miscellany and 32 weeks

1) 32 weeks today. I'm starting to wish the next couple months would pass a bit more quickly. I'm a big, heavy, slow moving hulk compared to my normal self. It's been warm and humid for a few days and the humidity that didn't bother me in the summer is really bothering me now that I'm further along. I'm much more tired and swollen on hot, humid days, and I just can't cool off. But, it's a good thing we still have some time left because we have to finish getting the room ready, getting baby things, and preparing for the birth. That's something I haven't even mentioned yet! I also want to start Christmas shopping and do a few more things with the house, because we won't have any extra time after the baby's born.

2) Speaking of doing things to the house, I got out my colored pencils yesterday and started a plan to revamp our boring bedroom.

3) I have gotten started on Celia's Halloween costume. She's really into pretending to be Thumbelina right now. Almost every day she comes up with a new idea for a Halloween costume, but I finally talked her into being Thumbelina and ordered a little leotard and skirt to be the base for the costume. It was hard to come up with something I could put together easily enough. Celia kept thinking of costumes that I have no idea how to make. For a while she wanted to be an alligator. Good thing we got off of that one because my craft skills are not up to that level! 

4) I got some fabrics for the baby's room over the weekend. It's going to be such a fun, colorful room!

Annoying that this is out of focus... Don't know how I missed that.

5) I'm tired of people telling me how big I am. I'm not overly big. My belly measures right where it should be, and I'm still a small person. I think because I'm all belly on a small body, the belly looks huge when it's really not. Anyway, it's annoying. Why do people have to constantly comment on pregnant women's bodies? Next time I should get up the courage to make a comment about the other person's body too. "Yep, I'm getting bigger. Now how about you? Have you always been overweight?" "Oh, thank you! You look especially saggy and dumpy today!" "You know, it's crazy, I probably still weigh less than you do!"

6) The joys of home ownership in the country never cease. For a couple days I thought I smelled a dead animal near our front door, but every time I looked around I couldn't find anything. On Saturday night Chris finally discovered the mostly eaten, maggot-covered remains of a mouse near the front steps (probably brought as a present by China and moved onto the walkway when we didn't end up finding it). So our fun Saturday night activity was cleaning up that mess (which was possibly the most disgusting thing either of us had ever seen or smelled).

7) Celia's very favorite thing is having us tell her stories. The other night Chris started telling her a story about a new character: a witch. It started off nicely enough and Pita was so happy to be hearing a story.

But soon the story took a turn for the worse, as the witch was a mean, evil witch. Celia was horrified! The look on her face was hilarious. I think she was just surprised to hear a scary story.

Now she makes sure to specify that she wants a "friendly witch" story every time :)