Our Last Weekends

I'm almost 33 weeks pregnant...this means we have 7 weekends or so left until Little arrives (I hope for 8, but we'll see...). Andrew-mandated family fun time has been kicked into high gear and is now also Kristan-mandated. It helps that the girls are (finally!) at an age where they can understand and get excited for outings, enjoy them, and are doing really well during those outings. This past weekend we discovered a new favorite place (to say, anyway).

We went downtown for the American Heart Association Heart Walk, which Andrew's hospital sponsors (and his boss is on the Board of the St. Louis chapter). The girls got up too late for us to participate in the actual walk (we were out at a party the night before with friends from my dietetic internship...and 2 girls, a boy, and a baby...great, but not as fun as the dog that licked them), but we went down anyway and walked the tail end of it, which was around the Cardinals' stadium and on the field - a treat for Andrew especially.

They had some fun bounce things set up for kids. The girls were excited, until a lot of bigger kids got on at the same time as them and were really crazy...then we learned the phrases "no bouncing" and "too many people," popular repeats about the weekend.

The other day I was thinking I look pretty small for how far along I am...maybe not. Or maybe I was slouching a lot. Or maybe it's because I always look from the side. Or maybe it's just compared to last time. Probably a combination of all of those and the fact that I was not initially planning on wearing this shirt without something over it, but got too hot. :)

In case you didn't know...one of the features of downtown is:

Also downtown - the arch, which the girls love to say and see (I have no idea why) - that will likely be another weekend trip so we can go up to the top. The girls and I have fun making "movies" in the car. And while they will repeat any and everything at this point, I'm working on teaching them to say more 2 to 3+ word phrases and sentences.

On Saturday night Andrew and I went to a Diabetes Association event and the girls played with a friend from church, which they enjoyed. We had an okay time - sitting at a front table when there are numerous live auctions is not so great. Then Sunday after naps we went to the bookstore for the first time with the girls. They loved all the books and picked out a couple to take home. One with lifelike pictures and information about dinosaurs (an obsession since the Science Center - whenever I ask them what they want to talk about they say "dinosaurs." I have to tell and teach them so much about dinosaurs I seriously feel like we are in a dinosaurs unit at school - they really enjoy YouTube clips from the BBC Walking with Dinosaurs series, and I like them because it teaches me things to teach them!). One Little People lift the flap book with colors, numbers, shapes, etc. - a little more age-appropriate.