I love being pregnant...more than I ever imagined! The little guy is a serious mover. I feel him all throughout the day and the other morning he actually woke me up with his flailing. Yesterday morning as Brett and I lay in bed, we both watched my stomach ripple as he was "getting his exercise" as Brett calls it. We started chatting about our precious baby and our absolute amazement of his growing little body. My goal throughout my pregnancy has been to enjoy each and every stage. I hear all the time "I can't wait for... the baby to come" or "...the baby to start smiling" or "....the baby to start crawling". It's so ironic that these same people in the end say "I just wish my baby was a baby again" or " I want to be pregnant and have a belly again." I am trying to embrace every stage of my pregnancy. Don't get me wrong, I think about being able to hold him for the first time every day! As Brett and I started to talk about how our lives will change he said "I just can't wait until he can recognize me and get excited when I come home." I quickly made the point of enjoying is development as he grows. Living in the present and not in the future is something that doesn't come easy but is very rewarding in the end. Feeling his little movements makes my heart flutter and is a constant reminder of how very blessed we are to have him growing so healthy and strong. I love my little boy more than anything in the world!
No-More Belly Shots. My Mom was horrified when she saw that I posted a picture of my bare belly on my blog a while back. She said "Grandma looks at your blog!!" I think it is fun to look back and see how it has grown. I don't think it is inappropriate at all. What do you think?? Honestly!!
Ginger-Bread Houses!
Our Stockings Hung with Care! (Tea's is in the middle. We'll have to add another next year!!)
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Emily you look so freakin cute! And we seriously need to get together. I don't know what happened with this weekend. Anyway, lets figure something out this week cause things are getting way busy. I'll call you. Or you call me.
well your mom would just die if she saw my last belly shot then! haha Personallt your blog is your own to do whatever you wish. It's your journal. If someone gets offended or doesn't like what they see they can choose to not look at the blog, ya know? I don't scrapbook and this is a modern way to have a keepsake. I'd be so sad to not have my pregnancy documented. I'm getting ready to have a compant put my last two years into a book. So thats exciting. You look awesome and you're a big girl...This quote is perfect: "Those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind" So happy posting to anything and everything you feel. VERY cute picture of you and Brett! ANd fun fun fun makng gingerbread houses, I bet Jill loved that!
Oh I also meant to say this...I think a pregnancy belly shot is different than taking pictures of your body and showing it off...it represents something so special. Being pregnant, as you know, is so neat and your belly right now isn't your own in a weird way. Your simply hosting something so amazing and I think it's neat to see the growing progress.
you want the truth... really? you are brave, I sometimes like to live in my own reality of what I think and don't care about others (and honestly am bugged by others opinions)! Haha, but I guess the truth is better. So her you go: As a woman I dont have a problem with it, but Ted and Adam said that there are too many weirdos who get off on that kind of stuff, and the last thing you want is to go attracting weirdo to your blog! So, take what you want from that. Anyways, my last final is Wed, and Teds already done, so this weekend we want to make up for being the world's worst friends :) I want to have you over for dinner, We'll give you a call! See you soon!
Emily--you are so wise to live in the present! And I don't think the belly shots are inappropriate at all! After your little boys is 2 or 3 years old it will be fun to look back at those pictures!
Honstly Emily, I like the belly shots, expecially because I don't get to see you and your "belly" every week--but if it makes you feel better, just don't show your bare belly. I took pictures of my stomach every month that I was pregnant with Nate and I am so glad I did. I still like to look at them.
Do enjoy the moments because I think that they are the most precious. Some of my favorite times are to just watch the girls and their daddy interact in an everyday sweet way. It's a mental picture that I hope that I can always hold onto.
I think the Belly shots are cute and I would do it, just not of you bare belly that way you still have see the progress and you make you Mom and Grandma happy. I didn't do that with my pregnancies and I think that it is kind of fun to see. I hardly have any pictures of myself pregnant, except all the wedding pictures of course.
that is such a charlie brown christmas tree, but it so is something you would get! haha
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