Belly Lookers.
So today at Target I was walking along looking for a new
crockpot (
yay!) and quite obviously talking on the phone when this woman interrupts me to ask me how old my son is and then asked me when I was due. The genius worked up the math real quick and the look on her face was entertaining, but not enough for me to bother with anymore distraction from my phone call. What's the deal, lady?! I'm on the phone. Maybe I should just wear a shirt that says:
"Yes, my kids will be 18 months, almost to the day, apart. No, this was not an 'accident'. Yes, I know I will 'have my hands full'." :)
I'm absolutely adoring having my little (ha! by 15 months!) sister in Baltimore for her first year of residency. Yesterday William and I took advantage of the gorgeous weather and Charity's rare day off and went to hit up the inner harbor. Lucky for us it turned out that there was some
anime/comic book convention going on so there were more sights than boats in the harbor! I tried my best to be tactful though and didn't take any pictures of the many sailor moons, spider men, and numerous other creatures parading through the city. Charity did her best to be tactful while still taking a picture by pretending to text message. She captured a picture (not appropriate for the web, I promise) of a woman wearing only her strapless bra and underwear with cotton balls stuck all over it. *shudder* I'm not sure I want to see the movie with the character she was dressed as.
In ANY CASE... we finally got that belly picture all
ya'll have been asking about. Looks about as big as I feel, but when I look at myself I don't see my belly as that big!
haha. Oh well! just over 7 more weeks, friends....7 more weeks.
A few weeks ago we finally bought a jogging stroller. Coincidence or not... about the time in my pregnancy that I start to get mentally distraught/frustrated over my freakishly expanding frame and figure, my ever-active darling husband gets on a "get fit" kick. In his defense soccer season is starting up and he wants to be 18 again on the field... so he's doing his best to feel there. Anyway... so here we finally got our jogging stroller. I totally love it and wish we'd gotten it sooner. It is so terrific over bumps and doesn't catch like my adored
maclaren does. William is probably the stroller's greatest fan though. If he sees it, he simply MUST get in it and hang onto the steering wheel. Here is W lounging on his tour through Baltimore (dressed the part in his oriels shirt) while
suckin' on a dumdum.
View of the harbor boat. Wish I could say I took this with my fancy Rebel, but these were all taken with my nikon point & shoot. Pretty impressive, no?
Last weekend we went to a zoo (pregnancy memory at work here...) with the
Mitchells! It was so much fun to get together with them again. We've been really missing all of our friends who have moved away!!!
Can I just say that me squeezing into that log was more challenging then it really should have been...
About 15 minutes after we got there it started to RAIN. We figured that we'd already paid and none of the kids were crying so we'd stick it out until they did (good parenting, right?)! William and Max are such fun pals. They both loved these deer. In the picture you can kind of see a pose from Williams "I'm very excited and/or sleep deprived" dance.
So sweet! W wouldn't hold
anyone's hand but Max's and he kept looking for Max when he would run ahead.
Sorry fella. Not sure that this
camo outfit is working so well for you.
I know.. totally random picture. But this is William with his "nigh-nigh". I love how attached he's gotten to it and that he has a name for it. Granted that multiple words in his vocab have many meanings... like every animal on earth is a "dog"....but still.
William's growing like a weed and sleeping like a champ (12 hours straight at night 90% of the time). He (and Mommy) are finally adjusting to just one nap a day. This week he's learned how to sign "thank you/merci", how to blow a kiss, and how to fold his arms for a prayer. I love it! I'll have to try to get some footage of him using his words. He's growing up so fast! I'm not sure how he's going to enjoy sharing his time with a brother... but I AM sure that once baby brother is a bit active and mobile he'll be ever so happy to have him there...most of the time.
my senior picture
Summer after senior year. I worked as a camp counselor at a sleep away camp in NH with my sisters Charity (pictured) and Tamar. This, friends, is what I look like without make up . Frightening I know.
Sophomore year cheer team.
Senior year cheer- posing w/my roommate who was on the danceteam Our uniforms greatly improved each year. The highlight of this uniform was "Otters" which was embroidered across the back of our "spankies". I think that's how I hook & reeled Nathaniel.
Picking out/being fitted for my wedding dress!
And last, but not least... our engagement picture. 
