W-W-W-W-W-W-Wipeout

Whew. I'm just wiped. It's been an active day*, for sure, but I think it might also be time to admit that I just don't quite have the stamina I'm used to having. This preggo thing just keeps creeping up on me, no matter how I tend to overlook it. It's kind of funny that the first time around, every little feeling, symptom, change, thump, etc was noted and catalogued--this time it takes a lot more for the fact that I'm pregnant to even occur to me. I guess you could say I'm a tad more distracted and busy this time around--juggling 18 different balls while smilingly pedaling a unicycle along a narrow rope strung over a chasm, is more like it. I have a feeling I won't be able to blithely ignore my body much longer though. Yes, yes, I can be a bit slow at times. But I'm getting it, okay?

*Active day details: I woke up at 6:15 when Eli woke me up ("Mama! Mama! I'm scared!" "What are you scared of, Eli?" "I'm scared of everything!"), and even though he came to bed with us and eventually fell asleep again for another hour or so, I didn't really make it back to sleep. So then I got up with him and did all the morning wrangling (which included timeouts and a huge tantrum brought on by no particular reason), and then around 9:30 Eli's little buddy Nicholas came over for a playdate with his mama, Linda. After a blissful hour or so while the boys played pirate and other things and the mamas had a chance to chat and gaze fondly upon our adorable offspring, the four of us went over to Doodlebug for paint-your-own ceramics holiday present making goodness. Eli had a lot of fun--it always amazes me how careful and detailed he can be when coloring/painting. But his attention span was relatively limited so we didn't get all the things done that I'd hoped...ah well. We'll have to go back. I want to paint something too! After that we headed down to the bagel shop for lunch, then we parted ways with Linda and Nicholas and headed over to Grammy and Grampy's house. Once there, Grampy took Eli out for playground and movies while Mom and I went shopping for maternity clothes. We actually were quite successful and I got a bunch of great things which fit much better than all my old clothes leftover from Eli's pregnancy, but there was much walking around, standing, and trying on of clothes, which turned out to be more physically active than you'd think (and left me really tired). We got home around 6:30 and then there was more kid wrangling and now it's something like 9:30pm and I really really REALLY should take a hot bath and go to bed early. Right? Right.