Third Trimester is here! We are now homeowners! Plus, we just went bowling at the White House ...

Life has not slowed down for us! If you look at the ticker at the top of this page, you will see that today marks 28 weeks! That is the start of my THIRD and FINAL trimester! Only 12 weeks, or 3 months, to go! Unless Lima Bean is early... But if she is anything like her momma, she'll be nice and tardy.

She is still about the size of an eggplant, so no fruit pictures this week. Stay tuned for a squash pic in the coming weeks, to be followed by honeydew and, finally, watermelon. Or, as you'll see later in this post, bowling balls.

She is not as big as a bowling ball, it turns out. I used a 6-pound ball, the lightest one they had. Lima Bean right now weighs just 2 1/2 pounds. But in just two weeks, she'll be 3 pounds! Eeek!

She has eyebrows, eyelashes and taste buds! So she can taste all the sweet things I've been eating... She'll have a sweet tooth for sure! And this is kind of a bummer, this week she can feel pain the same way that a full term baby would. So pain starts before birth. Who knew?

Besides all these monumental things going on inside my belly... Today was a big day for us as a family because today we officially purchased our first HOUSE! Our first home. And, yes, we moved to the 'burbs. After today's closing, we are now officially Maryland residents. Sort of. We don't actually move in until July 6th. But it is now officially our house!

And if that wasn't enough... We had a fabulous evening bowling a couple games at the Truman Bowling Alley, a two-lane alley located in the basement of the Old Executive Office Building. This is the building next to the White House where many White House staff members work. It's located on the same grounds as the White House and is surrounded by the same fence.

I would note, however, that there is ANOTHER one-lane bowling alley in the basement of the actual White House. But, according to the White House Museum, former President Nixon bowled in the Old Executive Office Building alley where we were tonight! So did Lady Bird Johnson! Some more history on the lanes here.

Here are some photos from our game!