April

Here are a few pictures from April.  The first set is from April Fools' Day, when Tess wore crazy clothes and had crazy hair as a joke.  Then, there's Miles after he put on his jammie shorts, both legs in one side.  He came waddling out, saying something was wrong...but he couldn't for the life of him figure out what it was!

We had a great Easter.  We dyed eggs in the morning, church in the afternoon (and I thought the kids looked so great in their new Easter duds), and then dinner and Easter Egg Hunt at gma & gpa Terry's house.  It was a lot of fun!  Here's a funny kidism from Miles yesterday:  I took him to the bathroom to make sure he would potty.  After a minute I said, "did the pee-pee come?" to which he replied, "Yes! Easter pee-pee!"

Beautiful fruit trees in bloom!

Action shot!

Tess with her cousin and buddy Adrienne

Me & My Torso...

My mom used to always complain that her body was all out of proportion...short legs and a long body.  Even though I'm a bit taller than she was, I got the same proportions.  I've got a long torso.  Shirts are always too short for me.  When I'm pregnant, this can be considered an advantage or a disadvantage...  I remember that with Tess I could wear my regular jeans until I was over 5 months pregnant!  Since she was my first baby I remember wanting to wear regular clothes for as long as possible; I didn't want to "show."  I was happy when people would say "you don't even look pregnant!"  "you're not even showing!" etc.  With Miles I got bigger sooner, and with this critter I got bigger even sooner.  I thought that surely I looked pregnant this time.

Well, once again, I keep getting the comments.  I told Bryan that if I had a nickel for every "you don't even look pregnant!" that I heard, this hospital bill would already be paid for!  I know that people only mean it in a nice, flattering way...but for some reason it's really bugging me this time around.  I am feeling very pregnant, my guts feel very squished, I'm waddling everywhere, my back hurts, I've got heartburn, I'm constipated...all that fun pregnancy stuff, but I guess I don't feel like I get any credit for all that annoying stuff because my belly just isn't that big.

So at my last OB appointment, 3 weeks ago, even my doc said "wow--look at that flat belly!"  I asked her if I need to be concerned because I'm not that big.  She said to not worry about it; I just have a long torso.  She said that the baby had lots of room and that she was just "standing up in there."  Then yesterday I had another OB appointment (I'm now 31 weeks) and my uterus was only measuring 28 cm (it should coincide with the weeks--31).  My doc said that it was just barely within the normal range.  I was really concerned when she told me that at my 28 wk appt I had measured 26 cm...so I was small even then, and I had only grown 2 weeks worth in 3 weeks time, so I was getting more and more behind.  I started to get worried that I might have IUGR again, which is what I had with Tess when they had to induce me because she was not growing.  To put my mind at ease we scheduled an ultrasound for today.  They checked everything and our little critter is right on track.  She still looks perfect and her size is just great.  I felt very relieved.  When I asked the neonatologist today if he had any guesses as to why my uterus is measuring so small, he just said "well, I think it's just your build.  You have a long torso."

So, that's it then.  Me & my long torso.