Catchin' Up

Really? It's been a whole week since my last entry? I'm such a slacker.

Well, in my defense, it was a busy week. Also, I apparently can't stay up past 9pm anymore. Well, with the exception of last Friday night, when I stayed up until 1:30am (!!) playing Rock Band and SingStar with Matt, my brother, my sister, and my brother-in-law. Hey, sometimes you gotta suck it up and take one for the team. After all, there's no way my sister could've performed such a rousing rendition of Foreigner's "I Want to Know What Love Is" without my help.

So, obviously my baby brother was in town visiting from Chicago. I got to spend a good amount of time with him, though it never seems like enough. Cheesy as it sounds, it's so fun to watch the person he's becoming. He's 8 years younger than me and is just now starting to seem like a "grown up" to me.

Chris (my brother) was in town to help celebrate my nephew's 4th birthday. It's hard to believe that it was 4 years ago that we were sitting in that hospital waiting room for hours on end. Having my own child was still pretty far off in my thoughts at that point, but I was so thrilled to meet my little nephew. Now, 4 years later, he's his own little person full of questions and opinions. He's also very anxious to meet his new cousin. This is the conversation we had yesterday:

Jacob: Terri, is your baby out of your belly yet?
Me: Jacob, look at my belly. Does it look big and round to you?
Jacob: Uh huh.
Me: That means my baby hasn't come out yet.
Jacob: But why not?
Me: Because my baby's very little. It's got to get a lot bigger before it comes out.
Jacob: But I want her to come out now!

Her. Yep, he said that. A child's intuition? We shall see...in one week.

We also celebrated Father's Day while Chris was in town. It was kind of a bittersweet day for my dad, I'm sure, as it marked his first Father's Day without his own father. My mom's Father's Day card to my dad said that he is a "great father who was raised by another great father". Amen to that. My dad worked his butt off at the same bank for 30 years to provide for my family and, because of that, my brother, sister, and I were able to have a lot of opportunities that our peers didn't. I always tried my best to never take that for granted.

And, of course, we can't forget that it was Matt's first Father's Day! I got him the cutest little onesie (well, I didn't get it for him; the thought of him in a onesie is actually a little disturbing). But it's adorable and gender neutral and says "I love my daddy". So.freakin.cute.

And there you have it: the reasons why I've been a blog slacker. I'll do better, I promise.

Seven days and counting until the Big Reveal.