Weeks 28, 29 and 30

Well, sadly I have no pictures to share of weeks 28 and 29. I can honestly say I had absolutely no desire to take a picture. We've had a rough go of it with lots of sickness (thankfully all me and no Bubby or Daddy). But good news is, I'm on the mend and I've rounded the 30 weeks corner. And then tomorrow we arrive in the single digit weekly count-down. Holy. Smokes.

30 Weeks

In the meantime, I'll post some pictures of our trip to Michigan for Labor Day. We didn't get as many pictures as we had hoped, but here are a few of my favorites.  It was so good to see everyone (especially Hudson - sorry everybody else!) and the time flew by extremely fast.

I also wanted to talk about Bubby because he's just doing so many things right now I feel like we'll forget just how awesome this age is.

He's talking so much and in sentences - it's really amazing to hear him learn new words and phrases by the day.  He just lost one of my favorite words of the past several months....he used to tell us to "be care-pul".  The other day out of the blue he said "be careful" with the "f" sound clear as day.  My boy is growing up.

He has a wild imagination....and it's trending to the scary imagination side at the moment.  He's always "scared" and will run and hide in between my legs.  The other night he wouldn't even go in the living room by himself.  He's been waking in the morning and crying for us to come get him while he's completely covered head to toe in blankets so he can't even see out.  When I put him in bed, he's scared and I have to reassure him it's all ok.  We've started leaving his bedroom door open now and we've tried a hall light.  Tonight I'm also trying to add music back in, too.  Maybe some light soothing singing will help him not be so scared.  He fell asleep right away so at least it was a good start.

I also have a wild imagination when I'm home alone.  Even now, in the safest place I've lived in 15 years, I still hear a noise when going to bed and rush to put myself under the covers when Mike is gone.  Like Mama, like son?  I hope not; I don't like thinking our boy is scared in the night.  I do think he'll grow out of it, but I think we'll have to do a lot of reassuring before he does.

My new favorite thing he does is when he sits with me, he'll mindlessly intertwine his fingers in mine.  He loves to hold my hand (on his terms) and he especially loves to play with my wedding ring.  He says it's "Daddy's ring" because I told him Daddy gave it to me.  Every time he holds my hand, I try hard to remember it because I know before too long, he won't want to do that anymore.

He has also turned in to such a snuggler.  He has never been one to snuggle in but he loves to lay with his Daddy now.  He'll sprawl out on his chest or lay right next to him on the couch.  I do think he would snuggle with me, but my big belly gets in the way and he gets very frustrated.  He tries to scoot close to me and ends up just sitting up and throwing his arm over my belly.  Probably my #2 favorite thing he does.

We've been around his cousin Hudson and new baby Emily recently.  He is so incredibly sweet to them and he looooves to kiss their feet and heads.  It has me really excited to see what a great big brother he is going to be to this baby.  He still gets a little jealous when we hold one of the babies - "MY Mama/Daddy!  Mama/Daddy, up?" - but as long as we have him come over and touch the baby and talk to him, he goes right back to whatever he was doing before.  I'm not delusional; I know it probably won't be that easy with the new baby, but it gives me some hope that it won't be a total disaster!

We haven't taken the plunge with full time potty training, but he's doing better and better about going on the potty at school.  And he still goes every night before bath.  We really just need to set a date and go for it to see how it takes.  He doesn't seem excited to wear big boy underwear yet, so we'll see.

He is finally loving school again and it's such a relief.  It's hard to believe it was so rough for so long, but he finally adjusted to the change and he's doing great.  He is excited to see Ms. LaRhonda in the mornings and talks about his "friends" at school.  It's so much easier for me to work during the day knowing that he is happy and doing well.

There are lots of changes on the horizon so my hope is that we can get through them without too many tears (for any of us).  I'm not quite ready yet (a long list of projects in my mind before Baby can come), but the thought of our happy family of four has me very excited.