Coming Along...

First things first, my pregnancy has been pretty uneventful still! Perfect for me! I am 31 weeks and still going to the gym on average 3 days a week. Some weeks more, some less. I am really learning to listen to my body, and if I am tired, there is no reason to push it. However, I have found that most days, doing 45ish minutes of cardio really makes me feel better. I have been told not to exercise outside, as the heat and the exercise were not missing well. I am ok with it, and it has given LJ a chance to play at the Y like he is used to.

I had an appointment on Friday and pretty much all the doctor told me is that if I can get to 34 weeks, a major milestone is passed. If I go into labor at or after 34 weeks, they will not stop it. With LJ, they were planning on inducing at 34 weeks if I had made it that long after my water broke. After 34 weeks, stopping labor can cause more problems than do good. Baby girl may or may not have to spend time in the NICU if born at 34 weeks, but even if she did, as long as everything else is normal, it wouldn’t be much time.  (Sorry, that is one big choppy sentence). So today, that means I need at least 3 more weeks. Not long at all! I am taking bets that I will be induced this time. I just feel it! I sort of hope I am right. I think I am more stressed about what we will do with LJ when I go into labor than I am about anything else at this point!

 Funny enough, Matt is having major anxiety that he is going to have to deliver a baby in the car on the way to the hospital. Poor guy…we had to take a trip to the store the other day just for a nasal aspirator to keep in the car just in case he has to suction something. I know he also has plans for towels and blankets. I think I was asked about sterile scissors the other day also. I love that my hubby wants to be prepared and that he is thinking about it. However, I won’t even entertain the idea that a highway delivery is an option. J

LJ…hard to believe baby boy is going to be 2 in less than 2 months! Last time I had written, we were in the process of decorating his “big boy” room. I finally have pictures of it to post. He has been in his big bed for almost a month, and I am so happy to report that he has never once gotten out of the bed, fallen out of the bed, or been anything but perfect in his new room! I am sure one day he will realize he can get out of his bed, but we will cross that bridge when we get there!

 

Matt's handiwork! The black is a chalkboard.

New shelving since he doesn't have a dresser.

So excited!
 

 

Tomorrow starts Potty Training 101. I am not really looking forward to it, but I think it is time. LJ has been trying to take diapers off again and talking about how yucky they are. He is obsessed with the toilet, so here we go! Hopefully, it ends up being like the bed situation and is something I have stressed out about more than I should…here’s to hoping!

 

Safety training before potty training :)

 

We have continued going to gymnastics each week, and I really believe it has been great for LJ. He comes home and practices rolling and climbing and walking on tip toes. He talks about gymnastics. Each week when we go, he immediately starts talking about the beam, the slide, and the bars. He loves the balance beam and today, he walked halfway across the beam without any help. This coming from the child who has only been walking for a little over 4 months! His last class will be next week, and we have decided to be done with it for now because I am getting big enough that I can’t flip him around anymore. We will do it again one day. I want him to experience a variety of things until he gets big enough to make his own decisions about what he likes.

LJ weighs himself on our scale now. He likes watching the numbers. According to our scale, he about 26 pounds. I have no idea how tall he is, but he is growing because his hands reach more and more things every day. Matt and I keep talking about how much fun we are having watching him really come into his own recently. He is using more and more words to voice what he wants and doesn’t. He is becoming more self-sufficient in general.

LJ is still not much of an eater. There is not much that he doesn’t like, he just doesn’t eat much. A typical meal for LJ, for example, is a strawberry and half of a yogurt. Occasionally, he will decide he is hungry and eat a lot more than normal, but that is rare. He talks a lot about cookies, and he does expect a cookie from the bakery every time we go grocery shopping. The other day we were at the store and walking down the cracker aisle. He started asking for crackers. When I told him we had some at home, he then proceeded to squeal, “Fries!” My child loves French fries. I don’t buy them, so he only gets them if we go out to eat. When we do he will steal them off of any plate he can reach.

Words…LJ has always had many words. He says “love you” regularly and that is my favorite. We are working on manners and has started saying “thank you” and “I’m sorry.” My favorite is that anything with wings is a bird. Sometimes things without wings are birds. Crumbs are birds. Whenever LJ sees anything that he qualifies as a bird, he points to it and says “bird, tweet tweet.” He will say “I’m funny” when he makes people laugh. A few weeks ago, Tonka ran away for 8 days. We would drive around looking for him, and LJ started to call for him in the car. Even now that Tonka is back home, LJ still calls for Tonka in the car. He will tell the dogs to lay down when he is eating and tell them to get back when he is trying to get through them. LJ also talks a lot about his cousin Sam. Sam just moved to Arkansas for awhile, and it is sort of a bummer because the boys were just starting to think about playing together.

I have started rambling, and that only means that it is time to be done for now!

 

After swimming at his friends birthday party.

An artist in action.

Being silly. LJ loves the camera.

Big Cheese.