31 weeks prego today!

Its been a terrific last few weeks. The holidays are suddenly behind us and although its nice to be past the craziness, it was a really fun month- lots of activities i.e shopping, baking, presents, making crafts, eating and of course, family time. Most fun for me was talking about Santa with Wyatt and getting him 'prepared' for Christmas (as well as future Christmases). I also realized that its a good thing he's young still because I need some practice on this whole Santa thing- when to stock stockings, how to hide presents etc. Anyways when opening presents Wyatt would get really interested in one gift and not have any interest in opening the rest. We tried moving the process along (we had a schedule ya know-ha), even opening up some presents for him and saying "look at this one- it could be a truck..!" which would get his attention for a few seconds and then he'd go back to what he was doing (usually playing with a truck). So finally when all the presents had been opened he looked up from playing and says "want more presents." ARGH. So next time (he'll probably be tearing through them like crazy next year though), I think I'll just let him go at his own pace even if it takes him 3 days to open them.

Anyways all is going great thus far with this pregnancy. The baby is still moving and kicking a lot. I went to the OB last week and am measuring 2 weeks ahead though. This makes me a bit nervous because I always measured right on time with Wyatt and he was a whopping 8lbs 10oz. So does this mean this baby will be a 9-10lber!? I suppose the 10lbs I gained in December (too many sweets!) had something to do with this. But on a positive note, I was going through a book I have called The Pregnancy Journal and read some notes I made while pregnant with Wyatt. I had written that at weeks 24 my blood pressure was on the high side and already showing some signs of swelling. I'm 31 weeks along today and my bp last week was 94/62! Nice and low, but thats probably evidence that my pre-pregnancy weight loss was a great thing for my body.

Well speaking of weight gain, Wyatt and I are off to the gym this a.m. I seem to have come down with a cold yesterday and didn't sleep great last night, but it important that we get in a routine (for both of us). He cried both times I left him last week which was hard to see but apparently he was fine soon after I left- hence why its important for us to keep that routine.

Not much else is going on. We still LOVE our new house. Will has been working on some electrical projects in the garage as well as is almost finished building our new side yard. Wyatt seems to have gotten re-interested in potty training and I am engrossed in the Outlander series book. Wow, it just started raining hard. I better go and get us ready because otherwise I'll be tempted to stay in!