growing baby

For my 30th birthday, Ilya got me a body pillow–something that I’ve always wanted and that will be particularly nice during the third trimester when it’s harder to get comfortable sleeping.  (Incidentally, Ilya was originally supposed to get me a puppy in a basket, but instead I’m getting a poopy in a diaper later in the year.) 

Anyway, the body pillow is wonderfully comfortable to sleep with–especially since it’s already a little uncomfy to sleep on my tummy.  (I don’t think the kitties like it much though–they keep meowing at me until I move the body pillow enough that they can get in close and snuggle.)  The body pillow is also large, like having another person squeezed into your bed.  This morning as I was in the bathroom, Ilya called out to ask what I was doing.  When I replied that I was brushing my teeth, Ilya asked, well then who’s that in bed?  I came out of the bathroom, looked at the bed and saw what looked like a person in an artistic pose under the blankets.  Imagine something like this:

Source: http://www.ocaiw.com/galleria_niah/gallery.php?author=530&id=591

Then cover that person with a big blue blanket.  Meet the body pillow.  Ilya and I both thought it was funny, but I couldn’t stop laughing for like ten minutes.  Maybe all those extra pregnancy hormones have gone to my brain, because it was funny, but not THAT funny.  Hee hee….I’m still giggling.