26 weeks!

Well, I am now officially 26 weeks into my second pregnancy, and I'm starting to get really excited! Not that I wasn't excited from the start, but as each week passes, I realize how soon the Big Day will actually be here, and I'm eager to start setting up the nursery!

Today I started washing some baby clothes. I'd actually completely forgotten just how small newborn clothes are! It's hard to imagine that in just a few short months I'll get to dress a new little person in these clothes. I can't wait! About a month ago we pulled out all of our baby gear (swing, infant carseat, bouncy chair, etc.) out of storage. Now it sits in my basement waiting for me to find the motivation and the energy to start cleaning everything! It was funny when we pulled out the swing, my two and a half year old daughter really wanted to sit in it and swing! I had to tell her a few times that she was now much too big to sit in there. She used to just love her swing though! She settled for just "swinging" it back and forth while Mommy and Daddy continued to pull out all the rest of the stuff.

In other news, we're potty training. So not fun on any level. I wish we were done already. We've been at this for what feels like forever, but in reality, it's only been like 6 or so months. Up until now we've just had a casual approach to it, but now I'm really getting eager to get her fully trained. I don't want to have to be buying diapers for a newborn and pull-ups for my preschooler. She turns three in June, and I really hope she's trained by her birthday. I'm also determined to have her trained so she can start preschool in the fall. It's not that she doesn't understand the concept of going on the potty, it's just that she'd really rather not. It can be super frustrating for me when she fights me every morning when I want to put her in big girl underwear. Oh well, this is just a stage, and I know she WILL one day (hopefully in the very near future) use the potty full time like everyone else. It's not like she'll walk down the aisle on her graduation day still in diapers! :D Heck, it's not like she'll be starting kindergarten still in diapers! Right now, I just have to remind myself that she'll let me know when she's really truly ready to be done with pull-ups. She's incredibly bright, advanced for her age even, if you ask me (am I biased?!?), and her vocabulary is beyond her years, so this Next Big Step will come soon. I guess this mommy will just have to be patient.