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.)