It’s Really Real

Well, there’s really not that much to write about but since we skipped last week we figured we should probably at least write about something. 

Last Friday we were sitting around the table and Thesha went to get up and bumped her now prominent belly on my chair.  After a quick, “uhh, that hurt.” she made her way to the kitchen but bumped her belly again this time on the countertop.  We both kind of chuckled at the realization that she’s really 8 months pregnant and that means Reagan’s bigger than what you expect.  The funniest part, however, was that Thesha gets an email each Sunday from Pregnancy.com that talks about what’s going on with the baby and what to expect.  Sure enough it said “you may be bumping your stomach on chairs and countertops.”  The email couldn’t have been more timely had they known Thesha personally.

The other realization we’ve had to deal with is that our little boy isn’t a baby anymore but is in fact a little boy.  Those of you with little boys can probably guess what it was that tipped us off.  We went to the park and he was running and playing and it was a great time.  We went back home and I had him sitting on my lap and found myself turning away from him because he smelled like a smelly little boy.  Gone are the days of snuggling up with him and smelling the unique smell of baby powder, milk, and baby spit up.  Now if you snuggle up and take a big whiff, you’ll be the one puking on his shirt instead of the other way around.  Thankfully it won’t be too much longer and we’ll have another little one to snuggle and smell.

In addition to smelling bad, Tyler’s been such a big boy lately.  He’s watched the Leap Frog “Letter Factory” video… oh, about a million times, and he’s starting to learn his letters.  We got him a wooden puzzle with all the letters and he’ll pick up the W and say “wuh, wuh, wuh.”  Or he’ll pick up the H and say “huh, huh, huh.”  When he picked up the B and said “boob” I got a dirty look from Thesha and we spent the afternoon singing “the B says buh” to correct his pronunciation.  (Just joking, by the way.  Relax.)

The last thing for this week is just a quick little story.  If you look back a few blog posts ago you’ll see the video of Tyler meowing.  We were in Target the other day looking at stuff for Reagan and Tyler started meowing.  I looked around and there were some little girl shoes with a Hello Kitty on them and Tyler was meowing back to the Hello Kitty shoes.  It was hilarious.