Fun new stuff

We are up to two cars again.  We decided we would need another one when the new baby came—too hard to coordinate transportation around multiple nap schedules—and, although we could have waited several more months, a SSgt in Jake’s office was PCS’ing and had this one for sale at the right price.  Voila, new car for us!

  
New clothes and footie pajamas from Aunt Sarah (G)—thanks!

New bakery find—yumm!  We got all this for only 1050 yen (about 11 dollars)!  There are certain things I am REALLY going to miss about Oki when it’s time to leave, and good bakeries and pastry shops are right at the top of that list.

New cooking skills.  Logan is helping Jake make lasagna.  :)

On a side note, the lasagna was for a church function.  Every six months or so, the church organizes get-togethers at people’s houses.  They try to match you up with other families that they think you may not know or not know well.  With two services and so many people in and out through the military, it’s a fantastic way to build community in the church and it’s just a lot of fun.  So anyways, we hosted one of the gatherings this time and one of the other ladies at our house was visibly pregnant; so of course we got talking about that and I made a comment about how practically everyone I know is pregnant right now.  Then, looking towards the other couple that was over, I kind of motioned and paused, not wanting to make an insensitive joke, when they spoke up and, lo and behold, she is pregnant too!  It’s getting to be utterly absurd; I swear EVERYONE is pregnant right now! 

  Speaking of pregnancy, we had our ultrasound today.  This one is just as wiggly as Logan was; the ultrasound tech tried to get a nice profile shot but had no luck.  Here the baby’s head is on the left, looking straight into the camera, appearing rather alien.  The various small balls/circles below are mostly just umbilical coils, but there’s a hand and a knee in there if you can make them out.

  Here are baby’s hands and forearms (on the left again), along with one foot visible on the bottom right (next to an odd bubble that I assume is more umbilical cord). 

In the category of tiring, old news: it’s STILL raining.  Apparently the last two months of rain were unusual and we are only just now entering the real rainy season!  I’m not sure how much more of this we can take.  Hopefully Hawaii, DC, NY and NC are saving up some sunshine for us!