Downtown adventure

Kylie and I had an adventurous morning. We headed downtown for a walk with Tabitha, Portia, Nico, Kerry and baby Olivia. The weather was wonderful when we started our walk, but the walk home was a little hot. We headed to Augie's and enjoyed sitting under a tree with the little ones while the big girls ran around. Kylie has been having a hard time sharing her toys so we got an opportunity to work on that a little today :o) She was so excited to see Olivia and of course Nico. I am getting more and more excited for her to meet our new baby, I think she will be such a good big sister.

When we got home I noticed only one of her flip flops in the strolled, ahhhhhh. She doesn't know it yet, I can't imagine how I am going to tell her that we lost one of her favorite shoes, she is going to have a full melt-down. I went back and drove our walking path tonight and didn't see it, I might try to walk it tomorrow and look one more time. Kylie is so obsessed with her shoes, she cries when she grow out of a pair and can't get it on anymore, she will change her shoes 2-3 times before we leave the house and 9 times out of 10 she is frantically looking for her flip flops. The other day she said "sometimes I call my flip flops, flippies. And sometimes I call my flippies, flips." She then referred to them as her "flips" for the rest of the day. Anyway, wish me luck on either finding the flip or explaining it to my passionate daughter.

I went to my last prenatal yoga class tonight. Last because I feel like this baby might come before next Monday and because as of June, Breathe is no longer going to be open. The space is being taken over by a local midwife, who is still planning to teach prenatal yoga, but my plan was to simply finish out my classes with Julie and be done for now. I will miss Breathe so much! It was such a peaceful, sacred space where I could go and be replenished. With this pregnancy, I felt like my yoga time was special time for me and this new baby, and I loved it! Julie is an amazing teacher with the most pure and beautiful energy, I will miss seeing her every week, but I know we will keep in touch.

My parents decided to have a Kylie sleep over at their house tonight. They have had her over at least one every 1-2 weeks and they want to keep up the routine since she might have to spend some time over there when I am in labor. I thought Craig might be working until 1am tonight, so I was planning on a lonely night at home. But Craig was able to get off around 8:30 and we went out to dinner!!! It was wonderful! We tried the new place in downtown called Darby's. The food was really good. We enjoyed a relaxed meal with real conversation (which doesn't happen at home because Kylie literally says "hey stop talking to each other guys!" all the time). We talked about potential baby names, nothing set in stone, but it is nice to at least have a few ideas.

Off to bed now, it is always a mixed emotion night when Kylie is not here. I miss her and often wake up multiple times looking or listening for her, but at the same time I will get more comfortable sleep considering I will not have a toddler latched on for half the night :o)

Good night,
Natalie