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I am in my 3rd week of school. I am also in my 26th week of pregnancy. I am really starting to feel my little mover. Don't get me wrong, I felt him move when I was around 12 weeks, and started feeling hiccups and kicks at around 17 weeks, but now I feel almost every movement. This is time of pregnancy I love the most.

I have horrible heart burn and have issues where I feel like I really can't breath, so it's not all pickles and ice cream, but I still love it. I am starting to get the pregnant woman waddle. Aaron is so big into penguins that when I really feel myself waddling, I don't remind myself of a duck so much as a penguin. It cracks me up. It helps me feel closer to Aaron while he is gone.

Aaron will come home sometime in October. I get to go see him this Sunday and can't wait. I got to talk to him finally on the phone tonight. His voice is getting deeper and he told me in one of his letters from early last week that he had to shave for the first time. I am wondering if I will recognize him when I go. I fear that he will have grown 5 inches and really start looking like a young man instead of my "boy". I will deal with that if it is so, but as a parent you never want to miss out on any of those milestones.

Garrett had to do his first school project. It is due on Friday and we finished it tonight. I feel like Super Mom. I am hoping to take pictures before he runs out the door with it tomorrow morning, but first I have to find my camera. He is liking school a lot this year. As long as he continues to like school, I am happy. I dread him coming home and never wanting to go back. Even Aaron is looking forward to heading back to middle school this year. I am excited that both my boys are loving school.

We made a trip to Batesville on Monday to visit friends. It was amazing how so much had changed up around that area. Some for the better, and some for the worse, but still amazing. I guess I get amazed that we haven't been gone that long and it's been even less since we last went for a visit and it's changed so much yet when I go back to where I spent most of my childhood, nothing has changed at all. I've been gone from there for over 5 years, and where I actually grew up for over 14 and it never changes.

I am glad that somethings can stay frozen in time, but I am also excited by change. I am at awe of watching my children grow and learn, and become molded into the people they will one day be. I am amazed by my ever growing abdomen and how fast that transition from nothing to a newborn baby happens. I love and cherish every tear I cry over my children, every scare they throw at me, every bandaid I have to apply, every kick from the womb, and every milestone they reach.