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Right now (12:16 pm) it is very hot in San Francisco.  We consider a 75 degree day to be hot.  If it hits 75, you can bet people will be picnicking and frolicking in every park and in every bar and cafe with an outside courtyard.  Today, right now, its 98.4 degrees.  

Our black dog doesn’t know what to do with herself.  She is roasty.  I think I might give her a bath in the cool hose water in order to give her some relief.  

 

 

UPDATE:

I just checked the temp again.  4:05 pm and it is 106 degrees!

Something I learned at Baby Center today…

“The animal with the longest gestation period?

Elephants. Their pregnancies last about two years.”

22 1/2 weeks

Here is the long awaited belly shot.  Enjoy.

[In looking at this photo again, it is a tad misleading.  Something about the angle of the photo makes my belly look small (relatively).  I’ll have to take another one to show you all how giant it actually is.]

 

 

22 weeks

I think the baby is doing somersaults or something.  Its like I’m on a boat and can feel my insides sloshing around – but I’m not moving.  Weird.

He has been pretty active this week in general.  I guess its just that he’s getting bigger and I’m feeling more of his movements than before.  It can be quite distracting at times.  Last night we had a breast feeding class and he was all riled up.  It must have been the whole grain pizza with nitrate free meat, or the granola bar -whatever it was, he was digging it.  Anyway… Whenever he would kick or make a sudden jarring motion I would look around to see if anyone else noticed it. It was so distracting to me that it must have been at least detectable to the other people in the room.  Turns out it wasn’t.  Either that, or they were too enthralled with lactation.

I look forward to the day when my Dallas can feel him kicking too.  

A couple weeks ago a friend and I took a sewing class at Stitch in Hayes Valley.  It was Sewing Basics II. Turned out it was a little too easy for me, but I still learned some neat things about my machine.  I also learned that taking crafty classes is fun!  

Someday I’d love to take a Letterpress class.  It would be neat to be able to make my own invitations, announcements, cards, whatever!  Pretty much THE place to go locally is The San Francisco Center For The Book.  

I just went down to Mountain View this week and picked out our new tree!  As you may remember, back in January we lost a tree in our yard.  It was a sad occasion and it has been a process to get to this point.  

First we had guys come out to haul away the tree – which took forever because half of SF had trees down, and since ours wasn’t coming through a wall on our house or trapping our newborn baby underneath, we weren’t considered a priority. After that we had the tree people over with their special, and very loud, machine to grind and remove the stump.  

Then the search for a replacement began.  I wanted the same kind of tree (Geijera Parviflora), but was unable to locate one locally and the correct size (24″ box). After a couple months of that I finally gave up and set my sights on a fruitless Olive. Another couple months have gone by with some hope sprinkled in there, but not until this week did I actually meet the tree that will be in my yard.  Its all very exciting.  

Without further adieu, meet the new addition to our backyard…

(its the one on the left)

There was talk of getting both the above trees, but after some thinking I decided that just the one will be enough.  The tree will be delivered and planted on Monday afternoon.   Then after that I’ll be able to finish the beds underneath with lavender and maybe some rosemary.  I’m going to do the whole Mediterranean thing in that sunny spot in the yard.  I’ll let you know how it goes.