Going to visit Shannon

I’m heading to St. Cloud tomorrow to spend the afternoon with Shannon and help out with Xavi.  She is still on bed rest–can you believe it’s already been 26 days!?!   She’s officially 31.5 weeks along (if I remember correctly) and they hope she’ll make it to 36 weeks… so just a few more weeks to go.  I’m excited to see how much bigger her belly has grown since the last time I saw her.  🙂

In other news I went to see the Vintage Porch this morning–which is a house that my family is renting for New Year’s weekend when we all get together.  It’s sooooo cool.  I’m so excited.  (Oh, and if my family is reading this I wrote more about the house on our Christmas website so check there for more info.)  It’s going to be wonderful to be able to hang out in a larger house so we can all be together and not be tripping over each other like we would be here.  It makes me extra excited for Christmas to come!

I had a meeting in St. Paul this morning to help assign judges for the MMTA piano contest.  I was reminded how much I hate driving into the cities, and yet how unbelievably grateful I am to have a navigation application on my phone (which was a great help me when I got lost due to so much construction and detours…)  Tim was able to stay home with the kids this morning since his schedule is starting to wind down.  Then when I got home from my meeting he went to work for the afternoon.  He said he’s probably down to a week or less of work.  I can’t believe we’re already to his off season–this fall has just whizzed by!  I guess life with an infant will make things a blur…

Speaking of infant–he’ll be turning 4 months in November and do you know what that means?  He gets to start trying a few “solid” foods!  Not that he needs help growing more by any means, but it will be a fun new chapter in his life.  🙂  That also means it’s just about time to dig out and clean off our high chair for round two in the Friesen household!