Belly Pics

Since I got my hair cut, actually had at least some make-up on I thought that today would be a good day for Knut to take a belly pic of me. (And of course, Knut had to get a picture of the gorgeous corn field in the background.)

Not too bad for 28 weeks. I’m finally starting to gain some significant weight, and that’s no surprise to me since I’ve been hungry pretty much all day every day. I seem to always gain the vast majority of the weight in the third trimester. I think I about gained the same amount of weight this last month as I have all the previous months of the pregnancy combined. It’s really been tough to keep the kids on their snack/meal schedule when I constantly have food in my mouth. However, if I let them eat food all day, I can’t, because I’m too busy getting it ready for them, cleaning it up after them, and when that’s done and I get to have my portion, another kid comes up and asks for some. So really I’m at the point of either hiding my eating as much as I can from them, and constantly saying no, you have to wait for your snack time. It’s mommy’s snack time now. Actually it’s always mommy’s snack time. I’m such a mean mom.

This baby is extremely active. I feel her move almost constantly. Seriously, I don’t know when she sleeps. She gets the hiccups now a lot too, which is fun. We’re still not any closer on deciding on a name. We’ve narrowed it down to 3, but can’t seem to narrow it any further. We may just wait until she gets here and see if that helps us decide. Names have been moving up and down the list here and there with such fluidity that it may just be the one that happens to be in the #1 spot at the time of her delivery that she ends up with. We’ve never gone to the hospital with more than 2 names on the list, and normally we’re leaning towards one.

Elias was the closest we’ve ever had to an undecided. At the time of his birth, we were 60% leaning towards Elias and 40% towards Ethan. So Elias it was. He pulls the name off pretty well, so I think we did okay. Ironically, Ethan didn’t make it on the list this time if this one were to be a boy. Go figure.

Yup, stickin’ straight out. I’m not really liking how the lady styled my hair today, or maybe that’s just me critiquing pictures of myself. I hate posting pictures of myself. I will anyway. That’s how much I love you guys.