Summer: Week 3 / Father's Day

This week at summer camp the theme was Super Heroes. Jake loves super heroes, so I knew he would enjoy this week. On Tuesday, they were encouraged to wear their favorite super hero shirt, so Jake happily obliged. 

Lately, when Jake smiles for the camera, he scrunches up his nose.
Makes for a lovely picture.

 On this particular day, they made super hero capes. I wanted to get a picture of Jake in his.

Getting mad at me for taking too many pictures

 On Wednesday, they went on their first field trip (to Pump It Up). This was the first field trip that Jake has been on, that I didn't attend. They got to ride a school bus from the camp to Pump It Up. Jake was so excited. I think he was more excited to get to ride a bus, then the actual field trip. He asked if the bus was going to pick him up at his house (like the bus picks up kids during the school year). He was a little disappointment that the Kindergarten campers had to ride the little white bus, and not the big yellow bus with the older kids, but he was still excited that he got to ride a bus.

His "silly" pose that he insists on doing if I'm going to take his picture

I cannot take a focused non-fuzzy picture with my iPhone if my life depended on it

Also on Wednesday, I had my 28 week check up. The baby is still doing good. We came up with a "tentative" plan leading up to her proposed due date. I'll see my doctor again in 3 weeks for another regular checkup. Starting then & alternating each week, one week will just be a checkup and the other week will be a fetal non-stress test (NST). Because of the placental abruption at 36 weeks with Jake, they will closely monitor the last 8 weeks of this pregnancy. They do not have a reason for why the placental abruption happened with Jake, so it's not like there is anything we can do to prevent it from happening again. But by doing the NST every other week, they can make sure that the baby is getting enough blood flow & oxygen (something that decreases if the placenta is starting to rupture). If it was to happen again, hopefully this time, we would know it was happening beforehand, and not be surprised at 10:30 at night like the last time it happened. Then at 35 weeks, I'll start seeing my doctor weekly and we'll set a c-section date for the week before her due date. Unfortunately, this baby cannot read yet (and even if she could, she would probably ignore it), so who knows if she'll follow the plan we've nicely laid out for her. But we will see. In the meantime, I'll just keep procrastinating starting her nursery or coming up with a name for her.

We did make a little progress on both fronts though. We got the bed out of the nursery & Robbie is moving the extra electronics out. So all that is in the room is baby stuff. We'll start painting the walls this week and we should get the crib paint samples this week. So slowly but surely! We also made a little progress on her name. We've narrowed it down to 2 and will decide between those 2:

Charlotte Elizabeth Bush or

Hollon Elizabeth Bush

I wish I had the patience to wait until she was born and decide on the name then, after we get to meet her. But I'm too impatient for that.    

Every day this week, Jake has had swimming lessons at our pool. His swim teacher this year has been awesome. (The one last year was good, but the one this year is great.) Not only by lesson 4 did he have Jake swimming across the pool, but by the last lesson, he got Jake to jump in & swim to him and swim with his face in the water. This is huge for Jake. He is terrified to put his face underwater, so he would never jump in or go underwater. I am so proud of him!

Overload of videos so the grandparents to see how much he has accomplished!

Swimming:

Jumping In:

(this was at the beginning of his lessons when it would take forever to convince him just to jump into the arms of his swim coach)

Swimming:

Swimming with his face underwater:

Jumping in & swimming to his coach:

On Saturday, we got out the sprinkler to let Jake play in the backyard.

Just relaxing later that afternoon

 We grilled out & ate outside on the patio. The weather was so perfect!

 I am not an ice cream person and I'm not a banana pudding person. I'm not really a desert person period. But pregnant? I am. And evidently I love banana pudding ice cream when pregnant. I saw this ice cream on a blog, and for some reason it looked so delicious. I had to have it. Rob picked up the groceries for dinner Saturday night, so when he saw this on this list, he wondered if I had lost my mind. He then decided if you can't understand beat them, join them! So he also picked up some chocolate reese's peanut butter cups ice cream. Needless to say, Jake is loving this pregnancy.

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!

On Sunday we celebrated Father's Day. I'll celebrate with my dad in a few weeks. I missed seeing him on Father's Day. I hate I couldn't hug his neck & tell him I love him in person. I made up for it by calling him Sunday afternoon at wish him happy father's day. Of course he was taking a nap when I called so I woke him up. I'm just the gift that keeps on giving.

Sunday afternoon we went to a Birmingham Barons baseball game

In my mind, we'd go to the baseball game and sit together as a family. Jake would be so interested in the game, since he played baseball this year. He & Robbie would talk baseball and Rob would explain things to him. Jake would be entranced with game, loving watching every one of the players move. Maybe Jake & Robbie would even catch a foul ball (even though we had no glove & where we were sitting, it would be nearly impossible for a foul ball to get to us). It would be a perfect father/son/family outing. 

In reality, this is how it went:

Walking up to the stadium- Jake: I'm so excited!

Inning 1- Jake: I'm hot. How long is this going to last?

Inning 2- Jake: I'm thirsty. I've got to go to the bathroom.

Inning 3- Jake: Can we go home?

Inning 4- By this time, Chuck & Judy had joined us along with some of our friends that were at the game. Jake had stolen Mimi's iPhone to play games. But then he complained because he couldn't see the screen from the glare.

Inning 5- My friend Julie & I take the boys (Jake & Julie's son Jude who is 4) to the playground/inflatables area. Which of course cost $5 and looked like a complete germ circus. 

Top of Inning 6- Julie & I finally score a bench in the shade so we can watch the boys play on the germ circus.

Bottom of Inning 6 (basically 5 minutes later)- The boys decide they are done with the inflatables & want to go back to the seats. Julie & I give up said great seats. 

Top of Inning 7- I purchase Jake a snowcone in hopes it will hold him over to the end of the game. He of course picks blue. We return to our seats & the dads.  

Bottom of Inning 7- Said blue snowcone has spilled & made a mess.

Innings 8 & 9- Our friend Lance (who is happily unmarried with no children) teach Jake & Jude how to toss peanut shells through the little personal fan, so they shoot off in every direction. We got a lot of favorable looks from the people around us for that one.

Walking out: Jake: I had so much fun!

Robbie was so sweet about everything though. He thanked me for going & sitting out in the hot sun so he could go to a baseball game with his family on father's day. Even though it wasn't exactly how they show it on TV, I hope Robbie enjoyed the day with his son & family and knows how much we love him. Even if our outing it not textbook perfect, we have fun and we do together as a family.

Funny after story as we are walking back to our car after the game:

Jake: I hope I can go to Judy's house soon & play.

Me: Judy? Who is Judy?

Jake: Judy. You know that boy I was playing with at the baseball game.

Me: His name is Jude. Not Judy.

Happy Father's Day to all of the awesome father's and grandfathers that have touched and influenced our lives. We have been blessed so much and love these men with all our hearts.