Here, There, and Everywhere
UPS delivered an exersaucer to Simon's work this week (an insanely generous gift from a friend of Simon's who couldn't make it to our SoCal shower), and Wednesday night I put it together (all by myself!) during the presidential debate. It's sitting in the middle of the media room, and the cats seem to be enjoying it to a worrisome degree. Is this my life?!?!
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Googling images of What My Baby Looks Like Now gets way more exciting in the third trimester. By 24 or 25 weeks, most fetuses are considered "viable," which means that from here on out you're no longer stuck with drawings, 3-D or 4-D ultrasounds, or, my personal favorite A Child Is Born-style photo illustrations of what the kid might look like; at this point you can type in how many weeks you are and get actual photos of actual babies--skinny and premature and usually wired to machines, but still actual babies outside the womb that are the same age as my actual baby inside my actual womb. It's my weekly mindblower.
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Are you visiting me every Wednesday over at my Work It, Mom column? (If I ever get around to a site redesign, I'll put a widget in the sidebar for convenient reference...) If not, how about you make it up to me by (1) going there now and sharing your infinite wisdom, and (2) checking out my guest post today over at Amalah's Advice Smackdown at Alphamom.
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This afternoon we're headed off to a weekend wedding on the coast. It's our last trip before the kid shows up, so I suppose it's a Babymoon of sorts. It's not a week in Hawaii with poolside massages or anything, but, in the event that we (meaning I) can't party until the sun comes up like the rest of the wedding revelers, we're packing a cribbage board and a deck of cards and two mugs for herbal tea--the perfect opportunity to spend time away from everything else but each other while we're still just two. I'm really looking forward to it.
Enjoy....once the baby is here, sitting by a mudhole with a glass of water will feel like Hawaii to you.
Those exersaucers are fun - from about 8 months to 10 months, but then a huge pain to store. Ours went around our neighborhood to all the families and came back for baby#2 three years later. You better disassemble it or you will be tripping over it for quite a while. Enjoy the weekend!
We just got one from the neighbors and dang, that thing's gigantic!
(Sadly, she's still not big enough for it.)
Glad your cats are enjoying it, my dog? Not so much.
Which coast did you go to?
I've already used up almost all of our pumpkins and am contemplating an afternoon jaunt to Half Moon Bay to BUY MORE! Is that wrong? It will be my mini vacay.
Incidentally, your maternity clothes blog is scary. If my hips expand anymore when I get preggers, they're going to have to invent a new size called Incontinentia Buttocks.
You'll love that saucer! My 4 month old nephew loves it - especially since he can turn in a circle and see EVERYTHING. Laying on his back only gets him so far! Good luck!
Um...I don't have a baby and am not pregnant, yet when the fiance and I go to the beach we play cribbage. And, on Friday nights we play Scrabble. How does this bode for me when I AM pregnant? Playing Bridge?
The good thing about babies is that they are really portable. All they do is eat, sleep and poop, making driving a pleasure. One time we took our oldest kid at 6 months old and our two dogs on a road trip to see my wife's family. It snowed and we nearly got stuck there. Good times!
It gets worse when they are potty-trained, because they have pea-sized (pee-sized!) bladders and need to stop every 10 minutes. That's when we consider a staycation (ugh, hate the word but love the concept).