On the pregnancy front, I've been feeling pretty big recently! I know it will just get worse, which is kind of scary! I've also been having a hard time sleeping because my bump is so big, but other than that, I'm really feeling pretty good. I kind of want my flat belly back and to be able to go running again, but I'm really enjoying being pregnant this time and not wishing it away too quickly like I did last time (at least not yet!). At my last appointment things went well and for once this pregnancy, my thyroid lab work was normal which means no more increasing my Synthroid dose. Yay! And baby seemed to be measuring right where she should be, so all seems well. She moves like crazy and is getting to the point where limbs start reaching into my rib cage, which was one of the things I hated about being pregnant with Tyler. It's rather uncomfortable to have a foot in your rib cage, if you can imagine. Just yesterday I got a nice big bag full of maternity clothes to borrow from my good friend Sarah, so I'm very excited about that as well. Between those and all the stuff my mom's been spoiling me with, I think I will be well-dressed when I start work next week. I wonder what my students will think when their professor literally waddles into the classroom on the first day of class? haha.
On the toddler front, Tyler's just been a blast to be around. He talks SO MUCH, it's crazy. I feel like a month ago he was just starting to put words together, and now he speaks sentences to me. Plus he pulls the most random words out of nowhere... words I feel like I've never said to him before. It cracked me up the other day when I was watching TV and he started repeating random phrases the characters would say, like "muddy shoes." And when he was looking through his toddler Bible today, he randomly said to me "Where's Jonah momma?" haha! My kid is a genius. We still have a lot of uninterpretable phrases though, so it's always and adventure when it's time to figure out what Tyler is trying to tell us. He seems pretty excited for his "baby sis" to come, which is making me very excited for the moment he gets to meet her. It's precious when he pulls my shirt up to give my belly a kiss, or when he puts his hand on my belly and says "kick!" Kids are too much sometimes :-)