Baby Comparison

I thought you all might enjoy a belly shot of the current pregnancy, along with a comparison to Robin's.  I'm at 31 weeks in each of these pictures.  The first is now, and the second is with Robin:

The scale might not be exact, but I think it's close.  The shape of this belly is definitely more of a shelf, whereas Robin was more rounded.  You can see I was a bit puffier last time too, perhaps from retaining more water (or gaining more weight?  or both--I actually haven't compared weight gain, so I don't know whether I'm ahead or behind last time.)

My belly is already getting in the way when I try to tie my shoes, and I'm noticing that getting up from the floor (something I'm doing a lot more with this pregnancy than the last) takes a lot more effort now.  The baby is quite strong and I'm a little afraid of it getting 9 weeks stronger.  Oof.

We're starting to freak out about how little time we have left before baby's arrival.  Mainly we need to finish Robin's bed so we can repurpose the crib, move what remains of my office downstairs in with Dean, and paint/put up a mural in the baby's room.  That's a lot to do with a bunch of birthday celebrations, Easter, a vacation, and Mother's Day all rolled into our remaining time too.  Yikes.  We're going to be pretty busy for the next few months!

On another note, Robin can now count to nine!  I had made him a bunch of car cutouts from his playdough, and that was how many we had.  I asked him to count them and I didn't count along with him like I usually do.  To my surprise and delight, he got to nine all by himself!  He only repeated it once, though, before he must've gotten tired of showing off and starting messing around with the order of the numbers.  But we have managed to get him to repeat the feat a few times so we know he knows it.  (I'll see if I can't get a video of this sometime soon.)

March Madness

Some March pictures for your enjoyment:

Robin playing the drums with his monkey and Grandpa

As part of our massive home reorganization, Dean purchased this toy organizer.  It holds a lot of Robin's toys and makes it so he can see what he has without having to dig to the bottom of his chest.  So far Robin's been more willing to clean up when putting things back in here, but we'll see how long that lasts for.  :)

Giving his donkey (suddenly a current favorite toy) a ride on the Fisher Price phone

We did a lot of work on our garage recently, and while Robin "helped" a bit, he usually wound up playing in my car before too long.  This particular time, he strapped himself into his car seat and wanted Monkey to drive.

Wearing Ama's gloves while making her play in the car with him.

Our Leprechaun from this year (my, how he's grown!)

We went back to the museum because Robin kept requesting it.  It was a very crowded day, though, so we didn't have as much access to the exhibits as I would have liked.  We still had fun though.  There's a Pirate exhibit going on right now, and while we didn't go to it, Robin examined the mannekin by the door.

Here he is with some walruses.  Did you know they could get this big?

This is from "Tykes Peak" in the Exhibition Health exhibit.  There were some pretty rambunctuous kids in there at first, and Robin learned how to do this from them:

On March 19 we were visitng my parents and took a walk to try and see the Moon while it was really big and near the horizon.  The clouds interfered with most of it, but at least we got to play in the park in the dark!

Jumping on some bubble wrap from when we unpacked a bunch of stuff we'd hidden while trying to sell the house.

We went to the museum (yet again!) with my parents during Mom's spring break.  Parking was horrendous as most of Denver was on spring break too, but we enjoyed ourselves once we got in.  We got to explore the Discovery Zone, an

area kind of like the Children's Museum with activities for little kids.

We also checked out the dinosaurs.

Being swung between Ama and Poppa.  (He almost tried to flip over the last time they did this.)

You can click here and here to see the posts I made about our March craft projects on Science Fiction Mommy.

And here to see my post about our garage and basement improvements.

Ciao!