Baby Bump - Week 29 (almost)

Okay, so I am a day early, but here is the bump at week 29 (or week 28 and 6 days, couldn't wait).  Sorry for the bathroom mirror picture, I have discovered that Jac and Mia tend to cut off my head when they take pictures of me. 

I am starting to hit an energy wall and I don't know if that is just something that will last a day or two or if it is going to keep getting worse throughout the rest of the pregnancy.  Hopefully, I can just eat a bunch of protein and drink a lot of water and feel more energetic tomorrow.  I am excited to almost be 30 weeks, things will start getting serious soon.  Maybe I should think about getting the crib set up and more importantly a name picked out.  Hmm.

Magic for Kids

The children's museum in St Louis, is truly magical.  Mia has been asking to go to the Magic House all summer and we just didn't get around to it.  So for her birthday we invited another family; who has a daughter turning four also and we all met at the Magic House on Saturday.

So much fun.  Mia and Jac both did things they had never done before, like climbing the huge bean stalk. 

We played indoors and out and had about three hours of fun, which was our max.

 Then we stopped and ate a snack with our friends. 

We all took a snooze after such a big day, I think mommy won the nap award with a 2 hour one! 

Deja Vu

It isn't all that often that I think my children look like me.  My husband's genes seem to be VERY dominant.  Howevah - we just bobbed Mia's hair today and in some of the pictures she is literally the spitting image of me when I was five.  You will have to trust me, because I don't actually have any of these pictures and even if I did I don't own a scanner in order to show them to you. 

Here is a before picture that I took last week, she happened to be wearing the same t-shirt today when we went to the salon.  Although I think she is pretty with long hair, it is just too difficult right now for us to manage and everything is getting streamlined this fall.

Meet the Teacher

Mia met her teacher this week for preschool.  We attend a preschool that sends the teachers out to the youngest students so that when they meet the teacher at school they already have some familiarity with them.  It allows the kids to have a no stress first meeting with the teacher on their own turf on their own terms.  Love it. 

Mia showed no anxiety in meeting her new teacher Mrs. G.  She has shown some anxiety in recent months with baby sitters, the church nursery and a little summer camp we did.  She also has shown some anxiety in just going to her friends houses if mommy wasn't going to stay for the playdate.  This could just be a little phase of separation anxiety, of which she really has shown very little her whole life.  Or this could be a symptom of having a pregnant mommy, there is no way to tell.

Regardless, the visit went wonderfully.  She was very talkative and outgoing, asking questions and providing answers both.  She received her new shirt and bag for school and seems excited to go and visit her classroom next week. 

On a side note, I talked to Jac's teacher yesterday and he seems to be doing very well at Kindergarten.  She said that, yes he is very shy but he always participates in the classroom activities; citing an example of a silly dance session they had at the end of class yesterday.  He got down with his silly classmates and had a huge smile on his face the whole time.  She said that he does answer her when asked a question directly in a one on one situation, but that in a group he is still very reserved.  He has taken an interest in "helping" a couple of his classmates that seem to be even more shy than he is. I do really like our teacher and how communicative she is, she sends emails out which is just my speed, but also seems to be very available to parents to discuss anything going on.

Also, my week 28 doctor's appointment went very well.  I was concerned at the last visit that I didn't grow, but not to worry!  I grew just fine this last couple of weeks.  I gained a couple of lbs and my belly is tracking nicely with where it should be at this week in development.  Baby's heart rate is great, I passed my glucose test for diabetes and now I get to count kicks everyday from here on out.  I have only had a few Braxton Hicks, and I still say they hurt, but really nothing in the last two weeks to speak of.  Who knows, this baby could go full term!