Pregnancy Insomnia!

Well, its 1:40am in the morning and I officially (literally as of today and figuratively as of my unable to sleep!!!) have entered into the last month of my pregnancy. Its an interesting time of being pregnant because all day (yesterday now) I could barely stay awake I felt so huge and exhausted. Playing in Finley's bed with him and his animals was a compromise for me to rest and still engage with my child. By 8:30pm last night I was passed out on my pillow, as passed out as you can get when you can only sleep on your L/R side...I'm a stomach sleeper :(
Finley woke up at 11:00pm with that cry-you know the one where he just needed a quick reassuring snuggle and to be tucked back in and then he was all better and back off into toddler sleep. Well, that was almost 3 hours ago and I'm WIDE awake still. I spent the first 2 hours just laying in bed not giving into the notion I wasn't sleeping. A pregnant mom of a 20 month old needs all the sleep she can find!!! Well, obviously that didn't work, I'm now sitting here with a bowl of cereal writing and watching a dog show on TV. EEEk...wreaking with anxiety about how tired I will be tomorrow once Finley wakes up at 6:00ish.
Biologically it doesn't make sense to have pregnancy insomnia. I had it with Finley as well and Ive had many friends with the same problem around this time. We all just tell ourselves "its in preparation for the sleepless night ahead of us" that's just crazy! I need to bank my hours of sleep so when I am up every couple of hours next month I don't pass out while nursing a newborn at 1:00am!
Here's to hoping to falling asleep soon...and not being a zombie in the morning.

Parper Lellis

Justin and I have been unable to pick a middle name for Harper. Our plan, as we did with Finley, is to use a family name. Though, nothing sounded right to us. The other day I said to Finley, "How about Harper Ellis?" (Ellis was a first name choice for quite some time. It is not a family name but a name I have always loved)Finley gave a big smile and shouted "Parper Lellis!" it was so funny! Now he goes around saying "Parper Lellis" instead of just "Parper". We were in Wal-Mart and a baby was crying and he looked at me, "mom, baby cry. Parper Lellis."
So thanks to Finley we have decided to have Ellis as Harper's middle name. Its not a family name, but comes with a very sweet story from his older brother.

Happy Ground Hog Day

Well unfortunately P. Phil ran back into his hole because he saw his Shadow. This makes me sad knowing we have another 6 weeks of hard cold winter...we have already had enough! Though I have to laugh that I hold so much faith in a rodent to predict how the next few months of weather will go! It seems odd doesn't it? I had to laugh even harder when I saw the news clip about Mayor Bloomberg-see title for link to story.
I took Finley out for a walk in the woods today because it was a "balmy" 37 degrees out! We were looking for the groundhogs! He kept making holes in the snow with his mitten and saying "c'moonnn groundhog" it was too sweet.