Our family has been on quite a ride for the past nine months, as I was busy growing our little baby boy in mah belly. It was an eventful and complicated pregnancy, chock full of calls to the midwives, trips to the hospital and sleepless nights. He was due to arrive on Christmas Day, but after too much adventure in the womb, he decided to take one more complicated bow and come 3 1/2 weeks early.

That, in and of itself, is another post for another time.

But take a look at this

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I’m pretty well convinced that as my belly grows, so do my hormones and my capacity for immense amounts of Sobby McWeepsalot impressions. And it really doesn’t take much.

Seriously.

On Halloween day, the Today Show hosts all dressed up as members of Britain’s royal family at the big wedding…and I cried when the fake bride got out of the fake limousine for the fake wedding.

Pathetic.

I have countless stories of the funny things that made me cry when I was pregnant with the iToddler. Ridiculous things. I’m not talking Sarah McLaughlin and

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The iToddler is obsessed with poop.

Is this a 2 year-old milestone that wasn’t included…well…anywhere?

Tonight, we were walking up the stairs to go to bed, and she points to a package of toilet paper, asking, “Mommy, wassAT?”

And I reply, “That’s toilet paper, baby.”

And she says, “OHHH! Mommy’s pooping paper!”

Who’s teaching her

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I decided to take a little social media break recently and so I deactivated my Facebook page. What I didn’t realize when I did that, was how essential it is to me to be able to write about motherhood and life and my funny little observations along the way. I guess there’s a part of me that truly is a writer…or at least a storyteller.

Anyway, as I enter my 9th month of pregnancy with baby BAM, I have so many thoughts. First of all,

I
Am
Huge

and I

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Literally.

We’re on vacation this week, visiting my parents and my mom thought maybe we could try the iToddler in a big girl bed. Even though she’s fine in a crib at home, she’s just too big for the pack-n-play she usually sleeps in here.

Getting her into the bed wasn’t too traumatic, and she slept for about 7 hours with no problem. By 3, she was up and in my bed with Sean and me.

Problem was, there’s not really room for three of us, so around 4, I convinced her to

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I so wish I had a picture to share with you of what happened last night. It’s bone-chilling. My words will have to paint it for you.

My hubs has been working overnight shifts the past 7 weeks or so so he could be home to get the iToddler out of bed in the morning and put her to bed at night, because I had been on rest for placenta previa (now resolved, and a post will be coming about that soon). It’s been great…until about a week ago.

What happened a week

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My girl is going to be two on Sunday.

Two.

TWO.

Man, did that fly!

I love two. I really do. What a fantastic age. She has strong opinions on dressing herself (which in and of itself gives me tons of belly laughter), speaks in full sentences and plays a terrible, but hilarious game of hide & seek. I love that I can understand her now. I love that she asks for sugar on everything.

Everything.

I love that she knows all the characters

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It’s a funny thing, expecting a baby while raising a toddler. I find myself constantly wondering what life is going to be like raising a newborn and a tornado simultaneously. Toddlers are strange, irrational, unpredictable and delightful little creatures and you don’t have to pay super close attention to catch some real gems pretty much every day.

Like today.

The iToddler was happily munching away on her Annie’s Shells & Cheese when mama’s Chinese delivery showed up earlier than expected (she was supposed to be in bed, so as to not hoard my

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I love sleep. Sleep doesn’t seem to like me.

For 8 1/2 months, I have struggled with severe insomnia. It started out mildly enough…waking up every night around 2 or 3 a.m. and laying awake for hours…but over the past few months it evolved into not being able to fall asleep (and then literally getting ZERO hours of sleep), and most recently, anxiety.

And then I fell apart, got doctors more involved and spent some time getting some serious rest. As of today, I’m seeing marked improvement (7 hours last night…woo hoo!).

That’s the

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