Journey of a Kumquat: Week 78 and week 30

First off my apologies for another late entry - Aunt Becky is here from WI and we have been busy. In my third trimester now and given the choice between updating this here blog and sleeping last night - well, you can see what I chose to do. Plus my whole workflow is all screwy now that I take video on my S95 and it takes forever to upload to youtube.

Anyway - we had a crazy busy weekend plus! We started at Vivocity with a dim sum lunch with some mom friends. We were eying the German place next door as they seemed to have a lederhosen clad German band in time for Oktoberfest. We shopped a bit then asked at the door about the band. The biermadchen said they were not playing again for a couple of hours -even though the sign said that they were playing from noon to ten in the evening. Hmmph. False advertising.

Anyway - we were back the next day to reach out to Matt's 'roots' of German/polka music. Charlotte seemed to embrace the festivities well - she even courteously clapped at the end of each song. We then headed to back to our neighbor TT's birthday party - they hired a purple digger which was seriously cool (and I think the 3 year old [in his mind Matt] thought it was especially cool). We took pictures with the digger and I helped to take some pictures of the party which was good fun. Charlotte and Daddy were fashionably late as Charlotte was tuckered from the day before and needed a good nap as two days of crap napping equals one cranky baby.

Tuesday night Aunt Becky arrived and Wednesday we headed to the zoo! That was great as Charlotte has learned all these animal signs recently. It was warm but not unbearable. We took a great picture with the orangutans but the zoo folks make you buy their photos now (you cannot take your own pictures - capitalists!). The picture was so cute though that we bit (and bought). I will try to scan it in as I only have a hard copy - but needless to say the last time we went to the zoo I was pregnant with Charlotte so it was nice to visit again when she knew what she was seeing (and lucky for us there are clear unobstructed vistas to the animals at our zoo - so it was easy for her to see the animals).

Regarding the pregnancy - my back is officially sore when I get up in the morning - I don't remember this with Charlotte. The cheese curd seems to be doing splits in the southernmost region before I retire at night. I am doing inversions on my short sofa to try to ensure cc is head down. My belly seems unusually big for where I am in the pregnancy.

Here is Charlotte showing off her mad squatting skills while playing in the sandbox...