Walleye

Jr. caught his first fish on Saturday! It was a walleye - or a perch. I don't know which one was first, but he was pretty jazzed about it. He also got to drive Erik's boat and spend the morning fishing with his dad. His third fish broke the line on his Batman fishing pole, but we are going to get that fixed so he can head out again.








He then celebrated with Adrienne for her 2nd birthday in the afternoon. There have been reports that it was an awesome party and Adrienne was, of course, charming, lovely and super excited for all of her gifts. I am so sad I missed it!

I had to lay almost nude in the chilly basement and take a nap. The exhaustion overcomes me, it is a combination of the heat and the weight and pain. I have been checking in on the chat groups of moms who are also 39+ weeks and none of them write about the sheer discomfort they all talk about how excited they are and such. They are in denial or don't want to seem ungrateful. Oh yes I am excited, I love to lay in bed and imagine what it will be like to hold my new little man. I dream about what he will look like and what we will call him. I also have dreams about being able to bend over again or even put on regular shoes.

I am also as big as a house and my hips are falling apart. Do you think they make cool suits for fat people? If I could get me one of those and a rascall I would be set. Just motor around wearing my refridgeration unit. Honking at kids to get out of my way. Jr. could ride with me - with his helmet on, of course.

He will be here soon enough. So soon, my mom came over this weekend for a while to help tidy more things up just in case he was a little early. She is a cleaning/organizing machine. It will be good to have her here after the baby is born to hang out with Jr., to make him feel special and watch Princess Frog with him endlessly - only the princess parts though!

The countdown until his due date is 4 days away. Yes 4 days. What else takes 4 days? Ship a package to Florida? Get approved for a home loan? Ideas? People at work keep bugging me about the due date - I decided that if I am still pregnant on the 15th and still at work, I am going to get a giant cake and make all of them eat it with me to celebrate the all important due date. It will likely be an ice cream cake from DQ because those are delicious.