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I'm being induced a week from today. This baby's a coming. A lot of people ask if I feel ready. . . the answer is almost. Others ask if we've had to buy anything at all since its another girl and we already had everything. . . the answer is almost nothing. But just for fun, and 'cause I'm excited about my new baby purchases and gifts I thought I'd share my shopping list. BabyBjorn Travel Crib Light - Silver (Thank you Sugar House Friends!) Baby Monitors - Up for suggestions as to best brand and style mela bamboo swaddles by aden + anais (This set was came as a gift from a friend. . . I totally had my eye on them, perfect for a summer baby.) Green to Grow Bottles a new diaper bag from Skip Hop Baby Book by Sara Midda I don't scrapbook, and I'm horrible about photo albums (everything stays digital) but Baby Books I can do. In fact, my mom kept one for each of us kids and I loved looking through it. I think its a really good tradition to keep. . . This one ...

I know, I know. Somehow everyone else managed to get their Fourth of July pictures posted by the 5th or 6th of July. . . but what difference does a week make? And not only am I late, I'm a little backwards. I'll start with pics of the 5th, our Law family get-together. (This is Mike's immediate family, not the huge Law family that would include step-brothers and step-sisters and several more generations of Marion's side of the family as well.) Shown here on our front porch, in columns top to bottom from the left: Marion and Linda, Kristina and Jacob, Jared and Matthew and Katie, Lucy and Elias and Eliza and Coleman, then Mike. We were sorry their other sister Celestia and her fam couldn't be here. Oh, and please don't ask why Lucy is in a straitjacket pose, I have no idea why. This is Katie and Lucy playing during our little family bbq. It was fun to see her bond with her cousins. Before that, we spent the weekend on a little "stay-ca" up in the mounta...

No need for me to do a pregnancy photoshoot, some of the world's best sculptors and painters have been using me as a model. . . Thank you, Anonymous of Willendorf , Nnamdi Okonkwo , and Fernando Botero for making me feel beautiful. You may also like to know, that I am now 34 1/2 weeks! That is 3 days past when I had Lucy! Feels like a big relief and a great accomplishment. It also feels a lot different than last time. . . First of all, I was pampered and coddled in bed from weeks 30 to 34 with Lucy. Now, I'm bending down and getting up and down off the floor and picking things up and chasing a toddler and it's hard work! I also haven't lost all that fluid, so I feel much MUCH bigger than the first time around. I'm outgrowing all my maternity clothes! I've broken two bras! My right hand and arm have been going numb in the mornings and my feet and ankles look like balloons at night. I have horrible heartburn. My undershirts roll up all day like Gus Gus on Cinde...

I cut some beautiful peonies from my yard. . . Lucy likes to do what I'm doing. . . she cut dandelions. . . . and arranged them. . . . . . she has to have her hand in EVERYTHING. . . Here is our final arrangement.

The quilt for Lucy's bed is done! And the transition to the big-girl bed is done! I'm soooo pleased with both.

Lucy and I went up to Seattle a couple weeks ago. . . I got to rest, but my Mom and Dad put Lucy right to work . . . doing yardwork. . . Doing the cooking. . . Even going out to catch dinner. . . They loved catching and watching the fish, in the water. . . they were very apprehensive about the fish once they were in the bucket. Lucy insisted she caught the little one, but in fact, she caught the biggest one. Lucy and Max having tickle time with their Papa Bob. Lucy's cousin, Max, is a couple months younger than her. . . Tanner is a year and a half or so older and the three cousins got along fabulously. They had a blast all weekend. Lucy even tried to get in their car with them when they went back home to Vancouver area. Here is my sis, Missy, and her whole cute fam. And a parting shot with Lucy and her Papa Bob and Gramma Leen. We had a wonderful time! Loved every minute of it.