The Long Awaited Belly Shot

After weeks of much pestering from my sister and my mom, here's a new belly shot...it looks big, it feels big, and it only promises to get bigger. I am entering into the third trimester at 28 weeks. There are definitely some interesting things happening...I no longer sleep through the night about every other night, because Bean kicks me awake, or I get up to go to the bathroom and then get a sudden hunger that leads to a bowl of cereal. My ribs feel like they are falling apart, all these relaxing hormones pregnant women's bodies release help things to shift to make room for the baby. And sometimes I have a little bit of blurry vision, or a sudden numbness in one leg, all responses, I've been told, to circulation being compromised by the position of the baby. But really, I feel great. I am especially thankful to get out with Juniper once or twice a day, we take a 15-20 minute power walk, and it gets the blood flowing. And I do love the constancy of Bean's kicks and movement. This is my last travel month in my WAND job before Bean's arrival. On Friday afternoon I flew to Minneapolis to do a training on Saturday morning, then arrived back in Asheville at 11:30pm on Saturday night. Whew! One more trip to DC, then one to Atlanta at the end of the month, not to mention our impending road trip up to Michigan, over to New Jersey, and back for Thanksgiving. It's all exciting stuff, but I'll also be grateful when December rolls in and we hunker down at home a little more. Who knows? Maybe we'll even be in the new house in January.