almost 30 weeks

This pregnancy has gone by so quickly!  Through doing work on the house Jan- Mar, being on the market April-June, and dealing with all the real estate negotiations over the past few weeks, I haven't even had time to get impatient about it!  This time around I'm relishing the sleep while it lasts too :)  

Great news, I don't have gestational diabetes- I passed the torture test from Wednesday, thank goodness.  Here is evidence that our baby boy is still growing like a champ!  He isn't quite up in my ribs yet, which is nice.  I can still sit pretty comfortably and I'm sleeping OK besides the potty breaks, but carrying a wriggly, heavy toddler is getting tough.  

Up until lately, I have never been much of a sno-cone fan, but I've never been this pregnant in the summer before either!  They always sound so refreshing, and there is a stand right down the street.  Double sour, light on the syrup, strawberry or watermelon.  I also bought a box of Sour Patch Kids Popsicles for emergencies.  Oooo that sounds so good right now :)

should be sleepin'

I should be in bed right now, but I've got so much on my mind!  First off, selling a house, buying a house, packing and moving keep my to-do list infinite.  Second, I have to go to the doctor tomorrow for a highly unpleasant reason.  I failed my 1 hour glucose tolerance test at my last prenatal appointment, so now they want me to do the 3 hour test.  Unlike the first test, (where you drink the stuff at home and go to have your blood drawn an hour later), for the 3 hour test you get your blood drawn FOUR times over the span of a three hour appointment.

I don't have a needle phobia or anything, but c'mon, four times?  That's a little much.  Oh, and this is after you chug a syrupy (twice-concentrated compared with the first test) drink.  On an empty stomach. In the midst of a 12 hour fast.  I know there's a reason for the test, that gestational diabetes can be bad for the baby, and I want to be healthy as can be, but it just makes for a pretty crummy half day away from this little man.  Can't I just stay home and watch Sesame Street with my sweet boy?

Here we are out on the porch a couple days ago, enjoying watching the rain come in.  We'll definitely miss this house!  As you may also have noticed, Palmer rarely wears pants at home in the summer.

fun on the fourth

Palmer insisted on being patriotic all the way to his underpants on the 4th of July this year.  I love this diaper!  It's an itti bitti d'lish all-in-one and so fuzzy soft.  I like the fit a lot better than the itti bitti tuttos we have, but it doesn't fit as wide of a weight range since it's a sized diaper.  (No, I didn't buy this diaper especially for the holiday, but it turned out to be perfect!)

We had a very busy day, starting with the McKinney hometown parade that went through downtown.  Tyler pulled Palmer down to the square in the wagon he got for his first birthday while I waddled behind.  KayKay came too.  Palmer enjoyed watching all the people, bikes, and horses in the parade- plus the firetruck at the beginning!  

After a big bbq lunch, we napped 'til it was time to go swimming at the Graf house in Plano.  Shame on me, I didn't get any pictures while we were there!  I felt so bad for my sweet baby who rubbed sunscreen into his eyes right after I put it on him, and then could hardly open his eyes to play in the pool.  He felt much better AFTER an eye rinse in the kitchen sink and enjoyed playing with the pool bball hoop with his daddy.

Off to Lewisville we went to have dinner with Grammy & Grandpa.  Palmer spent a fun night there with them while Tyler and I saw fireworks in Flower Mound with friends.  It was a great day to be together as a family and a bummer that daddy had to go to work the next morning!  

utensils

For a few weeks now, Palmer has been using a fork and spoon.  He loves to stab at any food with a fork and scoop as much yogurt or applesauce as possible onto a spoon at once.  This, of course, is always executed using his left hand.  We're working on him getting the spoon all the way to his mouth without turning it upside down since only so much can stick to the spoon in that position.  I usually try and shovel a few bites of spoonable food into his mouth before he insists on taking over.

So great is his love for the fork, that when he finished his scrambled eggs Sunday morning he briefly considered the whole triangle of toast, then methodically tore it into small enough pieces that they could also be effectively impaled before being eaten.  If you want to have him use his hands in order to speed up a meal, there had better not be a fork in sight!  That includes your own adult fork.  I guess we should all just learn to not be in such a rush. . . even if each. . . individual. . . pea. . . must be forked :)



P.S. They sell NUK forks in multipacks at Target!

I spent a half hour on the computer last night looking at pictures of Palmer over the past year and reminiscing about him as a tiny baby.  He's just so BIG now!  I'm going to try and make the time to take just as many pictures of our new baby because it truly does go by so fast.  Here is Palmer just last June!

cautiously optimistic

We have a new contract on our house!  Woohoo!  We received an offer on Monday around lunchtime, made a counter offer that afternoon, then heard back Tuesday afternoon that they accepted!  They are having the house inspected Thursday, and there is still a chance this could fall through like the other contract did, but we're hoping for a smooth ride to closing.  I am headed out with the realtor this afternoon for some house hunting since our top few choices from before have sold.  Can't wait to find a great house!

Since there's no guarantee, we're still showing the house and happen to have one today at 11:00 am.  I told Palmer we aren't quite done with our crazy cleaning sprees so he decided to help me out.

What?  This isn't how you dress for vacuuming?

Workin' hard. . .

Don't forget the living room.

Taking a break to tweet at some birds out the window.

A more unconventional method. . .

He loves to play with this toy vacuum!  Who doesn't like a vacuum that talks?  On a trip to buy buy baby yesterday, his Grammy also just bought him a mini broom, brush, and dustpan set that he proceeded to "clean" the whole store with.  If we could just increase his productivity. . . ;)

waiting game

Waiting is SOOO HARD!  As you probably know, our house is back on the market after the last contract fell through.  In the three weeks since then, we've had 7 showings, which is great. . . except what we really need is an offer!!  The most recent showing on Sunday was the person who also saw the house on Wednesday.  They requested our utilities records which is a good sign that they're seriously interested!

Unfortunately, here we sit. . .Tuesday. . . still waiting for something to happen.  Sunday night I was 90% sure this was it, and we would get an offer.  Monday night that dropped to 60% (maybe they just need more time to meet with their realtor to write it up??), and now my expectations are at about 25% that this will lead anywhere.

Selling is much harder than buying!  I'm so tired of the upkeep that comes along with showing your house multiple times a week while managing a toddler, pregnancy, and the rest of life.  I wonder if I can get these people's phone number to call and beg? :)