seattle

We're back from our trip to the Northwest! We had a lot of fun wandering the streets of Seattle--note the various piggies we encountered in our travels--and spent some quality time visiting friends in Bellingham as well.
A huge thank you goes out to Heidi, Tal, Nathan, Jenn, William, Nicole, Haven, Owen, Mowgli, and Bodhi for organizing a most splendid 30th birthday, complete with embarrassing personalized photos and extravagant handmade cake.

We spent our time in Seattle seeing some things that I remember enjoying when I lived there, and I was surprised to find that it is as cool a city as I remember. We got to see the Pike St. Market, the Seattle Center (which has amazing Music and Science Fiction museums), Pioneer Square, Greenlake, and my old neighborhood.

Bellingham was beautiful, and we got to play croquet by the ocean while listening to a live hip-hop band, as well as play music by a bonfire and see the mysterious flasher in Teen Wolf.

All in all, a trip that can't be beat.

-Maso

belly shot

Getting bigger all the time! Myles (in theory) is about 14 inches long and weighs 2 lbs.
He is a very active boy!

no news is good news

I have hit a really nice part of the pregnancy. My 24 week exam went very well. No gestational diabetes, no health concerns, just a big active baby! I am staying rather warm and I can swell like a watermelon, but all and all I am quite comfortable.

We went to our friends Kathy and Scout's wedding this week. It was a such a beautiful ceremony. I had the honor of reading from Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. It is something that I have always loved, but it was particularly meaningful to me as I think more about what it means to be a mother.

On Children
Kahlil Gibran

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let our bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.

Makin' Room for Baby

This last weekend was all about painting the baby room! We moved our old study into the former guest room, with plans of having plenty of room in the new open space to spread out the baby stuff.
We're learning, however, that babies take up way more space than the 1 1/2 cubic feet I had estimated previously.

This room is already jam packed with stuff!

We've got a dresser which will be modified to changing table status, a crib, our new rocking chair/ottoman combo, and a twin bed in there so far, and I'm thinking I might have to start stacking things to maximize our space.

Pictures of the finished product to come, once we get it organized a little bit.




Special thanks to Josh and Aaron for their time and painting skills.

And good job helping with the masking in the mask Allyson!