Your baby now weighs about three-quarters of a pound and is
approximately 10 1/2 inches long — about the size of a carrot. It may soon feel like she's practicing martial
arts as her initial fluttering movements turn into full-fledged kicks and
nudges. You may also discover a pattern to her activity as you get to know her
better. In other developments, your baby's eyebrows and lids are
present now, and if you're having a girl, her vagina has begun to form as well.
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| Just hanging with Pat and Vanna! |
It’s been a super fun week over here, and a better
weekend!! Even with ALL the stress of
moving, we’re still making plenty of time for fun! YAY! I have to or else I
think my head would fall off.
I think picture-wise I have a couple weeks mushed together
here, but oh well.
Of course we’ve been taking time to walk, run and ride over
to all the construction zones around the area. All Jackson wants to do is climb
up the steps and try to open the doors of construction vehicles so he can sit
down and drive. He’s too cute. I found out though I can’t be in the sun and
heat for too long being pregnant. I get SUPER dehydrated and worn out—I pretty
much feel light headed and ill. So not sure how this summer is going to work
out for me? I’ll have to figure out something though! The winters are WAY too
long. I have to get outside!
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| Forklifts are called "Weave-Weaves" Did you know this? |
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| You should have seen his shoes and socks after this "dirt" adventure:) |
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| Big boy! |
Uncle Mike (my brother) came up for the weekend. Jackson
ADORES him. He has no problem kissing and hugging him and jumping all over him.
It’s WAY too cute. Makes me sad we don’t live next door to each other anymore,
but we treasure his visits even more.
Uncle Mike’s friend Stephy J surprised us and mailed a super
COOL John Deere tractor that Jackson is in love with. He was SO excited about
this tractor. So nice and thoughtful of her to do this! We met Stephy J when Karl and I traveled to Greece a while back. Super cool chick.
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| LOOK AT THE COOLEST TRACTORS EVER!!! Thanks, Stephy J!!! |
OK. Can I just say moving stinks and is SO stressful?? I’ve
really started to take everything in and am getting pretty sad and anxious
about moving to a new town and place. I’m going to miss this beautiful pond view
by our house. I run or walk by it ALMOST
every day in the spring, summer and fall, even winter when it’s bearable. I
know Minnesota is the state of 10,000 lakes, but I’m SO comfortable with where
we live now.
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| Going to miss this. A lot. |
Change is coming! Change scares me. I also know it’s SO
great too. There is SO much work ahead of us. So much. And we don’t always
agree on where things will be going in the new place. Yuck. Seriously all I can
do is let go. I have to. There is no other way right now. Must keep going and SMILE. Throw in some silly too.
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| Time for a work out! |
Friday came and Jackson and I spent the morning packing up
boxes the best we could. We had a maintenance man come over and fix up our
pantry. Then we went for a long walk and checked out all the bulldozers in
action and then played in the park. Then we hit up Costco during the lunch hour
so we tasted plenty of delicious samples, or “treats” as Jackson calls them. I
was also co-hosting my friend’s baby shower on Saturday so I had to buy plenty
of snacks!
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| SOMEONE surprised MOMMY at work!!!! He was PRETTY excited about this ride! |
Jackson was ready for his nap when we got home. His naps
have been getting shorter so we were soon on our way to a SPLASH PAD!!!!!!!!
Holy smokes. Last year the splash pads were EMPTY when we’d go. This year it
was INSANE. Maybe we went on opening day? I have no idea. All I know is Jackson
was so excited he was bouncing everywhere and slipping everywhere too. But he
also wanted to do everything the bigger kids were doing. I was one stressed out
mom! I can’t get to the point where I sit back on a park bench and watch just
yet. Just can’t do it.
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| SPLASH PAD FUN!!!! |
Saturday was Baby Shower day for my dear friend. I drove all
the way to Rogers and got lost. Ufdah. That was a haul. But the baby shower was
GREAT. I was able to see friends I haven’t seen in forever. It was SO nice not
to have to chase a little dude around and just BE an adult and laugh my head
off with my girlfriends. Karl took Jackson to the Mall of America ON A SATURDAY
(can I just say BRAVE SOUL!?!?!). I’m seriously SO impressed with him. Sometimes
I get frustrated (not mad) that he can just drop Jackson off at his parents whenever. I
don’t always get that option with my family being 5 hours away. I will say we are VERY lucky that his parents are generous with their time and will watch Jackson so Karl and I do get some time to do what we need to do. But this time Karl spent the WHOLE day with Jackson!!!!!!!! I was SO happy about this!!!! I didn’t
get home until dinner time! This was something VERY new for me.
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| LOVE THESE GIRLS!!!!!!! |
Sunday was my BIRTHDAY!!!!!!! I’m officially high-risk now
when it comes to my pregnancy. Is that something to celebrate? Not sure. But
hey, I’m alive and healthy!
Karl and I are HUGE Wheel Watchers and after catching a few
commercials during our Wheel Watching last week, we saw the Wheel Mobile would
be in Minnesota ON MY BIRTHDAY! Perfect! We made an entire day of it. We drove
to the cabin and dropped Jackson off with Gpa and Gma. The weather was
INCREDIBLE. Jackson was SO excited to be outside and in nature! I didn’t feel
so bad leaving him AGAIN.
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| Call my name!!! Get me up there! (A little excited!) |
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| Kisses for Pat! |
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| Hey there, Vanna! Looking good! |
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| BIG MONEY!!!!!! |
When we arrived to Grand Casino, I was SO excited to have
some adult time with Karl. I just had to share with the security people that it
was my birthday! I received VIP treatment and we were able to cut in line at the
buffet (we’re kind of a big deal) and I ate for FREE!!! We also were able to
play with $10 FREE money. AND our names were thrown in a drawing to win some
meat packages. OK. We SO need to get out more, don’t we?? LOL. We didn’t win,
but our hearts were set on playing Wheel of Fortune. We had to fill out a card and
stand in line. The line was NOT long at all and we got in right away. We dropped
our cards in a huge basket.
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| Tractor fun for Jackson! |
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| Lake is a little high these days! |
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| BEAUTIFUL! |
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| He still talks about this tractor! And the CABIN! |
A fake Pat and Vanna were on the stage and would call 5 names
at a time from the big basket. Those people had to stand on stage and share
some information about themselves. Then the fake Pat spun the wheel and the
contestants won promo items like hats and t-shirts. Ohhhhh. Then they tried to
solve the puzzle. We were hoping to get called (well, Karl wasn’t) but no dice.
SHOOT!!!!!!!! It was still FUN! SO much fun!
We might not have gotten on the show just yet, but Pat Sajak
tweeted the both of usJ
That counts for something, right?
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| What's that Pat? You tweeting us? :) |
Karl and Jackson also spoiled me with chocolates and a sweet
card. Karl also spent the night before preparing cold-press coffee. I guess it
takes 12 hours to make. It was SO good. I only can handle about 5 sips of
coffee these days but those were the BEST 5 sips of my lifeJ
Can you believe Karl did all this for me even AFTER I accidentally put cumin in our yogurt treat? SO every morning I pack our lunches (I do this so Karl doesn't stop at the gas station and get some NASTY $2.22 meal.). Usually our snack is PLAIN Greek Yogurt, a little cottage cheese, frozen fruit, a little honey and cinnamon. Let's just say cumin doesn't taste very good in this mix. Eesh. Karl is such a champ!
After all the fun, we headed back to get Jackson. We talked
about work and moving and all kinds of things. We held hands. I almost forgot
HOW MUCH I LOVE DATING MY HUSBANDJ
We need MORE date nights.
It was a GREAT birthday! Feeling SUPER blessed!!
Now…off to our ultrasound! And to pack a few more boxes…
