Port Townsend in February (alternate title: Brrrrr!)

For the long President's Day weekend in February, we decided to spend a few of those days over in my favorite vacation destination: Port Townsend! A quick little vacation is just what we needed to get rid of the winter blah's around here! This fearless explorer (in the above picture she is being a kangaroo and Monkey is her joey) asked approximately 8 million questions while on the ferry ride over: "Why don't we see any octopus? Where is that bird going? etc. etc. etc." She loves boat rides!

We got to P.T. and met up with my family at the Marine Museum. The babes played while the grown ups chatted.


Later, back at the hotel, Cam and Clem played on their tablets. I love this picture of Clem all snug in her PJ's playing on tablet with daddy.
(A side-note: a good friend of mine who has kids a bit older than Clem gave me a most excellent potty talking tip. In her home, her kids love to talk Potty Talk, like all four year olds have at one point or another. But at her house, you have to talk Potty Talk in the bathroom. We established this rule in our house, too, and Clementine loves to go in the bathroom, close the door and talk Potty Talk in the mirror to herself. When we checked into the hotel she said "Where do I do my Potty Talk?" so I showed her the bathroom. True to form, she asked for privacy, closed the door and let the Potty Talk loose! It was pretty funny!)
Our second day there was cold but dry so we ran over to the beach at Fort Worden. Clem and Cam flew kites (and Nolan took a turn, too)
While Sissy and I compared baby bumps.

7 Months!

Seven months doesn't really feel all that different from 6 months; only with 10 weeks left to go (give or take) my To-Do list just keeps growing!

First up on the list: paint this boy's room! Pictures will come soon!

Open Heart Surgery (Monkey)

Poor monkey. His little felt heart was just loved on through! He goes everywhere with that girl of ours and, knowing his heart would someday fall right off, YaYa performed a very risky heart transplant, just in the nick of time!
Monkey was a very cooperative patient and responded well to treatment.
Looks like his new heart is a match!

Pick-a-nick

Clem had herself a little picnic in the backyard a few days ago. On the invite list was monkey (of course!) and Nacho the rocking horse.

Clem took her real life lunch out there, preferring to eat with her buddies over Cam and I. She had this whole set up down to a science. Cam and I watched from the sliding glass window (while dry, it was certainly NOT warm out there!)

A few weekends ago we headed on down to Semiahmoo to see if we could spot any seals laying on the dock. There weren't any seals, but lots and lots of birds. Clementine (and monkey) had a blast checking out the gulls picking up shellfish, swooping up high to drop the shell, then coming back down to gobble them up.



(I love this.)

BAM!

And just like that, I'm 6 months pregnant! Baby boy is growing and growing. I can feel those long legs getting longer, those hiccups getting stronger! Baby is a little over 12 inches and almost 2 pounds.

While I feel enormous, this is the only time in my life I've ever had trouble putting on weight. I'm still at -17 pounds (having gained some back, I was -23 pounds a month ago) and at 5'8, I am baffled to be shopping in the petite section at the maternity store!

At our appointment this week I got to take another look at baby on ultrasound. He was mostly chilling out and sucking his thumb, stretching those super long legs (have I mentioned how long these legs are??) Doc said baby's trajectory is to make it to 38-40 weeks and birth at 7 pounds (thank god!). He will obviously be longer than Clementine was but I can deal with height.

For now, we're enjoying the peace and quiet and starting to round up blue, orange and green clothes.

Amateur Photographer

Guess which little photographer took all of the following pictures (and many, many more)??