Today was one of those days that was unexpectedly so very nice. Dylan was able to take a break from his regular at-home work duties and joined me in dropping off Gavin at Dawn's. Gavin had been talking about Dawn's house and was definitely ready to see his buddies again. Then we checked in at Babymoon, but not before hitting Dutch Bros. on the way. Everything checked out great in the baby department. I was afraid that after a full weekend of celebrating and lots of lots of sugar that they might tell me my butt was so big that it was unhealthy for the baby. Fortunately, they made no mention of it.
The baby is still breach, but they just keep acting not worried about it and said next time we'll start making a plan for spinning him around. My midwife demonstrated an awesome inversion exercise that I can start doing just for laughs in the meantime. She also talked about nursing, and I told her about my struggles from last time. She made me feel a lot more comfortable by saying she's not a do-or-die breastfeeding person. As long as you give it your best and have sought out all the necessary support...if it doesn't work out, it just doesn't. She also had all kinds of recommendations for other things, like seeing the chiropractor, and then laughed and said, "I have so many ideas to share when it comes to babies and pregnancy..too bad they all cost money. Haha." They keep it really real there. As we walked out of the appointment, she put on her witch hat to hand out candy to the parade of babies in costume for the Halloween Baby Parade. The office was a zoo of babies and they were so cute and hilarious. I left there feeling really glad I see the midwives...even if it does take all morning to drive there when I have to drop off Gavin first.
From there, we hit La Grande Orange for sandwiches and hung around for a couple hours while we both got some work done on our computers. For our next stop, we did the unthinkable and went to a Tuesday matinee. The movie was Steve Jobs and the venue was Tempe Marketplace. It was a really, really well-written movie. It should come as no surprise that I think this because it was written by Aaron Sorkin, the same guy who wrote Newsroom. Which can only mean one thing: I'd better start watching The West Wing. I can't even remember the last time I saw a movie, and hopefully it's not too long before I find myself in a theater again. It's pretty awesome that we were both available to do this on a Tuesday afternoon, which is something I should keep in perspective next time I'm boohooing about my millionth weekend in a row with Dylan out of town.
We finally picked up Gavin, where he demonstrated his sight-word skills with Dawn, and we were so impressed. We got home just in time to take a short rhino ride. I'm sure it drew some double takes...big pregnant lady on a rhino holding her 2-year-old in her lap. I felt a little better about being so unsafe and redneck when we passed our neighbor driving his van with his granddaughter in his lap, behind the steering wheel. (See KP, you have nothing to worry about when it comes to driving home from the mailbox.) #wildwest
And finally, because I had completely forgotten to think about dinner, we decided to eat pumpkin waffles and smoothies on the patio. The weather was perfect. I always look forward to fall, but sometimes it feels so forced with all the pumpkin stuff and praying for lower temps. Tonight, though, was just right. The perfect fall night. With a few Halloween festivities coming up this week and a good excuse to make goodies, I'm really starting to feel in the spirit of things. I have zero pictures to share and owe the two-night-in-a-row blog post to taking yet another day off from being productive. I'm sure it will catch up with me soon, but I'm just not worried about it. Happy fall, y'all.
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