Kumquat is a comin'...

Earlier this week I woke up with not-so-fun cramping at 6 in the morning. I remained in bed for awhile and then migrated downstairs to the couch. I remained there for awhile and then migrated outside. I started to the right and then made a left and then another left and clearly had no where to go so I weighed my options.... I didn't possibly want to run into some one I knew who might be heading to work as I looked like a mess in a half-baked outfit and walking funny. So I followed side streets and walked toward the bagel place by union station. Unfortunately I hadn't calculated that I also didn't want to see young, springy high school White House interns either and they seemed to gravitate to the bagel place. It's probably not that fun to see them anyways the older I get, let alone when I am on the cramp war path.

The pain lasted for a couple of hours and then I was back to feeling perfectly fine. But in those two hours I had plenty of thoughts about kumquat's health, whether I was really ready to be a parent or to go through labor, etc...all of which culminated in the absolute horrific realization that there was no turning back nor was there some alternate route. So I burst into tears. Even though I thought I was getting prepared by washing baby clothes and stocking up on diapers I hadn't been focused on the real preparation - the mental preparation.

At the doctor's appointment I was told that I was 1 cm dilated and that little kumquat was getting ready to come out - probably early. We were hoping to keep him baking for awhile - not like House II would get done in three more weeks....but at least we would be three weeks closer to being done!

In House II the fireplace got torn down and is getting reconstructed a little to the right and Carlos has spent numerous hours with Nomer, the kitchen cabinet guy at Lowes. Nomer has a pretty cool software package that enables him to design and visualize cabinetry. Although the designing is free the cabinets sure are expensive!

This weekend was aunt Mary's birthday so my mom and Mary were here to celebrate. Of course celebrating also meant putting them to work so my mom reconfigured our front "yard." Yard is a little bit of a misnomer as it is only about 5 ft x 5 ft! We did allow them a little bit of fun as we went out to dinner and then got to watch DC United play Galaxy this afternoon. DC United trounced Beckham and his LA galaxy 4-1. For the millions that Beckham gets paid he sure is lazy! He was jogging around the field and despite a few nice passes didn't seem to do much.

Here are some belly and game pix