Week by Week: 35th

(Real Time = I hit 37 weeks on Tuesday. Playing blog catch-up!)

We threw this guy a bachelorette party (decided to call it that when making it a co-ed celebration of his upcoming nuptials). Manish (t'12) is getting married in Dayton, Ohio, in a couple of weeks and while we unfortunately can't fly over there for it, I wanted to make sure we rightly celebrated the big event:

the pretty bachelorette.

A schedule of evening events, themed decorations, inappropriate cupcake toppers (!), and had a grand ole time surprising him with a planned Seattle evening. Yay!

there were about 8 more people that joined us after this photo.
have no idea what jamie's doing here.

We took a breast-feeding class:

Jamie clearly paying loads of attention.

And an infant care class: swaddling, feeding schedules, etc. It was the last of the handful of classes that we signed up for months ago and I was more than ready to be done with them. The hands on practice was helpful in some respects and I'm very glad to have completed the CPR refresher, but I was just done with the classes. Ask either of us to do impressions of the lady who taught the breast-feeding class that neither of us were mature enough for...oh dear!

these dolls got creepier by the class.

I kept my fingers crossed for Amy's safe arrival in New York for the summer. She's interning with UNICEF as part of the process of getting her Masters in Public Health at UCIrvine. It's been a fun couple of weeks for her to acclimate to the new city, her new place for the summer, and waiting for her research article to be published. Super proud of her taking this adventure and for, you know, being quoted in USAToday (amongst others):

landed, moved in, and started her job!

While I'm not one to post bare skin photos of myself, I kinda wanted to show you what it looks like when my belly starts protruding in an unbalanced manner. Most of the day it's just round and round and round, but when there's movement of any kind, I get lumps and look lopsided. Here, I'll keep the photo smaller:

Can you see the lump on the right?
WHAT IS THAT.

A bluejay started to visit our balcony every morning. 

Don't know what to think of him.
While I like his colors and gumption, he keeps tearing apart my herbs.

This might have been the last week of wearing real shoes. I think I've worn flip flops everyday since the start of week 35. My feet weren't swollen per say, it was just becoming a little ridiculous to try to tie laces and I got tired of Jamie just staring and laughing at my struggle (all the while, offering to help, don't worry. he's only a little bit of a jerk - ha). 

I try to rock crazy pants ala friend, Jo Daly's kids.