Summer in the North Country
So wet. So hot. So humid. I swear that the North Country is actually the tropics, with the kind of warm rain that just falls straight down in sheets against an impenetrable backdrop of insanely green trees. Definitely the tropics - but oh, the summer birds! :) I am very, very glad that I’m only at 24 weeks right now, because the humidity would be death if I was any bigger. Most of August has been ok, but it’s gotten back to being icky again these past few days. Oddly, some of the leaves are also beginning to change, so it’s this weird juxtaposition of summer and fall around which I can’t quite wrap my head. As for new developments or updates, there really aren’t many. The baby is kicking up a storm (except after the glucose challenge test, she did NOT like that - it broke her for like 24 hours), and I’ve started my daily kick counts. I know that kick counts are controversial, but they help me feel better. Personally, I don’t really need monitoring that structured to k