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Oh how I love this girl of mine! She's growing up so fast and is going to make the best big sister, I can just feel it! She is certainly wearing out this pregnant mama though! I keep joking that being at home with her this last week and a half has been MUCH harder work that going to the office every day was. But I wouldn't trade it for the world. I'm really trying to enjoy and cherish these last moments I will ever have with her as my only child. It's so fun to see her personality growing and developing. She can be so sweet and thoughtful at times, and other times so silly that I can't help but giggle with her. My absolute favorite thing that she does right now is to spontaneously tell me that she loves me. Then when I tell her I love her back, it turns into a little game where we each say "I love you" to each other a few times before she says in the cutest little 2 year old voice you've ever heard, "We love each other!" Although it comes ou...

The end is here! (Of tax season that is, not the pregnancy - thankfully - since that would be a tad early for my liking, as well as my doctors, I'm sure!) Time to readjust the schedule to being a stay at home mom and pack up all those cute (but sometimes uncomfortable) maternity work clothes and trade them on on some fun spring outfits. I'm sure the next 7 weeks are going to fly by as the weather gets nicer and my nesting instincts kick into high gear! I'm definitely looking forward to more family time though, and getting back in the habit of cooking dinner, and of course "doing laundry" with my adorable 2 year old! (If you missed last weeks facebook post, the thing that Jenica is most excited about with me being home with her again is doing laundry with me!) Happy Spring Everyone! I hope where ever you are, you got to enjoy some great weather this weekend! And as usual, thanks to my wonderful husband for narrating this weeks collage!

  You can listen along with Jenica to a recording Rob took of the baby's heartbeat. Funny story about heart beats, ever since Jenica got to come to the doctor with us and hear baby sisters heart beat, she now calls all heart SHAPES, heart beats. It's pretty cute, actually. She'll ask to wear her heart beat pajamas and around Valentine's Day she always wanted "heartbeats", the sweethearts heart shaped candies. On a totally unrelated note, I really wished that this post could have read something like... "Mom is 31, Jenica is 31 months and baby is 31 weeks, but alas, that would have been incorrect since I am now the ripe ol' age of 32! And so far being an "older" mom has not been treating me well in the pregnancy department as I'm sure you'll read all about in next weeks post, which should actually be appearing here sometime this weekend since this one is over a week late! Thanks for stopping by my blog and feel free ...

  I can hardly believe we actually have this weeks post done and posted in a timely fashion! I hit the 29 week mark on Wednesday and we got the pictures out of the way this evening so I wouldn't have to worry about it this weekend. After all, I'll be busy doing taxes and taking pictures for other people so better to have one less thing to worry about. Plus, I wanted to show off the fun new maternity style I'm trying after reading about it on another blog. Instead of wearing skirts around the waste, you pull them all the way up and wear them as dresses! Genius I tell you, and super cute with leggings and a jacket! I have about 3 that I can do this with so you may see it again before this little maternity series is done. Jenica and I got to go meet our friends' Jessica and Fabrice's new baby girl yesterday, and now, out of all my friends who are or were pregnant, I am the next one in line! So exciting! It was really fun to hold baby Jada and be reminded of what a mir...