So yesterday after the ultrasound we went to Stride Rite since they are having a sale, and we figured we’d get the small one’s foot measured again and get him two pairs of shoes, one at his current size, if it had changed and one a half a size bigger for when his foot grows.

So we had him measured right before we went on vacation in June he was still a 5 1/2 extra wide, apparently a month and a half makes a huge difference because he is now a 6 1/2 extra wide. No wonder his sneakers and sandals were getting tough to put on him.

We ended up only getting him one pair of sneakers, rather then two, since the other pair we liked didn’t come in extra wide, his new sneakers are nice. Hopefully number 2 has a wide foot, since we now have three pairs of hardly used shoes from Desmond.

We had my first midwife appointment for the new bean yesterday. It included an ultrasound appointment. The appointment went well over all. It was hard to see the bean, though I will upload the ultrasound pictures eventually. We did see the heartbeat it is at 157 which is great. The fetal pole was measuring a week smaller then where I thought it should have been, but my dates could have been off. My due date was moved to March 16th from the 10th, which I am fine with. I actually prefer a slightly later date, since I am going to try a VBAC and having more time before the bean is due is good, since then I am likely to get less pressure about the baby being late, etc.

After the ultrasound we met with the midwife, well one of them. This is a new one to the practice, she wasn’t there two years ago when I was there with Desmond. I like her a lot, which is nice. The midwife that helped deliver Desmond is no longer there, which is a bit disappointing, she apparently got married and moved to Colorado. Anyways the midwife went over my history and her first question was, “Are you planning on a VBAC?”, which is a nice question to be asked. I told her I was and apparently I can stay with the midwife half of the practice for VBACs, which is nice, I prefer a midwife to an OB when possible.

All in all it was a good appointment, there wasn’t a problem with me going to India at 20ish weeks, and I go back for my next appointment in 6 weeks.

I realize it has been a bit since I last updated, so I took some pictures of Desmond today at Gymboree, and got around to downloading some other pictures off the camera cards. Here are a couple of pictures from this morning of Desmond at Gymboree.

Not this past Sunday, but the week before that, Sunday the 20th, we went out blueberry picking with my in-laws. Everyone had fun though it was really hot. Here are a couple of pictures of Desmond and my in-laws picking blueberries.

These two pictures are a bit old, they are from the trip down to North Carolina. Desmond was getting cranky and hungry so I gave him some trail mix that included chocolate covered peanuts. He quite enjoyed it.

My mother in law dyed her hair last weekend sometime, and apparently it didn’t work out quite right, she wanted really light blond, instead she ended up with pink hair! So here is my mother in law and her lovely pink hair.

Here are some more pictures of him in the pool.

Okay all done I’m going inside now.

We went to my in-law’s house on Saturday. They have a small blow up pool for Desmond, he had played in it last week too, but we hadn’t known about it so he had no bathing suit then. We brought his bathing suit this time, he had lots of fun, he went in it twice about 2 hours apart. He likes playing in the water.

He also got to have an icy pop while out there here is his reaction to that:

Here are a bunch of him playing in the pool

Most everyone knows this announcement by now, but we bought Desmond a shirt to tell everyone. So here is his big announcement. You’ll have to click to see the whole announcement.

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So for Dan’s birthday we went to the supermarket and picked up half a cake. It was very chocolaty and Desmond loves chocolate. Here are some pictures of him with the chocolate cake being eaten!