If you have small kids you'll know where that title came from. I've been hearing Zee sing, "It feels like I'm falling for fall" for days now. We watch way too much Nick Jr. around here. Despite the fact that I felt pretty terrible most of the weekend, I did get around to cleaning my house and I didn't stop there. I told Garan several weeks ago that I have virtually no fall decorations and she inspired me to be creative. I normally wouldn't need somebody to tell me that, but this pregnancy is really sapping my creative juices! I'm not generally a fan of Halloween decorations because I want whatever I do to last through Thanksgiving and I didn't want anything that looked too crafty or homespun. I went to Hobby Lobby and bought a grapevine wreath and like every other blogger in America I ...
Happy Birthday, Alston!
On Sunday afternoon Ella and I went to our favorite little boy's first birthday celebration. It is hard to believe that Alston is a year old! His sweet mommy threw a wonderful backyard picnic complete with homemade chili and grilled cheese sandwiches. I wish I had gotten a picture of the caterpillar cake she made, it was adorable. Thanks, Mrs. Beth, for letting us celebrate the day with you. ...
Baby Belly, Week 13
Don't forget to visit here for silly out takes and embarrassing moments! ...
Baby Belly, Week 12
When I was pregnant with Ella, K had just started her photography career. We took photographs of my belly once a month and they are so cute. Despite how good she was then, K's talent has only grown and today her photographs are amazing. I am SO blessed to have a sister who is willing to take pictures at 7:30 on a Monday night and edit them while I wait impatiently and ask her to make my neck and chin look as skinny as possible {do you think that's funny, mom?}. I decided several weeks ago that I wanted to do the same thing for this pregnancy, but since I'm living in the age of the blog, I thought I'd modify the concept slightly. We decided to do weekly sessions to chart how different my belly will look each week. Eventually you might get a bare belly shot, but we'll wait on things to ...
Basic Mathematics
A morning yard sale + an afternoon at Nana's = fourteen hours of uninterrupted sleep ...
This Afternoon…
I found this when I got home. ...
They Are Sweet, But He Is Strong
Ella has been going to children's choir for a few weeks. She's technically not old enough, it's really kindergarten through fifth grade. Since there aren't many activities for her age group at our church and she's pretty mature for her age, we talked to a few teachers about moving her into choir and Sunday School a little early. The first few weeks she was the only person at choir and was so disappointed. Finally, other children came and her response was "the boys and girls came to see me!" We've enjoyed hearing her practice and it has been good for her to have another weekly activity in addition to dance class. This morning was their first "performance," they sang Zaccheus and Jesus Loves Me. Ella has been so excited all week, but was a little nervous about it this morning. I gave ...
Ketchup
or is it catch up? Either way, we haven't talked in awhile! I'm actually on the mend, but still not back to my old self. I'll probably continue to blog a few times a week for the next month or so and maybe by then I'll have some energy to spare. Josh and I realized this morning that at this point in our pregnancy with Ella we had names picked out! Crazy, right? We haven't even discussed it. I dug out the old baby name book and looked through it this morning while dining on a breakfast of decaf coffee and Reese's Cups. Mmm-hmm. The deal is {we did this same thing with Ella} that we each make a list of five girl names and five boy names and then negotiate. We each get one absolute veto and after that it's simply a bargaining game. Hopefully we'll have completed negotiations in a month or ...