Fresh Fruit

Dearest Joshua David~

Hello man!  You slept pretty well last night, despite the fact that you noodled into our bed.  :-P  You know, one day you're going to have to sleep in your own little bed.  But, we think it's cute when you sleep on your belly and curl your legs underneath you .... you look like a little frog.  ;-)

This morning, we ate breakfast together, and then we did a few quick chores around the house.  I swept and vacuumed the downstairs.  I'm trying to keep up with that since you like to crawl all around the house.  ;-)

One nice treat that we had with breakfast was fresh fruit!  My coworker sent an "Edible Arrangement" to our house yesterday .... it was a 'flower' arrangement of fruits in a big mug.  We saved the leftover fruit and washed the mug.  I love the mug!  It's so big .... think of the hot chocolate we can have with that!  ;-)

Tomorrow we're going to be 39 weeks gestation with Peanut!  One week until her due date!  Since we don't know what's going to happen in the next week, we're trying to get our house ready these last few days.  That means getting the front bedroom prepared as a guest room in case we need help and someone wants to stay over.  We have everything ready, except a mattress and box spring for the bed.  We looked at a few today while out shopping, and Grandpa Jim is going to come over tomorrow afternoon with his truck to help us pick one up.

We walked around the mall and Target.  The mall was the stretch our legs.  I don't know the next time we'll get out with Peanut coming, so we took advantage of the beautiful day.  We picked up some quick groceries at Target.  

We got back a little after 1pm and you had fallen asleep in the car.  You continued sleeping as daddy put things away.  I opened the windows upstairs in the bonus room to let the fresh air in (I had to wipe and vacuum the window sills since they were dirty).  Once you woke up, the room was nice a cool for you to play in.  Uncle Brennan came over and played with you too.  You showed him your cellphone toy and you giggled next to him on the couch.  It was really cute and daddy tried to take a video of you giggling.  :-)

We watched the UNC basketball game together.  Uncle Brennan left during halftime and you ended up eating a lot of cheerios and crackers during the second half.  You also drank water from my water bottle.  We ate dinner after the game and you had a sippy cup of formula.  :-)

Tomorrow we have a special brunch planned.  My friends from college are coming into town to have a little baby shower for Peanut.  We're meeting them at 11:30am at the Nantucket Grill near our house.  They'll probably come over and see our new house afterward, so we'd better make sure it's nice and clean.  ;-)  You'll remember our friends .... Stephanie, Sherrill, Alicia .... Emily can't make it, but I'm sure we'll be able to catch up with her soon.

This evening we continued to play.  I walked around the bonus room with you several times while you practiced walking with your push toy.  You're getting better and even made a few 'turns' on your own!  Usually you just go in a straight line and bump into things.  ;-)  Also, you've begun pulling yourself up using walls and not just the couch and ottoman.  I wonder when you'll figure out you can walk?  :-P

There was a basketball 'All Star' show on tonight with slam dunks and 3 point contests.  We watched that for a while, but you eventually fell asleep.  We changed you .... you woke up a little .... but then fell back asleep in the bedroom.  I went to bed too as daddy stayed up and watched the rest of the contests.  :-)

Sleep tight little angel!

I love you!

~Mommy