We had a great time on our little trip to the Smoky Mountains. Jacob had a BLAST. Here's a bunch of pictures...

First GoKart adventure. He was in heaven. The look on his face was priceless. This was the highlight of his trip by far.


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My life is boring. Nothing much to post.

My son is hilarious....some of the things he says seriously crack me up. None of which I can think of right now. I need to start writing them down as they happen.

I nearly had a nervous breakdown yesterday regarding the state of my house. I seriously cannot keep it clean, or even remotely orderly for more than approximately 10 minutes. And I have too much crap. So when I do try to clean, I have nowhere to put stuff. It's driving me CRAZY. I spent a long time yesterday cleaning out my closet and am donating a huge pile of stuff. It didn't help much, but at least I have more room to put the stuff I actually use.

The toy situation is maddening. He can't keep pieces of things together so everything just ends up a hodgepodge of tiny toy parts and it's going to be the death of me. I wonder sometimes if he would notice if I just went through them all one day while he wasn't home and got rid of 90% of this junk?

On the baby front...I picked out his bedding and decorated the nursery (in my head), and while it's not as cute as the pink and tangerine dream I had envisioned, I think it will be sweet and calm...something my house needs. Regarding names, he still does not have one. I have ONE possibility at the moment that I'm not ready to share because a) I honestly don't want opinions about it and b) It's just a "maybe" so I'd rather not discuss it at length and then have it stuck in my head and it just becomes his name as a default.  Regarding The Belly...I'm getting pretty pregnancy huge. But I went shopping for new maternity summer pants and I had to go DOWN a size from the two pair I bought in February before my cruise. I still haven't gained any weight yet my belly is getting enormous. How weird is that? By this time with Jacob I had probably gained at least 20 pounds.

Oh...and today I'm going here and will be here for the next couple of days:

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