Warming Up

 Baby

I haven't taken many baby bump pictures this pregnancy, as my mother has reminded me. So here is a 37-week-old baby bump so I don't miss how huge I have gotten. It's hard to want to take pictures when I feel so bloated and I don't dress up very often. I barely wear makeup unless I'm going to church so I get self-conscious about pictures, they say you get a pregnancy glow, but I don't feel like I did. With 3 weeks to go, we are all getting pretty excited and impatient to meet him so I wonder if he will arrive before the due date or keep us all waiting. I personally would welcome him sometime this week...being born during week 37 isn't too early right??

Claire

Her week at school was good and we got a progress report on her reading that says her testing this past month was much better which means she was probably paying attention this time. We are still reading every day and keeping her practicing, but now I know to focus on reading comprehension most. I found some new books in a community library at a park about a subject she likes and we practiced by having her just listen to what I read on one page then let her look at the pictures and try to tell me what just happened in the story. Shay can be distracting sometimes and makes it hard for her, but she did well for a 6-year-old I think. As our snowmen melted this past week, she was sad our baby was all gone but said mommy looked scary. It does remind me of an alien looking right up at our bedroom window in the picture, but now it is nothing but a 3-inch tall pile as of the end of today. 

Shay

We did some painting as an activity this week and she looked cute in her hat and tie-dye shirt as she was painting so I snapped a picture. She looked like a little artist! I was working on a little project that I was given by someone for Christmas and she painted Princess Aurora. I'm glad she asked to paint because I did need to get that project done eventually and now I can use it for next Christmas. I'm having fun seeing her be excited to do her schoolwork every day and seeing how much she knows already. It's hard to tell her she needs to not do her homework without me, but sometimes I find some of the pages completed already. She is getting impatient for her birthday and telling me it is taking forever for it to get here, probably because she keeps getting reminded that Nana and Grandpa Cox are coming to visit for it!