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This is your brain on Pregnancy. Any questions?

It’s official – I am a victim of pregnancy brain.

I don’t know if all my blood is flowing to my uterus and not my head or what, but I am seriously dumb these days.

I just can’t think.

I can’t remember words – I’ve been dangerously close to having a smaller vocabulary than Kate for about a year now, but in the last 13 weeks she has definitely pulled ahead. I find myself stopping mid-sentence because I have no idea what comes next.

This “word problem” makes it rather difficult to hold conversations, too. Combine that with the fact that I just can’t think of anything to say, and it adds up to me having the personality of a telephone pole.

This absent-mindedness (to say the least) is starting to become dangerous… this weekend I cruised straight through a stop sign – didn’t even see it until it was in the rear-view mirror – and then the next day I turned right on red without so much as a pause.

Let’s all hope that I can get through the rest of this pregnancy without losing my job, alienating my friends and wrecking my car!!

Oh, and please tell me it gets better… Jenny just laughed at my affliction and told me that “I-have-two-kids brain” makes pregnancy brain look minor!

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The Itsy-Bitsy Lyricist

Joshua is a boy tied to his routines, and at naptime and bedtime said routine includes singing, in this order, The Wheels on the Bus, Itsy-Bitsy Spider, and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. He is also super-silly and he loves to insert nonsense words into the songs. For instance, last night, he sang, with giggles and gusto, “Twinkle, twinkle, little BLAG!” Blag is one of his favorite made-up words. But tonight, he “made up” (at least I really HOPE he made it up!) a new one. I had to interrupt our bedtime singing when he sang, “The wheels on the bus go round and round. All through the BOOBIE!”

Uh-oh.

Me: Joshua, did you say boobie?
Joshua: Yes.
Me: Honey, do you know what that means?
Joshua: No.
Me: Don’t say that, ok? It’s not a nice word.

“The wheels on the bus go round and round, all thru the…”

Joshua: Mommy, what does boobie mean?
Me: It’s another word for private parts.
Joshua: Ohhhhhhh! Now I understand!

“The wheels on the bus go round and round, all thru the BLEEG!”

I had to hold my laughter in until he was tucked in tight and I was in the hallway. I love his funny words but I hope he keeps picking bleeg over boobie when he’s making them up in the near future. If he starts singing “Itsy-Bitsy Vajayjay”, however, I am going to get very suspicious!

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Creating Some Buzzzzzz!

A few weeks ago, I discovered a great new social networking site called Cre8buzz. I joined just out of curiosity, and soon met some really amazing bloggers and discovered their really amazing blogs! Cre8buzz has also brought new readers here to Mommin’ It Up which is thrilling for Emily and I. Cre8buzz has been on the down-low until now, but they’re going PUBLIC in a big way tomorrow, so please go check it out and join join join! You can find more Cre8buzz success stories on the Cre8buzz blog. So if you can’t take my word for it, take theirs! Now quit reading this and go check it out! (But then come back and read us some more like you always do. 🙂 )

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