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We just got back from a weekend in Fernandina Beach, a last-minute trip before it got too late for me to travel.
Catie was sick on the day we left, fever with no other symptoms, so we decided to drug her up and drive down anyway. Her fever broke that night but she was still in a quiet mood on Saturday.
Father’s Day was great – we went to the beach, swam in the pool, had awesome fresh crab cakes for lunch and a super yummy lemon cake for dessert.
Once Catie was feeling better she was very glad to be there, she loves the pool, and she even said “hi Nana! hi Pop Pop!” for the first time, which was great. I know from experience how wonderful it is to hear just the simplest words from Catie after waiting so long for them. She also had lots of fun playing with playdough letters that Nana made for her.
Emily loved both the ocean and the pool. She wasn’t very fond of having to wear the life jacket, but that is just how it goes. Safety first! She was so tired on Sunday (she woke up at 5:30am for some odd reason!) that when I had her out in the ocean she was actually falling asleep from the movement of the waves. I wish I could have gotten a picture of that. We saw a bunch of fish, dolphins following a fishing boat, and John is pretty sure he saw a small shark. After that I wasn’t so keen on having my toddler out in the water!
We had a great weekend, I am glad we went. There are more pictures in the gallery, just click on Emily to see them!
Wow, where has the time gone?
I had my 34 week OB appointment today, pretty uneventful. I have gained a lot of weight. I attribute it all to Coldstone Creamery. Such a love/hate relationship 
Everything is fine though, moving right along, rather swiftly as a matter of fact! My next appointment is in 2 weeks, I will have the Group B Strep test, and I am really hoping to be negative this time. I am taking a super probiotic blend and will be trying a natural garlic protocol for 10 days before the test.
Delilah planned a dinner tomorrow as an informal “celebrate baby” night, I can’t wait! I have a maternity photo shoot scheduled for this weekend, and my friend Cason is going to do some shots with the girls for me tomorrow as well.
Here’s my 34 week photo from this weekend:
Well, she certainly has more hair than Catie did at 19 months… I gave emily her first haircut. She had quite a baby mullet going on, hopefully this will give the front a chance to catch up. She wouldn’t sit still for me, so it’s not very even, but it’ll do. She’s a cutie patootie!
There are a few more pics in the gallery (click on the picture) and also a picture of them yesterday at Target, in matching dresses sent by Nana!
That’s how many blog posts I have made in each of my pregnancies. 148 for Catie, 48 for Emily, and only 14 so far for little Jack! I guess that is how it goes, right? I’ve been through it before, I’m busier with two kids, and really this third time hasn’t been as “emotional” as far as needing to get all my thoughts out. Catie’s pregnancy was nuts, and with Emily I had the whole vbac, changing doctors, etc saga…
I’ve still been pretty good about taking pictures though! Here is 32 weeks (more in the gallery)
I had an OB appointment last Wednesday. BP was 98/72, total weight gain so far 33lbs, still head down and happy. I have about two months left to go, and I don’t know if that seems like a very long time, or a very short time!
I have been trying to get back into swimming/walking, I had to take several weeks off because of my back injury, and I need to get back in shape for the birth.
As far as baby “stuff”, two people have given me boxes and boxes of baby boy clothes, and I received a few outfits as gifts and bought one stack of cute onesies myself. So I think he is set!
We’re obviously set with all of the gear, in a month or so I guess we will get the crib set up and start pulling out blankets, etc. and washing them up.
I will be doing maternity and birth photos, hopefully the maternity ones soon before I get too stretched out! I am very excited for the birth photography too, it is a photographer that several people I know have used with amazing results.
So there’s my update, sorry buddy, mommy doesn’t mean to neglect you already!
is where we keep the Little People, of course!
I know I have been pretty slack about pictures lately – there are some new ones of the girls in the Gallery – just click on the picture and it will take you there!
oh my!
Busy times here – on Monday our friends Greg & Diana arrived with their two kids for a short visit. John had worked hard all weekend to get the basement clean and the room down there readied for guests, and we had a good time visiting with them. The kids didn’t exactly get along like best friends… Emily, as it turns out, can be quite the bully! But they did all right, and it was nice to spend that time together.
On Tuesday our guests wanted to visit the Georgia Aquarium, and since Catie hates that place (why catie? it’s so cool!) I took the girls to the playground while they were gone. It has been rainy here for a while, which makes for great mud puddles and wet sandboxes, and both of the girls LOVE that. It’s worth having to strip them down to diapers for the ride home just to see how much fun they have playing in the water and mud.
Wednesday was my birthday, and Emily treated me to an extra long nap, which meant that I also got an extra long nap, which was much appreciated. I have been a little more tired lately, probably in part because I am slightly anemic (note to self: buy the darn iron supplements!) and probably partly just because I am 30 weeks pregnant and have to slow down a little bit.
John got me the coolest thing for the cameras – memory cards that auto-upload whenever they connect to a wireless network! Very cool. He also got me a huge box of Godiva chocolates… what pregnant woman doesn’t want that? LOL
Thursday we went to the playground again, still wet, more puddle and wet sandbox fun. In the afternoon we went over to Jenny’s and the girls played and watched TV, and then after dinner Jenny came and picked me up and we went to Coldstone and had some ice cream.
Today, a few people came over and Delilah brought cupcakes from Cakes By Darcy to celebrate my birthday. The kids all played and ate and had a good time, and Delilah did this awesome portrait of my belly as a birthday gift. I had her include the henna design that is currently on my belly (done by my friend Talitha) and I think it turned out amazing 
I went swimming today for the first time since my back has been totally better. I didn’t count the laps but I swam laps for about 25 minutes, and then just hung out in the deep end on a pool noodle for another 10 minutes or so, which should help with swelling. I definitely need to get back exercising – birth coming up in about 9 weeks or so!!
I went to Petsmart today to purchase the Clevercat Top Entry Litter Box for our basement. My friend Jenny says that it is really great at keeping the litter in the box and not tracked all over the floor.
It was not only on the top shelf, it was the top “warehouse” style shelf on the wall, not a normal display shelf. I am used to climbing shelves to get things on top, but the warehouse shelves are too far apart to climb. And hey, I’m 30 weeks pregnant.
I look around and see a woman giving cat nutrition advice to a woman with two children. (Incorrect cat nutrition advice… cats do not LOVE soy protein isolate! but I digress…) I wait patiently for her to finish talking to them, and then I tell her that I need something off the top shelf. And she says “Ma’am, I don’t work here – I’m just a vendor. I can’t help you.”
The woman that she had been talking to walks over and asks what I’m trying to get, and I show her. She then hoists her daughter up in the air, who grabs the box for me, puts her back down and says – “I don’t work here either, but I know how to help someone”.
Thank you random kind lady in Petsmart! you made my day! 
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