The Belly - Large and in Charge!

Well here we are at the start of or 34th week!  Only 6 weeks away from the due date!  AAHHH!  Panic in the streets!  Haha! Just kidding!
~ Had another good doctors appt last week~  my weight is up (total of 22 lbs gained), baby is head down and VERY active,  and the belly is finally measuring right where it should.... meaning it has definitely popped out over the last 2 weeks.... at last i legitimately look pregnant! I am also feeling more pregnant than I have yet... meaning i get short of breath while walking to the bathroom 20 times each day, drop things and have a tough time picking them up, cry easily and get thanksgiving-style full after eating half a sandwich.... only to be starving again an hour later.... Lucky for me I am married to the best husband in the world, as he is extremely patient, ties me shoes for me, takes me for McDonald's hot fudge sundaes as needed,  and also helps me put things in perspective (after the tears have stopped, of course).  We are both getting pretty psyched to meet our little man!  I could not do this without him... He is the best!!!

Here are a couple of pics of the belly~  

Here's the traditional bathroom-mirror-self portrait

 And then I talked Chuck into taking a full pic, specifically per your request, Ashley Q!  (ps, i really miss you!) We had just taken a walk and it hit me that our usual walk is morphing into a slower stroll...i am sure the full fledged waddle is waiting right around the corner! .... I am amazed at this whole process...i feel like right now is definitely the calm before the storm, and i am trying to soak it up before life gets to a whole new level of crazy and i laugh at the endless hours of free time and me time that i once had~

Of course we are enjoying our last months of spoiling our dog (and praying that we will get to keep him after the baby comes) .... here are a few fun pics of our "proud lil puppy".  We are still workin on his obedience and his place in the pack... sometimes i think he might be getting it....

Where's Linus?  He matches our carpet!

Also, I recently discovered that Linus has hording tendencies.... I had read that his access to his toys should be limited, as we are still trying to teach him that he is NOT top dog in our house... i keep all of his toys on a tall stool next to the couch, where he cannot reach them.  The other day he kept staring at the stool, sitting in front of me and then giving me "paw" (yes, we taught our dog to fist bump on command)... so i kept giving him one toy at a time, just to see what he would do.... this was the end result...

He piled all of his toys around his little bed, and was just sitting there staring at them all.... he makes me laugh~