Self-photos and excitement

Yesterday was wickedly hot and I was in my glory...this summer has been a complete bust until about a week ago in terms of it actually FEELING like summer, and now that Mother Nature has whipped out the muggy weather, I am in heaven. It's strange because most pregnant women feel warmer than normal, so this summer should have been great for me (given that it's been so cool), but apparently I like to break all rules and conventions and be perpetually cold. I've been known to step out on a day when everyone else is in shorts and t-shirts wearing jeans, socks, shoes, a t-shirt and a sweater.

So in celebration of the fact that I could step outside yesterday wearing only jeans and a t-shirt (and such a shirt as accentuates my nicely round tummy!) I made Matt take the remainder of his work-day off so that we could go to a local island park and snap some pregnancy photos. You might be thinking, "hasn't she been posting pregnancy photos for weeks now???" but if you go back and look at them, you'll realize that they are not exactly the kind of photos that you'd want to scrapbook. The quality is horrible and apart from my great stomach, there is nothing flattering about them. I wanted some pictures that I could put in my journal, etc, that I wouldn't be ashamed of looking at in 5 years, 5 months, or even 5 days!

If you want to see them in better quality, just click on them, although I have to warn you, the black and white ones aren't that great quality even when you see the bigger version. It's because I have to resize them in order to post them. And now, without further adieu, here are some of my favourites:

[caption id="attachment_495" align="aligncenter" width="199" caption="And this one we took back home in front of our front window. It's a good silhouette one, and it'll be fun to take more once I'm further along."][/caption]

I should probably mention that I'm 18 weeks 4 days along in the photos. Almost half-way there, and now 4 1/2 months along! That sounds so much better than 4 weeks...gah. It was almost too warm yesterday...I didn't like being out in the sun more than I had to be, hence why we took most of the photos in the shade. Also, I've been feeling out of breath really easily the last week or so, so I was kinda tired by the time we left, but that's okay. It was worth it.

Not too much else is new around here. My sister, who is also pregnant, is due with her second boy today, so we're just waiting to see when it happens. She was late last time when she had Preston, and she's expecting (although not hoping) to be late again, but we'll see. It's so exciting though! I have some boy stuff upstairs already (because I figure we're probably having a boy) but if I find out we're having a girl, I've already got a gift picked out!! hahaha...

Anyway, I should go do some cleaning before this afternoon. We're going to a little boy's birthday party today and it should be fun. I'm bringing along the camera so that I can get some practice taking pictures of people...I love taking photos of people! We'll see how it goes, and maybe I'll post some more pictures tomorrow.