Nessie

3 months in and Rick and I are SUPER EXCITED to be expecting a baby boy! He's been standing on his head the entire first trimester, not sure what that means, but all our genetic testing came back clear!

We've spent the weekend celebrating and planning, looking at clothes and baby room furniture, and then I saw this Loch Ness Monster on Pinterest and HAD to make one!

It took all afternoon, but was totally worth it and I'm pretty proud of my homemade plushie.
"Nessie" came out SO CUTE!!!

I still have about 1/2 a yard of the super fuzzy blue fabric, so now I'm on the hunt for another plushie pattern.

The Smallest Snapper

Rick and I thought with the cooling weather it'd be safe to go for a walk...

No such luck.

The tiger mosquitos found me and are capable of biting through clothes, and after Rick smashed about 7 that had latched onto my back we had to retreat to the car and have given up hiking until after the first frost.

But, during the short time we were out on the trail, we found this SUPER TINY SNAPPING TURTLE!

He's so cute!

He looks like a tiny dinosaur

Rick had almost stepped on him when I spotted him,  so after a couple pictures he moved him to the side of the path

Except for a few tail twitches, the snapper was pretty indifferent to us taking his picture.

We also saw a lovely Red Admiral. I'll be sad when all the butterflies are gone for the season, but I'm really looking forward to being able to go out without mosquitos.