holiday weekend

i don't remember if i mentioned my battle with UPS. the friday that jamie was gone i got a notice that UPS had come by, but i swear i didn't leave the house and the bell never rang! the notice said they would try again on monday and 2-5pm was marked AS WELL as after 5pm. so i sat here from 2:00 on. our friend levi was in town and came over to go to dinner with us around 8. we didn't leave the house until after 8:30. the UPS guy still hadn't come, but i figured he wasn't going to come any later than that. of course when we got back there was another notice. crazy! this one said tuesday after 5. well, i assumed it would be super late again, however, the only thing i had to do that day was have lunch with marilyn, so i figured i'd be there. when i got back from lunch (around 1:30) there was another notice!!! the final notice, so the item was being sent back. boooo! i was so mad. i called in and they said i could come pick it up. i had to wait until friday so jamie could drive me. it was less than 5 miles away and took us 2 hours! anyway, the good news is i got my item! a new camera i had ordered.

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i'm really excited about it. i wanted to get a nice camera to take pictures of baby T, and this one does video too. my very good friend marie has the same one, so i knew it would be a good one. we tried to play with it a lot this weekend. unfortunately my only model really was sophia, but she's a good one!


here's an action shot of her with one of her favorite toys (thanks stacey!)






i have some specific ideas of pictures i wanted jamie to take, i wish i could do it myself but did i mention jamie sold nearly everything we own while i was sick the first trimester??? that included my tripod! (needless to say, this isn't exactly what i was going for, but we'll get there!)





we also had our first child birth class last week. it went really well (although the other couples weren't nearly as out going and open as i had hoped they'd be). we have 3 more classes, so maybe they will loosen up. i can't believe it's almost time for baby T to be here!

btw, we had a really good 4th of july! i'll post pictures from that tomorrow.

picnic and passion pit in the park

yesterday was a good day! one of my favorite people, marilyn, is in town for a few days and i was able to have lunch with her and her son. it was a lot of fun and so nice to be with people during the day! i'm hoping to see her again before she leaves.

then, yesterday evening we went to the park for a concert. throughout the summer our park (prospect park) is having concerts at the bandshell. last night it was passion pit. jamie and i really like passion pit, but we weren't willing to pay $35/person for it (and it was sold out!) we decided to just go sit outside the stage area and listen. often when i go to concerts i can see anything anyway, so what does it matter? it was actually really fun. we packed a picnic and took sophia. there were a lot of people with our same idea, and a few of jamie's coworkers joined us later on. if you are in the area, check out the website for the calendar of events. i think the next one we are interested in is july 30, so we'll see if we are able to go that close to baby t's arrival!


our picnic (summer salad and croissants)






this doesn't do it justice, but by the time the show started there were a LOT of people in our area.


behind the green fence is where the "real" show took place, but we could hear perfectly.




and this weeks belly shot. again, i don't know if you can tell by this picture, but i honestly think i doubled in size last week!

window seat

so... once again i had to get up early because the plumber was supposed to be here between 9 and 10 to grout the tile and then be done. (i don't know if i've mentioned this before, but throughout my pregnancy i haven't slept well. i actually often don't even fall asleep until around 6am or so, so i get my best sleep in the morning.) well, 10:00 came and went, as did 11:00! then the lady downstairs called and said he was supposed to be here in 15 minutes. he finally came around noon. however, he came (to grout the tile remember) and forgot the grout!!! can you believe this guy? so he left and then came back around 1ish. he did the grouting and left around 2:45. after he left i felt so liberated and free! i could pee if i needed to, i could lay down, i could let sophia roam freely. i felt like i had been a prisoner in my own home all week, and now i was free! i laid on the couch and read for a bit, then i got tired and i actually decided to take a nap (which i NEVER do!) right as i fell asleep someone rang my buzzer. i was furious. i can't get a moments peace! it was my landlord AND the plumber. the plumber wanted to show my landlord what he had done. needless to say, after they left i didn't fall back asleep.

there is still lots to do to prepare for baby t's arrival. as i've mentioned before i haven't posted pictures of the nursery because we still need to do some cosmetic things and organize organize organize! one thing i've been needing to do though is make a cover for a cushion to go on the toy chest/window seat. last night i finally did it. i had no idea what i was doing, but it turned out pretty well. and i made it envelope style so it can be removed for washing. here are some pics. and hopefully once jamie gets home we can get everything else taking care of and post some pictures!

sorry!

sorry i've been MIA this week. it's not that i'm so busy that i haven't had time, (although i have been keeping busy!) it's more that i'm so boring i don't have much to share. i have spent this entire week waiting on the plumber. it's been an ongoing nightmare for a few months now. apparently for over a year our shower has been leaking into the apartment below us. for some reason they never decided to get this fixed until after we moved in (lucky us!) so literally for months now i've spent many, many days waiting on a plumber, who may or may not show up. and the plumber that we've been using (in my opinion) is an idiot. so... on sunday they found a new plumber and he at least had the brains to decide he needed to knock into the wall to see what was causing the leak. the bad news in this is that there was going to be a hole in my shower and one in the lady's below us ceiling! so yesterday he first came at 9am. then for some reason he had to leave and talk to the landlord then come back, so basically the ENTIRE day i waited on him. he didn't leave until 6:30. and did i mention the water was off??? so i held my pee for hours (which is asking a LOT of a pregnant girl!) i held it so long i couldn't bare it any more and i had to pee in a cup (3 actually). it was miserable. so today he was supposed to come at noon. he didn't. then he was supposed to come between 3 and 4. he didn't. he finally came around 5:30. which put him here through dinner time. it just so annoying and inconvenient. so now i have my hole filled in with tiles, but he has to come back tomorrow to grout them. he supposed to be here by 9. this better be over tomorrow is all i have to say!

jamie's gone

well, i guess the reality of father's day made jamie run for the hills. he skipped the country today. just kidding. i mean, he really did leave the county, he'll be gone for a whole week! he had to go for work. i don't mind, except for the fact that we are now only 5 weeks away from our due date and who knows what could happen!

i really wanted him to have a special father's day weekend. on saturday i asked him what he wanted to do, and he said "go to the beach!" so we packed up and headed out. it normally takes about 45 minutes to get to jones beach from our place, saturday it took 2 hours! that was the start of the kind of day we had... we actually planned to go to this beach we found just north of jones called cedar beach. we thought it was a free, public beach. when we finally got there we find out it cost $25!!! i don't know about you, but i find this ludicrous! so we made a u-turn (thank goodness they are legal here) and went back to jones beach where it cost $10. however, you can't just pay at the entrance, you have to get a car pass. we did not know this, so we had to make another u-turn to go get one. crazy! we finally got there and it was PACKED! i had a feeling it would be like this, and have actually seen worse, but i guess jamie was unprepared. he was really bummed out by the whole ordeal. and did i mention how cold the water was??? it was FREEZING! it wasn't that cold in cape cod! THEN, when we headed home traffic was even worse and it took 3 hours to get home! poor jamie. he said saturday was one of those days he hates living in ny. and here i was trying to give him a good weekend!











thankfully sunday was better, but we didn't leave our neighborhood either. it was HOT out. really really hot. we got breakfast and took sophia to the dog run (she didn't last long). then we just relaxed at the house until we got hungry again and we took sophia to eat mexican food on the patio of a restaurant. it was really good. and it cooled off slightly while we were there. that evening we also went to get ice cream. we joked that it was more sophia's day then father's day because we only went places she could go too. every day is sophia's day!


sophia giving jamie his father's day gift


i know you can't see the card, but it has a water color of brooklyn on it. and said something like "happy father's day from brooklyn" it wasn't that cute, but i thought it was fitting.






father's day kisses


i got jamie a tiny little grill that we can hopefully use on the fire escape. i don't know why the box says silver, it's green. everything i buy is green : )


and here is the current belly bump.

jamie's first 5k

last night jamie had his first 5k run. it was through his work, it was something like the jp morgan corporate challenge (???) when he signed up for it (back in february), his whole team (minus 1) signed up, and they had big plans of training and preparing for it. i don't know what the rest of them have been doing, but jamie's idea of "training" apparently involves eating lots of hamburgers, hotdogs, and pizza. oh! and not running.

anyway, i met him up at his work and went with everyone over to central park for the run. i think only 2 other people from his team ended up running (slackers!) but my jamie is truly a champion! he ran it even though he hasn't run since december. when he gives his word, he means it! the event itself was insane! there were so many businesses involved. apparently they had to break it into 3 days. yesterday was the 2nd day of it, and there were TONS of people! they had divided the park into different areas (assigning each business to an area) and i think there were at least 3 of those, and ours was packed. i don't think i got very good pictures to give you an idea, but it was crazy. the bad part was that i couldn't see the actual race. i just stayed with everyone's bags. maybe next year baby t and i will wander down the the race (if i could even find it!)


this is jamie pre-race


everyone on team AE gearing up!








and after the race. his classic pose.


this was the beautiful sunset we saw on the way home.

sock monkeys!!!

yesterday we received an awesome package from our good friends levi and linda! it was full of lots of surprises. one of which, was a sock monkey! it's really cute. then today, we received a package from future aunt erin and uncle clay. and inside it was an adorable sock monkey onesie! they go together perfectly, and now i'm wishing i had done the nursery in sock monkeys! i guess i still kind of can since i haven't made the curtains or hung anything on the walls still. (i have 5 weeks, plenty of time!) anyway, thanks you guys! we really appreciate the goodies!



oh! and i forgot to mention that erin and clay also included some goodies for sophia, before i even opened the package she was OBSESSED with it! and then when i put the treats away and was taking the onesie into the baby's room, she would not leave the onesie alone. i guess it smells like delicious dog biscuits!