38 weeks...

I have my 38 week doctor's appointment this afternoon. Dr. Chun will check me for dilation and/or effacement...and there'd better be something to report! I know my due date isn't for two weeks yet...but this kid could easily be like 10 lbs. already...if he seems ready, he's coming out! My vote is for next Friday, May 22nd. We'll see.

I'll keep you posted.

Mountains

Liam has been keeping me updated on the baby girl in his belly. Yesterday he informed me that both he and I have "mountains" in our bellies! I had to take a minute and visualize what it must be like for a little kid to watch a belly get bigger as the baby grows! It probably DOES look like a mountain to him!

Vocab with Liam

Liam has an Elmo's "Great Outdoors" DVD that teaches kids where animals live, in between singing songs with redundant lyrics to the tune of "Jingle Bells." Elmo asks the kids where elephants live and then gives three options to choose from. The correct answer is "grassland" of course, and Liam has really latched on to that. He refers to our yard as the "grassland" and asks "is this the grassland, Mom?" Sure it's the grassland, Buddy! That is too cute!

Liam is also interested in what the wind does, and how it can blow things around. He gets very upset if the wind moves something that he is playing with. He was telling me the other day that he was going to play with his ball, but he will hold on tight so it "doesn't wind away." Ahahaha. "Wind away." There is also an action verb that can be used - "winded," as in "Mama! My ball just winded away!"

Liam's class is learning about how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly (or "a BEAUTIFUL butterfly" according to Liam). He was trying to tell me about caterpillars in the car this morning, but couldn't quite get the word out.

"Ha-kip-ter...Kap-a-tiller...Ha-kip-ter...Mama, do it for me!"

I said "Cat-er-pillar?" and he was finally able to do it. Once. Before reverting back to "Ha-kip-ter." So cute.

Baby Buddies

My friend Kelsey and I are about 4 weeks apart in our pregnancies. It's been fun to be pregnant together, and we're excited to have our kids so close in age! Here we are with our bellies at her baby shower this past weekend!

She is beautiful

Liam says things are "beautiful" quite often, and it's so adorable when he does. Yesterday we played outside after we got home and he drove his truck around the yard. He headed across the yard and around our garden shed where I heard him talking with the little girl next door over the fence. She was dressed up in a blue satin gown and tiara. He'd yell "Hi!" and she'd yell "Bye!" and then they'd switch. Not very stimulating conversation, but I guess it worked for them! I finally told him to come back where I could see him, which he did, reluctantly. He kept asking to go back over there, but I told him he had to stay by me so I could see him. He said,

"But I want to go and see that girl with the blue shirt! She is beautiful!"

Such a charmer.

Spicy Chicken

Liam was chatting with me in the car on the way to daycare this morning. He started talking about spicy chicken and how he doesn't like it. He ate a piece with a little too much spice about a month and a half ago. He hasn't mentioned it until this morning!

He said "And then Auntie Kimmy gave me some of her chicken! And it was NOT spicy!"

He also told me that "when Baby Max comes out, I will TOUCH HIM!"

I told him that he could even hold Baby Max, and he thought about that for a little while.

"I will play on the swings with him and then we will hide!"

I think I'll have to keep a close eye on those two!

He's a REAL BOY!

Liam just recently watched Pinocchio for the first time. His taste in films has always been a little advanced for his age, so I thought we'd see what he thought of this one. Even though all the lying and crazy lesson-learning is a little over his head. He LOVES it.

He loves Jiminy Cricket and the scene with all the cuckoo clocks. He gets so excited waiting for the Blue Fairy to come, and yells "He's a REAL BOY!" after she makes Pinocchio come to life! It's so cute. I could do without the kids smoking cigars and drinking foaming glasses of beer on "Pleasure Island", but it's an old movie and we've just used it as an opportunity to start explaining how smoking is bad. Good segue I guess!

Liam always picks up on the emotions in the film, and he feels such genuine concern for Pinnochio as his dad is looking for him. He is such a sweet kid. Always so happy when the child finally finds his mom and dad again. By the way, Geppetto is Pinocchio's dad and the Blue Fairy is his mom. Who knew?!