A load of surrealism

Today, my mother came over to babysit me while I "stay off my feet as much as possible". The girls love hanging out with Grandma, so they were just a tad excited to have her with them all day. She came as soon as she could after work at about 10AM, and during breakfast M wasn't too happy with me for some reason or another. She lowered her head at me at one point, cut her eyes and said, "I'm ready for Grandma to get here." She was seriously done with me!

It was a good day--lots of laughter. I ended up with stickers covering my huge baby bump (ok, baby mound!) by the end of the day. (Courtesy of Grandma's treat bag when she arrived.) I meant to take a picture, but I forgot.

I did get up and do a few little things here and there, including folding some laundry while I was laying on the couch. You don't usually think of laundry as being surreal, but this particular load of the girls' clothes was. Because peppered among all the pink was:
hints of BLUE!! Crazy! I did a double-take at first.

We've received all kinds of cute boy clothes, blankets, bibs, hats, burp bloths, etc., but it was only this week that I washed a few pieces in preparation for his arrival. I'm being conservative with this--while I'm certain that he IS actually a boy, I have three or four girlfriends who were prepared to welcome boys into the world too, only to find out that their babies were actually girls. So we'll wash everything once we get home and settled. But we have enough essentials to get us started.

While surreal and a little hard to believe, the sight really made me excited. I just cannot WAIT to fill these sweet little outfits with a little boy to cuddle and love!