Happy Monday and Welcome to the 37th Week of Pregnancy (just less than 4 weeks to go if baby K decides to come on time)!
What a great week (it already seems like so long ago now that we are back at work for a full work week!). We spent last week working and enjoying sukkot -- from our shul's young members event in the shul sukkah complete with pizza, beer and icecream, to dinners in the sukkah over chag. We also had our new desk delivered (which will go into the now guest room/office). We are in the process of dismantling our current office to make room for Baby Kolieb.
Over chag, we decided we wanted a mixture of being social and laying low, so we had friends over wednesday night for Shemini Atzeret dinner-- our friends Aron and Dalia Youngerwood, who are having their first baby a few days after us, our friends Ellie and Daniel, who are having a baby in March (crazy, i know -- so many friends having babies) and our friend Dan. Thursday for Shemini Atzeret lunch we had our friends Ari and Florence over (Ari is the assistant rabbi at our shul), along with Ari's mom and their 2 daughters Eliana and Aviva, our the Fishmans (Mordechai, Shana and their two kids Caleb and Tehilla), and Adi and Larry. It was very nice. Sad to say goodbye to the sukkah after that. That night, we celebrated Simchat Torah by starting out at shul and then going over to a party at our friends Rebecca and Jeremy Mittman's house, which was lots of fun. Lots of yummy food and fun new people to meet. Simchat Torah day, we went to shul where Jem was in the mens section that breaks up into little groups so that everyone can have aliyot (i.e. get called to the torah) and I went to Shirat Chana, our shul's women's torah reading group, where we got group aliyot. Then after we all joined back together as one big group, we all headed down for the shul's Simchat Torah Grand Kiddush, which is lots of fun, cause people just go down there and hang out and you don't have to make a meal that day. Friday night we stayed home and had a mellow meal, read and played cards. Shabbos lunch after shul, we headed over to the Fishman's house for a lunch to celebrate Shana's 29th birthday. That was lots of fun.
Saturday night, we stayed in to continue with our organization rampage, where we cleaned out most of the office, moved things over into our new desk and started to decide whats going to be thown out, recycled and donated.
Sunday morning Jem got up super early (6am) to play golf with our friend Jeff and his dad who is in town from Canada. They had a 6:42am tee time at a nearby course for 9-holes of golf. I took Milo on his morning walk and then got ready for my first baby shower. Jem got home in time to pick Milo up and take him to his obedience class. I headed over to pick up my mom and go to Amy Higgins house, where Ali, Jen and Kim were hosting a baby shower for me. It was a ton of fun. There were just under 30 of us for a very fun afternoon. They had a very cute Australian theme for the tables, so we had one "Outback" table, complete with a stuffed kangaroo, an outback koala and a cool aussie book, a "Great Barrier Reef" table with a stuffed turtle, and some very cute bath toys, and a "Wiggles" table with all sorts of fun wiggles stuff. They had the Wiggles playing in the background. The food was super yummy, from this new kosher restaurant called Circa and we had delicious ben and jerry's chocolate cookie dough ice cream for dessert. They planned a fantastic activity, where everyone decorated onesies (the little baby t-shirts that snap on the bottom under the diaper) with puffy paint, so now we have about 30 onesies decorated by our good friends. Such a great idea. We got lots of fantastic gifts! This baby isn't even born yet and he has tons of great stuff and even more people who love him already! He's one lucky baby!
Jem stopped by at the end of the shower to put all of our loot into the car and then we headed over to visit with our friends Joanne and Carlyle (the Jackson-Halls), who live very nearby. They just got back a few months ago from an around the world trip (they were gone for a year) and got back for their son Chris' wedding (Chris is my friend from high school) which was back in August. So, they are finally settling back into normal life again. We had a great time catching up with them, and especially hearing about how Joanne delivered her 2 sons naturally -- one of whom (Chris) weighed 10 lbs, 13 oz and the other (Andy) who weighted 10 lbs, 12 oz. Wow! Wow! Wow! I'm impressed! She told us about her crazy nesting story where she decided one day near the end of her pregnancy with Chris that she NEEDED to change the curtains in the baby's room so went out to a fabric store and stayed up all night with her sister making curtains for the room (she didn't know how to sew!!!). Hysterical.
After visiting with them for a couple hours, we headed over to my mom and Larry's house, where we met them and their friend Aileen (aka "A"), and all went out to dinner at a yummy italian place near my office.
A great week!!! This one promises to be fantastic as well, with another baby shower this sunday, hosted by our very good family friends Karen and "A" -- i can't wait! Its weird to be back at work for a full week but luckily I reminded the partners that I am still here and might be here as much as another 4+ weeks so they need to give me more work, so they did, so I can not be bored and can feel productive. We also are having another ultrasound this week at our weekly doctors visit and we'll see what position the baby is in (hopefully facing down and getting ready to come out) and maybe the doctor will venture a guess at how much he weighs.
Have a great week. I'll put photos up from the shower once Amy Higgins sends them to me.
xoxo
Lisa (and Jem)
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