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BabyBee.

2012-05-18T01:11:46Z

I’m still having trouble believing that our beautiful baby girl is here. We’re spending a lot of good quality time here getting to know each other but still. She’s mine? Wow. I love this little face.

She so kissable and so totally squishy squeezy. I can hardly stand it. She’s my biggest baby yet at over 9lbs but feels just as tiny in my arms as Avery did at 6… just without the chicken legs.

This is turning out to be an extremely long 3 or 4 days. The days are long and I don’t know what the weather’s like outside anymore. I bet it’s nice out there. I’m looking forward to eventually getting out of here but am a little afraid of what I’ll find at home. My mother in law was here for a while to help us and now Ben’s holding down the fort though so I’m only a little afraid.

The girls have been coming to visit with me and their sister for a short while each day. They’re really excited they like to help me and it doesn’t hurt that the nurse lets them help take my vitals and that sometimes there are leftover grapes from my fruit cup or whatever.

Lots of changes for out little family but so far so good.

Eek.

2012-05-15T00:36:17Z

You know why.

Opening their big sister presents at dinner.

Thomas panties! She was so happy. So happy that she wanted to share the Strawberry Shortcake ones with her sister.

Happy Mother’s Day

2012-05-14T00:51:10Z

I hope it was terrific.

Thomas Tea Party

2012-05-13T01:28:53Z

In the summer, reminders about how life is so, so good come fast and furious. The trees fill in and make shade, our “garden” grows green things whether in the form of flowers or otherwise and everyday I think, man, hanging out with friends is such a special treat; and then, as it turns out, we very often get to do it again the very next day.

There’s nothing like hanging out with people who love to kvetch about how dinner has to be made EVERY DAY, how they’re seriously slacking in the housekeeping department or, you know, about library fines or whatever. Cause that’s all right up my alley.

And my kids, well they love it too. There they are sitting under the table we set up today for the community junk hunt. We made exactly two dollars profit but it was still worth sitting out there all morning for the laughs. The kids amused themselves playing with new treasures (Thomas tea party anyone?) and a wildly successful bake sale and lemonade stand.

Good times. Even if we didn’t sell anything it was fun chatting and seeing all our friends that stopped by. A great way to spend a Saturday morning. Also, yes, I’m still here.

Love This Face

2012-05-12T03:00:51Z

Happy mother’s day (weekend). How are you spending yours? I’ll be spending mine wondering when I’ll become a mother… again. We’re ever so ready. Except for the whole vacuuming part. I still have to do that. Also, so far, I’ve enjoyed a pre natal massage and eaten half a pizza. Off to a good start. Have a great weekend!

PS my friend Sherry took this picture. Check out her work she has a great deal going on right now.

P-I-E

2012-05-09T01:35:00Z

Oy. I still have so much to do. Part of me wishes I’d just go into labor so I’d have an excuse to stop! So. Much. To. Do. Meanwhile, I’m soothing myself with cheesecake ice cream pie. Cheesecake ice cream is easy to make. Ice cream pie, on the other hand, is a big giant hassle of extra steps and crust making. Thankfully it’s also good! Maybe not better than cheesecake proper but I’m all about cold and icy treats right now so this is really hitting the spot.

I didn’t do anything to the berries, just sliced them over the top. The kids loved it. Avery helped the most and we may have eaten ice cream for lunch today. This recipe is from Sweet Cream and Sugar Cones. The recipe was straightforward if not easy and every single other recipe in the book looks delicious too. So delicious that I might ask for new cookbooks for mother’s day!

Magic Garden

2012-05-06T01:27:54Z

This is maybe the coolest thing we’ve ever bought for a dollar. It’s like the borax crystal projects that we’ve tried. You set up the paper strips in the plastic tray and pour in the solutions. It was easy enough for Chase to put together with a little help. And it started “blooming” in about two hours. She’s going to be so excited to see how it changed over night!

There’s lots of stuff going on around here this weekend. You can still catch Nearly New and Sheep & Wool but Free Comic Book Day is over. Did you go? Free comic books. What’s could possibly not be fun about that? The rest of the afternoon we spent outside getting (over) tired out. All of us. Tomorrow I’m taking Chase to see Mary Poppins. Cross your fingers for better seats than we had for The Lion King. And Monday? On Monday I recover.

I Earned My Popcorn

2012-05-04T01:41:52Z

I did some good work today. All kinds of stuff! Still crossing things off that list and feeling good about it! I have an OB appointment tomorrow. I’m anxious to know if there’s been any, shall we say, movement. I’m enjoying making good use of this time but all of the excitement and anticipation is the best part, isn’t it?

I finished this project submission built around the cloth diaper I made a few years ago. This is just a peek at it, there are a few other parts not in this picture. I got it done and only, oh, two and a half weeks after the deadline. Other important tasks completed today included a birthday party for Chase’s Woofy and his good friend Black Stripe complete with tiny cakes made out of marshmallows. All interested parties were very pleased. Good for me! More tomorrow! Right now it’s time to enjoy this popcorn.

37 weeks… and counting

2012-05-02T03:00:22Z

I only had one big goal today. Take one photo. I managed to do it but just barely. I snapped this picture of the girls eating strawberry ice cream with my phone this afternoon. Warm afternoons often end in strawberry ice cream cones. Avery needs to practice until she gets that you eat the cones from the top down. We’re working on it.

Meanwhile, even though I didn’t aim particularly high, I did manage to clean 50% of our bathrooms today. Part of me wishes we had more bathrooms so that figure looked a little better but the other part of me knows that I couldn’t handle cleaning any more bathrooms.

I also managed to get a better insurance rate and to map out our new budget post refi and student loan consolidation. I’m getting all my ducks in a row, ha! I might just stay up late and finish printing out our tax forms so that I can ship those off and cross that off my list too. I just might. But only if I haven’t just derailed myself by sitting down and writing this. Did I mention that I’m officially 37 weeks today?! It’s true.

Oh, wait, but look at this. I broke my awesome pyrex pitcher that I used for making iced tea but I finally found a replacement! The trick is to find a pitcher that’s heat safe. This is a coffee pot I think. It came with a little trivet sort of a thing with an insert for a candle… like a fondue pot so it should be fine with the boiling water. It’s Pyrex too. It’s cool. I love it. Now to keep from smashing it into a million pieces.

Thomas!

2012-05-01T01:13:51Z

I should have had this post written an hour ago but my youngest child still refuses to sleep. Pull ups drive her crazy but changing sheets in the middle of the night makes me crazy. I’m not sure what we’re going to do about that. I’ve been trying to figure it out for weeks now. It seems to be all quiet now though, phew.

So A Day Out With Thomas is a total racket. The tickets cost a fortune and you’re really only buying admission to a short train ride and the gift shop. Unless you’re two and you really, really believe in Thomas. Because then you think it’s pretty awesome. An older kid would be way happier with a Marc ticket to DC I think. Ben and Avery had a lot of fun… but if I’d stayed home with Chase who would have taken pictures?

Avery wanted her picture taken at every opportunity. Chase, not so much. I think she could mostly see through the whole production though she chose to have fun anyway. I love that she knew it was a special day for Avery and went out of her way not to ruin it for her. She’s a good big sister. She’ll get her turn for a day out this weekend when we go see Mary Poppins. We’re both really looking forward to it.

Avery had a great time on the train ride, giving her ticket to the conductor and having her picture taken with Sir Topham Hat plus we avoided the gift shop. Overall it was a success but unless baby #3 loves Thomas too we won’t be doing it again.