Whereby I expound upon pregnancy bliss

I'm having a rare day of being blissfully pregnant. I don't know that I complained about one thing related to pregnancy today - mark the calendar, there's a first time for everything!

It took 29 weeks but I'm no longer sensitive about the things people say to pregnant women. Classic example from today:

I had to go to a meeting in Madison this morning. Our normal meeting chair was attending via conference call so one of the other conference members filled in as co-chair. These meetings only occur quarterly so we routinely go around and introduce ourselves. After I stated my name and organization, the co-chair said, "B---, A's looking a lot bigger around the waist than the last time you saw her!". It was hilarious. You could see people just shake their heads thinking, "Not sure that is what I would say to a pregnant woman." Afterwards he came up to me all excited saying that I looked great and was definitely glowing. Awww! I will take anyone telling me I look great, even after a slight faux pas.

I truly feel that I am glowing lately, because the excitement of pregnancy has kicked in...finally. Not to say that I wasn't excited before, but I feel like it has ramped up considerably in the past few weeks, starting with vacation. I'm sure swollen legs and feet and general uncomfortableness are right around the corner but for now, I feel great and am loving it.

Weirdo coincidence but my friend MB and I may be over 700 miles apart in distance but our minds were on the same track - we found out that we were wearing the exact same black Old Navy maternity dress today! Thankfully I was not dealing with a heat index of 107 however.

As I am typing this, Baby S is quite visibly moving around in my belly, which is in my peripheral vision. I don't know how to accurately explain the feeling of having something inside of you which you can feel and see move around - it is absolutely incredible and probably the one thing I will miss about pregnancy. I still pause everytime I feel movement throughout the day (which explains why I can't concentrate very well lately!) and tonight the weirdo alien ripples and pokes of my stomach skin literally brought me to tears. I've said it a million times before, but I cannot WAIT to meet this little munchkin!