So a few belly pics to see the progress with #theSQL…
5 weeks (yes, we had just found out…)
10 weeks…
And here is a side by side comparison between #theSQL (left) at 16 weeks and Aaron (right) at 16 weeks…
Also not how at 5 weeks with #theSQL I look pretty much as big as I did at 16 weeks with Aaron…
A few funnies 🙂
While talking to Nanna (my mom) on the phone…
Nanna: What are you doing?
Aaron: Driving mommy crazy!
At the dinner table on Friday night at Bobba (my mom-in-law)…
Aaron walks up with a plastic tea cup.
Aaron: You want tea?
Me: No thanks.
Aaron: You want tea!
It was definitely not a question!
With Uncle Matthew (my brother)…
Matt: Who is the best?
Aaron: Nanna!
Matt: And if I give you smarties? Who is the best?
Aaron: Uncle Maffew!
Firstly let me just say that I am loving being pregnant. Â I do not take this miracle for granted, not even for one moment!
But oh boy! Â Compared to my pregnancy with Aaron this time round is like being run over with a bus. Â And then having the bus reverse back over me!
With Aaron I never had one moment of tiredness, I could have partied until all hours every night. Â In fact when other women said how tired they were, how they couldn’t stop yawning and were in bed at 8pm I secretly thought they were mad, or making it up. Â I guess this is my wake up call, I am EXHAUSTED, I yawn from the moment I open my eyes to the moment I close them. Â I cannot wait to get home in the afternoon so I can have a nap and then I am still in bed as early as possible and fast asleep before I can even say good night to Paul.
And the morning sickness… OMG!
With Aaron I was fine during the day, I came home at 5pm and between 5:30 and 6pm I threw up, once maybe twice and that was that. Â Nothing else until the next night. Â This time I am nauseous all day, one day I will be fine, the next I can throw up 6 times, the next only once. Â It hits me at random times, sometimes as I wake up, sometimes it waits for mid morning, sometimes its every hour, sometimes its only at night.
Its gotten to the point that I called my OB and she recommended Emex, which helps most of the time but not always. Â Hopefully it allows me some peace at work, because between the vomming and the tiredness I am really struggling to function.
There is an upside to all the symptoms Im having though… my boobs are huge!
I’ve already had to go up a cup size and they just keep getting bigger (and better), I actually have a real cleavage now, without even trying. 🙂
And of course the other very visible difference in this pregnancy is that I am showing already, have been since about 5 weeks or so. Â Here are a few pics:
Laura posted a meme on her blog today and I am lifting it for my blog 🙂
The rules:
This is a photo of my  brother-in-law Asher with Aaron when he was about 6 or 7 months old.  Uncle Ash had come for a visit and some bonding time with his nephew 🙂
Im not going to tag anyone but feel free to lift this for your own blog 🙂
Today is our housekeepers last day of work, she only comes back on 11th January 2010!
Usually I take leave when she does but this year with my trip to Israel I dont have any leave left and the forced leave we have to take between Christmas and New Years is already putting me into negative leave. Paul is bogged down with work. My mom-in-law is going away and my mom is also only on leave between Christmas and New Year…
I have no idea how we are going to manage working and looking after Aaron. House work doesn’t bother me, I don’t mind laundry and we just wont have ironed clothes unless absolutely necessary.  I can clean the bath and the toilets and I actually really enjoy cooking.
The issue is looking after Aaron, he needs full time attention. I will bring him to work with me for some of the time but he gets bored, there is no TV or jungle gym or other kids to play with and I actually have to do some work. Paul will look after him when there is a lull in his work but it doesnt look like that is going to be very often. My mom will take him on the days she doesn’t have work in the afternoons. My brother-in-law has kindly offered to take him one morning to Yeesh in Woodmead.
I really want to be able to spend all my time with him and make the holidays fun for him but boy is it going to be hard.
My baby is 2! I cant really believe it. Â Where a has the time gone?
Just over two years ago he was here…
and he looked like this…
Then, on the night of the 4th of November, I went to bed at about 11pm, I got up to go to the bathroom a few times and at about 1am on the 5th of November, after getting up for the umpteenth time, my water broke.
Paul had only got to bed at midnight and it took a while for him to wake up, I think the rough shake to his shoulder and the “Paul, my waters broke, the baby is coming!” finally did the trick.
For the next half hour it was like something out of a movie, Paul ran around like a headless chicken and we made calls to the hospital and tried to finish packing my hospital bag.
You see, Aaron decided that he didn’t want to wait for the end of the month, he had had enough and decided that 4 weeks early was when he would be joining us. Â My bags were not really packed, I had just started my maternity leave and his room wasn’t finished, I hadnt had my hair done, or waxed my bits. Â I was scheduled for a c-section in two weeks time and thought that I had plenty time to finish everything off…
We got to the hospital and settled in at about 3am. Â At 6 am I recieved my spinal and by 6:30am on 5th November Aaron Baruch Jacobson was born.
In our excitement Paul forgot to take a camera into the theatre (or even his cell phone) so we didnt get any pics of Aaron straight after he was born but we sure made up for it…
And then he turned 1!
And now, now he is 2!!!!
The other day I posted a photo of my dads parents, Sydney and Ruby.
Today I took Aaron to go and visit his Great Granny Ruby and he had so much fun watering her beautiful garden.
Here are some shots I took…
I got that T-shirt from PnP yesterday, the bones glow in the dark!!
We think we may have found the perfect play school/creche for Aaron.  Its round the corner from both home and work, the hours fit in perfectly with my work hours in the morning, its very unstructured, lots of playing and music, on fridays the kids bake challah and the cost per month is really reasonable.
We are going on Tuesday to take a look and if Aaron gives it his stamp of approval then he will probably start going 1st of June.
Paul is a bit hesitant to send him to ‘school’ but he know that Aaron needs the interaction with other children and the additional stimulation that play school will provide.  Our housekeeper, Aletta, is also not so sure about sending him, she keeps telling me its too cold and he should really only start in summer, I think she is going to miss him.
I know he is ready to go, he loves playing with other kids and I know he will benefit from the experience.  Its still a little sad to know that my ‘baby’ is going to school though…
