August 29th
Baby M is the size of a platypus this week (minus the tail)! She's about 17 inches and close to 3.5lbs! At this point it will start to get harder to gauge how long she is and how much she weighs, so even more than before it will be guesses :D Only time will tell! Baby girl is going to start losing her lanugo this week (the "furry coat" she had on to keep her warm before she grew some fat:D).
How's Mama? Feeling great! It's getting a bit more challenging to sleep, so I'm tired. But at the same time I still have more energy than I have yet. So I'll take it! :D Other than that, just soaking up her sweet kicks all day, every day :D
How's Daddy? Doing good too! He has gotten to feel even more kicks and can see her move some, which is pretty cool :D He's in daddy-go mode and has been really working hard on the garage!
This week: John and I actually went to Williamsburg for the weekend. If you dont remember, about this time last year when we were getting ready for our big West Coast road trip I got roped into buying a vacation at Bass Pro. Yes, the vacation included a time share presentation. Well before we were pregnant, we were going to use it to go to St. Petes, Fl! in March. Then we decided to go to Puerto Rico in March and moved it to Sept. Well then, we found out we were pregnant and our schedules didnt make sense to move the trip again. Well, we decided to save as much of our vacation time as possible for when the baby comes and decided that St. Pete's was just too far to go for the weekend. The only location close to us that had an opening was Williamsburg, so we decided to move it to there. Honestly, when it came time for the trip this past weekend, we didnt even really want to go. We wanted to stay home and get stuff down around the house. But, we went anyways. We both were glad we did. It was a nice chance for our to-do list to not get in the way of enjoying some down time together. So Friday off we went!
First, we stopped in Richmond. We hit up The Veil Brewery first. It came HIGHLY recommended by numerous people. John said it did not disappoint! We'll have to take another trip some time when I'm not pregnant :D Next we stopped at Starbucks. THE PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE is out! I also got some pumpkin bread- the baby was hungry :D We stopped in to visit Stone Brewery- the East Coast version just opened recently! Having been to the one on the West Coast, we had to stop in! Definitely not as grandiose as the West Coast one, but it was still very nice. It just opened, so they still have a long way to go! We sat outside and John enjoyed his beer and I enjoyed my PSL. It was wonderful :D The weather was PERFECT. It was the calm before the tropical storm/hurricane (whatever it was) was supposed to hit the area. (It only ended up raining a little). lol. But we enjoyed our time together and watched the sunset. It was awesome. Then we headed off to Williamsburg!
The Veil!
The beautiful sunset
Me and Baby Girl :D
Our first stop was to check-in to our hotel. This is where things start to go downhill. When we arrived, we were greeted by a very unpleasant woman working for the BlueGreen Vacation Company I signed us up through (so sorry again John!). She informed us that we were not actually staying in the hotel I was told and that our presentation time was 8:10am the next morning. I had been told by numerous people that we would get to choose our presentation time. John's one request was not to get up early Sat :( So he was NOT pleased. Mix that with how hateful the lady was and we were both pretty unhappy. We went and checked in at our hotel and then found our room dirty. We called them to come clean it while we went to dinner. Even though we were both in a bad mood we decided to make the best out of it anyways. Our dinner that night was DELICIOUS! I had some interesting shrimp and grits and John got a burger. The sides were amazing. I would go back. :D
Saturday we got up at the crack of dawn to sit through a painful presentation. I'll do my best to keep this short. When we arrived we were paired with a sales rep who started to give us their spill of information. Some guy (maybe a supervisor?) came and sat down and listened to him too. We hope the guy was new- he was the only one we didnt want to throat punch). We let them know how dissatisfied we had already been and did not plan to spend any money. Of course they are trained to combat this and it was just annoying. Then we got lead to a presentation room. The presentation was supposed to last 45 minutes. 2 hours later- not even kidding- we were done. The entire presentation was about how we should live our life and the guy spat out ridiculous study information and stats about vacation. Nothing about the actual vacation package they were trying to sell us. Then we met with the supervisor guy again and he continued to try to sell us. John kept letting him know as politely as possible that we were not interested in any way. Finally, he got the point and walked us out. It was ridiculous. John- I am SO sorry I made us sit through that and I promise you I will never sign us up for one again. Now it's in writing and you can hold me to it :D
After our little morning adventure, we headed off to get brunch. We had the most amazing food. John had a delicious homemade chicken biscuit and I got biscuits and gravy. I could eat it all over again. NOMS. Then we headed back to the hotel and put on some football and took a nap. It was much needed. Because of the "tropical storm" Williamsburg had closed Colonial Williamsburg and other attractions. We were really fine with this- it was a great excuse to be lazy and relax. lol. After our naps we decided to venture out and try a few breweries in the area. The first one we went to we sat outside and talked about baby girl names FOREVER (nothing much came of this though. sigh). The next one had a shuffle board table and we played a few rounds against each other. It was a lot of fun. I had a girl(about our age) come up to me in the brewery and tell me how beautiful I was. It was so incredibly nice and made me feel so good. :D After our games were over we went and got dinner at a pizza place close by. We decided we wanted to hurry through dinner so we could make it to putt-putt before they closed. Our waiter was HILARIOUS (we were the only ones in the restaurant and he kept making jokes about the wait times. haha). We enjoyed him very much and the pizza too! Then we were off the putt-putt. It was Blackbeard themed! Random, but awesome. John swears we tied. I never saw the score sheet. :D
First Stop
Shuffle Board!
This man cracks me up
Putt-putt! Scary pirates!
Always making me laugh
Being ourselves
I love him so much
Baby had to be silly too!
Not sure who is scarier...
Sunday we got up and got breakfast in Colonial Williamsburg and decided to walk around it and check it out for a bit since the weather was so nice. Brunch did not disappoint again! Williamsburg is definitely not short of good food! Afterwards, we headed back towards home. We stopped to get the Carter from the in-laws house and ended up staying and eating dinner with them. It was nice :D
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Lots of carriages!
Finally got to pet a horse!
Colonial Williamsburg was very neat :D
Monday- on our extra day off (YAY!) we started more house projects! Well John worked in the garage and I cleaned out closets! Fun stuff. haha :D
Anyways, it was a great week :D
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