8 months and a baby shower

My awesome friend and neighbor, Jen was kind enough to throw a baby shower for little Bentley and I on June 11th. The whole thing was adorable, the invitations, the decorations, the games-it was a blast. I felt a bit embarrassed because people typically don't get a baby shower for their second child, but I was really grateful that everyone came and supported us so thank you so much to all of you!
The food was amazing! She made Bruschetta burgers which I had never tried before but am now a big fan of, homemade fries, red velvet whoopie pies which I had never tried before and also love and Kim brought cute fruit skewers. YUM!

A few people left before we took this picture, but here are most of the lovely ladies I am lucky enough to be friends with. Notice the cute paper lanterns, those have always been a favorite of mine.

And the 8 month pic. I have sleepy eyes and not the best hair day, but the picture was necessary. Pregnancy is such a short little part of life that I feel like it is better to take pictures even if I don't love how I look in them, cause it is super easy to forget. I count the forgetting part as a blessing though, pregnancy and I are not great friends. I do have to say that this is probably my favorite part of the pregnancy. I am close to the end, I feel pretty well and I can feel my little guy kicking all the time. I am sure next month I will have had enough though.

Abnormal

Sometimes life takes looking back to realize that your perspective although it was reality to you was not in fact reality.
I used to work with a lady in her late 50's, short, skinny and a totally different personality than me. We had our share of run-ins and of course none of them were my fault. She was the old ornery one not me. I am sweet and loving right?
Well I got pregnant about a month after I started working there and in the summer when I was around 7 months along I would come into the office and the temperature would be super hot (like 74 degrees). I would get SO irritated. Who keeps an office this hot? It was just ridiculous, plus we had a wall of windows that let all the hot sun in right at our backs. I would huff and puff and turn the air up a bit thinking to myself what a loon this lady was while giving her the stink eye for the first half hour of work.
The whole time I thought she was the crazy one and I could not see that I was actually the one in the wrong.
Now I am pregnant at almost the same time again. I share an office with a short, super skinny lady in her late 30's who is ALWAYS cold. Bad luck. Seriously, I think that about 50% of women who have to work at a cubicle for 8 hours a day are.... plump. Why couldn't I share an office with one of them? We could run our fans and keep this office at 60 degrees and love life but no I got another skinny, cold one.
Luckily I have come to the realization that not everyone is as boiling hot as I am. Pregnancy makes you feel about 10 degrees warmer. I was the crazy pregnant lady with the raging hormones who tortured that poor lady not the other way around. I can't even imagine what she went home and told her husband about me. Well, not this time. This time I will be turning on a fan by my feet in hopes that my legs don't explode from edema, but I realize that I am the abnormal one, not everyone around me.

(On a happy note, the good news is that lady and I ended up on pretty good terms. I had a baby and cooled down and we were both able to work through our differences and enjoyed working with eachother. Luckily that poor lady made it though my life lesson and didn't have a heart attack from stress)