Sooo ready to have this baby! My hips hurt all the time. I don't remember whether it was this bad or possibly worse with S, but that's good, hopefully I'll forget about this pain eventually too. It's an exercise in extreme torture getting up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Luckily, I don't have to go 5 times a night like with S, just once or twice. Contractions are painful and often, but nothing regular, of course LOL. Other than the hip pain, it's really not that bad. I have more energy than I thought I would at this point. Some days I feel like taking a nap, but it's really just for a short window midday, not all day long I need to lie down like it was during the first trimester. I'm having more and more trouble picking up S, which bothers me because I like holding him and bothers him b/c he likes being held LOL. My back has just started hurting last night, which is pretty late in pg for it to start, so I'm lucky that way too. M is being great. It's like he's nesting right along with me. He's got this list of projects to get done around the house and he's determined to get the all done. It's really nice to see him taking such pride in doing things well, instead of just getting them crossed off his list. I'm so lucky, I married a wonderful man! He's also been a big help around the house, seeming to know when I need help and when I need him to back off - which is good because lately I don't seem to know where that line is. Probaby why my hips have been so bad. It bothers me soo much to be so dependent on him to do normal stuff for me. I felt bad asking him to take out the garbage yesterday, because it's such a stupid simple task, I should be able to do it myself. I feel liek "I can't" has become way too common in my thoughts lately! I've been taking Tylenol pretty much constantly the last few days. Going to the doc in a couple of hours, hopefully she'll say there's progress, but I'm prepared to hear her say there's not. Thursday is my prediction, we'll see...

S is doing great. My worries of autism are not completely gone, but his talking has increased considerably and he's starting to wave. Still no real words, but he's using all different constanant sounds throughout the day instead of just sticking wiht one for a few days and then switching to another. His intonation is that of full sentences and words, jsut in another language. LOL. He's getting so big and so fast. He's almost running now. I was looking at the pics we had done in Nov for Christmas and it's almost like he's a different little boy, his face is so much more mature. I noticed muscle tone on his calves yesterday for the first time. He's losing a lot of the baby fat. His appetite has decreased a bit. He was eating like a horse when he first started walking, but now not so much. I don't worry about that though, he's growing and healthy, and I don't want to teach him to eat more than he needs to be satisfied. We have a little hand signal for "all done" which he uses when he's finished and I get him down immediately.

The dogs are getting better training-wise. Big set back yesterday when Danger knocked S over cause he was so excited to see FIL. I was soooooooooooo mad!! They are better today, and M offered to do some doorbell drills with them and me, which I think might help a lot.

Got bottles and diapers ready to go. Can't imagine what more I need for Rachel's arrival LOL. Four weeks from today at the latest. It's getting close!!!

Oh well, off to run errands and go to the doc!