Pumpkin Carving

My favorite Halloween tradition, other than eating candy corn, is carving my pumpkin. Well, ok, third favorite. Going to North Georgia to the pumpkin patch and getting fresh apples is my number one favorite. Anyway, so for family night Monday, we carved up our pumpkin. It's been sitting safely on our porch for the past week to avoid being "drop kicked" by an over excited toddler. So he was thrilled to see the pumpkin again and had such a blast helping me carve it. He wasn't so interested in digging out the guts, but loved poking the sides with his marker. And look at how talented he is! Turned out great and veeeery spooky!!!Like his mom, the tongue always goes out if he's concentrating very hard on something.

I'm the one on the left. Completely wretched picture of me, but thought you'd like to see the belly. So there is my 30 week prego self in all my bloated glory.

Pumpkin Picking

It is so funny what Jack is afraid of. Last year, we took him to this very same pumpkin patch to pick a pumpkin, and he wouldn't let us set him down, let alone touch any of the pumpkins. So we'd tried to prepare him for our scary festive venture, and had told him all day that we were going to get a pumpkin. But right on cue, we drive up to the patch and he starts shaking and making the scared face. (Not NEARLY as bad as the scared face when we go through the car wash, but still pretty bad.) He kept saying "bye bye pumpkins" thinking that would make them go away. But we pressed onward, determined to have a festive memory building time!

We walked around and tried catching some of those typical kid with the pumpkin photos. He cooperated a little and at least let me put the pumpkin near him. But despite his dad jumping and whooping behind me trying to get a smile, all we got was the "please rescue me" face. Bless his little heart!!

Jack allowed us to walk him through the patch, as long as he got to hold dad's hand as we searched for the perfect pumpkin.

He eventually noticed the twangy music blaring and spotted a pumpkin just his size!! He sat there being adorable for about a minute and let me capture some pictures, then started doing a little jig with his new found larger than life squash.

Just call me Jack-O-Lantern......

Oh come on! That's clever!

10 weeks to go!!!

What, is that a problem!?



I love this stage of pregnancy. I look very pregnant, and therefore easily make friends with everyone around me. There must be something about a pregnant woman that people feel they can connect too. It's a great conversation starter and I think I know every person at my gym by name and they're entire family history. It's great. But I must be getting large because people think I'm due anytime. REALLY? I've got 2+ months to go people. I'm not to the point yet where people tell me "you look like you're ready to pop" so I guess that's good.

Sorry I don't have any legit belly pictures, we just haven't whipped out the camera in a while! I will soon though promise.

Our hot new ride!!

Ok, so this isn't my ACTUAL car, but I'm way too lazy to go take a picture of it, but this is what it looks like. Cute huh?! Jon and I have been agonizing over a new vehicle for the past few months. It took us FOREVER to decide what we wanted. I wanted an SUV and Jon wanted a truck, so you see what we ended up with. :) It'll be great and economical for our growing family. Hooray!

Help!!

I need some help from you mom's out there. First, Jon changed jobs about a month ago (HOORAY!!!) and with that came a change in our insurance. So I'm due for my 28 week check up next week, and have no OB. Does anyone local have any recommendations of a good doctor in Gwinnett County?

Second, I am constantly out of breath and feel like my heart is racing. It's extremely unpleasant as I'm sure you can imagine and actually keeps me from sleeping at night because I feel like I can't breath. Like right now sitting here calmly at my computer, my pulse is 100. Is that normal?!?! I asked my doctor about it at my last visit, and she said I was dehydrated. Well I think that's a load of bull because I drink a ton. Anyway, PLEASE does anyone have any advice?!