Week 22...

Your Size: Papaya… tropical fruits that your Daddy loves!

Your Due Date: November 12^th… only 17 weeks left… no not getting nervous or anything!

Maternity/Baby clothes? New cutie this week:

 

Getting Poppy all ready for story hour!

 

 

Baby Gear: We bought our rocker!!! Very excited to have bought our first big piece of furniture for the nursery! Even though most likely it will be going into our living room since our nursery will be nursery/office/guest room. But it’s from Pottery Barn and rocks and swivels and looks just like our couches, but in gray. Pictures to come when it is delivered in September- only problem with buying furniture that needs to be built is that I have to wait SOOOOO long to get it!

Sleep: My allergies have returned so sleeping has become even more difficult.

This week’s adventure:  So many adventures this week! I apologize for all the pictures but Dan got me a really amazing new camera so I’ve been taking pictures of everything for the last week! The first of my adventures was my birthday- 35 this year… This may be the first year that I actually felt that old. But I had a great birthday and celebrated it with my girlfriends at one of my favorite restaurants in Hermosa- Buena Vita!

 

35 and Proud!

 

I also got to celebrate my birthday in San Diego with Dan. I had a really rough week at work so we had to adjust our weekend plans a bit but they still ended up being packed with adventures. Our first stop was the neighborhood that I grew up in for lunch and to walk around Lake Murray. You seemed to really like Lake Murray, and every time I would stop you would keep walking!

 

View of Cowles Mountain from the Lake

 

After that we went to check into our hotel. After getting a little “lost” on the way (your Dad says lost, I say adventuring!) we finally found the hotel. The room was amazing and had this great balcony and view of the harbor and Coronado Island. It also had a great pool so we had some time to relax out there with virgin daiquiris!

 

Luckily I got a nice nappie or I would never have made it through the rest of our evening- we stayed up past midnight for the first time in years! Your Dad took me to this really amazing restaurant overlooking all of San Diego- Mr. A’s. It may have been one of the best views of any restaurant we have ever been too.

 

After Dinner we headed out to Balboa Park to go see Into the Woods. It just happens to be my favorite musical and happens to have been playing at a theater that I work for on college.

 

Old Globe Theatre

Museum of Man

Lilly Pond in Balboa Park

 

The next day was the last of our adventures for the weekend. We took a nice long walk along the water- so your Daddy could go see the big ships!

USS Midway

 

All around it was a great Birthday Weekend and I can’t wait to bring you back here to San Diego and show you where I grew up and some of my favorite things from when I was a kid.

Miss anything? Sleeping on my back! I use to think that I would miss blue cheese and salami the most when I got pregnant but really it’s being able to just lay on my back!

Movement:  Still not too much movement but we have found out that you love car rides and country music so far- that’s when you are the most active.

Your favorite foods: COTIJA! We went to my all time favorite restaurant when we were in San Diego. It’s this little hole-in-the-wall Mexican place from my childhood. I was a little piggy and had rolled tacos and a bean & cheese burrito. Though you dad had a California burrito that was the size of his arm! The real secret to the yumminess of Cotija is their guacamole- I don’t know what all they put in it but it’s the best tasting thing in the entire world.

 

 

Anything making you queasy or sick: This week I wasn’t too sick and actually didn’t have too many food aversions, it was amazing!

Gender: Boy

Labor signs: Nope 

Symptoms: Hungry all the time! I also have outgrown all my shoes- my feet are getting so big.

Belly button in or out?  Button in, but belly way out!

Wedding rings on or off? on

Happy or moody most of the time: Exhausted, is that a choice?

Looking forward to: Hilton Head in a couple weeks… you will get to “meet” all the relatives on the Pelner/Marra side of the family!

Advice to my soon-to-be baby:  Make your bed every day! I know that sounds like a typical nagging Mom thing to say, but I really believe that making your bed every day makes your life better. There is just something nice about coming home to a made bed. It also makes your house look cleaner, so when you are on your own and only have time to do 1 thing to tidy up- make your bed. Plus girls will be very impressed with you!