Birthday weekend

First, thanks for all the congrats and good wishes in finding out that Spot is a little girl! We are so excited.

Today I headed down to my parents house to be a bedresting couch potato on their furniture for a change of scenery instead of my own. This weekend was both my dad's birthday as well as my own, and my mom was cooking out for the afternoon. My grandparents and sister's family were there as well. My sister has four little ones (all under the age of 10) of her own so it's never a dull moment! Her oldest three are boys, and the youngest a girl who is 2. My niece thinks that all little girls are princesses, and so when my sister told her this week that "aunt Sara was going to be having a little girl soon" my niece asked if I was going to be bringing a princess to grandma's house this weekend. Hmm, my sister might have a little explaining to do. My niece spent the afternoon asking if I could let her play with the princess because she "really likes little princesses" and is "tired of her brothers" who are home from school for the summer! All this coming from a 2 year old :-) It'll be nice in the years ahead that my sister's youngest and our first are both girls.
Here's a picture of my sister and I at our parent's house today.

It was nice getting out of our house today, even if it was only to my parent's house and their couch to see the beautiful sunshine and grab a quick picture. I promise I was outside for like 30 seconds and returned promptly to where I belonged. My husband and my mom herded me like cattle - not leaving me much choice :-)


All in all it was a great weekend. Yesterday to celebrate my birthday my husband and I ate from a new restaurant nearby called Oce.an Pri.me that is very nice and serves mostly seafood and steaks. (It's funny - these days we eat "from" restaurants instead of "at" them - but it's still fun) I've avoided most seafood lately because it just doesn't sound good to me - but yesterday I choose some salmon in a ginger sauce that was so yummy. I also started out with an iceburg wedge salad that came with crumbled cheese, onion, tomato, and bacon on top. I love those type of salads for some reason - so I was a happy girl. It's definitely a place I would eat from again. Also, I got a really nice gift card for a prenatal massage package that I'm dying to use when I'm having a quiet week and it's okay for me to go. Since it's a prenatal massage - my OB said that it would be fine as long as I wasn't having active contractions, or any other problems that week. Now I just have to have that quiet week (since this wasn't one of them, LOL!) :-)

I'm also finally starting to acknowledge that Spot may actually arrive in just a few short months. I finally got off of my lazy butt and starting some planning - at last! Well, I didn't actually move off my rear, but I did call our painter to come give us an estimate for painting the room we'll be using as the nursery. While he was over we decided to have him plan on painting most of our first floor as well, and fixing some small cracks that we have in a few spots. He does a great job and since our walls are wet plaster instead of just dry wall - it's good to have someone experienced with repairing wet plaster and coved ceilings. Now I just need to get busy picking out some colors. I figure the two weeks he's working in our house my dog and I will just have to spend our days parked on my mom's couch in front of her TV instead of our own so we don't get high off of the paint fumes. Spot might appreciate not getting high as well :-)

As far as what I spent rotting my brain with this weekend - we watched Over my Dead Body with Eva Longoria which was a really cute movie. Also, we started watching a miniseries that was out a while ago called Tin Man that was based on the Wizard of Oz. I wasn't sure if I like it at first, but we're about 2/3rds through and it's pretty good. Tonight starts the next season of Big Brother and we're excited to see this season's cast. My husband used to watch it faithfully and got me hooked the last few seasons. On a more educational note, I ordered the John Adams miniseries from Netflix, so hopefully my already softening brain won't become total mush (thanks Tracy for the suggestion).

I spoke with my OB again this weekend, and although my next appointment wasn't supposed to be for another week from now, he wants to see me again tomorrow. They want to measure my cervix again to make sure things aren't changing too much too quickly, and because I'm still having contractions. I'm not complaining because I always love sneaking another peak at our little girl Spot - but I'd prefer that my doctors weren't seeing me for the second time in less than a week because they aren't thrilled with how things are going. But, once again - I'm just going to try to make believe that I'm a normal boring pregnant woman who just happens to have a lot of doctor appointments and am on a long vacation from work! It's my own little take on the old saying "ignorance is bliss!"