I passed my glucose screen yesterday {by the skin of my teeth} and Dr. Alverson said he'd start seeing me every two weeks from now on. I laughed --a little-- because he's basically been seeing me every two weeks since 20 weeks anyway due to these silly Braxton Hicks.
Reese went with me to my appointment yesterday and he was pretty much a dream. It was the last day of our Spring Break so we rewarded ourselves with prizes when we were done. Spring Break has been especially bittersweet this year. I think it's knowing that this is my last real break with Reese before the babe arrives. In theory I should have three weeks at home between the last day of school and the baby's arrival, but I'm certain 37 week pregnant me is going to be a mess. 100% certain.
At the beginning of the week we took our favorite five year old on a mini vacation to ATL. There is nothing Reese loves more than staying in a hotel. Seriously. There's a Fairfield Inn less than five minutes from our house that he asks to spend the night in at least once a week. I found a room at the Omni for a steal a few months ago, and other than that we didn't really have a plan for Sunday/Monday. We wanted to go to Ikea and I really wanted to avoid the aquarium, but otherwise we let Reese take the lead on what he wanted to do.
We started with lunch at the Varsity on Sunday and then headed to the ATL Children's Museum. To be completely honest, the museum wasn't our favorite. Reese and I experienced the McWane Center in Birmingham with Cassie and Penel this summer and comparatively this was a letdown.
It wasn't very expensive {I think $11 per person} so the fact that we were only there an hour or so wasn't that big of a deal. We headed to our hotel next. The Omni is directly across the street from Centennial Park and connected to the CNN center-- a prime location.
This pretty much sums up my hotel loving baby. He ate a snack and rested from that position {and later returned to that chair to watch the lights come on in the city- priceless} before we headed to Centennial Park to walk around. There had been a marathon earlier in the day so the park was mostly clear of homeless people, a rarity in ATL.
Monday morning Lofton went down to the CNN center to grab coffee, yogurt, and Chick Fil A -- i.e, the breakfast of champions for our crew. We got dressed, checked out, and hit Ikea right when it opened. I, impressively, had a list and even more impressively pretty much stuck to it. We got a bookcase for the babe's closet, a few curtain panels for our back bedroom, new duvet covers for a "big boy room" upgrade, and a couple other odds and ends {umm, $2 wine glasses? I'll take six more, please}. Then we zipped over to the zoo.
Reese has a love/hate relationship with the zoo. As in he loves it "in theory" but when he gets there he's kind of "meh" about it. Such was the case again.
There were some high points-- seeing the baby pandas and baby lions. But also some lows "Mama, why does it always have to smell like.... the zoo?!?" Luckily Lofton and I were fully aware of this pre-trip. We went in knowing our tour would be quick. The Beasley's can see an entire zoo in an hour and a half-- tops.
Before getting back on the road, we hit one more place-- Flip Burger. It was yummy and Reese's krispy kreme milkshake was amazing. And it was at this point that I started to get a little sad our trip was over. Lofton felt the same. Lots of changes on the horizon for these musketeers!
The rest of Spring Break passed with cold weather, rain, and chores-- and on our one clear day a picnic! Monday we are back to the grind. Nine more Monday's to go until summer....
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