During the two weeks preceding the new baby’s arrival, I stopped working altogether, we said a sad farewell to the nanny, and I did my best to waddle after and entertain my very active toddler. I tried to get him outside as much as possible, usually in the mornings before it got too hot. We paid LOTS of visits to the local park. Daddy tagged along on weekends.

When it was too hot, humid or rainy to go outside, we did our best to entertain ourselves inside. We practiced sorting and stacking…

We played with Play-Doh (I was quite proud of my Play-Doh elephant…Boo wasn’t so impressed)…

We danced to Sesame Street songs…

And, I’ll be completely honest, we watched some TV…

We also worked on getting the little man to eat table food (still not going so well…placing an item in his mouth, and then promptly spitting it out is about as far as we’ve gotten)…

And on feeding himself with a spoon (also not going so well…note the lack of yogourt on his face)…

Two days before I popped, we roped Auntie Jenny into visiting the splash pad with us…

…Where, of course, the slides still proved the most popular attraction.

Though it could be exhausting at times (some days all I wanted was to put my feet up and eat watermelon and cookies), we had great fun spending some quality time together before the arrival of the new baby.