32 weeks! 8 weeks until my due date!

I can't believe that I'm already at 32 weeks!  I feel like I'm so big and I can hardly move sometimes.  When people ask how I am doing I just want to say pregnant because that pretty much sums it up.  Kayla is being wonderful!  She loves to talk to her baby and to help Mommy.  I think she can tell I'm having a hard time keeping up with her now and it's sad but I can't really pick her up any more.  It makes me so sad so most of the time I sit down on the ground and let her get in my lap.  Too bad it is so hard to get up from the ground.  I've been having lots of braxton hicks contractions and it has gotten hard to sleep comfortably.  I just have to remember the wonderful little guy I will get in the end. 

Baby Blankets

So I know that Kayla will not want to share her blankets so I have been collecting fabrics that I have found.  Today I finally had the energy to make them.  The top one is a flannel and fleece blanket.  It's a little difficult keeping straight lines with the fleece because it stretches but I like how it turned out.

 

Next one is a flannel blanket and I fell in love with the fabric at the store.  This one was a lot easier to keep straight and I love the color combo.

 

 I can't take credit for the last beautiful blanket.  My mother in law made it and it is just amazing.  The quilting is all done by hand!!  It is so cute!

 

Kayla wanted a picture with her baby brothers blankets because she "helped".  She did help and she is super excited to be involved in getting things ready for her baby.  That's right it's not my baby it's hers and I get in trouble if I call it my baby.  She has started talking to him through my belly and I think it's so cute!

28 weeks.

I can't believe I am in my third trimester!  It has gone by so fast.  With Kayla I was so ahead of the game and was all about getting everything ready.  But with this one it sure is sneaking up on me.  I don't feel like I'm ready at all or have things out of storage but I also don't feel the need to do that yet.  So I guess I will be doing a lot the last month when I finally realize how close it is.   But other than that I feel pretty good, tired but good.  He is all out front and down low so I can feel it tugging and pulling my stomach when I pick up things.  Kayla is starting to become too difficult for me to lift.  Well this is when the baby is really suppose to pack on the pounds so lets see how big I get.

What's every little girls dream...

For Daddy to bring you home a bouncy castle to play in.  Yeah Graydon went to his work party and came home with a bounce house.  He won a bounce house!!  I had mixed feelings about this, my thoughts were where are we going to store it.   But after watching how much fun Kayla had in it and thinking about her birthday next month it's a good thing.  I have a feeling we might become the coolest people to invite to parties.  Well here's a picture of Kayla with her cousins enjoying her new castle.

Boating

So with it being super hot and all my parents decided to pull out the boat.  I decided that I would grin and bear the heat and take Kayla.  She loved being on Grandpa's boat!!!  They got her to go swimming in the lake and she was very proud of herself.  She wasn't such a fan of the tube even though I was right there.  But her favorite was driving the boat.  She would sit at the wheel any chance she could get.  It was lots of fun but I don't think I could take another trip.  The bouncing just about killed me.  So hopefully someone will take her out again since she loved it so much! 

Feeling very pregnant

So I am now 25 weeks and I'm really starting to feel very pregnant.  I dropped something at work and found it very tricky to bend over and pick it up.  I am having a harder time getting up from the ground when I sit down to interact with the kids at school.  The baby is kicking around more and more and Kayla is getting excited now that she sees my belly getting bigger.  I am trying to keep Kayla as involved as ever.  The other day I was washing and putting away clothes that my friend gave me and Kayla had to comment on every outfit and I had her help me put them away.  I have so many clothes for 0 to 3 months that I'm very excited about that.  This picture is of what I have put away already and I still have tons more to put away.

Speaking of Kayla she is being such a big girl.  The other night she decided that she didn't want to wear pull ups to bed any more.  We said okay and after a couple nights of accidents she has been doing great with no accidents.  I'm very proud of her!!  It will be nice to have her completely potty trained and only one kid in diapers!! When she was refusing to poop on the potty I bribed her.  She wanted a princess dress so much!  Well she got it.  here's my cute girl in her princess dress.

So to top off this entry here is a picture of me at 25 weeks.

New Adventure

So to explain I did not get the position I was going for at first.  I waited like 3 weeks and called the director and she said she was still looking and hadn't made a descion.  Well then about a week or so after that I find out that she had quit and that now that center didn't have a director or an assistant director.  Well then a week later I get a call from the district manager offering me the assistant position.  So today I started as the Assistant Director at the West Jordan KinderCare.  It was a good day and the staff was awesome.  It will take time to get use to the different atmosphere at the center but I am super excited.  This will be a great new adventure for me and my family.  The best part is that I still get to be in the same building as Kayla and I get a bigger discount on her tuition and the baby's tuition when he gets here.