30 weeksish

I had my 30 week appt today! The 3-hour GD test came back normal and it wasn't so bad since Link and his momma as well as Z and her daddy came to visit me while I was there! The worst part was all the blood drawing! I had a student do 3 out of the 4 and ... well, lets just say - students are students for a reason!

My appointment today was AWESOME. I saw my favorite lady out of the 5 lady practice and found out that baby #2 is head down. Woot! She said it was too early to "officially" say our baby is head down, but right now - she is. She also explained how sometimes when the baby is in the middle of turning, you can measure big for your date. This week, I wasn't big for my date at all! I was right at 30 weeks. yay! No pregnant lady wants to hear, "oh yea - you are huge." They would prefer to hear, "your baby is growing right on track..."

Her statement also confirmed the ridiculous experience I had one night earlier this week. I was getting ready for bed and I was so uncomfortable - with tons of cramping and pressure on the sides of my stomach. And I realized, holy moly, this child is SIDEWAYS. I could totally tell she was streching out horizontally - and I was freaking out! I think I forgot that babies are supposed to turn or something? And I don't remember noticing with Z, but maybe this one is bigger or something and I was like "this child can not stay like this!!!!" It kept me up for awhile and I was pushing on my stomach and on my hands and knees but nothing was helping! Finally I fell asleep and it was better the next morning, but it was so intense! Crazy kid.

Speaking of crazy kids, here is another one:


Zoe's vocabulary is exploding and I feel like all day long instead of me teaching her English, she is teaching me Z-talk. I understand most of what she says - but I'm sure it stil sounds like jibberish to the outside world. Z is very into confirmation right now also. She'll say what something is, in a mumbled, garbled kind of way, then look at me, waiting for me to repeat her. This is sort of an interesting feat because I would say 1/3 of what she says comes out in Spanish. So sometimes, I have to think about what she could mean and what the spanish word for it is and whether or not that is what she is getting at. She forms little sentences, but mostly asks questions by saying one word raising up her voice at the end. "nack?(snack)" "Miko? (music/musica)" "aw-sssuide? (outside)" She's cute.

She also is quite attached to her bedtime pals. Not because she likes to cuddle them, because she doesn't. Rather, she just likes to know they are there. One of the only ways I can get her to stop rocking and want to go to bed is by saying, "Zoe, are you ready to go to bed with your friends?" At which point she'll sit up, look at her crib and start naming off all her friends who sleep with her. It goes something like this: "puppy, unny (bunny), hoo-ha (she means a monkey, b/c a monkey says 'who, who, ha'), oe (seasame street zoe), cookie, and osthough (oso - bear, in spanish)." it cracks me up. especially the way she says oso. I want to eat her chubby little bilingual cheeks.

On good nights, we plop her in bed and she says "bbbyyyeee momma, bbyyyeee dadda!" And we say, "bbyyee Zoe" as we shut the door. She's a chicken. Always has been... always will be!