I found this on the Nest this afternoon and thought it was so funny and true:

BIRTH ORDER OF CHILDREN

1st baby: You begin wearing maternity clothes as soon as your OB/GYN confirms your pregnancy.
2nd baby: You wear your regular clothes for as long as possible.
3rd baby: Your maternity clothes ARE your regular clothes.

Preparing for the Birth:
1st baby: You practice your breathing religiously.
2nd baby: You don’t bother because you remember that last time, breathing didn’t do a thing.
3rd baby: You ask for an epidural in your eighth month.

The Layette:
1st baby: You pre-wash newborn’s clothes, color-coordinate them, and fold them neatly in the baby’s little bureau.
2nd baby: You check to make sure that the clothes are clean and discard only the ones with the darkest stains.
3rd baby: Boys can wear pink, can’t they?

Worries:
1st baby: At the first sign of distress–a whimper, a frown–you pick up the baby.
2nd baby: You pick the baby up when her wails threaten to wake your firstborn.
3rd baby: You teach your three-year-old how to rewind the mechanical swing .

Pacifier:
1st baby: If the pacifier falls on the floor, you put it away until you can go home and wash and boil it.
2nd baby: When the pacifier falls on the floor, you squirt it off with some juice from the baby’s bottle.
3rd baby: You wipe it off on your shirt and pop it back in.

Diapering:
1st baby: You change your baby’s diapers every hour, whether they need it or not.
2nd baby: You change their diaper every two to three hours, if needed.
3rd baby: You try to change their diaper before others start to complain about the smell or you see it sagging to their knees.

Activities:
1st ! baby: You take your infant to Baby Gymnastics, Baby Swing, and Baby Story Hour.
2nd baby: You take your infant to Baby Gymnastics.
3rd baby: You take your infant to the supermarket and the dry cleaner.

Going Out:
1st baby: The first time you leave your baby with a sitter, you call home five times.
2nd baby : Just before you walk out the door, you remember to leave a number where you can be reached.
3rd baby: You leave instructions for the sitter to call only if she sees blood.

At Home:
1st baby : You spend a good bit of every day just gazing at the baby.
2nd baby: You spend a bit of everyday watching to be sure your older child isn’t squeezing, poking, or hitting the baby
3rd baby: You spend a little bit of every day hiding from the children.

Swallowing Coins:
1st child: When first child swallows a coin, you rush the child to the hospital and demand x-rays.
2nd child:! When second child swallows a coin, you carefully watch for the coin to pass.
3rd child: When third child swallows a coin, you deduct it from his allowance

And this is yet another attention whore post to point out that we are now entering the third and final trimester as of today. There’s just three months to go now before we greet Olivia!

Olivia was being really active tonight, so I took some video! It may be hard to catch it on the first time through, but watch the belly shortly after I poke at it and tickle it a bit and you’ll notice Olivia reacting to me. It’s pretty neat. I didn’t realize that the babies started doing that at this stage!

And here’s a link to a shorter clip in case you don’t want to download that huge one up top: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etlykN6YkWA.

Long hair sucks. Really it does. It’s very hard to manage and as thick as my hair is, it can take about 30-40 minutes to dry it once it gets past my shoulders. That isn’t fun at all! With Spring coming in (gradually, to my displeasure), I decided to lop off my hair and go short again. Here’s a shot of it at different angles… note that I took the picture myself, so it may look a bit fishbowled in the middle since I was really close to the lense

Alright, Liv and I are back to waiting for Grandma Evy and Grandpa Ed to get in from their long drive!