Breeze At The Top

Exercising the baby, Wowo and I have climbed Kennesaw Mountain and are taking a break on our favorite rocks.  There is a slight but nice breeze.  It is very hazy looking out over Atlanta in one direction and Kennesaw in the other.  We saw one beautiful red fawn on the way up, and the birds are chirping.  There is an insect that looks like a bee taking multiple orders of take-out to his hole in the sandy ground between the rocks, and some small creature is nestling in the tall grass behind us.  This is a nice way to spend the early evening.

Our Heartbeats, Together

We had a "first" OB appointment today.  Despite being relatively early, our doc had no trouble finding a good strong heartbeat.  You can actually hear both of our heartbeats together:  mine sounds like an average heartbeat, and Blueberry's sounds very fast, about twice the speed of mine.  Have a listen!

We also have a new due date, based upon our last ultrasound.  It's February 5th, just one day later than the date we'd had until today. 

Doc said that I can ride water slides and roller coasters while we are in Disney World, because of my gestational age.  He said that he knows how cautious I am and that if I want to have a little fun, I should go ahead.  He's very low-stress, low-worry, and that makes us happy.

Locks Of Even More Love

I have been growing my hair for several years, so I could donate to Locks Of Love again.  After hemming and hawing for a few weeks about the perfect time to do it, I finally decided that pregnancy is the perfect time and made my appointment for today.  I think that darker is better for short hair, and we put in some beautiful highlights.  I've already been playing around with it, so it's little messy, but at least you can get the idea:

before - with glasses

after - with glasses

before - no glasses

after - no glasses

Found A Good Photo

Today was a low-key but busy day.  We went to church, lunch at a Mexican place called Laredo's (P's stomach decided that it would be better to bring lunch home in a box and eat it later), and came home.  While P and her mom worked on hemming a couple of pairs of pants for a Winnwood resident, M put another coat of paint on our master bathroom.  It's almost finished!  Just a little touchup and a couple of coats of paint behind the loo, and we can put all the fixtures back up.

P also worked on the soaker (diaper cover) she began yesterday, and that is also nearly finished.  A couple of legbands, and we'll be ready for our little pooper!  At least, we'll be ready for one day of pooping.

Looking through the photos we had tagged for our blog, we found a good one from our Cloudland Canyon hike in April that we would like to share.  It's a good family portrait:

Summer On The Lake

This was on 29 May, so I suppose it was spring, but this has been one of our favorite places to go this summer.  It has been so wonderful to see Matt get some quality time with his dad.