Check out the belly, People!

Yesterday two of my sweetest & thoughtful friends threw a girlfriend's baby shower for me. The theme was the cutest, a Mommy & Me Tea Party. So not only were my gal pals there but all of #1's girly friends too. We had such a great time. The most memorable part of the afternoon, aside from all the tasty little delectibles, fun games & generous gifts, was the activity they planned for everyone ... each person created a scrapbook page for H.A. #3's baby album. How awesome! The pages everyone made are fantastic, far better than I would ever do. So needless to say #3's album is the best one yet & he/she isn't even born yet.

So after the shower I was looking at the pictures -- OMG I am HUGE! And I still have 9 weeks to go so I'm only going to get bigger?!? Ugh, I hope that this is fat because if this means I'm going to deliver a 9 pound baby you'd better start wishing this woman lots of luck.

And it is official, I am definately nesting. I looked back at my other prego journals & I did start this around 30 weeks the two times before. Not only do I have my hospital bag already packed but I spent over $500 this past week on groceries!! Our extra freezer is stock piled as well as every square inch of the kitchen cabinets. The sad reality is that all this food will more than likely be eaten within the next 9 weeks so what's the point? Why do prego women do crazy things like this anyway? Why the need to disinfect every nook & cranny of our living space before a baby is born, in places where a newborn would never be in the first place, like under the stove & fridge?? It's really insane when you think about it, and the sense that it all has to be done now.

Silverback's thirty ... ahem ... seventh birthday

Here's my chance to give a jab back since he always pokes fun at me for being "older" than him. The Apes & I shopped all day to make his day special -- we decorated the house, made him an especially yummy dinner & baked him a chocolaty birthday cake. See how grumpy #2 is? He was so mad I wouldn't let him eat the sprinkles off the cake! It was so hot here that the frosting was melting. After H.A. #2 went to bed, I stayed home so #1 could take her daddy to the movies. Even after all the food & treats we had at home the two of them, amazingly enough, still had room for popcorn & slurpees.

Happy 4th of July!

We spent the week at MorMor & Papa's house even though it was hot & mostly too smoky to spend much time outside. Friday did clear up so we could go to an old fashion family 4th of July parade in downtown Auburn -- a first for both HA #1 and me! Nostalgia filled the street. She thought the best part was seeing the horses pull the old fashion vehicles and the all candy thrown out to the kids. I thought the coolest was a fly over by a P-51 plane.

I can't be nesting already, can I?!

I've been looking around our cozy home wondering where in the world am I going to put baby items? I'm not stressing over it, rather taking action to make the best of what little space we have. "So, if I move the reclining massage chair out of the living room I'll have room for the play yard ... dear Silverback rearranged our bedroom furniture to make space for the cradle" and since I've redecorated our bedroom too ... now my thoughts have moved onto storage. I completely emptied my closet to make room for baby clothes & items I've started accumulating for a newborn. It's become a total reorganization process & I really like the results. Although this means that our garage that was tidy from "spring cleaning" is now cluttered again with miscellaneous boxes and piles that I don't know what to do with yet. And because our bedroom is nicely organized now I want to tackle the House Apes' room to sort through all the STUFF bogging their room down. My apes hate it when I get into this rearranging/reorganizing mode -- I think they prefer clutter.

Since I kept most of HA #2's baby boy clothes, my dear cowsin (cousin for those who don't understand our lingo) dropped off boxes of baby girl clothes she no longer needs for her Sprout #4. It was so fun sitting down in the middle of the livingroom sorting through all the hand-me-downs because many were from my HA #1! Now that she's 5 it was hysterical to watch her attempt to try on 6 month old hats & slippers. Ahh, can't wait to find out which boxes of baby clothes I'll be diving into :)

The weeks are ticking away

About 12 weeks left in this final frontier I love, aka pregnancy. Each one has been a true blessing. A part of me is sad that this is my last experience, BUT there is a big part of me saying "yea, we're almost done with wrecking complete havoc on my aging body!" It's so fun being the only one who knows anything what this tiny being is like already ... well, aside from the One who created us of course ... pregnancy just fascinates me. And as my FIL has said with deep sarchasm "we were all created from primordial soup." I find it hard to grasp the concept we were created by chance alone. There is way too much stuff happening inside this belly, way too many intricate details that are being attended to, and not just with the baby but changes with me too. It's just amazing.

As the weeks have passed it seems our list of baby names keeps growing. Ugh, we had this dilemma with our 2nd born house ape. Picking out the perfect name is agonizingly hard for me! My dear Silverback doesn't seem too interested in sharing my agony, go figure. So I decided to take a poll from anyone reading and is interested in giving their opinion. See the 2 polls I've added and let me know what you think!

Disneyland!

We decided before it got too hot & I got too fat with baby to take an early summer vacation with the kids. Who knows when we'll be able to get away once ape #3 arrives. So we made it a good one and caravaned down with my silverback's sisters and their families. It was such a great trip because the kids behaved so awesome!! We took tons of pictures so hopefully the older cousins will be able to remember the great time we had together. Making family memories is just the best, don't you think too?

Do I know myself or what

So I was talking with my cowsin the other day and realized that I started this blog site and not once have I updated it since. Since October! I couldn't even remember my password to log in, good grief. So now I'm here with so much to share ... Disneyland Vacation, Pre-K Graduation, another house ape on the way ... but knowing me and my good intentions it will be another 8 months before I'm back to post again.

Anyway at least now there's some pictures of my house apes, and one of the newest little ape due in September. Three primates are good for this jungle tree top -- the branches are bowing as it is already.

Who ever says life is boring should try having kids!!!