Things were so crazy last week that I completely forgot to tell you about our exodus to the hotel last weekend. It was so flipping hot in Seattle (90 degrees inside and out) that we checked into a hotel down the street. Our home away from home when it gets too hot or we are having renovations done. We suffered through on Saturday, but Sunday we threw in the towel. We went to the annual Strawberry Festival in the morning and it was already smokin' hot (our car said it was 87 degrees in the shade at 11:30am.) We dressed Zoë in her swimming suit so that she could enjoy the new water park at the festival, but it was malfunctioning and the water was coming out as a trickle. It was pitiful seeing 50+ kids in their suits all standing around the one water feature that was drizzling water. Zoë wasn't too bothered though because the festival had all sorts of bouncy houses. Her favorite was actually the balls. She used up most of her tickets there. Can you see how red her face already is from the heat? It was only 10:30am!
When we got home from the Strawberry Festival I booked a hotel room for us and we spent the rest of the day playing in the pool and enjoying their air conditioning. We got lucky and Horton Hears a Who was showing in the room, so we had spontaneous family movie night. Family Movie Night room service style if you will. It doesn't exactly coordinate with the movie per say, but it was really fun. And look, I figured out how to use the timer on our little Elph to take this family photo. Zoë's not exactly smiling, but I am just happy we are all in the shot. LOL!
When we got home on Monday I did some more maternity shopping. Two reasons: Capri pants are just not cool enough when it is 90 degrees outside, even when paired with a tank top. Two: Kel and I went on a date last Friday and I don't have anything even remotely dressy to wear. Did I tell you about our date nights? About two months ago Kelly decided that we should have a date night every other week until the baby arrives because we won't have much adult time once she arrives. Isn't that sweet?! So I needed something that would be date night appropriate and tummy friendly. I found some really cute items (thanks to my friend Gina who is also pregnant, just a week behind me). These dresses should be comfy and cool and I can dress them up with the necklaces and some cute shoes. I also bought some tank tops but that isn't nearly as interesting, you know?
I also updated my pregnancy journal today (two weeks in a row!) so click on over. We finally decided on a name for this sweet little baby girl. Speaking of which, here is another layout of the wee one using a page from the Twirl Piece-of-Cake Album.
