32 Weeks!!!

We were going to post every week, but we realized last Monday that we just don't have that much going on just yet. Here is a new preggo picture of Tayva, as well as a picture of Peter's addiction to the zoo game on Facebook. Some minor updates in our lives: we went to the real zoo last Saturday with our friends Ben and Laura and their three kids, which was a lot of fun--and a lot of walking for a pregnant Tayva! We recommend going to see all the very cute baby animals (This has nothing to do with our fascination with all things baby. Promise.), particularly the baby tamarinds and the baby meercats. And the baby giraffe. We would have loved to see the baby elephant too, but she was only a couple days old at the time, and not out in the exhibit yet. Tayva had to admit that she felt very relieved to not be giving birth to an elephant or a giraffe, since an elephant is pregnant for about two years (!) and the baby weighs about three hundred pounds at birth. The baby giraffe doesn't weigh quite as much, but is still about six feet tall at birth. That's enough to make any suffering pregnant mom feel like they're getting off easy.

We've been advised to do all the things that we can't do when the baby comes so we're trying to cram in as much as possible (which includes sleep)! Peter even got tickets to his and his dad's annual tradition of going to a BYU football game and is so excited for the upcoming season. As long as the baby doesn't come 5 weeks early they should be okay to go to the game!

Childbirth class was this last Friday/Saturday, and was a mixture of alarming, surprising, reassuring, and enlightening, with the occasional dash of cringe-worthy comments. But good, overall. It was an 8 hour course: 3 hours on Friday and 5 on Saturday. We were running behind to the Saturday's meeting so didn't eat breakfast, as a result Tayva almost passed out twice. Luckily we were at a birthing seminar so the teacher knew what to do. Peter's main complaints were that they didn't have any breaks during the 5 hour Saturday class, including no lunch break, we had to sit on the hard ground with only a blanket for padding, and nothing to lean against. Pregnant women sitting on the hard ground and only having their husbands to lean against isn't a great idea. Before Tayva got pregnant Peter said he wouldn't mind having 5 kids 2 years apart....as time has gone by the number of kids has decreased and the time between kids has grown. I think he's currently wanting 3 kids at most with 5 years in between. :)

But he's excited to be a daddy and we look forward to meeting our little guy in 56 days...or so!