Counting Down…
The nesting period has begun! It’s like a light came on 💡and all of the sudden I felt the need to be overly prepared. I’ve started organizing the closet with all the baby stuff but the rest of the house still feels like chaos to me… I just can’t seem to get enough done each day. I believe it to be the psychological pressures of being in the single digits and knowing that he will be here on a certain day. Sometimes surprises are nice things because you don’t feel like you have an exact deadline to have everything done by.
It’s hard to believe how quickly life goes by… I can’t believe that I only have 8 weeks left! I can’t keep stressing out about what I don’t have done and need to focus on what I do have done! I had a checkup on Monday and baby boy sounds good! Heartbeat of 145 and he was moving like crazy! I did have slightly elevated blood pressure so they had me get my blood drawn. I got the results back yesterday and I’m likely just dehydrated! It’s a struggle. They want me to drink a minimum of a gallon of water every day! That’s just the starting point… after that everything is bonus.
Arabella somehow grew like a weed 🌼 in the last few months! She’s gotten so big and so smart. Her reasoning skills have really started to develop! She is reading like a pro now and programs like Your Baby Can read, Starfall, and BOB books have really helped her flourish! The sight words did amazing things for her vocabulary! She looks like a two year old and talks like a four year old and reads like a 6 year old! Give her another year and she will be smarter than me lol. She’s already trying to reason her way out of things!
But with her reasoning skills she has also developed an increased amount of sass and independence. The term threenager makes a lot of sense these days, though to be honest I hate that term. Instead I prefer developmentally on track and ready to thrive. As nice as the idea of my daughter listening to and blindly obeying me is, I know that as her own thoughts develop it means she will be more able to navigate the world in the future. I won’t always be around! Right now as she tests the boundaries and drives me crazy she is preparing for her future. I would never want her to blindly obey others just because she is told to. I want her to ask the annoying questions like “why?”. I want her to be able to think for herself.
I also want her to trust me. I don’t want her to listen to me because I’m the adult or because I’m always right (I’m very clearly wrong at times)… I want her to trust that I am trying to teach her how to survive, how to be safe, and how to have a successful heart. Pride and stubbornness are part of human nature but that doesn’t make them necessary or good. I want to teach her how to fight the things inside of her that control or manipulate her heart from having meaningful relationships by creating selfishness or entitlement. I hope she will learn that I’m doing the best I can for her.
I love this kid! And I love who she is becoming. I love her morning snuggles and her growing concern for others. I love her goofy little smile and when she has two wild and crazy “tail ponies” aka pony tails flying in the Arizona wind.
I love that she calls Beauty and the Beast “Beauty and the Goat” because to her he clearly resembles a goat!
I love that she still calls dinosaurs “dinahorses “and Elmo “El-me-oh”. I love how creative she is and that she loves to dance and sing no matter where she is.
I’m such a lucky mommy! 👩👧