Tiny Sugarbaby Pip

30 weeks down and only 10 to go! That's a 75% finished-growing baby Pip, is what that is! Now Pip's mostly adding fat to those tiny lil bones. Here's what we've all gotten up to since 27 weeks along and how we're (mostly I'm...) bearing the heat. Here, we're outside because, yes, Ada, you must  be outside at least a little everyday, though it is  stinkin' hot. So we're under the verandah in the shade coloring and making homemade fridge pickles (wow - yum!) with our overabundance of backyard cucumbers. Then there was a little plant watering from the rain barrels, too, because it'd happened to rain in prior days, but, honestly, since we've added rain gardens and rain barrels for water collection, subsidence, and generally to handle the vast amount of water this city gets ... it hasn't rained anywhere near average. Le sigh. 28wk Pip at a playground and after Mass. I'm starting to get a little more conscious about bump photos bec

Goodness, a whole month's gone by! Like I left off in the last post, we had a week of Vacation Bible School (VBS), which also had Jack turning 2, followed by a road trip to South Carolina for a week with the Braud-side. Since we've been back, we've basically just taken advantage of summer: gone out to play when we wanted, stayed in when we wanted, gotten sweaty, made smoothies and popsicles, and celebrated Dylan's 35th as well as the 4th of July. Now here I am with Pip entering the 3rd trimester already at 27wks - bam - just like that: And now let's go back to Jack's birthday week and go from there. I love my kids' birthdays as much as the next mom, but we've taken a subdued approach to celebrating them in that we don't do big bashes with all the kids we know and their families (our friends). That's expensive, stressful, and usually ends up with my kid(s) crying bc of overstimulation, neglect of sleep schedule, unbalanced party food, etc. Al