It's on. Now that my official due date has come and gone, the contentment I felt a week ago has been replaced by annoyance that I'm "still" pregnant and uncomfortable.
As we've been waiting, we've tried to fill our time with memory-making activities as a family of four.
Steve and I were able to go on our first date in two months thanks to Steve's parents being in town last weekend. His love affair with sushi started last spring when we went out with some friends, and now that he has brought me on board, I was more than happy to accompany him to Ichi Tokyo in Rochester. California rolls - yum! We finished our date with Caribou Coffee. I have treated myself to a mocha more often these past two weeks than I care to admit...
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| Steve took this super flattering photo of me using baby as a drink holder. |
Later in the week we went to Applebee's on a family date, knowing that we might not be going out for a leisurely dinner for a while.
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| My girl. We've had our share of confrontations recently, but she's still my sweet princess. |
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| They wait so patiently at restaurants now. Bode brought cars to play with on this occasion. |
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| Cubbies Bible character night. We realized this was the dress up theme at the last minute, so quickly tried to put together an Egyptian princess costume, per Maggie's request. That's Moses in the basket. Oh, and Moses is her newest idea for a baby name. |
And then came Halloween. Steve was helping to coach the Stewartville Tigers to a Section Championship victory, so I loaded Maggie and Bode in the minivan to go trick-or-treating at just a few friends' houses. We came back home to watch
It's a Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and hand out candy to the trick-or-treaters that came to our door.
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| Ariel and puppy. |
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| And on Halloween, as I put this shirt on, I realized I looked like a snake that just ate a very large rodent. So there - I dressed up, too. |
Today while I was at a baby shower, Steve took Maggie and Bode to a volleyball game. Maggie was asked when she thought baby would arrive. And apparently this is what she said, "Well, I was thinking Halloween, but now I'm thinking Valentine's Day." Thankfully, I KNOW that will not be the case. He'll be here soon. :)
