3rd Trimester Exhaustion

Once I hit ~7 months pregnant, I hit the exhaustion of the 3rd trimester.  I think I feel better than the first time around.  Chasing, squatting, and crawling around with Shayna has probably helped with that but she's also getting more understanding when I sit down and tell her, "Ima need a break."  With SJ due on Jan 29 (or Feb 3 if you ask the docs), we've got 3 weeks to go before he's allowed to enter the atmosphere.  Shayna loves to go to the doctor's/midwife's visits with me to listen to the baby's heartbeat.  (She ask to go this morning.)  She's getting familiar with all 4 faces of the people we meet with, 2 midwives and 2 doctors with a 3:1 women to men ratio.  Overall it seems like a great crew (the one guy doc is the only one from the Shayna's birth but it was only a 2 doc operation then also).  Nahum and I are preparing by filing the massive piles of papers that have accumulated in the office over the last several months.  I'm also planning on cleaning out part of the garage to make room for a freezer (I long to buy in bulk).

Shayna continues to amaze us every day with her new verbal skills.  She started trying to put 2-3 words together about 4 weeks ago, 2 weeks ago the gaps between those words disappeared and this last Thursday she used "me" for the 1st time twice.  She still says "you" a lot ("Ima catch you" "Ima take you" etc) but I'm making an extra effort to start using personal pronouns at least 1/2 the time so she gets a better idea of their usage.  2 weeks ago Sunday she finally made the physical achievement we've been waiting for, climbing into a straight backed chair w/o assistance.  We now have to make sure our computers are closed and there are no glasses of water on the table as she loves to "type" and will grab anything else within her reach.  She's looking more an more like a little girl every day.  Our greatest pleasure is still just watching her play with a close second of gushing to each other over how wonderful and amazing she is.
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I wrote that on Sunday thinking I'd add pictures and videos but no such luck.  Here's a link to the latest video on youtube.

Tomorrow I turn 30!