A Little Bit More Birthday

Initially Ruth was supposed to get the capes and a little something else for her birthday...but they hadn't come yet. They came the other day in the mail and she couldn't have been happier!

 Rapunzel!

 And Elsa!!!!

She actually chooses to wear the Rapunzel one more often than the Elsa one, which surprised me---just because the sparkly dress usually wins out, ya know? But I'm just glad she likes them so much! I ordered them in a size 5/6 instead of a 3/4 and although they are long, I am still glad because (unlike the deceiving-standing-on-our-bed pictures) they barely brush the floor and they should last a long time! Sterling is still a bit confused by the apron/dress concept but I love it! I think it's an easy way to dress up and feel pretty without growing out/not fitting a full dress. Also, these are a LOT better quality than a lot of the disney princess dress-up items I was looking at when looking for presents. Again, I probably could have made them for super cheap, but with enough scouring of etsy, I feel like I got a great deal. Mostly I just love that she loves them and dress-up clothes are a fun addition to our toy box because we've never had them before! Will LOVES the capes and Ruthie usually has BOTH dresses on, so I think we had some birthday success!

I am 38 weeks pregnant. Will would be a week old already. Sigh. I still feel like she is breech, but she moves so much I am constantly second-guessing myself. I don't have to wake up as much during the night as I did for the two days she was head down, I don't feel as much pressure, and I am not nearly as uncomfortable. So we are still praying at this house that baby is head down and I can have a normal delivery. I am trying to keep forefront in my mind that a healthy baby is the most important thing, I have a great doctor and access to wonderful medical care and those are all really big blessings already. 

Our neighbor Beth brought over a bag of baby clothes the other day and I am so glad we have some more summer outfits for when it will be 'winter'. This baby will be born the same season as Ruth was, but all of Ruth's six month clothes are winter--so it was nice to get some that are summery! It is also so much fun to be washing and folding those little tiny outfits. A couple weeks ago I ordered matching Christmas dresses for the girls because they were on clearance for 9 bucks at Target. I'm hoping this little babe is big enough to fit size six months at Christmastime and I ordered a size up for Ruthie so she has a dress for all year...but you should have seen Sterling's face when I held them up! Even he couldn't disguise a little 'awww' face. Matching dresses. Plus, the little one looked SO tiny next to the big one for Ruthie. Such exciting things. I have another OB appt on Monday, so I guess I'll update more then!

Asia-Zoo Miami

Yup, it's more of the zoo. Someday we might make it COMPLETELY through the entire thing and then I will stop posting about it. Well, at least pictures of the animals. I'll probably still take pictures of my kids. But today we had a great time going through the Asia section. Or at least that's where we started out. I didn't actually take a map with us this time, we just kept following one big loop that we've never done before. It took us two and a half hours! 

Rhino.

 Ruthie was so much fun this morning--she sat and watched the animals so intently at every single spot! Which is probably why it took us 2 1/2 hours....haha!

She played on this lizard for at least ten minutes. She loved it!

This leopard is pretty sweet. I like its really long tail.

She was so nervous about this statue this was as close as she got!

Massive komodo dragon!!!

We had two animals that really put on a show for us--the Asian camel (can't remember the name of it) and the Sloth Bear. This bear is really cool looking and he wandered all around and played in the water for us so we could watch! His hair was SO long it swayed and jiggled all cool when he walked. I think his face almost looks more dog-like than bear-like. He also eats termites, which is cool, I guess. 

Splashing in the water.

And this was the cool camel. It stores fat in its hump for times of starvation--and this guys humps were WOBBLY. When he walked around they flip-flopped all over the place. Interesting.

This was a normal camel.

We saw several different types of antelope today. There were zig-zag horns and all sorts of things. There were pure white animals that they think might be where the unicorn legends come from because if you see them from the side it looks like they only have one horn. 

These are some kind of African wild cattle. They are the biggest wild cattle in the world. They were HUGE! Ruth was a little nervous looking at them because they were pretty close to our teeny tiny two-foot fence.

This bear wasn't part of the loop, but the last three times we've gone he's been hanging out in his tree so I thought it was cool that he was walking around this time.

I'm pretty positive baby girl is breech again. Sterling thinks I'm paranoid and stressing out about nothing. But I had a couple days with quite a bit of pressure and feeling like my body might actually do this labor thing...and then nothing. I feel a hard round thing right at the top of my belly, just like when she was breech. She still moves around like crazy. I am just so TIRED of worrying about this. Please don't be breech baby girl. And please come soon. 38 weeks is long enough...but if you need another week to turn because you really are breech still, then by all means, take your time. Sigh.