35 Weeks

The home stretch. (Please disregard my hair in this picture, it has been hot and humid here...)

I still feel pretty good but it is starting to take a turn for the worse. Getting comfortable to sleep is hard and picking things up off the floor is a joke (my house is in a downward spiral of cleanliness). I will have to take off my wedding ring soon on account of my extremities swelling and I feel like the skin on my belly may split any day now. But I have a very active and healthy baby (who is running out of room real quick here) and I couldn't ask for more. I am glad for the uncomfortableness of the last month because it is my motivation to do delivery and the first couple months with a new infant (otherwise I think I would rather stay pregnant indefinitely). 5 weeks to go, bring it on!

Baby on the Brain

As you might realize I have baby on the brain a lot lately. I have just 5 weeks to go (belly picture soon to come...) and it makes me think about my other babies.I am nervous about #3 and how I will be able to manage the day to day grind. The sleepless nights without daytime naps, the millions of diaper changes, teething, spit up, the battle known as breastfeeding, crying for reasons you can't figure out, and so on. Add that to the two I already have and the cost of another baby and I am pretty much freaked out. But when I look at these little pip squeaks I remember why we do it. It doesn't make any of that stuff easier but it helps me not hyperventilate now.

Our Garden

We have had some gardening success! Some plants are actually growing and there are 3 little green tomatoes on one of the tomato plants!

We started everything except the tomatoes from seeds (hence my shock that some things are actually growing!) Here are tomatoes, cilantro, carrots, and basil.

Our Peas! They have done the best out of everything we planted. We did some homemade trellises. It is cool to see them wrap their little selves onto it.

Cucumbers and beans. Can you see it growing up the bean pole? I love it!

And in our container garden we have more basil and carrots (and a pot where something didn't grow... besides weeds that is...)

More peas, beans and tomatoes. So the container garden isn't doing as well but look at these...

Ta-da! My pretty girl and my three little tomatoes. I really love gardening and look forward to the day when I have a yard where I can do more. I dream about pumpkins, raspberries, bell peppers, etc. Yay for gardening!

Hello Summer!

We went to a beach for playgroup today. It seems spring was rather short this year because it's already feeling like summer! The kids had a lot of fun at this little pond, I will have to find more places like this to frequent these next few months.

30 Weeks

Here I am at 30 weeks. I can't decide if I am excited or scared about this fact. You can sort of see my new haircut in this picture. I think I am leaning toward not liking it but there isn't a whole lot I can do about it untill it grows out some. At least I will have a nice cool haircut for the summer!

Aunt Laura

My sister came to visit kind of by accident. She had a job interview in Rhode Island and her flight home got delayed so we borrowed her for a few days. We didn't do a whole lot (it has been raining like crazy here for the last week straight) but it was good to have a visitor.

We went to a children's museum one day for fun.
Griffin the mailman.

Mesha was meant to be on a farm I think.

Mo!

A group photo, yes this is the best one. My kids are a handful and I am getting that swollen pregnant look. Lie to me and tell me I am tiny, please.

Thanks for coming Lu, we had fun with you!

Four in One post

This is a four in one post.

Number 1: Saturday was our 6 year anniversary. We spent the day together but didn't do anything exciting. We figure some years it's nice to keep it low key.

Number 2: I cut my hair. I'm still not sure if I like it or not. I like some things about it and others not so much. I meant to just cut it to my shoulders but I was so close that I decided to just donate it and they had to take 10 inches so the resulting haircut was dealing with what was left and trying to keep it long enough for me to put in a pony tail per my request. I don't have a good picture of it right now, I will post one later I promise.

Number 3: Mother's Day. Sterling and the kids made me breakfast in bed then the kids helped me eat my breakfast in bed. It was a beautiful day. I am very grateful to be a mother.

Number 4: Here is another Mesha drawing that was so cute I had to scan it. She says it is a picture of herself.