Why I love our neighborhood...

Not only does our neighbor have beautiful flowers that have made me smile for months... but they also put out a sign saying to take some to a friend. And then they even included scissors to cut the flowers. CO thinks it's not an accident they're from the midwest (like his wife) :)

Registering

CO doesn't care what we register for... as long as the list includes this.

Boys are funny.

Military Program - Budgeting for Baby

I attended a class called "Budgeting for Baby/Baby Bundles" that was offered through a local Army Post. It had some good information on budgeting and basic baby care. This class was pretty small, though another class was full. I got tons of useful information on caring for baby - lots of handouts that I gave CO to read. Also, they gave us these cute little layettes for the baby - diapers, wipes, onesies, tons of stuff!

Also, the other lady who was in class with me talked about her church and so we tried it and liked it! We've been going there for about a month now.

Talk about getting a lot out of a military program!

ps - a lot of the stuff in the basket is pink. No, we don't know what sex our baby is yet. Hopefully we'll find out on Wednesday. I tried to pick a basket with gender-neutral stuff, but they all had some pink in it!

Sewing up a storm!

Some new curtains I just finished! The blue and white ones are for the guest room, but we're using them in our room now. The tree ones are for the baby's room!

 

 

 

 

The quilt is for my new niece, who is just over a month old!

Around Town

We had guests in town and had fun showing them DC's highlights, so here are some pictures. It was cool too, the wife of the couple visiting us was 8 days farther along in her pregnancy than me. One of the pictures is us together - at about 20 and 21 weeks respectively.

ps- I had to include that last picture just to prove the Washington Monument doesn't always have to be coming out of my head...

Life is Good

Trader Joe's has Mochi Ice Cream! Yay!

I think the baby really likes the strawberry flavor. Or it could just be me.

Coast Guard Day!

We went to the Coast Guard Day picnic in our area today. Coast Guard Day is actually August 4. It celebrates the founding of the Coast Guard, hence the Coast Guard Festival being the first week in August (in the fabulous town of Grand Haven, MI).

It was one of the first CG Day celebrations I have been to, and it was nice to hang out with/meet some of the people CO works with, and to see some of their families too.

I guess I've been kind of lonely here. I don't have a job. I don't take classes (well, except hula once a week). I have to figure out some way to productively rejoin society. Otherwise, I'll continue sleeping in and doing nothing worthwhile all day long. I guess I'm spoiled because I don't HAVE to work and I can just sit around eating and growing a child, but still... I'm getting to the point where I'm having awkward conversations with people in grocery stores.

It was nice to get out and socialize a bit today. Thanks for having a birthday, Coast Guard.