Yesterday was my weekly checkup with Dr. Risky. I was feeling especially pukey yesterday morning, so unfortunately I was unable to extend my record for not throwing up in her office pre-exam. Oh well. Fortunately, everything checked out great with the baby, and Dr. Risky doesn’t need to see me again for two weeks. Oh happy day. But, when I do go back, I finally have to take my gestational diabetes test. Blerg. So for the next two weeks, I will eat alllllll the sugar and bread! Just kidding. Kind of.
My belly is measuring on-target:
Annie wanted to get in on the action:
For once, we were actually wearing pajamas because it was bed time.
Mike has been itching to take Annie sledding on the man-made sand berms in Venice Beach that the city puts up every winter. They usually go up in October and come down the second weekend of March. Since Dr. Risky’s office is only a few miles from Venice Beach, we decided to go after my appointment. And of course, the berms had been taken down early. Figures! Annie didn’t know what she was missing, but Mike was definitely bummed. We’ll just have to go back in October. Instead, we walked a couple blocks east and showed Annie the Venice Canals.
Normally the water level is higher, but unpredictable spring tides and algae have the canals at low-water levels. Annie didn’t care, though. She wanted to go in the boats, and on the bridges.
After we explained to her for the 800th time that she couldn’t go IN the canals, we decided to take Annie to the famous Venice Boardwalk. There is usually a lot going on down there, but since it was a cloudy, windy, weekday it was actually pretty mellow. At that point, it didn’t really surprise me because that was just the kind of day we were having. But again, Annie didn’t care. She enjoyed dancing to the loud music each storefront had blasting.
She also liked showing us her big muscles outside of Muscle Beach:
After I threw up in a couple trash cans I had to throw in the towel, much to Annie’s dismay. She could have danced on the boardwalk all night.
Abigail says:
Oh your belly is so perfect! Sorry you were so pukey It looks like a fun day in spite of it though.
I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you for the diabetes test!
Jenn says:
Just look at that BEAUTIFUL Belly!!! I REALLY LOVE it when you show us parts of LA, Venice Canals (that is so COOL!!! Are the houses expensive there? Would you ever want to live there?), Of course the BEACH is PERFEFT & the board walk looks like such FUN!!! I’m so happy you got to go!!!I would so LLLOOOVVVEEEE to at visit….or live there.
I hope you feel better. I’ll be thinking you…. especially when you have to have that horrific diabetes test!!! UGH!!! I HATED that text!!!
Take Care & Thank for sharing! !:-) xo
Heather says:
I would live there if I had a few extra million! The houses there are all around two million plus!
Kim says:
I know you had GD (or as I like to call it GDGD = GodDamn Gestational Diabetes) when you were pregnant with Maddie. I don’t remember if you had it when you were pregnant with Annie? Did you? I’m pregnant with my 2nd and had GD with my first… just checking the odds for GD this time around.
By the way… you look perfectly pregnant… all belly!
Heather says:
Yep, I had it with Annie as well, and much worse. I also took the GD test twice with the pregnancy I miscarried and I failed both tests. But, I do have friends that didn’t have GD with all of their pregnancies, so there is hope for you!
Anne says:
Great pictures! Hope you are feeling better…I love your little Annie, she is such a cutie, and will be an awesome big sis:)
Kelly says:
Looks like nothing much phased Miss Annie.
Dianna says:
Annie is so cute and so are you!
Lindsay says:
Some of my best memories of childhood are those “just one of those days” with my parents … where it didn’t work out like we planned, but it was still fun and perfect. =)
You look beautiful, Heather.
hdj says:
When I went to school in LA, one of my fav things to do with go to the Venice Boardwalk – it’s great for people watching and probably good for you guys that it was mellow. Do you really want to explain the 80 year old lady in a bikini dancing to the music?
Heather says:
Ha, she probably would have started dancing with her!
Glenda says:
Your bump looks good Mr. Acrobat
Sounds like a fun day dispite the pukeyness
Jeanie says:
You are really getting big! I’m happy that everything is looking good, but do wish you’d get over the yukies. I know, not as much as you do.
Mary says:
I’m so impressed all the fun things you do with Annie despite the sickness. I had just run of the mill morning sickness with my last one and I don’t think I was as active as you. Way to go!!!
Ally says:
How do you keep her hair so beautiful?
I feel so bad, my 10 yr old daughter has shiny brown hair like that, or could have, but I am NOT GOOD at maintaining it and she is so so stubborn about doing it herself. I felt like I got into trouble from the hairdresser last time I took her because it had a knot in the nape!!
Heather says:
I think a lot of it is just that she is very lucky she has nice hair! That being said, I do comb it out in the morning and at night – if I don’t, it’s an absolute disaster.
Auntie_M says:
You’re the best mom ever! I can see you now, walking through Venice, snapping pix of Annie, and casually vomitting into trashcans as you go…what a mom!!!! And I can see Mike loving it, taking it all all in.
As for that baby-bump!!!! Oh!!! Sweet preciousness!!!!! I want to be Annie so I can kiss your swelling belly…is that weird?
xoxo~Mary
Kristin says:
You look absolutely gorgeous and Annie looks like she’s having a blast. Sorry the pukiness interfered with your day.
Lilian says:
I love the photos of Venice. I’m so lucky that I live here. I’m always at either the Boardwalk, the canals, and of course, staring at the muscles on Muscle Beach (hey, I may be old, but I’m not blind to beauty! haha). I wish I’d bumped into you guys there. I feel I know you all so well, that it would be like bumping into old friends!! I’ll have to keep my eyes open for you in the future!