Our Pregnancy "Traditions"

I am a member of a pregnancy discussion board, and one of the members asked if we had any "pregnancy traditions" .... I really had not thought about it, but Jason & I actually have several things that have become habits throughout this pregnancy. The are:

#1 On Mondays, I begin my new pregnancy week ... so on Monday nights, Jason & I will read our "Pregnancy Week by Week" book together (for example, tonight we will read "Week 29" since I just started my 29th week). It's neat to read about common symptoms, look at the weekly picture & get a visual image of how big Easton has gotten!

#2 Jason talks to Easton (aka "my belly") every night before we go to bed. He always starts with "Hello Baby!" or "Hello Easton!" and tells Easton all about his day, what he did at work & anything exciting going on in the world (for example, last week he was thrilled to tell Easton that the Yankees won the World Series) :-) He always ends the talk with a few kisses on my stomach. It is quite sweet (and I hope the "tough Marine" doesn't get mad @ me for sharing his sensitive side!)

#3 I take my weekly pregnant picture every Tuesday night. I teach on Tuesday evenings, so I am usually fixed up and dressed nicely. Plus, since I don't get home until 10pm it means that Jason is generally home from work by then & can be my photographer.

#4 On Tuesday evenings or Wednesday afternoons, I upload my weekly pic to our blog & Facebook, and also type up an update of what's going on (doctor appts, new milestones, etc.) If you are reading this blog regularly, you already know this :-)

#5 I am faithful about copying/pasting my blog updates into a Word Document as soon as I post them. I think it will be cool to have all of my posts in one place where I can easily print them out. I am so thankful I thought about doing this from the beginning - it would take FOREVER to copy/paste all of them at this point. Yay me! :-)