Hello Bean Followers!
It sure has been a while (7 weeks to be exact) since I have written an update.
Let's see...in the past seven weeks, I have:
- Visited our wonderful midwives two times
- Been to 3 Brio Birth classes (or has it been 4?)
- Gone through 48 hours of an "out both ends" kind of stomach bug
- Gone to see Railroad Earth in Charlottesville (see pics)
- Felt the baby kick (a lot)
- Spent a wonderful Valentine's Day with my hubby, Momma and Dan at the Melting Pot (see pics)
- Had a cold that put me out of commission for 4 days
- Watched my grandfather turn 97 (see pics)
- Learned to sleep in a different position (again)
- and watched my belly go from "Can you tell I'm pregnant?" to "When are you due?"
February 12, 2011 Railroad Earth at the Jefferson Theater in Charlottesville, VA
Okay, so, the Railroad Earth Concert was my surprise V-day gift from Alex. Right before the show was to start, they started playing some of the band's music over the speakers. Almost immediately, the bean started bumping around for the first time. I grabbed Alex's hand, shoved it down my pants and said,"Can you FEEL that!?" It took a few minutes but he finally got one good kick to the palm. The WHOLE rest of the night, this little bean was jivin' and bumpin', jumpin' and movin'! I guess Bean really enjoyed it's first concert, I know I sure did :)
FYI, I ganked this pic from a website, we didn't bring the camera!
This is the sticker that I got from the show for my car.
Valentine's Day at the Melting Pot in Downtown Charlottesville, VA
It took some major finagling, but we got a reservation for four at 5:45! What a great night, oh, except that I had a terrible cold coming on. I didn't know how bad it was going to be until we got home. I had to call out sick for the next TWO days. That never happens, people. Anyway, the food was great (until I couldn't taste anymore), the atmosphere was lovely and the company was tops!
Our landlord, Heidi, stopped by just in time to get some pictures of us kids before we left for prom, oh, I mean dinner :)
Pop-Pop's 97th Birthday-February 21st, 2011
Pop-Pop's birthday weekend was a blast except the cold that I was just getting over, Alex was now in the trows of. Poor guy, never have I seen him with such a horrible man-cold :( None the less, we had a great time and spent many hours just soaking in my Pop-Pop's 97-year-old humor, music and general awesomeness. Alex made amazing shrimp scampi and brussel sprouts with garlic bread and my Aunt Becky made a really good chocolate banana cream pie, just like Pop asked for :) Dinner was delicious and then we played Catch Phrase, which was a riot! What a great weekend :)
Well, that's all I've got for now, I am planning a photo shoot at the end of the month with a friend, hopefully we can make it happen :) Thanks for checking in!
~M
