31+ weeks!

We had ridiculously hot weather this past weekend; upper 80's for 2 days. It was miserable! I stayed in the house mostly, with fans on me and a cold beverage by my side. Garrett wanted to get as much sun as he could, so decided to work on his yard (what a surprise, huh!).

He built 2 semicircular walls in the corners of our yard, to prevent Pika from sneaking through.

We also attended the "blue" party for our friend Leanne's 29th birthday.

Here's a pic of Sporty's new favorite place to take a nap. He keeps wanting to jump up on my lap and rest his head on my belly. Doesn't feel very comfy, but he enjoys it.
We also put together the Pack & Play/playpen to make sure we had enough room for it.

Then Garrett used Sport to test it out!

Finally, baby update. 31+ weeks and getting nervous! (Sigh) Baby is getting bigger and sticks out A LOT! I must say, pregnancy has continued to go very well. Sleeping has continued to become more difficult. My current craving is vanilla soy milk!

Tacoma Half Marathon and Couples Baby Shower!

Garrett, Kyle, and Kelsey decided to run the Tacoma Half Marathon this year. We could't find Kelsey at the starting line. But they found each other after a few miles.
Where's Kyle?
Here I AM!

Looks like he still has a lot of energy!

Let's see what he looks like at the end of 13.1 miles!

YAH! All smiles at the end after they finished!
Trisha and I got our exercise in too! We had to walk 3 blocks uphill to the starting line, then walk 3 blocks back downhill to the car. It was tiring driving 9 blocks to the finish line, waiting in a warm cafe for an hour, then walking a block to the finish line. Even though the weather wasn't as nice and sunny as it could've been, we all enjoyed ourselves!

We were blessed by our WA/Hawaii family with a couple's shower. Here's just some of our cute decorations! Zoe made the very creative diaper cake! Cute huh!

Our favorite kind of cake! Chocolate with cream cheese frosting! YUMMY! One of the games we played was boys vs girls drinking sparkling apple cider from a bottle. It was hilarious!

I beat Garrett and we didn't cheat by cutting our bottle nipples, so it took us awhile.

But everyone after us was smarter, so they sucked the juice out in a very short time! It practically just drained out into their mouths! Here's Joy and Kyle racing each other. By the way, the girls beat the boys. :) Garrett is demonstrating the portagee way of swaddling a baby. Nah, he's getting ready for another game.

The girls were blind folded and had to feed the boys pudding. We had a good method of shoveling, but I guess I missed Garrett's mouth a little. :)

The boys were all good sport; they didn't even ask questions or grumble...just played along with the girls and all our silly and fun games!

Words can't express how truly blessed we are to have friends up here that have become our family. Our nursery is now overstocked with gifts and love from them all. Thank you Marina and Chester for hosting our shower! Thank you also to Ranelle, Mark, Joy, Trisha, Kyle, Zoe, Deb, and Kelsey who helped plan a fantastic, memorable day. Baby Yamada is already so spoiled!

Baby room curtains and pregnant Garr

Wow, I've remembered to do another post in May, within a week of the last one! Let's hope I can keep this up!

Since we've been doing small projects to the baby's room, I decided to get new curtains. I wanted darker curtains to help keep the light out, with intentions that it will help baby sleep better. Well, they were so plain...until today! Found these polka dot panels at Target, so I cut them in half and sewed them over the dark curtains. Apparently, Lisa was trying to tell me to do it this way, but I didn't understand. Then, as I was playing around trying to decide how to sew them together, this bright idea came to me! Low and behold, it was the same idea Lisa had been trying to explain. I guess great minds think alike, but not at the same rate. :)

They match the blue and brown theme we're trying to create. Plus, I love polka dots!
Here's also a pic of Garrett pretending to be pregos with Sporty. At first Sport was scared and didn't move. Then Kyle was teasing him from the outside with treats and Sport went crazy! It was so funny!

7 months BIG!

Ooops, I'm supposed to be keeping up with this blog, but I guess once a month is my quota. We haven't been that busy, but here's what we've been up to.

I am now 28+ weeks along, or about 7 months. I feel HUGE! Garrett wanted to take the picture outside, since it's one of the few nice spring days we've had. Plus, he wanted to show off his gorgeously mowed green lawn. He loves to just stare at it. No really...he looks out the window at least 5 times a day and comments on how nice his yard is compared to the neighbors.

Pregnancy has continued to go very well. I unfortunately had to take a 3 hour diabetes glucose test a few weeks ago, which consisted of fasting for 12 hours, drinking a VERY sugary drink, then having blood drawn on the hour for 3 hours. It was not fun, especially since I'm not like Lisa and enjoy needles or giving blood. The tech double poked me every time because she couldn't find my vein. Agh. Happy to report that it was all worth it and no gestational diabetes for me!

No cravings. Garrett has had more cravings, like food in general. Current weight gain is about 15 pounds, which luckily has been all belly and boobs. Garrett calls my belly a "torpedo" since it just sticks straight out.

In the last couple of weeks we've been preparing the baby room. We put together the crib and bookcase last weekend and painted the dresser.

Garrett already has a collection of Transformers started for baby. The deal was that he could get a new Transformer if I didn't meet my exercise goal for that week. You can tell I haven't been exercising. Also, baby has a nice collection of books thanks to all his loving aunties and uncles in Hawaii. I've been starting to read to baby, but I need to have Garrett practice too!

Sporty has been getting used to the word "baby". We try to pretend we're holding a baby as much as we can remember to get him used to seeing and hearing it. This green doggy stuffed toy is his favorite! He carries it all around the house and will do anything for it.

Lastly, Pika the bunny has been enjoying a lot of outside sunshine. The other weekend we were outside working on the yard and had her loose. Well, Sport usually keeps an eye on her to make sure she doesn't run away. But, she snuck under our fence and had a brief encounter with the "real world". She quickly came back; guess she figured she had it made here.