March!

Finally!  March is always a happier month for me....halfway through it my birthday comes and it means spring is near.  The snow is slowly melting (I can see some grass again!) and there are birds chirping every morning outside my window.  Rachel says every morning, "The birdies think it's spring!  Not yet, birdies!"  But they know what I know...it is near! 

This year March also means I'm in my third trimester and the end is in sight!  Hooray!

Yesterday Rachel was riding in a cart at the store (she doesn't like riding in the cart anymore and usually asks to walk on her own, but she's SO slow and wants to touch everything that more often than not I end up putting her in there halfway through the shopping excursion because I can't stand the dawdling or telling her not to touch anymore).  Anyway, she was in the cart and her eyes were just about at the level of my big belly.  She put her hands on it and said, "I'm going to look at my baby sister in there."  She stared for a few minutes and then said, "But I can't see her!" 

She tried lifting up my shirt (we were in the parking lot by this point!), as if that would help her see the baby better.  I quickly told her, "NO!  Don't lift up Mommy's shirt!"  She said, "But I can't see if she can dance in there!"  As I held my shirt down I assured her that she didn't know how to dance yet and when she got bigger Rachel would have to teach her how to dance.  She liked that answer and thankfully forgot about trying to lift my shirt up.  Maybe I'll have to put up with the dawdling next time.