I am so insanely excited...but then "insane" by my standards isn't really much of a reach.
My second daughter, "Sylvia", is expecting her first baby (and my second grandchild) in just a couple of weeks!! It is so amazing to have watched two of my daughters go through pregnancy and all of the glorious, uncomfortable hormonal and body changes that come with it. The funniest part though is probably how little Sylvia appears to have changed physically! I say appears because no matter how well you carry a baby or how small that baby bump appears to others, the fact remains that you still have a human being (hopefully) inside of you tap dancing on your bladder, shoving his or her foot into your esophagus and occasionally throwing you a kidney punch! Although I know Sylvia feels "huge", the fact is, at nine months she looks better than most woman ever do! She is almost 6 feet tall and has a very slender, athletic and well defined build. I personally think the baby is standing up since she can still pass as a non-pregnant woman if she wants to! She was here to visit from out of state recently so I had a baby shower for her. Afterwords, she started showing off her physique by posing in a variety of ways that really showed off her tummy and her six pack at the same time (which is weird, I'm not gonna lie!) to the protests of her husband telling her to, "Stop! You're squishing our baby!" We struck a deal that I would take pictures so she'd never feel compelled to "squish the baby" again. We got lots of great shots but my suspicion is she still does them at home in front of the mirror...after all, she IS a fitness model and would hate to lose her edge, besides, I know my girl.
