Update

I'll start with Henry. I went to my OB yesterday and he said he was comfortable with the other docs decision for me to continue being pregnant. I told him I was not comfortable with it. :)

Luckily I am 2cm dilated. And though I know that doesn't actually mean anything for me going into labor, i am still hoping. He stripped my membranes- and let me just say: yowza. I didn't know what that was... But hey, whatever gets me closer to not being pregnant! I ate Thai food a couple days ago hoping some spicy food would do the trick, and I have been taking quite a few walks around the block. I had contractions all day and all night last night. It was hard not to get my hopes up. But alas, here I am, not in labor. :)

On to Blakely. She is 17 months as of 2 days ago! I completely forgot too. Well what's she up to? Lots! She has really improved in her behavior. I think our lives were hectic trying to get our house on the market and Stephen was going out of town a lot and I think it was throwing her off. She still throws fits when she is tired. But she is getting SO much better at communicating with sign language and words and that is helping her so much.
I am not even going to attempt to list the words she can say. She has new ones every day. And she has her own words that we are figuring out.

She is WAY into pretending right now. She has a baby with a stroller that she pushes all over the house, feeds her bottles (and takes sips herself...), puts her to bed, shares her binky with her, and her new thing is swaddling her in dish towels. I have no idea where she got that cause we never use blankets with her and she's not around any babies. It's pretty cute though. She even occasionally swaddles other things...like sippy cups and bowls and food. :) She is obsessed with being outside- where 90% of her fits come from (us saying we have to stay in or go in) She would literally be out there all day if we let her. She loves to pick leaves and smell them and have you smell them. She also tries to feed the rabbits that live in our backyard. She pushes the wagon way more than she rides in it and she collects rocks.

We are attempting to move to 1 nap a day. She will take 2 but has been having trouble going to sleep for the second one and at bedtime. We had the perfect day today- up at 6:30, 2.5 hour nap at noon, asleep at 7:30. And she was in a great mood all day! I hope we can keep this up. I am sad to loose her (my) morning nap, but I think it's for the best. I probably wouldn't be able to sleep then anyway once Henry gets here.

Here's lots of pictures!