healthy and happy

you know how you never appreciate not having a headache until you have one? yeah, i do that all the time. i get a headache and vow, "if this atrocious pain ever leaves me, i will never again take for granted all those hours of NOT having a headache." and then it goes away and so does my reminder to be grateful. it's just so easy to not have to think about your health when it's humming along perfectly.

the human body is amazing. for all the things that can go wrong it is remarkably resilient and for the majority of people, runs without glitches for the majority of their lives. but i know that i never stop and appreciate this until it's gone for awhile.

and it takes so little for it to just vanish; for me to realize how fragile it all is. a canker, pulled muscle, hangnail, or any number of other TINY things can go slightly wrong with this whole amazing biological equilibrium and all day i am constantly reminded that all is not well.

so today (and hopefully lots of days to come) i am super grateful to be sitting here feeling great. no alarms are blaring in any of my bodily sectors, no organs trying to report back to my brain via pain messages that something is off and needs attention. and while i am being so appreciative for my health it makes me wonder why the heck i wouldn't take care of this awesome miracle of a human body that i was given: go run, eat something that helps my body, wear sunscreen, etc. oh wait? because when you feel good or things are easy, you just expect that they'll always be that way. until they aren't. glarg! tricky tricky.

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so today i will just be appreciative. and i will think of the people in my life who don't feel like this today, or ever, and consider what i can do to help them. encourage a change? pray? NOT buy french fries for them?

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just wanted to get this little mind-blowing nugget off of my chest. not really typical blog-material, but you know. also judah is still cute and i would take on any amount of pain to keep him from ever having to worry about his own health. so i am also a griggillion grateful that he is so healthy that he isn't even aware that anything could ever go wrong with that little body of his.

tug

"tug" is a game jesse loves to play with the dogs (click here for proof and oooold school blog pics). the dog grabs a stick, towel, toy at one end and jesse grabs it at the other. they tug until one of them (jesse) gives up.

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turns out, judah loves this game too. jesse upgraded for the little man and actually puts the object in his mouth too for a more even playing field. mouth-to-mouth tug. complete with plenty of growling.

a common sight on a saturday morning. judah loves our camera case so it was the objet de tug this time.

judah wins round one. but daddy resorts to dirty tactics: beard scruffing on judah's exposed nakey skin. this results in daddy getting the case back...

until judah whips out a dirty maneuver himself. "i'll take that."

16 weeks pregnant picture (we are so behind, sorry. though you can see why i might not be hopping out of bed every morning with excitement for documenting this) is an avocado. i think the length is what's important here since avocados seem smaller to me than most apples to me (though we used an orange on week 15 anyway)

i think my regular jeans made it to 22-23 weeks with the last pregnancy, but this go round, i will be thrilled with making it to 20 (though not finding ANY good maternity shorts that don't send me into a downward shame spiral may force me to stay in the regular jeans longer than comfortable)

awesome. and i just sneezed and peed in my jeans (the bladder control is nonexistent anymore). so that will force me to wash them tonight which will make them super tight (sexy!) tomorrow. at least they won't have judah's animal cracker-y mouthprint on the leg anymore though.

the spazzy splasher

1. no children were harmed in the making of this video. you will note his face is never underwater and mommy and daddy were 1 foot away. so just relax and enjoy the spazz fest.

2. judah is not really this pale. he's actually quite bronzed. i shudder to think what color i would have appeared to be on camera in full sunlight. i imagine it would be akin to looking directing into a solar eclipse without a shoebox viewer.

3. judah has about 6 swimsuits. but they all have those built in mesh netting underpants that are hell to get on 2 squirming legs and, let's face it, we don't live in ritzville, USA, hence just a swim diaper. judge on.

so here's the video. the water was cool, not cold. but it kept really surprising the bug when he would take a sprink to the midsection. and from there things would really unravel for him and he would lose his mind and all of his coordination for about 10 seconds. this plus a wet plastic surface made for some real laughs.

note: that horrible shrill droning harpy noise you hear was this weird bird that flew overhead just as i was laughing. i think it was a pterodactyl (spelled right on the first try!). weird.