Well we're now well into the third trimester. It's hard to believe that we've only got another 80 days or so of this and then we're going to have a new member announcing her presence into this world. But until her arrival we're satiating ourselves on her ever present kicks, stretches, punch and otherwise pronounced movements from my belly. Most of the time she loves to tap dance on my pelvic bones which occasionally sends little nerve zingers down to my toes when she kicks me just right. She has also discovered that mommy's rib cages do not move despite wiggling hands and feet under them in a great effort to get more space, and that if she kicks my diaphragm in such a fashion that I hick-up. She also gets the hick-ups which feels like being somewhere between being amped up on coffee without any food and having a stomach ache literally hit you back... usually if she has the hick-ups she's kicking/hitting/moving at round 30-50 kicks per minute. And every now and then, if she's sitting high up in my belly, we'll see a flash of a little foot or hand stretch across.The glucose tests and all other pregnancy tests have gone well, despite some phlebotomists missing my rather large veins and having to drink a concoction that tasted like the bottom of a snow cone and a sprite. To my great displeasure the medical field has not yet moved on recent studies that show that drinking the gag syrup is the equivalent to eating a bag of M&Ms. I would have paid a lot of money to just have eaten a bag of M&Ms instead. Holly continues her growth as is evident by my spherical expansion. Not only do I seem to be growing in the front and back, but I've also taken to expanding my horizons too. All the better to take up more of the bed I suppose.
The summer has been spent fishing together when we've got time off, preparing for nursing school, working, cleaning up after Sioux panic attacks, and watching Holly move around in the shoebox apartment of my belly. I promise I'll post more photos when I take them, I haven't been terribly vigilant about doing so, but there'll be some more coming I promise.
