to us when we were little.
I forgot to write that mom and I finished our decluttering project... Mom was SO helpful. We still have the stuff stored in the garage, but it is too hot these days to go out and go through it all. We are going to wait until we move to go through that part of it. I feel like a new person though with an extreemly clean house! Thanks Mom!!!
Well that is about all that is going on from this end of the blog. I will write again soon.
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