Hello again,

I am waking up earlier and earlier. This is good in a way, work starts soon. I have to be there all next week for training. Today I am attempting to garage sale for the monkey. Topher had a good birthday. The past 2 days we have spent at the Seattle Art Museum viewing the Kurt and Andy Warhol exhibits. We also hit up the Happy Hour there and I had some delicious goat cheese stuffed morels. I have been knitting and "nesting" ie organizing and reorganizing the house over and over. One annoying side effect of being pregnant is swelling, which I hadn't experienced until a few days ago, so now I spend a few hours a day with my feet up, way up! to lessen the pressure. It is uncomfortable and kind of gross looking. We have a busy weekend coming up, lots of socializing.

Happy Friday!

update!

Friday I will be 6 months pregnant, Mom took this when she was here. The belly is growing!

and then we went to Vancouver!

This is a great book, we have been searching for information on how to save money and not ruin the environment while raising a baby. It has already helped us with a ton of information on diapers! I have diapers on the brain lately! So far we have been pretty conservative on new items and it has been fairly easy. We have been lucky enough to have very generous people in our lives! So far it has been quite an adventure and the little monkey is not even here yet!

Happy Saturday! Go Oranje!

Mom left today

Here are a few photos from our adventures in Washington:

Hi! School ended and my mom came to visit. I am now 21 weeks and it has been interesting. Lots of changes. The house is great and everyone is good, we just haven't had time to blog. Mom and I have been getting around town and Topher tags along too, I'll post some photos from our adventures one of these days.

Happy Summer!

Being pregnant reminded me of one of my favorite stories from work:

Student: "see that lady, she's a lesbian" points at a Somali woman who is on the playground
Me: "do you know what a lesbian is?"
Student: "yeah, that means she's going to have a baby"
Me: "actually a lesbian is a woman who dates another woman, when you are going to have a baby you are pregnant, is that the word you meant?"
Student: "oooooh that's what a lesbian is" and he runs off to play on the jungle gym.

the belly

SIFF movies!

SIFF has been great so far, we just got a 6 ticket pass and I snuck off to see one by myself:

Beyond Ipanema (great movie with great music and I learned a lot about Brazilian music. I bought 1 new cd after seeing this and I definitely want to explore this country's music further.) (For m&m trailer is here)

Waiting for Superman we saw together and it gave us a lot to talk about after the film. Topher learned a lot about charter schools and I tried to not think too much about work and the changes my school is undergoing in the next few years.

Next up is Rock Steady on Friday night, it looks fantastic!



and then Howl, starring James Franco, Jeff Daniels and Mary-Lousie Parker.

Tonight we are going to a Storm game with my work and taking it easy in the meantime. Yesterday was a busy day, so busy in fact that I finally slept in! Right now we are off to the Ballard Farmer's Market!

what i'm loving right now...

(las rakas- Panamanian city slang for people from the ghetto, whose stigma they are trying to remove)