I have yet to see more than two days in a row of good weather here in Missoula. We keep getting teased with little glimpses of Spring but I'm fairly certain Summer will be here before Spring truly arrives. This had better not be any indication of how Missoula's summer is going to go. I want three solid months of temps in the 80's and 90's...and if I'm still huge and pregnant when the hot weather rolls in, so be it!
This Memorial Day weekend was rainy. And cold. BUT, we were able to have a fantastic few days together as a family despite the icky weather. We painted the baby's room and kept the kids busy with various activities such as the carousel, a baseball game, lots of umbrella time, movies, and driving Cale's and Riley's motorized Jeep around up at Grandma and Grandpa's house. The kids were very sad to watch Dad leave for work this morning and we are slowly trying to adjust to our normal weekly routine. Wish me luck on that one. So far I have battled a tantrum or sibling rivalry every half hour.
In other news, I am slowly but surely getting back into taking pictures. In the month of May I took over 1,300 photos, however I'm sure I only kept about 100 of those. I'm proud to say that not one of those photos was shot in automatic mode. I am loving playing around in manual mode and the more I do it the more comfortable I am getting. Alex bought me a new photo editing software for Mother's Day and even though it will probably take years of practice before I ever figure it out, I am having a blast playing around with pictures and making them unique. I have a feeling this is going to be a very time-consuming hobby. :) My dream is to get good enough with photography that I can make a name for myself by becoming a photographer for Community Medical Center and specializing in taking pictures for families who either know they are going to lose their baby at birth, or being called in at all hours to photograph a baby who died unexpectedly during birth. I'm also becoming more and more interested in possibly photographing hospice patients. We'll see where my dream takes me. All I know is I love photography and the challenge of getting that perfect shot keeps me coming back for more. I suppose it's a lot like the game of golf in that way. It doesn't matter if the first seventeen and a half holes were complete and total disasters if you have that perfect last shot on the eighteenth hole...chances are you'll be back at it again the next day to find just one more.
In pregnancy news, I had a routine doctor's appointment this morning and apparently my body is already preparing itself for labor. I'm starting to efface and my doctor wants to start seeing me every week from here on out. To even begin to think about finally meeting this baby has me completely high strung for a couple of reasons. The first one being that I am only 34 weeks pregnant and it's still far too early for this baby to make his grande debut. Second, we have yet to agree on a name and there is no way I am delivering this baby without a name picked out for him!
I cannot believe I will soon be a mother of three.
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