Cole's First Trip to the Circus

Cole had his first trip to the circus yesterday!  My mom informed me that the Shriner's Circus was coming to town and wanted to know if we would like to take Cole.  Unfortunately Michael was unable to come with us because he was on  call this weekend.  (He has to stay in Maryville in case there's an emergency maintenance problem at the housing.)

We went to mom's on Friday night to spend the night!  We got to eat with mom, dad, Tiffany (my sister), and Brian (my brother-in-law).  On Saturday morning Cole got to hang out with the boys while us girls went an picked out scrap booking paper for my sister to use to make Chloe's letter.  My sister buys cardboard letters and then puts scrap booking paper on them and ribbon that matches the babies room.  This has been her gift to numerous people, including me when I had Cole.  Cole's letters are still in his room right now!  :)  I had to pick out the paper because Tiffany hasn't seen Chloe's room yet!

Then it was time for the CIRCUS!  It was fun to watch Cole's reaction to everything.  He just looked around all the time.... taking everything in!  He was very excited to see that there were elephants and horses out for kids to ride.  He actually rode the elephant with my dad (aka Papo).  He was really tired though during the second half of the show and ended up missing the monkey and elephants.  I think that probably would have been his favorite part!  Oh well.  He did wake up at the very end for the two motorcycles in the dome of doom or whatever they call the large metal sphere that the drive around inside!  He ate a hot dog but wasn't too sure about the cotton candy.

These times are when I enjoy being a mom the most.... When I get to watch him experience something new for the first time!  He is sooooo fun to watch when he gets excited!

On a side note - we're getting closer to our due date.  This Monday I will be 30 weeks!  It doesn't seem like I should be that far along already.  I went last Monday for a check up with the doctor.  She measured my stomach.  (When the measure you the use a tape measure to see how big your stomach is - vertically.  You are supposed to be on inch for each week of pregnancy.  That means I should have measured around 29 inches).  When the doctor measured me I measured 33!  Michael asked if that meant our due date was wrong and the doctor said, "Nope.  She's going to be big."  I couldn't believe it!  Cole was so little, almost 7 pounds.  Then she did a quick ultrasound to verify that Chloe really is a girl.  (When we had our ultrasound the ultrasound tech said she thought she was a girl but wasn't 100% sure because Chloe kept putting her hands between her legs.  She told us she was 87% sure!)  Our Dr. showed up her girl part so we are for sure having a girl.  Michael asked her what were the two long things by her girl parts, and the doc told us they were her thighs.  Let me tell you, she already has some big thighs.  Mind you this is totally different from Cole and his itty bitty chicken legs!  Chloe is already doing her own thing!  :)