Random Things

-Occasionally if I'm getting big kicks from inside, I can see my stomach move from the outside. Crazy!

-I can now do this:

Yes, that's a mug sitting on my belly. I do generally have one hand on it, though, because... have you met me?

-I'm definitely eating smaller portions at a time. I can't finish a whole hamburger and some fries in one sitting, for example, and rather than have a bowl of soup, I have a cup. I eat little bits throughout the day. It's kind of like my first trimester when I had morning sickness and had to eat every 2 hours or so, only now instead of a handful of crackers, I need more of a mini-meal.

-We have a date for the hometown, family-and-people-I-grew-up-with baby shower: September 14th. My mom will get invitations out for that soonish. As for my current town, friends-and-coworkers shower... let me know if you're interested in helping with that! That will probably be either the Saturday before or the Saturday after the 14th, so the 7th or the 21st. Yay!

-My mom is coming up on Wednesday to help me paint the aspen trees on the wall of the nursery. I've pinned a bunch of ideas to my Nursery Pinterest board. It's going to look great!

-On Independence Day, Matt and I went up on a hill to look out over the valley and see the city's big fireworks show down at the park.

Aww, so cute! (My hair looked way better than this in real life. Stupid camera. My headband is sparkly, and my hair was poofed up kinda 60's looking.)

Caius was having a big old dance party while we watched fireworks! I'm not sure if he could hear the park's fireworks since those were several miles away, but there were firecrackers and big, illegal rockets going off around us on the hill. Since we'd had a barbeque with friends earlier, I told Matt, "I guess he likes fudge and ice cream cake!" Matt's reply was, "Are you kidding? He's my son, he likes STEAK and FIREWORKS." I cracked up. He is excited about this little boy.

-There is still a lot of work we want to do on the house before the baby gets here, mostly more organizing. Clearly watching lots of True Blood (I just started from the beginning) and sewing Matt and I both all new Renaissance Faire outfits is helping this a lot.