guess what we found

on the porch...the nice safe enclosed porch that should, theoretically, be bug free. I'm not even sure how this nasty thing fit through the crack in the porch door...

It's a slug. 3-4 inches long. It might not look quite that big in the picture, but Dennis is holding his hand a few inches above the mail that it decided to curl up on. I've never even heard of one this big. It's so disgusting, and it left its trails all over our porch.



We salted it and put it out to dry. Now I have to avoid looking at the sidewalk every time I go outside for fear that it's still shriveling up there.'

Vile.

On a lighter note, look how sweet our boys are.

Mister Bungle goes shopping.

the long awaited

Here you go. Sorry in advance if this post makes anyone uncomfortable.

16 weeks:

17 weeks:

20 weeks:

Big ultrasound tomorrow!

little hodges doesn't like meetings

Twice in the last three days when I've stood up to leave a meeting, I could feel little hodges rolling around in joy.

Coincidence? I think not.

a whole new type

of hunger.

Holy crap... really? I just ate lunch and am already starving again. Now I understand how people gain 80 pounds when they're pregnant.

On a related note, I have headaches now. Not regular old annoying headaches. This is a headache that I've never felt before...and for the second time in two days. My afternoon headache, I guess.

On another related note, I'm allergic to bananas now.

That's it. I forgot to take belly pics at week 18 and 19. Now I'm at 19.5. I'll just wait until 20 and post them up. Given my hunger, the 20-week picture should show impressive growth over week 16.

Kate

well, then.

Kate wanted me to tell everyone that I forgot to return the changing table.  We are now on the lookout for a dresser.  

We are preparing to perform with the youth band at our church festival next Saturday (June 28).  The youth will perform for 30 minutes and then the adult leaders will perform without the youth for 30 minutes.  We're doing a lot of new music so it will be interesting to see if anyone is into it.  There should be a good amount of people, though.  The festival coincides with the monthly Grandview Hop, which is where people mill about on the street in front of our church for several hours.  The main attraction is going into businesses during hours they would normally be closed.

That's it for now.

general update

I'm going to the gym for the second day in a row this week. Huge improvement over my irregular gym usage since March!

We bought a second-hand changing table last night. We got it home and put it in the baby's room and quickly realized that also fitting a small dresser and a rocking chair in there was going to be a challenge.

Dennis promptly returned the changing table this morning. We're now on the look-out for a dresser of changing table height.

I know that was a boring update. Sorry.

little hodges

I felt Little Hodges move today. That's pretty exciting! Now I'm looking forward to July 1st even more.