My nextdoor neighbor got a hot tub recently and invited me to come over with the boys this afternoon…. I know that hot tubs are not too good when pregnant because of high temps, especially temps over 100 so I asked her before at what temp she maintains it… 92-94!! So perfectly fine for me to stay as long as I want….

So me and the boys headed over and soaked in the hot tub for about 20 min… Once Colin got a bit less shy and started liking the water and bubbles he would “swim” between my neighbor and I and when she had him I was able to relax and get some jets on my back….she was also having tons of fun with Xavier showing him all the buttons and Colin with him calling her “mamie” (grandma)…

I am very happy to have a neighbor like her… she has 2 grown children, she works as a teacher at an adult-ed school a few minutes away so is home often… We share recipies and cooking tricks, I bring her treats, bread and other things that I make and she lends me garden tools and other things….

We are having trouble with our pool losing water and I went to get a replacement piece and was having trouble getting the other off and she brought me a tool and helping hands and then offered her garden hose to help fill the pool back up (since I had to take a bit of water out to change the piece….

Anyways… she told me that I can make a “reservation” in the hot tub at any time, especially just before going to bed after the kids have gone to sleep… I think as the pregnancy progresses I won’t hesitate to take her up on that offer…

Well, we are in a phase that both boys are sleeping though the night and only coming into bed in the morning to nurse… It feels really good to have a full nights sleep, even though I don’t really notice when I nurse during the night… Colin has been joining us at about 5am, sometimes later, Xavier at around the same time… and they have both been sleeping in at times… (of course not the same days)….

Colin is also in the phase of not napping at all in the daytime anymore… however, by about 5 pm he is ready to fall… So, the last two days he fell asleep in the late afternoon and has had a lot of trouble falling asleep at night… Full blown Tantrums, wanting to nurse constantly but wanting to switch every two seconds, pushing against me etc… Thankfully I have Simon’s encouragment and the reminder that it is just a phase and like all other phases it will be short lived…

Xavier never had tantrums like this, Colin is just something else… who would have thought that this quiet little boy would turn into a devil child at times… Maybe he was reacting to that whole 666 date thing that everyone was talking about yesterday that I am still a bit confused about… (it wasn’t year 6 it was 2006 and it wasn’t the sixth year of the millenia as people where saying, it is the seventh year…) anyways…

Phases… How can people believe that we should know what to expect with a child when we are goin through these constant phases in their devolopment… the good ones and the bad ones… we get though them one day at a time and eventually they will pass…. that’s life… just one phase after another…

The babe is moving more and more now these last few days… for a few weeks now I have been feeling flutters but now I am feeling way more movement… it is still light but noticable…

This is my favorite part of pregnancy… feeling the babe move inside, feeling the life that growing inside me… it is when I start feeling the babe that the pregnancy becomes real to me… Hearing the heart is the first step… but actualy feeling the movement is just the best and just those movements excuse any of the discomforts that may come with pregnancy…

We can record everything about pregnancy (the heartbeat, take pictures etc)… all but the feeling of the babe move inside…