6 Months

Today marks 6 months, the beginning of month 7. Time is going by quickly and it's exciting to think that in a few months we'll have a little girl sleeping in our arms. She continues to get bigger and stronger. She has become a bit more active during the day. A few times I had to stand up and walk around because she continued giving strong jabs and I was trying to work. This morning the alarm had just gone off and she started moving around. Typically she waits for me to be out of bed and awake for a while before beginning her exercises. Hmm, does this mean she'll keep us on our toes? Her bones continue to harden and her fat continues to build. Her brain is developing quickly and will be opening and closing her eyes. She is 12-14 inches long (crown to heel) and weighs around 1.5 pounds. We had our monthly appointment last week and her heart was great at 150 bpm. My ligaments are definitely relaxing and causing me some pain in my pelvis and hips. The doctor said this is normal for some women (1 in 35) and it will probably only get worse. It's difficult to walk and turn over while sleeping. I put my feet up as often as possible and this seems to help. I have a box at my desk that I prop up onto. It's also been difficult driving the car as it's a manual and I have to raise my left foot for the clutch. That doesn't help the discomfort. Other than that, I'm feeling fine and keeping up on house work.

Garrett has been working very hard on our upstairs office bedroom. He pulled down drywall on a small wall, leveled it so it isn't wavy and put up new drywall. In the process we discovered there was no insulation behind most of the wall so we added some to fill the space. Since I can't do many of those types of things I made him cookies. He also patched the outlet box hole that Huntley had made larger and relocated the box lower on the wall to make it look nicer. He did a great job so I'll be able to paint once we get it sanded. For those whom have seen our house, it's the large green wall in the lower living room. The whole house could use fresh paint but we'll see what we can get done. One thing at a time. I believe we have only one humming bird that comes every morning, afternoon and evening to our feeder outside our kitchen window. I'm so glad we at least have one. Hopefully next season we'll have more. Our purple cone flowers have all bloomed and I just love them. We also have black-eyed susans mixed in with them and they haven't begun to bloom this past week. Our garden is doing very well and I will be harvesting a few early girl tomatos soon. I had another company give us an estimate to have a big tree removed that is overhanging our house. We are scheduled for Aug. 3. I asked if they could do it before then if they have any cancellations as we are quite concerned it will fall on the house if we have another bad storm. I hope they can squeeze us in soon. We're having them leave the firewood sized pieces for next winter. It's a large tree and we will get a good batch of wood from it. We plan to plant a new tree in it's place, a little further from the house, but we aren't sure what kind to get. Honestly, we haven't had a chance to think about it but we'll decide on something, sometime. No rush.

We hope everyone had a nice 4th. We'll catch up again soon.