Today, I am: Eating cheese toast and drinking a cup of decaf coffee.Reading a new book with no lights on but the Christmas trees. Hanging the wreaths on the front porch (finally) and decorating the mantels. Happy to say my Christmas cards have finally been ordered and you guys might actually get one before Christmas! Wrapping all of my presents and calling Christmas shopping '09, officially over. Enjoying a new haircut. Glad that SD is home for the weekend. Going to the Alabama basketball game with my hubby. Have a happy weekend, blog friends. ...
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Ella’s Big Day
Ella had a big day on Monday. Both good and bad. Fortunately, I was responsible for the good part. Unfortunately, I was responsible for the bad part, too. Daddy had to work late, so we decided to cook yummy chicken pasta and have a girly hour to ourselves. The baby had been kicking like a pack of ninjas on my afternoon commute, so I was pretty confident that SD and Ella might finally get a feel. We were snuggled up on the couch, eating dinner and watching 'toons when the baby walloped me good. Ella put her hands on my belly and her eyes got SO big. She was so excited. Score! After dinner we rode to K's to take my weekly belly pics and then came back home to find SD here. My general mode of operation for exiting the car is to turn around and unstrap Ella before ever getting out of the ...
Wanna know what I did this weekend?
Absolutely nothing. ...
How we got there…
We told you about our fun on Halloween, but we didn't tell you how we got there. We dressed up for dance on Thursday and got to share treats with our new friends. We sorted candy and prizes for our friends at school, and wrapped them up pretty with ribbon and homemade stickers. We shared Halloween cupcakes with pretty girls {and boys}. We went to a Halloween birthday party, and got mommy's car stuck in the mud before we left! That's right, folks. My sweet little car got stuck in a yard full of mud and almost made us late for Trunk or Treat. Josh didn't make it to the party and I carefully parked on the edge of the driveway to keep from getting blocked in since we had somewhere to be so soon after the party. As soon as I realized my back tire was ...
Ella-isms
One day Ella told me that while she was at school she played with a Tiger! Parker was the Tiger and he was scaring her and the girls. They were trying to stay safe in their castle with Connor, the handsome boy who saved them. At this point I'm laughing pretty hard, she's very into this story. When I ask who she was she looked at me and said, "Cinderella" as if there was any question. Katelyn was Snow White - they were princesses living in their castle. I asked about Madeline and Noah and got the best parts of the story. Noah was the "mommy of the princesses" and Madeline was the witch! This story was retold several times over the week without change, so it must be a pretty fun game to play. ********** On a car ride home Ella said, "Mom, I want to go to Disney again. I want to see ...
Random Tuesday Musings
I wonder why it's always Tuesday when I decide to post a random, rambling list of disjointed thoughts? I'm sorry my posting is so sporadic these days... I'm busy sleeping and eating and naming babies and all. I'm in the process of uploading 58 pictures to share with you and with Halloween coming up, I'm going to have approximately nine times that many pictures by Saturday. Not to mention the two birthday parties we're going to and dress-up night at dance this week. Bloggy goodness, I tell you. Thanks for all of your sweet comments both here and on Facebook, as well as endless emails congratulating us, complementing my belly and praying for us. We so appreciate them all. This pregnancy is going so well and I know that all of the prayers lifted up on our behalf are certainly helping. I ...
Unpredictable?
Josh is making fun of me as we speak for posting this picture... I think it's funny. Obviously this isn't accurate, it isn't science-based, it isn't an ultrasound. It amounts to not much more than a Chinese calendar or an experiment with Drano in the bathroom. BUT, it makes for a good conversation. Even if that conversation cost me $30. This doesn't prove anything, but it will be interesting to see what happens. I still don't have a feeling one way or another and I won't tell you what Josh thinks. We'll just have to wait and see. No, "I told you so's", please! ...
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 ...