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Hunter's parents visited last weekend for mini-Christmas with our family and to check out the massive growth on my belly. As part of my Get Everything Done Right This Minute plan, we put up the tree just after Thanksgiving. Here's me and the LG getting the star on correctly:



Yes, Mom, I'm on a step stool. No, I didn't fall down or otherwise lose my balance. That happened later, when I was walking from the kitchen to the garage and I missed the step. (I'm fine. Really. I just sat down hard and cursed a lot.)

After Mimi arrived she quickly noticed that our house wasn't nearly festive enough, mainly because Hunter and I ran out of gas after wedging the tree into the dining room and wrestling the star into submission. So she set us up with some lights around our downstairs windows, and I must say, the house looks very cheery. The lights will still be there when they come back in the spring for the LG's christening! We're very trailer park that way.



After great meals, conversation and fantastic desserts prepared by Michelle (there are no pictures because the desserts are in my belly), we settled in for a little Wii playing. Here's Maddie teaching Mimi how to cow race. Mimi was not a fan, but she was a sport.



These pictures span weeks 31-33 of the LG's life, and my body has markedly changed. I'm much more tired, and I have to wear my wedding ring on a chain around my neck. Fortunately I still have no back pain, but my knees and ankles ache at the end of the day. And the LG's movements are getting stronger, which means the boxing I have been referring to was a true exaggeration and I'm paying for those gripes now.

I'll wrap up with a 33 week, three day picture. I feel like a house.