30 week appt

Quick update:
I had my 30 week update. Nothing too exciting which is I guess what you want. It had been 8 weeks since I had seen the doctor. My uterus measured perfectly for 30 weeks size. My hemaglobin, platelets and glucose leves (diabetes test) were all fine. I will see them again in my 34th week.

I have been feeling more and more tired. I am easily susceptible to dehydration and have had stomachaches and sickness related to that recently, with all the heat we're experiencing. I no longer have the strength or energy to chase Kaylee around when she is avoiding wanting her diaper changed or running away while dressing her. I just calmly wait for her to come back now or else Eric helps. My emotions are more at the forefront. So I have been trying to remain as calm and stress-free as possible but hard to do at times with a toddler throwing tantrums. I'm feeling like it would be great to have a vacation - it's been an awful long time. But we're saving my time off for the leave I'll be taking. Maybe I'll take an extra day around the 4th or something...

The baby is kicking a lot. There are times I can see the whole belly move like bowl of jelly right in front of you. Eric was astonished to be kicked by the baby last night while we were watching TV. He's like "did you just hit me?" I smiled, "No, that was the baby." In the past three weeks or so, I can distinguish a knee, foot or butt. He's very active, perhaps slightly more than with Kaylee but it's really hard to remember how active she was - I remember a lot of kicking from her too. Moms out there maybe you can identify with this...there are a lot of times I forget that I'm pregnant. I told Eric pregnancy is just a state not a lifestyle. People look at me for longer, stare openly or else smile a lot more than usual at me and my first reaction is always like, "What? What are you looking at?" And then I remember that I am so utterly pregnant people just have a reaction to that. I have continued to get the "are you having twins" comment. Looks like I'm on track to gain about the same amount that I did with Kaylee. I got really really large with her in the end. I already feel very stifled in this weather, I can't imagine what another few pounds and outward growth will do to me.

Don't know if I've said but now Kaylee talks about that she's going to be a big sister. I have been reading her a book about new babies in the family called, "Hello Baby." Kaylee rocks her baby, kisses her baby after a fall, enjoys still changing baby's diaper and putting it in her stroller. She rocks her baby in her arms singing "Rock a bye baby in the treetop" or "Hush little baby."