Heggy Blog

That’s what little boys are made of.

Or in this case, monkey tails… Sometime last month James became obsessed with Andrew’s belt. One morning I woke up and James was trying desperately to tear Andrew’s belt away from him. Andrew was trying to put it on so he could go to work, but James was using all of his weight to pull it away from him. James won. The entire day he dragged the belt around behind him, eventually having us stick one end into his pants so that he could have a “tail.” He has been our little monkey ever since. He runs around the house with his tail and has even slept with it many nights.

Yesterday, he would not rest until I had a tail too. So I went upstairs and found one of my belts and stuck into the back of my pants. We spent the morning being monkeys together. It’s so fun to be a little kid again!

James making his monkey noises

(20 weeks)

And getting bigger…

(25 1/2 weeks)

And bigger…

(just over 29 weeks)

And BIGGER!

(33 1/2 weeks)

The countdown is on! Just 5 1/2 weeks to go!!! We went to my 33-week check-up on Monday and the doctor asked us if we wanted to schedule and induction or wait for the baby to come on his own. Hmmm…Not much to think about there. I’ve experienced going into labor on my own and won’t be too sad if it never happens again ; and since we have a little bit of a drive to the hospital (and Andrew has terrified me enough, saying I’m going to have our baby on the side of the freeway), we chose the induction. Oh…and my doctor is going to be out of town May 2nd–my due date. So I’m going to be induced April 26th (unless he decides to come even earlier). Now that I know I’m not going to be going over my due date, I’d like him to stay put; I need every bit of the 5 1/2 weeks to get ready and enjoy my time with James. It’s weird that we won’t have all the one-on-one time that we’ve always had.

Andrew and I were finally able to officially celebrate our five-year anniversary. We seem to frequently celebrate it in February because December is just a crazy month. We went down to Las Vegas a week and a half ago and spent two nights there. It was a little stressful to leave James because I didn’t want him to regress with potty training, but he did really well (just a couple accidents and none since). It was also so nice to have a whole weekend with Andrew! It has been a really long time since we’ve had that much time together.

We arrived Friday afternoon. Our first date was dinner and a movie. We went to The Cheesecake Factory for dinner and played some arcades while we waited for our late movie to start.

Us after our yummy meal!

The next morning, I got locked in the bathroom for about forty-five minutes after taking my shower. We had to have a maintenance guy come and break the knob off. I only had a teeny tiny towel–with my bulging belly–with which to cover myself, so I stood in the shower behind the curtain until he was done. Oh fun. We only stayed there because of their “buy one night, get one night free” deal…it’s a good thing it was cheap.

Luckily it was a very large bathroom, so I had no chance of getting claustrophobic. This is only half of it.

After that ordeal was over, we went to the Hoover Dam. Fun to see once. I don’t think we’ll ever go again.

Looking down.

A new bridge being built.

That night we went to “The Phantom of the Opera”; I LOVED it! It was my first time seeing it, besides the movie. Andrew got us front-row seats, and we were so close we could see the spit flying from of the actors’ mouths. Probably more than we wanted to see, but it was cool that we were that close.

And…last week I went to lunch at Pirate Island Pizza with my best girlfriends and their cute kids! We went to celebrate Chelsea’s birthday. I love these girls and really need to see them more often!

Happy Birthday Chels!

James in his pirate hat that was way too big.

This past week we’ve been spending a lot of time in here…

Reading a lot of these…

James has had a lot of naked time…

And he’s learning to do this!

So far so good! He’s only had a few accidents since he began a week ago (besides naps and nights when he’s in a diaper). I’m so proud of my little boy. He is doing so well and LOVES to cheer for himself when he’s done. It has gone so much better than I expected…

He kept his arms in front of his face like this, and when we tried to get him to move, he flipped over completely.

So we got this shot. Still cute though.

And I’m measuring a week ahead! I measured small with James and he still came early. We may have an April baby (fingers crossed!).