Well, I’m in a bit of crisis mode about Halloween now. I was laying out Killy’s costume this afternoon because we’re going to our local AP group Halloween party tomorrow, and I figured I’d better try his cowboy boots on him to make sure they’re not too big for him to walk. I couldn’t get them on his feet! I got them at a secondhand store and they said “8″ on the bottom, and he wears a toddlers 6 or 7 so I thought they’d be fine. They must have been mislabeled, though, because they did not fit him at all – I couldn’t get them onto his feet! So, tomorrow morning we’re going to go shopping for boots, then for treats to give out at the party (play-doh is my plan), and for some kind of autumn-themed food I can make (Hodgson Mill makes an awesome whole wheat gingerbread mix that is just divine). Then we go get Mary Virginia from the airport, swing by the house to pick up David, go to the pumpkin patch to get pumpkins, then go to the party. Maybe I’ll have my baby tomorrow night after all the excitement of the day!

If anyone is wondering, Killy is going to be a cowboy for Halloween. He’ll be wearing a red bandana, plaid shirt, “Texas Ranger” badge (from Auntie Carina!), blue jeans, and cowboy boots. That is, assuming we can find some cowboy boots tomorrow morning! David will be wearing his “ghost” costume from last year (a very geeky t-shirt) and I’ll be wearing an orange sweatshirt that David drew a pumpkin over my belly onto. I’ll be sure to post lots of pictures after the party tomorrow night!

I feel bad because I think I’m too grumpy with Killy. He’s such an active kid and he’s soooo mobile and tall/heavy for his age, and I’m already intenstly uncomfortable all the time from being hugely pregnant that I get annoyed at him whenever he jumps on me, pushes me, knocks into me. And, I know he doesn’t mean to 90% of the time. Its a wonderful thing that Mary Virginia is arriving tomorrow – she’ll have a lot more energy to deal with him and maybe I’ll be in a better mood if I can just go lay down in my room alone when I’m having contractions and can’t find a comfy position and am so tired I can’t stand it – instead of being a toddler’s playground and buffet 24 hours a day. Someone once described labor to me as a surprise marathon – and that’s exactly right! I know that sometime in the next month or so, I will all of a sudden have to do several hours of very intense work, mentally and physically. But, I have no idea when it will actually occur. I don’t know if I will have eaten recently, slept recently, already worn myself out that day… Just imagine if someone tapped you on the shoulder and said, “GO!” and you immediately had to do a 10K marathon!!!

Today was an exciting day for lots of people I know! My uncle and his fiance got married, and two people that I used to be REALLY good friends with had birthdays today (one was a best friend through high school and one was a best friend through college – I think I have some weird karmic link to people born on Oct 28th). I hope that each of them had WONDERFUL day today! Its so weird to think about how the friends I grew up with – and myself! – are all married or getting married, buying houses, having kids… I know this sounds arrogant, but sometimes David and I just marvel at how much we’ve acomplished: both graduating from college with our Bachelors, being married for 4.5 years, starting and running our own (quite successful!) business, buying a house, having one amazing kid and another on the way – and neither of us is even 30 years old yet! We’re that cliched couple who’s “living the American dream!”

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