It’s been a crazy busy few weeks.
Let's see...
I went home to Michigan for a few days and saw friends and
family for the surprise baby shower Seth had planned! Two families that I used to babysit for when I
was a teenager were invited, but unfortunately, they weren’t able to make it to
the shower. I still saw one family though and we hung out till almost 1 AM! It
was awesome. We all cried when we said bye. I hate seeing their little broken
hearts when I leave. It kills me. Each of the girls (13 and 8) picked out a
gift for our new baby that would remind us of them whenever we used it. The
older girl has had a little blue elephant since the day she was born that has a
blanket attached to it (it looks more like a cape with an elephant head. That
might sound weird and creepy, but it’s actually a really cute toy). Anyway, she
has taken that thing with her everywhere since she was born and still sleeps
with it now, even as a teenager. After not being able to find a replica for our
baby, she settled on a little blue elephant teether toy! If our baby doesn’t
automatically like it, I’m going to force it upon him until he loves it! I’m
kidding. Sort of. The younger girl LOVES
soccer and picked out an orange soccer outfit. Seth also loves soccer so this
was a perfect gift. Also, I learned while I was in MI that when Seth was
younger, he would only wear orange colored clothes, so it was even more
appropriate :) We got a lot of gift cards and I only had to mail back a few
boxes of stuff. I went shopping and got the baby a lot of Detroit Tigers
baseball clothes per Seth’s request. He’ll be decked out for the end of the
season and hopefully the Tigers make it to the play offs this year!!!
I think the baby liked the plane rides; he was very active
on the flights! He’s only 7 months old (in my uterus) and he’s already been on
a plane to Michigan twice! He’s a little traveler already! Seth splurged on the
seats with extended leg room, and they just so happened to be right in front of
the bathroom, which was an added bonus. They were really good flights (minus
the first flight where I was seated next to an off duty flight attendant who
was on stand by. He was a jerk…I was texting Seth as we started pushing back
from the terminal that we were getting ready to take off and the guy asked me
if I knew I was committing a federal crime by continuing to text after they
said phones needed to be turned off. I told him yes, and he shook his head no
at me, and then continued to read my text over my shoulder. Then I silently
cried because I was mad at him. Ironically the on duty flight attendant who was
seated directly across from me didn’t seem to care at all and didn’t ask me to
turn off my phone).
We started painting the nursery last weekend. We’re going
with two colors – a dark bluish/turquoise color on the bottom and a light blue
almost gray color on the top. The colors match the bedding and it’s going to be
sooo cute once we get it done. We’re going to put chair railing in the middle
to separate the colors (that's why it's all uneven right now). Hopefully we can finish up the painting this weekend. We
just settled on which crib we’re getting, so we’ll be getting that this week or
next weekend. I’m excited to get furniture in there and start washing his little clothes and making it look like a REAL nursery!
Since I have yet to post a picture of myself, here you go. This picture is from last week when I was 31 weeks and 2 days. I can’t believe in about 9ish weeks, he’ll be here. It’s
CRAZY to think about.
These two are crazy together. Patrick stands underneath Woody and pretends he's one of those little Russian stacking dolls, and Woody tries to move every which way to get him. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. We're working on training Woody right now; he's developed some not so great habits that need to stop immediately. They love each other though.
Seth planted gardens in our backyard the other weekend and they're doing really well! The dogs were getting into them and digging stuff up so we had to get the little fences to keep them out. We have a bunch of stuff: lettuce (a few varieties), spinach, carrots, red onions, celery, garlic, brussel sprouts, lots of different tomatoes, bell peppers, a few types of squash, carrots and jalapeno peppers (I think that's all of them!) We also have two blueberry plants and one thornless blackberry bush. They're in planters behind the gardens. We also have tons of blackberry bushes coming up along the bottom of our fence. Hopefully they produce lots of fruit this year and we'll be able to can some.
(ever since he was a puppy, he's loved "working" in the garden. and by "working," I mean "digging")
And because I'm obsessed with Mt. Rainier and take pictures of it ALL the time, here's a pretty picture from today. Ahhh, I love it so much. The last several weekends we've had great weather. I LOVE it. It makes me look forward to the summer, big time. I can't wait- it's definitely going to be the best summer yet :)
