4th of July and pregnancy updates

For the 4th of July I have no pictures, so I'll just have describe it for you....

We went to some friends' house who lives on Cottage Lake (excuse the poor grammer, it's late!) and had potluck dinner, then changed the kids into pajamas and watched fireworks out their huge windows looking out on to the lake.  A highlight was when Carter decided to change upstairs in their loft and throw his clothes down, including his underwear, like a fancy stripper.  Awesome.

Anyways, Henri wasn't so sure about it, but once we got settled in, he thought they were quite awesome, esp when they were going off of the dock in front of us, and across the way, so that there was less delay in the action.  Then I sat with my legs up and he laid back on them with a sippy cup of water and decided this was the life and was quite happy.  Though I think he did about 150 situps going up and down trying to catch all the action.  Then when we were done with ours on the dock, he was the only one left in the dark living room and called to us seemingly saying, "hey, where are you going?  They're still going strong across the lake!" 

We loaded kids in the car and drove home almost over a family who decided the best place to light off fireworks would be in the middle of the road in the entrance of our development,   We pull in the driveway, get the kids to bed and our neighborhood looks like we're in a war zone.  Anywho, then, about 10 minutes later, this mysterious family drives up in front of the house that is for sale next door, opens their car trunk and starts shooting off fireworks in front of that house in the street.  5 minutes after that, our neighbor across the street comes out to talk to them, apparently to tell them to move along.  Which they did.  2 driveways.  So now they are parked in front of our house lighting off fireworks.  We turn lights on thinking maybe they'll move along.  Nope.  Paul goes out to talk to them, asking nicely if they could move along, our strip of road didn't have fireworks on it and, frankly that's probably the safe thing.  See our road has been deemed too busy to put speed bumps on and it's quite curvy. 

She tells Paul basically that we are a bunch of non-patriotic people with sticks up our butts.  He points out that he doesn't like fireworks landing on the roof while his family is sleeping.  She insists they aren't.  Just then they all turn to watch still-flaming pieces of firework debris land on our roof.  They ended up moving along.  Seriously.  Go home or find a friend who has a home who will let you use their driveway like everyone else.  Sheesh.

Oh, so about the pregnancy thing.  My body's getting ready, I feel like this kid could fall out at any minute.  We don't know what's going on with the blood pressure, because it's up, it's down, we get high readings on one arm and low on the other.  We do know the change in meds has made mommy very sleepy.  It's been over a week and I'm still a zombie about 30-45 minutes after taking the increased dosage.

On Thursday, look for an update as to how my appt went.  I think it's in the late morning, I should bring a snack now that I thiink about it.  We're doing an ultrasound, a non-stress test and regular OB appt, who knows what all she's going to check and going over my blood pressure readings for the week (I turned in last weeks' when I went for my NST with the nurse) and we'll talk about how things are going.  I'm hoping to find out a little more concretely when we'll be expecting this little girl.  Hopefully she doesn't say "today" because I'm so not ready.

To keep busy while waiting for the appt, tomorrow gymnastics starts up, thank goodness.  Henri has been climbing the walls, chairs and whatever else he can.  In fact today I think was "If I can't reach it I'll find something to stand on it so I can climb to it" day.  Then we'll go have lunch with an old co-worker and walk around my old office in Seattle, then we'll head back to the Eastside, I'll drop the kids off at a sitter and go for my hand therapist appt for the pesky carpel tunnel.  Then I believe Etienne will stop by while my mom heads into her office for an hour or two.

Wednesday I thought since the weather should be nice and we have nothing else to do, we'll check out the Ballard Locks which we've never done.