Baby News, Trips to the Parks & OKC Memorial

Well, as probably everyone who reads this knows, unless baby girl comes by herself earlier, we are set to induce on October 21st-which really isn't that far [17 days what?]- it just feels like it is. Lester has been great with helping me to find fun things to do and set a schedule for myself till then so I don't go crazy, especially when he's at work. Everyone keeps giving us advice about getting as much sleep as we can and stuff like that. There are no doubts in my mind that they are right but I can only ever sleep for intervals of 2 hours at a time before I wake up again for various reasons. But the good news is I can usually get a lot of these little two hour naps, so it will add up.

On the days Lester is here he makes sure we do things fun activities, but at my own pace. We've been going for long, but slow walks and that has been really nice. It most definitely seems to be doing the job of getting her moving down. I've been having inconsistent contractions for a while now, and that has been interesting haha.

On one of our walks, we went to another scenic spot in OKC. Again, I am always impressed with the gorgeous architecture and good planning in parts of the city. We always do these things at night, so they light up everything. They had lots of beautiful water features, amphitheaters and greenery, but my favorite was the children's park there. Talk about fun and creative-we will most definitely be going back often when she's born, both for her sake and mine. We also have to explore the cool conservatory building more, and we want to try several other things. So hopefully that will all work out.

Another thing that I was not aware of until we moved here was the tragedy of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. Second only to the Sept. 11th terrorist attack, this bombing by two embittered men was set off in a downtown federal building. It killed 168 ppl, and injured over 680-many of the victims were children. The explosion was so large that it was felt and heard for miles and miles. It touched the hearts and minds of the world, and now there is a beautiful memorial it its place so that we can honor them and the lives they lived. Walking along the memorial, I couldn't help but hope with all my heart that these people could see that this is not the end. That families can be together forever and their lives meant something. Anyways, it was a solemn but important visit and it made me grateful for this life and this country and I'm glad we went.

Anyways, this is us lately. I am going to go make some german pancakes now. Gotta take advantage of those random cravings while I still have an excuse, right?

[This thing is actually a fountain-the water comes from the floor, and then fluorescent multicolored lights come on as well. So fun!]

 [This is the Conservatory-it changes colors all night long and there is a river underneath it. We have yet to go inside, but it is on our agenda!]

 [These are from the childrens park-we didn't get a ton of all the other cool things they had cuz it was dark by the time we got there. But still fun!]

[These are all from the Memorial-there is a Jesus statue that says quotes the 'And Jesus wept' scripture. The reflection pool is like glass and it is lovely.]