Since I've been really showing, my kids are just all over me. Especially my 7 year old son. It's really sweet, but also unexpected. He hugs and kisses me and pets my belly and tells me how beautiful I am. He told me he wished I could marry two boys so I could marry Daddy AND him. (Um, hello, Oedipus, but he did mean it in an innocent way.) My daughter also is especially affectionate. She is more about walking around with bears stuffed under her shirt, though, than being all over me.

It's really wonderful, but also a little out in left field. I'm hoping it's excitement and not insecurity that they'll lose their places in my heart once I have a baby. But they aren't being clingy--they are just being lovey.