Alright - is this Max or Bebo?!?! I didn't realize it when I took this picture of Max that he looked so much like his cousin Albert, but he sure does in this picture at least! Max is getting so big, he's pulling himself up on just about anything and I got a video from his Mama this weekend of him walking behind a cart! Not long before that little guy is all over the place!
I did get to see Emma and Max for a short while in CO - not long enough of course! We hung out at Mamie and Nick's for a little while and Max got to fall in love with Shelby (the Woods' puggle that loved to lick Max's ears clean!) and then we went to (wait for it....) eat! I did a lot of eating that weekend. It was all so yummy though.
Here we are at the restaurant where Max was so well behaved. He just ate his snacks and goo and enjoyed all the cool colors and decorations in the restaurant.
Alright now anyone with kids...or a dog...knows how restless they can get when the weather isn't ideal for playing outside. A week or so ago it was raining and blowing so we didn't want to have Massey out in the mud and rain - this is how badly she wanted to go out!
Now, you wouldn't believe, but that rain changed to 70's...and then days later this is what we woke up to find!!!
Massey LOVES the snow, although it did take her a few tries outside to remember what it was - and that it was fun to run through and stick her nose into and fling snow up in the air then chase after it.
And when boring (cold prego) Mama made her come inside, this is pretty much what she did the entire time!
Now on to updates on baby and the pregnancy. Let's start with my lovely feet! Remember about my new swelling issues? These are my feet AFTER the swelling goes down. Don't think they look bad? I have cute feet - for as cute as feet can get at least. I have nice small ankles (to offset what have become huge calves and thighs) that I have often appreciated all too little until experiencing cankles!!!! You can see here that the mush of swell in my right foot still hadn't gotten rid of the sock mark and although I see things much worse than anyone else, it looked like I sprained my left ankle, minus the bruising!
What happens when you put tight socks on feet that never had the swelling go down from the day before - then jam them into shoes only to sit under a desk pooling water retention all day???
Still not bruised, just the marks from what my largest pair of shoes does to me! You can see here that the swelling runs up my legs a bit here too. Ahhh the joys.
Baby is doing well - better than Mom at least! Lots of lots of movement. Less kicks and punches, now more large movement waving across the belly. We have the hiccups a lot - A LOT!
With all the miracle of life, creating life, blah blah blah - I will be ungrateful only for just a moment (knowing full well that once this baby is out, there will be times I'd pay to experience this again...) - I want my body back! Baby movements are cool at first, then the baby gets really big and sleeps quite often...but then it wakes up and moves and scrapes and kicks and rolls and hiccups, which all are not all that pleasant! Not to mention the horrible sweats I get when I have low blood sugar and need to eat. Literally had to change my shirt because I was dripping sweat from my forehead all the way down my back and stomach - sweat glands were in full force. But then once I ate just a little bit, all was fine.
Okay - I'll try and stop the complaining for now. I have less than 7 weeks left and am hoping baby doesn't take it's own sweet time coming out! I want a healthy baby, but I also want to be abe to walk normally vs. penguin style even just from the living room to the kitchen-all of 10 feet!
We are down to our official count-down after Thanksgiving which is next week already (?!?!?!?!).
The family shower is next Sunday, then we have Thanksgiving...and we're down to 5 weeks!!!! So excited - this past weekend, while snowed in for most of Saturday, I got a ton of baby stuff washed, hung, organized - gone through, etc.... I'm ready to add some pink or blue to the plethora of yellow, green and white!
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