Hey Baby!

It's official ~ WE'RE ON SUMMER VACATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This past weekend has already proved to be quite eventful. Friday night we had a pizza night at Micah and Kara's -YUM - they are engaged now - YEA - and I think I mentioned before are also expecting a baby - WHOOPIE - so Kara and I have lots to chat about!  Then we headed over to Heidi and Dave Minegar's house for a BBQ with a whole other crew of fun people. We of course talked about YOU a lot and received lots of parenting advice from everyone. It was a really nice evening with lots of good friends.

Saturday Grandma Mary and Auntie Allison and I got pedicures together. Lovely. I also picked up this amazing cake for your Grandpa Joe's retirement party. His best bud Steve Tyree retired as well from 32-ish years of work in education - pretty impressive. So the Tyree family and the Gordon family had a big shindig together. It was awesome. Amazing dinner, amazing friends, amazing cake, amazing slide show, ending with an amazing nightcap around the fire pit in the Tyree's backyard. Don't worry baby - you are being born into a really fun family - who knows how to throw a great party ;)

 This is your Grandpa Joe and Great Uncle Steve (ok, we're not really related, but close enough) back in the day before they moved their families to Idaho.

Dad, Grammy Gordon and Grandpa - coaching baseball at Capital high. 1998

This is a nice pic of The Big Gordon's and the Big Tyree's at Great Grandpa Mack's 90th birthday party. 2008

The DAD's and their boys - Josh and Jason. 1980

This is at the retirement party ~ it was so much fun!

Jason and Josh all grown up ~ and Cole ~ he will totally be a great buddy for you to grow up with!

Your pops giving a speech to kick off the evening ~ he's reallllly good at it, and usually makes all the Mom's cry.

Check out this AWESOME cake we ordered for the party! Biology theme mixed with History theme ~ they were (and still are) really great educators!

Here are some updates about YOU:

WEEK 21

Your baby is a whopping three-quarters of a pound (or 360 grams) and is about 10^1/2  inches long - about the size of a carrot:

You may also discover a pattern to her activity as you get to know her better. In other developments, your baby's eyebrows and lids are present now, and if you're having a girl, her vagina has begun to form as well.
 
You’re probably familiar with what kicking feels like now and may wonder what all the partying is about in there. That kid has a good amount of room and some legs, so the or she tends to take ‘em out for a spin quite a bit. If they are high kicking your vital organs, try to shift them around by either manually moving them with your hands on your belly, or shift around yourself to get the karate kid in a better position.

As for you, well, you may still be in that golden age of pregnancy when you aren’t too pukey and you aren’t too big. You’re the size that all the maternity stores feature in their ads to show how cute pregnant women are – you aren’t puffy and hunched over a toilet, and you aren’t in danger of being harpooned if you wade into the ocean wearing a black and white bathing suit.

That said, you may feel like crap and for that I am sorry. Some woman have a fantastic pregnancy and will never feel or look better, where others have a miserable, greasy, gassy paraded-float experience. Just keep in mind that, good or bad, nothing lasts for ever, so either enjoy it or hang in there. This too shall pass.