First Lake Michigan Beach Day 2012

Last Saturday, I was 3 days overdue, and SO sick of waiting at home for baby K (who still seems very content to wait in my belly). So we decided to have dinner at the beach. I regretted it a little the next morning when I woke up with a lot of new aches and pains (walking on uneven sand is not very forgiving when your pelvis feels like it's about to fall apart), but the evening was perfect other than that.

Papa John's pizza

Love, love, love those toes!

Joel's new favorite phrase is "See ya!"

Very carefully touching the beetle with his stick...he has become much more cautious the last few weeks.

My view

Pointing at the boats

He isn't cautious when it comes to water though...no matter how cold.

But getting his feet dirty....well....

....he wasn't too sure about that!

He would try to be happy about it....

...but then would freak out about the sand on his toes.

Whoops...fell off the log

Stopped for ice cream on the way home

On the Farm

Joel spends a lot of his day gazing wistfully out the window at all the tractors and trucks on the farm.

And whenever he sees something exciting, he tells me all about it: "MOM, MOM, MOM, tractor, truck, vroom vroom, tractor. MOM!!!!"

He much prefers to be IN the tractor.

He happily sits in his little seat for hours.

Baby K's Heartbeat

One of the first times Joel heard the baby's heartbeat. This was over 6 months ago when he was barely a year old. I meant to post this a long time ago, but had forgotten it was on the video camera and recently found it while organizing our videos.

 

Pregnancy Update

39 weeks and 5 days. Yes, I'm counting the days now. I'm really bummed I've made it this far....I was hoping this baby would come a little earlier, but tomorrow I will be officially overdue. Yeah, bummer. Oh well, I'm thankful that until this past week or so, this pregnancy has been a lot easier than Joel's. And I'm thankful for a healthy baby. And an easy toddler.

Yup, pretty sure there's a 10lb baby in there!

Joel saw us taking pictures and ran over....

First he gave the "baaaaybeee" a hug....

Then he pushed on my belly saying, "OUT baaaaybeee......OUT!" I definitely agree!

Joel and his friend

I can't believe how much they've grown in a year!