Here I am at my 34th week.
One month to go! Yes I am impatient. No my pregnancy is not super hard, but I am counting on going at least two weeks early.
Within the period of four months, I have nearly read the same amount of books that I read over the course of the 12 months before that. Probably because mid-day I get tired and I do quiet time with Bridger, we both sit and read. Maybe I'm trying to keep my mind off being pregnant.
I can't wait to be back at my normal energy level... but I know that will take a while... even after I have this baby. That's okay, I'll get there. I am becoming ever more impressed with large families, especially when the mom looks totally put together, and everyone looks happy. That is a lot of commitment from the mom to go through that many pregnancies! Why can't we have the same gestational period as rabbits? They only have to be pregnant one month! I could totally do that, several times even, no problem!
Don't worry, I have a plan for this baby...
I've put my running on hold for a little bit. About a week and a half ago I went to the gym and had a great workout. The only problem that afterwards I could hardly walk. I guessed I must have overdone it. I ran on the treadmill and did a lot of weights after, for about an hour and twenty minutes... I know, I'm pregnant... Really if I make it to the gym that is a really good day for me... I am taking it easy, most days, but when I go to the gym I like to feel like I can do as much as I've always been able to do. I modify my workout, of course. After that great workout I experienced great pelvic soreness, and I decided I'd better stop running for a while. I'm not quite far along enough yet, that I want to encourage this baby out already. So besides cycling and some weights that I do when I feel motivated, I am taking it really easy. However, once I make it to 37 weeks, I'm going to start running again! Get this baby on the move!
Also, I'm down to just a few maternity outfits. Usually I'm big and pregnant during the winter, so since the turn of the weather, I am all of the sudden out of clothes to wear! Some times I wear the same outfit twice in a row (don't tell okay!).
Devin ran his first 10K! He's been working out at the gym consistently 3-4 days a week for the past several months. He's all about weight loss challenges with his buddies, and at the end of his last challenge they ran the Burke Lake 10K. Unfortunately it was a closed race, and they didn't allow spectators so I couldn't watch, but he did great even without us cheering for him... He got 4th in his age group!
Devin has also been busy with scout trips, and when not busy with work, fixing cars for everyone in our ward! It is amazing to me that he can figure out how to fix a problem, take the whole car apart, and put it all back together in the right order! He really is becoming our ward's preferred mechanic!
Bridger got a brand new (at least new to him) blue bike. He is super fast on it! I guess I have brain washed him sufficiently, because he always talks about how he has strong legs and that he loves to exercise because it is good for his body! haha. He loves his bike, when someone starts talking to him, that is one of the first things that will come up in his conversation. He's told the ladies at the gym, and our check-out man at the grocery store all about his new blue bike, and that he used to have a fire bike, but now he is giving that one to Cora... ;)
He has gotten really good at reporting back to me everything he did in class. Whether at church or Joy School, the second I pick him up he starts telling all! I love it. For the longest time he wouldn't tell me anything, so I prepped him when I dropped him off telling him to remember what he did so he could teach me. Now he's got it down!
Grandma Poulton gave him and Myra a book about a sloth. In this book he learned that sloths like to sleep. One day when I was particularly tired, I asked Bridger if we should pretend to be sloths and we both fell asleep on the couch. Bridger never naps anymore, but since reading this book he loves to pretend like he is a sloth and he takes around two naps a week. Even if he doesn't fall asleep, most days we do the sloth routine and he just lies down on the couch for a while. It's great!
Myra is so sweet. She still sucks on her two fingers (middle and pointer fingers on her left hand). I don't know how to break this habit. I bought some bright pink nail polish hoping she'd not want to suck the polish off. That worked for about three minutes. Sometimes I'll catch her advising herself "don't suck polish off... no fingers" but her resolve will ultimately fail and those two fingers did end up polish-less.
She loves the color pink. She loves her sunglasses. She loves to be pretty. Like every other little girl, she has the Frozen song memorized and will sing it over and over again in her cute little voice! When she sits on the potty she sings "Old McDonald" loudly, for all to hear. And she sings "I Am a Child of God" to her baby doll.
I'm trying to break her of her whining/crying/screaming bad habit which happens at the slightest distress to her. Every time I hear her whine, she has to sit on the stairs. It's just not allowed any more. I used to hope that just not responding to it would work, but it hasn't. I have always removed her if she gets unreasonable, but now it is at first sighting. I hope it will work! I think it is getting better. When she is screaming she is too upset to worry about little things like going potty. Its really fun. :-o
Myra does have the best facial expressions. She is getting so expressive, we just love it! One of her faces we call the duck face. She's hilarious. We love her.
That is the story at the Poulton household.
The end. ;)
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