One Last Year

saturday was my 29th birthday



spent the morning at my nephew's birthday party

 

had some much needed alone time reading magazines at barnes & noble

 

watched in awe as erik swept/mopped the floors

and did tons of dishes

 

was surprised with an official date night

(paid babysitter, movie, and even popcorn and drinks included - so much fun; thanks honey!)

 

besides erik gifting me with most of my responsibilities fulfilled for the day, the best part was hearing claire say "happy birthday mommy"

 

can't believe I have one year left in my 20's

 

makes me feel like after 10/20/2013 I will officially

be a GROWN ADULT - yikes!

 

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only took one picture on my special day:

my 24 week (6 month) baby bump photo

 

this last year in my 20's is going to be very eventful - the most important

occurrence being the birth of our son; I can't wait

 

strange to have entered the six month territory, yet I also feel like it's taking

forever and I should be delivering this little guy any day now

 

thankfully, I have much more energy than I did when I was pregnant with Claire

 

slight nausea in the early months, back aches at night, a little heart burn,

and a meager amount of exhaustion have been the only issues so far

 

although, I do feel like it's only downhill from here on out: getting bigger and feeling more

and more like a stuffed sausage will not be fun during the holidays

 

and I am definitely not looking forward to the unintentional insulting comments that take place

from here on out when people look at you and say "oh honey, you look so uncomfortable and

tired...when are you due?" seriously - why do people say such nonsense?!

 

in all honesty though, it really has been an almost perfect pregnancy to this point

 

hope it continues that way!