Winter Fun

Here's a 32 month belly shot. I am feeling great, I met again with my specialist this week and everything with the baby looks good. My placenta is still really low, but it has moved a bit, and they don't expect me to have any complications as a result of its location. They won't let me try to deliver naturally unless it moves a bit more, but that isn't a big deal to me since I already had a c-section with Alec and am fine with another one this time around. So, as long as Erat (yes, Matt and Alec refer to the baby as Erat, pronounced E-rat) doesn't decide to come early, we are scheduled to meet him/her on March 8th. At my appt the baby weighed over 4 lbs, so if his/her growth continues on schedule he/she should be another 8lbs +, which is good for us since we are used to Alec and loved the giant baby that he was. I still really think it is another boy, but Matt isn't as convinced, I think b/c he really wants another boy and doesn't want to get his hopes up, and Alec still always refers to the baby as a she, although he will usually say it's a boy if you ask him about the gender outright. So, we will see....

Anyway....We took advantage of the 15 degree weather this morning and headed over to a park a few blocks from our house that just opened a new sledding hill. We couldn't believe how huge it was when they finished it this fall, Matt's guess is 50 ft tall and 300 ft long. It is certainly any kids' dream come true. We were a little timid when we first got there b/c we wanted to see how Alec would do, but he of course loved it, and after a few test runs decided that he wanted to go all the way from the top, all by himself, which he did about 20 times. He would even get going backwards and sideways and wasn't phased, he totally loved it! I think we will be visiting a few more times this winter!

Doing a few mid-way up the hill test runs

Totally into it

Heading down backwards

From the top

and making the long trek back up - what a great calorie burner!