Lately, B's vocabulary is expanding even more and you never know what will come out of her lil mouth! Here are a few stories:

1) Last week it was so hot that by the time I got home I have to change clothes as soon as I walked in the door. So I would push my pants down as far as I could and then asked B to grab the legs and pull them off for me because I could not reach and it would hurt my stomach to try to lift my legs. This happened about 2-3 days. Well, this weekend I was changing from shorts to pants to run a quick errand and B starts jumping on the bed saying "Yeah mommy, GOOD JOB!" repeatedly. I didn't know why she was saying this at all, so I asked her "What did mommy do?". She says "You took your pants off AAAALLLLLLL by yourself!" and kept praising me for it. All I could do was just stand there and look at her and chuckle...she left me speechless & dumbfounded..it was hilarious!

2) A couple of weeks ago i had on a pair of shorts that had a drawstring and I didn't tie it. She comes up to me and says "I need to tie it mommy so baby sister doesn't come out". If she only knew!

3) This past weekend, I was sitting on the couch and my tank had rode up a little so my belly was showing just a little and she says "mommy, how come your belly always show, I pull your shirt down for you!". I just sat there again not knowing what to say to that...too funny.

Lately, all she talks about is her sister and says "When sissy gets here, she gonna wove [love] her room!". Everyday she talks about her with excitement, so we will see if that lasts when L gets here.

Other than that, she has been throwing horrible tantrums, and we are trying to figure out if it is related to lil sister or if this is just a 2 year old thing. Right now, we can't tell, but she spends so much time in trouble these days. Oh well, we keep telling ourselves this too is just a phase and will pass as some point! We love her so much!!

This is in my 35th week. I thought the first picture was kinda funny because this is usually how B and I are looking at each other when I am getting on to her...always a standoff!
Things are about the same, except I am even more uncomfortable trying to sleep at night and am definitely beginning to suffer from sleep deprivation; whoever said that doesn't happen until after the baby gets here was wrongo dongo! I am literally counting down the days until we get to meet her! Each night I alternate sleeping between the couch, bed, and recliner - yes, that is all in one night. The other night I started off in the bed, then went to the recliner, then sofa, and ended back in the recliner...anything to get some kind of sleep. The house is now set to a cool 67 degrees at night because I am burning up. Poor J is sleeping with all the covers he can get a hold of and hates crawling out of bed in the morning because he is freezing. LOL!

My aunt was kind enough to take some pregnancy pictures for us. It was a completely different experience than when I took them when I was pregnant with B - mainly because this time we had a 2 year old running around and not cooperating. Here are just a few pictures that I have been able to go through so far. I also included some of the candid ones to show how well B did not cooperate. Enjoy! This is at 34 weeks.

We went to my parents for the weekend so they could help me with B while J worked. July 4th evening we went to see fireworks. All day, B was excited about fireworks and talked about them! We got to the park and she could see fireworks in the distance from another show that was going on and was loving it for a few minutes. Once our show started, it was a way different story. She got scared, covered her eyes, and climbed up into J's arms. She did not like the "boom" sound and would not lift her head up to give the show a chance - maybe next year! On the way back to my parents, she was pointing out all the fireworks going on in the sky, but said "Don't roll my window down!". She did not want to hear the noise still!

We threw a baby shower for a true best friend of mine! We have known each other since 7th grade, which puts that at about 16 years so far! She is having a boy and we are 5 days apart. No, we didn't plan this! Here are both our bellies and the cake I made for her shower. I have to say that I am pretty proud of this cake!