What an awesome tat!

This was on the arm of a friend of a friend of a friend. Follow? It was so awesome. She said the inspiration was from her job, which is in technology, to remind her of nature. How cool. It was so beautiful and I literally stared at it the whole night at the bar.

Occupy!

There are a lot of bank headquarters near the library, and a few weeks ago, some occupiers marched down the street in front of all of them. I was lucky enough to be on my break to catch them. It looked the man in house-clown costume was supposed to be protesting the forclosure crisis, but I can't tell about the giant vampire. Maybe the banks are sucking the life out of Americans?

Spritzenhaus

One of our favorite neighborhood bars (and soon to be more favorite, because they are uber-stroller-friendly), Spritzenhaus, has Jenga games for you to play. Surprisingly, this game is just as much fun sober as it is drunk. They have about 10 boxes of the game, and inebriated patrons-past have "decorated" the tiles as time has gone by. They're always hilarious, and Ryan and I enjoy making up our own versions of how Jenga should be played.

Momofuku Milk Bar

OMG, do you know about Milk Bar? I did not until I moved to NYC. It's amazing. And I've only been there once. We got 2 pieces of pie that I will never forget.



How could you go to a bakery and not order the "crack pie" and the "candy bar pie?" I do not know. And such fancy packaging. That part was a little discerning. I like to order a slice of something from a bakery and watch them slice into it and move it to a container. It gets all messy but that's OK because it tastes the same in my mouth. When I ordered these, they pulled them out of the fridge just like this, despite the whole, sliced pies sitting on the counter. I frowned a little when that happened.



And they were in even more packaging. When were these things baked?



First up on the devouring plate was the crack pie. I can't even describe this. It was butterscotch-y. A little chewy. Pretty salty. Pretty amazing. Normally, especially lately, I'll eat 2 pieces of pie, but 1/2 a piece of this was enough.





And then candy bar pie. I liked the saltiness of the pretzels, but the whole thing was a little much. I would get 2 pieces of crack pie next time.



I think I will pick up their cookbook to make crack pie on my own. I'll also go back to try the other things they serve, like cereal milk and pork buns! Cereal milk? It's cereal flavored milk! Think captain crunch and lucky charms! They even make soft serve with it!

25-26 weeks!

These are week 25. We forgot to take photos outside before it got too dark. It gets dark so early now!



Godel the cat helped with that last one.





And thus, my need for maternity clothes grows. I thought I'd be able to get away longer with wearing my own clothes, but this week, I started wearing Ryan's shirts. I'm not going to lie, I kinda dig Ryan's plaid, cotton work shirts. It means twice as much dry cleaning, taking 10 shirts to the dry cleaners to be washed and pressed every Friday instead of 5, but maybe I'll just buy Ryan a few more so that he has a better selection. When my parent's were here over the weekend, my Mom really wanted to buy me some maternity clothes, but it's a minimum 2 1/2 hour trip to Target (what with the subway and all) and most of the maternity stores are in Manhattan. I didn't want to have to drag Dad there on his vacation. I did drag them to my ob appointment though, and for as apologetic as I tried to be, they insisted that they enjoyed themselves. They say that ultrasounds are a lot more technologically advanced than they were in 1982, and they were fascinated with little Flannery's tiny bones and heart.

As far as cravings go, I haven't had anything specific the past 2 weeks. I'm just hungry all the time. In fact, the OB is concerned over how much weight I've gained. Oops. They referred me to a nutritionist that I swear I'm going to call. One of these days. I am nervous about the gestational diabetes test I have to take at the next appointment. I plan on eating paleo foods ( I said eating them, not actually following the paleo diet) and walking a lot between now and then.

I can't believe it's already been 26 weeks. That means there are only 14 left. I remember being 14 weeks pregnant and thinking there was so much time left.

I found it on Pinterest!

This past week I made Meatball Sub Casserole. It was so good, that I made 2 extra batches to freeze! This recipe came from Plain Chicken, and it's no surprise that it was so good because I've loved all of her recipes.







Here is the recipe: http://www.plainchicken.com/2012/05/meatball-sub-casserole.html

Mom and Dad are in town. As you can see, this has been a very serious study of New York culture.





We also saw the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall. I didn't want to take any photos of the actual show, but my favorites were the little toy soldiers act!



Radio City Music Hall is beyond beautiful!