Lovely Day in the Gardens = Lotsa Photos!

We have a membership to the Gardens in the heart of the city. It was such a georgous day, Marvy suggested we take advantage of it there. I used to think the only time to go there was during tulip season in early spring, but you know everytime I go I love it. Today was a perfect day. We were able to take some great photos, I just had to share.

Apology #1 - There are a bunch of belly pics... (it's kind of getting inevitable at this point) I'm sorry if this is sensitive to you. I'll understand if you wish to skip.

Apology #2 - There's a freaking ton of photos here. I'm too tired to censor myself, and too exhausted to remember how to get them to a photoshow. Sorry!

Apology #3 - Dang...these uploaded in totally a different order than I intended. It mostly should have been bottom up. Again, too tired to fix it. And by the way does anybody know how to move photos now in blo.gger? I used to click on them and drag them around, and it would automatically scroll but now it doesn't. If the photos were smaller I could have leap frogged them around...but the photo is the same size as the posting window and they aren't budging! So aggravating.

Oh, well. Enjoy the photos!



I know what you're thinking...these butterflies are so realistic looking! What kind of species of butterfly includes threaded rebar and ball bearings!

This was the entrance to the Bamboo Garden, it's pretty magical looking huh?

You know we should all have days where we feel beautiful, but we are human, we are women, and it just doesn't always happen that way. But today...I felt very beautiful.

This time next year, I'll try to take the photo again in the same spot...but with an eight month old!

Did I already mention it was a fantastical, magical, beautiful kind of day? This butterfly just says that all, doesn't it?

Sinking In

It took a little while but the shock of the gender determination has worn off and I'm enjoying dreaming of what life will be like with a little guy.

And this didn't hurt either...

I ordered a grey flannel pageboy hat this week. I saw a mom with her baby last year with one of those hats and I thought it was completely adorable, that if I had a boy I had to have. So, I bought three! One 0-3 mos and another 9-12 mos. And a tan corduroy one in 3-6 mos. I couldn't help myself. $18 bucks well spent!

This week work occupied much of my brain and emotional energy as we had to deal with an impending deadline for some of our clients. This particular deadline is an extended one by nearly three months and honestly it's really hard to have sympathy for some of these people who have known about their responsibilities all year and waited until the last possible minute. Glad this week is over.

Anyway, Marvy has been quite anxious about giving the baby boy a name. We have had two names that we have batted around for years. Well, I say we've batted them around...Marvy would say that it was a sealed deal. The first name for the first child and the second name for the second. My preference was for the name he wanted for a second son. So when my MIL and SIL started to refer to the baby as 'X', I immediately said, "Well, we haven't finalized it yet". Truthfully, I wasn't prepared for that and I just didn't like other people naming my child before I did. Marvy was disappointed because in his brain that's just what it was going to be.

He was so bummed that I wasn't there yet.

I was joking around at work and said that I should hold up a flash cards with the names and say, "Who are you baby? Kick once for Yes, and two for No."

But, like I said, the shock of the whole thing slowly wore off especially after the stressful part of the week was over, and I was able to really imagine the first name and what it meant to Marvy. At one point this week I heard in my brain, "His name is 'X'" and it made me happy.

I decided I would surprise Marvy with the news. I took on of the ultrasound photos and picked up a matte and frame. I then had below the photo, "To My Darling Husband - Introducing Your Son, _____ ______"

I had him meet me in the Park because it was a beautiful day. He opened up the gift bag and was absolutely speechless. He loved it. "Oh, how CUTE" he said. I loved looking at him. He stared at the photo for the longest time. Then he looked at me to tell me how happy he was, then he went right back to looking at the photo.

Our baby has a name and we're both happy.