Weekend with Averie

A couple weekends ago we picked up Mandy's cousin who was the flower girl at our wedding to spend a couple days with us. We got back into town right when Ramona & Beezus was starting so we took her to see that, unfortunately I wasn't able to convince her to see Despicable Me again. It was a lot better than I was expecting. Afterwards I had to go to bed and work that night. Meanwhile, they went shopping to make dinner and dessert. I woke up to head to work and was greeted by this sight ...

They made me a delicious meal to take to work along with some amazing brownies with reese's pieces.

When I got home from work it wasn't too hard to get them out of bed because we were going to the zoo. Last summer we took Averie to the Wichita Zoo and after seeing how she enjoyed it, told her we would take her to the KC Zoo. Unfortunately they didn't have the polar bear exhibit finished. I told her we had to take her everywhere we went with animals because they would all come pretty close to let us see them and take their picture.

Hippo pops up for a picture.

Cheetah lounging in the shade.

Up close and personal with a sleeping lion.

Tired legs at the end of the day.

It was a hot, long day that wore all of us out. But that wasn't the end ... that night happened to be Cinderella at Theatre in the Park in Shawnee Mission Park. I didn't quite enjoy it as much as I would've liked because by that point I had been awake for 24 hours. However, it was a lot of fun and we thoroughly tired out the little girl. That night she slept with Mandy and I and I'm not sure how, but Averie ended up moving in the middle of the night to sleep horizontally between us. Although I guess that's better than Mandy's experience the night before when she was kicked all night.

Sunday morning after chuch we went to campus because she is in love with KU so we wanted to show her all the cool places around the college.

                                                                 

 

All in all it was a great weekend and by the time we returned her home she was tired. Her little brother wanted to come with us but he doesn't like being away from his mom so we told him we'd take him for a weekend of fun when he gets older.

Needing to Play Blog Catch Up

To begin with, the last weekend in July my cousin Averie (our flower girl) came up to spend time with us. I'd say more but I know Heath was working on a post with plenty of pictures so I'll let him continue that story. We thoroughly enjoyed our weekend with her!

More recently, specifically last weekend Heath and I started our baby registries. We spent a good 4-5 hours deciding on things to put on our registry we only visited two stores. It was a somewhat surreal experience going through and picking items. Although with the almost constant kicking I don't think I could ever forget that I am pregnant, registering for items made it seem even more real. It was also a little daunting because there are so many items from which to choose! We still have to add a few more items and go through and make sure we don't have any duplicate "big" items, but at least I was able to finally get Heath to agree to begin our registries.

Heath and I have also started our baby classes mostly because closer to our due date I'll be taking night classes making it harder to go to weekly classes like we want. I believe my favorite part is the relaxation techniques at the end of class they make it easier to fall asleep especially when baby doesn't want me to sleep. Mostly I hope we are able to remember some of the techniques when December comes around.

More about baby himself, I've been able to feel him move since week 18 which was sometimes hard to tell if it was baby or if it was just my body. Now at week 21 I am surprised Heath still can't feel baby because there have been many times that when baby kicks I see my belly move. He claims I'm keeping him from feeling the baby, but I've informed him maybe if he talked to the baby it would kick for him. I have also realized that baby likes to be active mostly at random times, but more active at 1 am. Making it hard for me to sleep.

In other news I start student teaching in two weeks and am slightly nervous yet excited at the same time. It is defiantly going to be interesting that is for sure. I met my cooperating teacher last week and I'm sure I'm going to enjoy my 8 weeks at Perry-Lecompton High. I'll be teaching Geometry, Trig, and Consumer Math; all subjects of interest. After meeting many people I can already tell that I'll miss being there when I have to leave. What I need to do is sit down and go through the text books to prep myself for the weeks to come.

Mandy