note to self: hide the harmonica

i hesitate to post this picture because, well, for the obvious reasons... i am gigantic and not feeling like i really want to show the world my ninth month glory. but since most of my readers are in fact my friends, i figured you've already seen me anyhow and been pretty sweet about the fact that yours truly has turned into a balloon.

anyways, for the past few months we have been trying to get buggy to see the correlation between my expanding belly and the general concept of "baby". this week at the park, i think we did the trick. we ran into a very new mom with her wee one. buggy sat on the park bench next to the baby and kept pointing to the baby (with an angry face- i swear if i had gotten a picture you would laugh out loud) and then to my belly. each time saying "ba ba" (her translation of baby). she would angry face the real baby and then love all over my belly and give it kisses.

i left the park feeling like we had accomplished something. d needs to know that her world is about to change a bit and finally, after months of trying, i think she understood on some basic level. and since that day, miss d has indicated she "knows" on some other levels. she has not slept through the night in over a week- getting up in the wee small hours to just hang, she has begun to remove her diaper as soon as she wets it, and she totally wants her bottle back.

in addition, she has started singing the "new baby blues". i'm not kidding!

she's pretty good at it too!