Happy Halfway! (20 weeks, 2 days)

I think this deserves a special post. I am halfway through this experience. The past few weeks have just zoomed past me and I'm very worried that the upcoming weeks will just continue to accelerate. It really took forever to get through the first trimester with all the worrying (which I am very good at) and secret keeping (which I am terrible at). Now that we know a lot more about Sprout, we have embarked on a few more steps to the impending babydom and each thing we do reminds we will then have something else to do and then Sprout will be here, and then Sprout will be growing up, going to daycare, driving, going away to college....What was it I said I about trying to take each day as its own day?! Ah well, we knew that wasn't going to last forever...

I celebrated by taking my mother-in-law to a Greg Brown concert. (Umm, I am having hard time figuring how to put links in my posts in my browser, so you will just have to go to www.gregbrown.org in some less convenient fashion than a link.) The bluesy Iowan folk singer (or folksy blues singer as it seemed last night) was actually touring someplace way down in Dixie for the first time since I started listening to Greg Brown in high school. I was so excited to go to the concert, because there are few musicians that will go see in concert and so few of the names on that list tour or say that they will ever tour again: Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon (sans Garfunkel), Prince. I thought I would never see Greg Brown. Anyway, pretty good in all, though I was sad that Variety Playhouse was half empty, but at least it meant that we got to sit in the center front row. I think I might have disturbed the sleepy Sprout as I got a thump a few times during the opening set. Aaron was at home suffering from ick that I have managed to dodge.

I also indulged earlier in the day in a little pre-shopping at the Baby Mega Super Store. I love those little guns that you use for registering. I might have wanted to have a baby just so I would have an occasion to register. That will just be our secret, though.