I'm so excited because I'm finally starting to "show." She really looks pregnant in "real life."   Scott was going to make me french toast for my birthday but we didn't have milk or eggs so we put it off until today.  We used a sweet bread we made a while back. It was a bit saccharine to me.  After breakfast I made dishwasher soap.  The past week or two I've been feeling the baby move. When it does karate on me I can see my stomach move. I love watching it do that. I love to watch Brooke, watch the baby kick. Today is Emma's birthday. I kind of think its funny that we look alike and I'm only 3 days older than her. Since we couldn't bowl on my birthday Emma thought we should go for hers.  The dude at Elsie's thought we wouldn't want to play for an hour and then turned around. At that point we decided to find some place else to bowl. Since Elsie's didn't work out we met up with...

After talking about it since January my parents finally agreed on a weekend that would work for them to come visit. On the day they arrived we went over to Wirth Park and beach. They wanted to look at the building where we had our wedding reception. It was closed so we had to peek in. Then we walked over to the Eloise Butler Wildflower garden. Gail wanted to read all the signs, but we just said let's go. You can't tell but there were a couple of turkeys crossing our path.  After walking through the woods we arrived at the prairie. With so many flowers in bloom the prairie was awash with color. The garden closes at dusk and the nerdsters (get it? nerdy hipsters) were waiting for us to leave so we had to leave early. That's was my idea, don't try to steal it. Nerdster. On the way back out of the forest I saw some ducks that were confounded by the green slime water. A new boardwalk was completed aft...