22 Months old and 36 1/2 weeks prego

I can't believe in two short months Tanner will be 2! The last year has flown by. Tanner is starting to put more words into sentences, he's letting us know what he does or doesn't want or like which is nice and he's starting to like finger painting, coloring etc. activities more. He still tells me everything is yellow even though it's red, green or what ever color. But we are working on the colors and numbers so hopefully he'll start recognizing them a little bit more. I need to start working with on him on other activities as well but my energy has really plummeted the last few weeks. Hopefully I'll be able to get him in more of a learning routine once Hayden is here and I have my energy back. He still loves tractors, bicycles, his sand box, water, going "wee" down slides, walking to see the animals or any other outside activity we can do. I think he would live outside if he could. Here are a couple pictures from this morning.

He still loves his two bb's (what he calls his baby blankets)

 They were giving the sheep a hair cut (shearing) at the animal park by our house this morning when we went on our little walk so he had to watch for a while. Especially since the clippers made a noise like the one he and daddy use when they cut their hair :) I'm not sure if you can see the sheep in the background.

 So cute in a hat! This is the same hat aunt Allison and uncle Ted gave him for his 1st Christmas :)

 

 Stopping to look at some of his favorite animals.

 

 
Pregnancy update:  I hit the 36 1/2 week mark today and my goodness and I feeling every bit of HUGE. Bending over, getting up and down, doing normal every day tasks and just moving around seems to be getting harder and harder. Dan has started giving Tanner his bath when he's home so that's been a nice relief. This pregnancy has been so different from the last one. I got to see another doctor last week at my appointment since my doctor is on holiday which was nice. I was able to get a second opinion about what I should do. I had a C-section with Tanner at 41 1/2 weeks and over here they do not make you have a C-section with your next pregnancy just because you had one the first time. They prefer for you to try for a vbac and then go to a C-section if necessary at 42 weeks. Well, Tanner would have never came out on his own and I'm not waiting until 41 1/2 to 42 weeks again. That was awful!  So the doctor I met with last week recommended that I schedule my C-section for 39 1/2 weeks and if Hayden comes before then on his own then we'll see what happens and if not then they will take him via C-section and I will have to stay in the hospital for 4-5 days. I gained quite a bit of weight last time but most of it was water weight since I'm pretty swollen in my hands/feet/legs.

Here is a picture from this morning before we went on our walk. I haven't been very good at taking pictures this go around and it's not the best...but it's an update :) I've only gained 30 lbs as of last week which is MUCH better than I did with Tanner. Hopefully I don't gain to much more these last 3 weeks so I will have an easier time losing it!