2 years ago...

Two years ago this week, this is what I looked like.

Look at my feet! Oh my, they were so swollen. As was just about everything else.

Two years ago I was making all sorts of freezable dinners. I had big batches of Chili, Cabbage Soup, and Sloppy Joes (all diabetic friendly) simmering in various pots to go into the freezer so that Scott could have a cooked meal if I was just too busy or tired. Little did I know how tired we would both be and for how long. (For the record I have been exhausted since December 2007, when I was pregnant.)

Two years ago I was just pregnant. I could sleep and wake up on my own schedule. I could do anything on my own schedule, except potty breaks. Scott and I spent our last weekend as a couple doing everything we could think of. We went to movies, saw an I-Cubs game, had a late lunch at a bar downtown. It was our last weekend.

Two years ago, I was in Prep Mode. Besides the cooking I was constantly working on Weston's room, making sure we had the things we'd need and that they were where we'd find them the easiest. I was so excited about what he'd look like, would he have brown eyes like me? But I was surprisingly, oddly, calm. Like I knew everything would be ok. I bounced on my workout ball to get things moving. I ate healthy and swam a lot. (If you are able, trying swimming when you are very pregnant. It's awesome to feel the baby floating inside of you, while you are floating, like you are both weightless.)

I am not going to go into the birth story. But if you are interested, just check out 3 or 4 posts, starting here.

Last year I was so overwhelmed with his first birthday (and the fact that he was so sick.) that I don't think I took as much time to look back. And besides, Weston was still a baby at 1. Not now. Now he's a toddler. He walks, runs, talks, throws tantrums, smiles on purpose... he can tell you when he wants something, when he loves you, he has a real personality. But he can still melt your heart when he looks at you.
This picture is of the first time that the sight of him truly melted my heart.

See that bump on the right (our left) side of his forehead? to this day, when he falls, that's the part he hits and scratches/bruises. It doesn't looked that pronounced, but maybe it is....