Last weekend Tim,
Toast, and I drove down to Oxnard to visit the Tibbses and our So Cal friends.
I found out that the six-hour drive is a lot more difficult when you are five
months pregnant. It isn’t as easy to sit comfortably in a car for long
stretches as it used to be. But Tim made the drive pleasant by reading to me
(and Bibbs). He learned that the baby can hear his voice so he started reading
us a novel – the Dresden Files. It is a very entertaining story about a modern
day wizard who solves crime in Chicago. Bibbs apparently loves to hear Tim’s
voice because I can feel baby kicks and flutters every time he reads aloud. It
is cool! Toast is generally ambivalent to Tim’s orations.
It is amazing
how many things we managed to cram into one busy, fun-filled weekend! Mostly,
we enjoyed the beautiful warmth of the Southern California summer with family.
We played beach volleyball with Tim’s brother and niece (who is trying out for
the freshman volleyball team when she starts high school next year) and
splashed around in the ocean. We brunched with the in-laws and caught them up
with all our baby related news. Everyone is so excited that we are adding to
the Tibbs clan! We took Tim’s pop out to a movie, which was luxurious, since
the two of us haven’t had time to see many of the summer blockbusters.
On Friday we had
dinner with some of Tim’s oldest friends. They have a 14th month old
so we got another preview into what life with a baby will look like. It was
especially interesting to watch Toast interact with a baby. We were nervous but
she did really great! Sometimes she wanted to play with the baby so she would
go into the downward dog bow position and then started running away to get the
baby to chase her. The baby had no idea that the game worked that way and Toast
got a little bored. Then Toast brought the baby her ball. She apparently wanted
to teach the baby to play fetch but the baby didn’t get the idea that he was
supposed to throw the ball. He would pick it up and Toast would wait patiently
but the baby never threw it. Toast would nudge him gently but eventually gave
up and came over to us. She seemed exasperated and, if we could read her mind, we
think she would have told us, “That ‘puppy’ is either broken or stupid.” Anyway, it was a hoot to see how she will do
as a nanny dog. We are still planning on entering her into personal dog
training starting next month though so we can rely on her to obey us 100% of the
time when the baby comes, just to be safe.
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| Tim and cousin Joey in a pic from 1994(?) found in an old photo album. What goobers! Some things never change... |
Anyway, that
night Tim and his cousin went to see his brother’s band play at the local bar
(I stayed in because I am a lame, tired pregnant lady and didn’t want to be on
my feet around cigarette smoke and drunk people). The boys had a great time without
me and I got a wealth of advice from two experienced mom friends and then a great
night’s sleep. It was good that I was well-rested because the next day we went
to the Oxnard Salsa festival with our friends Heather and Jeff. The festival
was such a fun event! It was a free fair that highlighted all things “salsa”. There
was salsa music and dancing and, for only $5 we got a bag of chips and got to
taste hundreds of gourmet salsas made by local restaurants and vendors. We had
such a wide variety of salsas, everything from a sweet and mild strawberry to
super hot habanero. It was, as Heather said, like wine tasting for pregnant
ladies!
After our
tatsebuds were fried off from the spice, we headed to Heather and Jeff’s house
for the night. We got to meet their 4-month old puppy, Franklin. He is a cute
pup and just loved Toast. The two dogs played all evening as we caught up with
our friends. It was hilarious to watch Franklin follow Toast around everywhere
and take cues from her, like Toast used to do with older dogs when she was a
puppy. For example, Franklin didn’t know how to climb down the stairs in the
house but after watching Toast do it a few times, and a little coaxing from us,
he got the hang of it. Now Franklin is a pro at the stairs.
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| They look almost the same size! Franklin "Beast" is going to be a big dog! |
All in all it
was a great weekend! Tim started back at work this week (teaching work days and
professional development all week and the students come back next week). I am
wrapping up work at the immigration law clinic and getting ready to start
classes in mid-August. All that new school nonsense deserves a post in itself
though.
And in brief,
baby related news we saw Bibbs on an ultrasound a few weeks ago! All is healthy
and well with the baby. We decided to wait to find out the sex of the baby
until we meet him or her in person in four short months. Both baby and I are
growing and doing well. Here is an updated Bibbs photo for your hilarity.
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