HALFWAY!!!

We are about halfway to meeting little Bambino! Although part of me wants to speed up the next 20 (or so) weeks, I also know I'm not mentally prepared for a newborn. This has been evidenced by Kylie not sleeping through the night for the past week as she's been waking up with ear trouble every night. I am not a nice person when I'm awaken, especially if it's just by crying, not her telling me what is wrong. I have a fairly short amount of time to fix this! And Jon has an equal amount of time to be sure his selective hearing is in tact (that miraculously appeared by about Kylie's second week of life).

Bambino is on the move much of the time which worries me a tad, but so far hasn't kept me from sleeping or relaxing (yet!). Jon has felt the baby move, but Kylie just isn't patient enough to keep her hand there without moving or talking long enough. I would guess within a week or two she'll be able to feel it pretty easily. I'm still more tired than I ever remember being with Kylie and I've chosen to attribute it to the 5 years I've accumulated since being pregnant last. Oh, and the sassy frass whose main mission each day is to push her mother to the brink of insanity.

We continue to work on Kylie's new room, but have hit a road block; a huge hole in the plaster wall. We have somebody coming to look at it and hope they can fix it; we were going to try until we realized it was literally soft and crumbling in spots, not just cracked. Definitely not a perk of an old home, but we'll deal with it and move on.

I find it a bit ironic how being pregnant results in a) the only conversation people are willing to have with me is about that and b) all the unsolicited advice a pregnant woman ever wanted. Both are equally annoying and comical, depending on the day!