We put the tabs in the slots, taped the edges, stoked the coals, debated and negotiated who would be driver and who would be engineer, and chugga-chugga woo-wooed into the wild west wherever the rails would take us.
Oh, there's nothing like a cardboard train.
We'll take it from here. Get the triangle, get the kazoo.
Get the crayons and the markers.
We'll need some privacy too, Dad.
Cling clang. Woo woo!
Scribble Scribble Scribble. Blue. Red.
The inside is looking great!
Scribble yellow.
A coat of green.
Get the side. Color the controls.
Oh there's nothing like a cardboard train....
And privacy. We'll need that privacy now please.
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...
Dad says "Why are there clothes out here?"
"Why are you being so quiet?"
"Why are you blue and red and yellow and green?"
Oh! There's nothing like getting naked and coloring your body and feet and brains inside a cardboard train!
Post-script: I followed the green foot prints from your bathroom to ours, and found you, Aidan (after drawing on yourself) had drawn yourself a nice warm bath and cleaned yourself up!
Wow! Is it already week 34? Let's check the bump size:
Yup. That looks like a 34 week belly to me! And I think your mother would agree with me. Her aching feet ache, her pregnancy-arthritic hands hurt, she's suffering from dunlap disease so much that when she sits down in a chair her belly (aka, you, young lady) are resting on the chair itself! She's having difficulty breathing at night, feeling rather large and inactive and sluggish and generally very, very pregnant.
If any of that sounds negative, it's not. It's very, very positive! You're growing, baby, and with growing comes some growing pains from time to time. But right now, with 6 weeks to go, we are just happy you're thriving so well in there!
We're getting ready for you to come too. In fact, the nesting has kicked into high gear. We've reorganized yours and Aidan's closet (and re-installed all the shelves that fell out after that happened), we've organized your wardrobe, added extra storage cubes for your personal effects, gone shopping a few more times to add to your wardrobe even more (pinks and yellows and reds, oh my!). We've sold some old stuff and bought you some new stuff (double stroller, new bouncy chair, new swing!) and even assembled most of the new arsenal of baby stuff.
The boxes are making a certain someone quite happy:
Namely me! I'm building a large cardboard train! Choo choo!
But, really, we're all getting happy in expecation of your arrival. I mean today you're the size of an acorn squash, but soon you'll be the size of a newborn baby...because that's what you'll be. And we can't wait.
Developmentally, it now says that you can recognize and react to simple songs. These very songs may actually even soothe you when you come out! That's great, because we do a LOT of singing, and lately everyone's been getting in on the act.
In the quest to get Aidan back sleeping through the night, we've started over with sleep training. Which means back to the days of Lullabye medleys at night. So you'll love "Return to Pooh Corner" (which Aidan requests nightly "Pooh song please," "Somewhere over the Rainbow," "The End," "Golden Slumbers," and so much more.
In fact, your Mom says you really seem to like it when she sings "Return to Pooh Corner" to Aidan at night time.
Plus, you may also start to recognize your brother's lovely singing voice too, as he's recently learned a few new songs and gotten more comfortable belting out a tune or four:
And, whether or not you'll be a singer, we'll just have to wait and see...but, we already know that you're going to be a dancer. Check out these moves!
Soon you'll be a little baby out here in the world; until then you're a wonderful bouncy, big, rambunctious bump. If you keep dancing, we'll keep singing. Both You and Aidan are my sunshine, and you'll never know how much I love you.
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