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7 Months and Still Stretching......

Can you believe Baby Manos will be here in 2 1/2 months? Time has flown by. I always thought 9 months seemed like forever but, not anymore. We still have so much to do but have just been busy have fun and enjoying our last few months as a family of two! I am 29 weeks today so I am close to 71/2 months preggo. I am feeling good, but starting to get very uncomfortable. I have stopped teaching my pilates class because it is just too hard to get up and down from the floor and I get out of breath so easy these days. I am still walking and doing cardio at the gym, which is very funny since after I am on the machine for 20 seconds I have to get off and go pee again. JOY! The baby moves around so much now and its very distracting at work. I always stop what I am doing so I can watch my tummy roll and poke out. Its like play time and the baby is not even here yet. Jerome has not yet gotten used to the baby pokes. He puts his hand on my belly and when the baby move he still jumps. Jerome is getting used to lots of other things though.. We started taking our natural birth class and we are both learning a lot and it has sparked some great conversation about our role as mom and dad. Last week, it was so cute. He said "so what will my role be" I was like, "well, you are the Dad". I guess he wanted to know what he could be in charge of if I am feeding the baby and stuff like that. It makes me smile and feel so full of Joy when I think about how far we have come in the last 7 months. He is already becoming a great Dad and I love that he wants to make sure he has a role and time to bond with this Baby. I have been praying that God will continue to mold both of us into the parents we need to be for this little person and especially that we would patient. I think there is no better gift to give a child than being a praying parent. I learned from my Dad a long time ago, that he would pray over me my brother and sis. He would pray for our future's, faith and also for the partner's we choose in life. It is so fun to be able to do that now for our child. Its never too early to pray for the future of a child and I can't wait to see what Jordan is like.

Ok, so what else have we been up to in the last 2 months. We done birth classes, yesterday we took a breastfeeding class and YES, Jerome went with me!!! He was such a goof the entire class but we had fun. They had dolls to practice positions with. One of the feeding positions they call the football hold. Of course Jerome was all over that "this is how you hold a football, 4 point of contact". Too funny, we laughed and learned a lot. I also got my last Tahoe trip in before the baby arrives. We went up recently with the Kanoho's and had so much fun getting to spend a few days with Chloe and Kailie. Chuck and Mis you a guys are fun too!

Enjoy the pics above, I look like quite the stretched out basketball thes days!!