It's hard to believe

A week ago, I left work early, extremely frustrated over a few things I'm (still) working on. Ben's friend came into town. We went camping. Today, I am preparing to head out of town to get Scooter. Yes!!!

We made it. 1st summer down. Almost. I leave tomorrow around 9am, and I get back with Scooter on Sunday at 10:30am. Next week is a busy one full of dentist appointments, car appointments, hair appointments, and school open houses. Ben and I also have to get our picture taken for a promotional thing, since Ben won a trip to Cancun. I'm almost dreading the prospect of next week. Wouldn't it be nice if we could have 1 more week with Scooter to kind of decompress before the crazy starts?

Speaking of which, I signed her up for soccer. The team in our area is one of 6 that gets sponsored by the Timbers, which is Portland's MLS team. The Timbers' season runs from March-October, and during some of their early games, they invite the kids to accompany the players onto the field. Hopefully, Scooter will get a chance like that sometime. It seemed like all of those special game days were during the summer, though.

I'm also about to sign both kids up for swim lessons. Bubba is still too young for just about every other activity (unless one of us was a stay at home parent and could take him to a 9:30am class in the middle of the week). Pretty soon, though, he'll be 3, which opens up tumbling, soccer, more swimming, and a whole host of other fun things to do.

So, yeah...word from the lawyer is that the appeal won't likely be wrapped up until Feb or March of 2012 - 18 or 19 months after we started down this long, winding, dangerous road, and either the month or the month after Vicky is due. Surprisingly enough, from what I saw on skype last night, while they were trying to get it to work, she's not huge, yet. I'm thinking back to how I looked at this time in 2008 (Bubba was born in Feb 2009), and it seemed like I was ENORMOUS. But then again, he was my 2nd, and it seemed like w/ #2, my body knew what to do, which means it packed on the pounds much quicker.

Considering Vicky did most of the skyping w/ Scooter last time Scooter was with us, I'll be able to monitor the weight gain with equal parts disinterest and fascination in the coming months.