As this pregnancy progresses, a lot of people ask me how much I think Kate understands about the impending arrival of her new sibling. The truthful answer is not much. Dan and I talk about the baby a lot, and she'll even bring him up from time to time, but most of the time I am not under the impression that she really understands what is going on or even thinks about it very often. Then occasionally she'll do little things that make me think she might be paying more attention than I think she is. This is one of them: Recently, Dan and Kate came to an appointment at my midwife's office, and we all got to hear the baby's heartbeat. That was several weeks ago and she really hasn't brought it up since except to refer to the "bebe docta" a few times. But this morning, out of nowhere, she walked up to me with her little pink pretend doctor's kit, all business, and told me she was going to "check a hot," which means "check your heart." This is a pretty common game for her, but this time, she she was done checking my heart, she put her little pink stethoscope on my stomach and said "I check a bebe hot." (I check the baby's heart.) She listened for a really long time, and she was very serious about it. Here she is making her best bebe docta face. Of course, right after this, she decided the bebe needed a shot, so it wasn't the most accurate game. This poor baby is going to get a lot of plastic shots, I think.