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| Hanging in the "baby playground" at the school near our house |
E borrowed one of my sweaters and wore it to school - a big baggy turquoise wool with the sleeves all rolled up. Her teacher asked, "why the warm sweater on such a hot day?" to which she replied, "cause it smells like my mamma even when she's not here." That just melts me. What a lucky mamma I am.
We've been enjoying the pool at the Sully's. I picked up a life jacket for Evelyn so she can be more independent in the pool (and so Tag and I don't have to endure being constantly used as an orangutan buoy). She did amazingly great, playing with Lilly and the older kids in the pool, getting braver and braver. When we learned that she could touch the bottom in the shallow section, we tried it out sans life jacket and believe it or not, she started swimming! Well, almost swimming - she's working on it. We've got her in lessons at the club, and she's doing just great. She ought to be swimming like a fish by the end of the summer. Which is great because she absolutely loves the water.
Our little bit is now the size of sweet potato. We got the blood work back, and confirmed with the anatomy ultrasound, that we are going to have a boy....Gosh, that makes for interesting discussions for Tag and myself. We were ready for another girl -- I mean, we've conquered our fear of pink and we have a full wardrobe ready and waiting, and room for another bed in Evey's room. But a boy? Didn't we already get our dose of boy with Keagan and Dylan (!)? Jury is still out on that one. But there's no mistaking it. Evelyn will have a baby brother. She took the news better than we did, by the way. A bit of a disappointed "awww!" when she learned that her visions of a sister are foiled. But she moved on immediately to say "I can't wait for my baby brother to come!"
