Would it be silly to buy this for the baby? He may not even be born yet on Halloween. But he might be! LOL

Amelia trying out her brother's new crib.

She is obsessed with his crib. Although for now she thinks it's for me to sleep in. :-) Those pictures are hanging above the crib are driving me crazy. I measured. I used the level. I can not get them to hang straight or to be even. Grrrrr I may move them over the changing table and hang the quilt over the crib. The pictures actually look a little small over the crib...

Grr

Ebay is so slow to get auctions up. If I have the direct URL I can view the auction, but if I search by my seller name, it only brings up some of my auctions. I am paying for a 7 day listing, it should show up for 7 days. Not 6 or so.

Here is the direct link to my korker bows.

I finally put more auctions on ebay. I even have a new one this time.

Go see them here.

Rocker me!!

Earlier today Amelia came up to me and said "Mama your rocker me, on a treetop." ( Please rock me and sing Rock a bye baby on the treetop)

So I pick her up and hold her, the same way you'd snuggle a newborn in the crook of your arm. Then I rock her back and forth and sing Rock a baby baby. After I stop singing she says "Try again!" So I do. We do that three or four times. Each time she tells me to "Try again." After the fourth time she meows, tells me she is a kitty, then licks my arm and scampers off.

My sweet girl is no longer a baby, but sometimes she still needs her Mommy. Sometimes I need the snuggling as much as she does.
And I can only imagine what other things she has to show me as she grows up.
This is why we live on one income and I stay home.

The joys of pregnancy.

This is totally turning into one of those "I'm pregnant and I'm going to complain about it" type blogs. If you don't like to hear about the pregnancy krap, come back in a few months. It will be over soon. Then you're all safe since this is our last pregnancy!

I did pretty much nothing today. It's Jeff's birthday so we got his presents and card together, but other than that, I sat on my toosh all day. Why do I feel like I ran a marathon or something? I'm also really swollen today. Not just my feet either, my rings are tight, I may not get them off tonight.

I'm also having contractions. They aren't close enough to be anything other than a pain, but they still suck. The doc said unless they are 10 minutes or less apart, or really painful not to go to Labor and Delivery. They are pretty uncomfortable, but bearable, and holding steady at 11 minutes apart. At least tomorrow we have playgroup, which means I can sit on my butt some more,and hang out with my friends while Amelia gets rid of some energy. One good thing is this kid is so active. He is constantly be bopping around in there, so I don't worry too much about him. Maybe he has more fluid than Amelia did? She consistently had lower levels of amniotic fluid. I just don't remember her moving so much. And I don't remember feeling her all over the place either. I think he is pretty long already, I will simultaneously feel movement at the very top and the very bottom of my belly.

Correction

Apparently I need to have a calendar handy when I'm posting blogs.

My due date is Nov 10th, which means earliest they will let me have the kid is the third which is a Saturday. So probably won't get to schedule it until at least Nov. 5th. Which by the way, is my niece Emma's birthday.

It seems to be cooling off around here. That or the AC is working better. Or maybe I've adjusted a little. We're actually going to the park today. Woohoo.

It hot..

I'm tired, and I don't like summer any more. It's too hot to be outside doing anything. My AC can't seem to keep up with the heat either. It just runs and runs. Which is totally not energy efficient, but it's 80 something degrees in here and I'm hot. It is blowing cold air, just can't seem to keep up with the huge ceilings and the lack of energy efficient windows and insulation. I'm afraid to use the oven for fear the whole kitchen will just burst into flames from the heat. If it gets any hotter in here, I'm moving to Oregon.

On the plus side, I had another checkup Friday. The US went well, baby is measuring at 3 pounds, and I will start my twice a week appointments at 32 weeks. The only downside is they changed my due date. Apparently the tech who did my US originally to date the pregnancy wrote one date on the Ultrasound, and put something else in the computer. The doctor I saw Friday looked at the US and changed my date. I'm now due November 11th. That is so not fair! LOL

I'm thinking that can't be right though, because that means I was about 10 minutes pregnant when I got a positive pregnancy test. I was not even late yet when I tested, based on the dates I thought it was, it was only two weeks after conception that I got the positive. Based on the new date, I got a positive test about 10 minutes after conception. LOL so anyway, my earliest date for c section is now Nov 4th. Sucks to be me!! LOL

Steph

For Sophia

Cube pictures.

I try to be good and avoid Gymboree when I can. It's entirely too easy to spend a fortune on cute clothes there. And since my kid is two and grows out of things quickly these days, it's not real cost effective. But once things go on sale, I just can't resist.

I ordered this stuff for Amelia...





and this outfit for Anthony.



Not bad for $35 eh? Especially since the one dress at regular price was probably more than that.

I'm back...

and I'm nesting. Big time. Jeff's mom is arriving Saturday, and I should be working on cleaning main areas of the house, since the cleaners haven't been here in a month and don't come until Monday. (darn vacations throw everything off!) but instead, I spent all day yesterday putting together the changing table dresser for the baby. And today, Amelia and I went and picked up the crib bedding. It's all i can do to not spend the rest of today putting together the crib. I just spent the last half hour on ebay ordering some prints and a clock to go with the bedding. I'm only 28 weeks, this kiddo should be in there for another 2 or 3 months. Maybe it's because of the umbilical cord issues, and them telling me there is a chance he'll be really early and or really small. I just have this desire to get everything ready for him right now. And it's making me crazy. Or maybe it's because I'm a stay at home mom now, and I have too much time at home. We've all been sick so haven't been able to do our normal playgroup stuff.

I don't need a clean house do I? (and yes I already tried to get the cleaners to come tomorrow. They haven't called me back.)I did however clean a big chunk of Amelia's carpet this morning. LOL

I should probably go clean my kitchen up so I can make some dinner...

Organic Farming

Sometimes I miss living where I grew up. I was talking to a friend the other day who still lives in the little town we grew up in. She has small kids like me, and can't imagine raising them somewhere like this. Sometimes I'm a little jealous because I didn't plan to raise my kids here either. However, there are some amazing things here, that I just don't think my kids could experience back home.

Yesterday Amelia and I, and our playgroup went to Tanaka Farms. Tanaka Farms is the largest organic farm in orange conty. We go 2-3 times a year for strawberry picking, watermelon picking and for the pumpking patch in October. This trip was for watermelons. We rode on a wagon around the farm, stopping at different locations to try some of the things growing. Fresh out of the dirt the raw corn, green beans, carrots and tomatoes tasted better than anything from the grocery store. We arrived at a little tent where we were served fresh table cucumbers as well as pickling cukes. They were all wonderful. Even the littlest pickiest eaters were eating the veggies. Then we had some fresh watermelon. It was sticky drippy heaven. After that the kids got to pick out a watermelon of their own from the patch and we rode on the wagons back to the entrance. Then we had lunch and headed home.

It was a good day, and probably not something we could have experienced back in Ocean Park, WA.

Today we're going to my friend Tiffeny's to swim in her pool, and Saturday we'll be at disneyland for a birthday party. There are definitely some perks to living in Southern California.

Some pictures

This was on the 4th of July



Out back playing in her pool.


With her baby jaguar, he goes everywhere with us lately....



Don't you love the shoes? One sandal and one Croc (on the wrong foot of course. LOL)

Cooking

Amelia and I made Pesto today. It's so good. We're having it for dinner tonight. We also made Jeff a chocolate cake with home made frosting.

I think I'm nesting. LOL

Nervous

I'm getting a little nervous about my upcoming trip to Oregon. Flying with Amelia is always an adventure, but that shouldn't be too bad, she will have her own seat, and will be buckled in her car seat.

What concerns me is the actual trip. I love my family, and I love seeing them. But it's always hard staying at someone else's house. My mom just moved to a nice new big house, so Amelia and I will have a nice room to stay in. But, her new house has a big open floor plan, and so all of her antiques, and collectables are on display in the main rooms. Her last house was a 100 year old house so it had many small rooms and we were able to gate off the breakables room. My mom doesn't seem to worried about it, she thinks Amelia is old enough to learn to not touch things. I'm hoping though that she realizes Amelia is used to a mostly baby proofed house, so she is going to be learning that lesson on her breakies. Eep. The other thing is I swear this is some filter between my brain and my mouth that is inactivated by pregnancy hormones. I am usually pretty good at keeping my mouth shut when my mom or my sister says silly things, but when it's 100 degrees out and I'm pregnant and stuck in someone else's house with no car of my own, it might be bad. Eep. Oh well, other than all of that, I'm really excited to go see everyone. My cousin Connie is coming from Florida too so it should be fun.

Interview Meme

Interview questions!

I got this Meme from Steph, here are her questions for me.

1. (Because I loved Darlene's same question, I'll keep this one for you) If I were to come to visit for a day, what would we do?

It depends if you've been to LA before or not. We'd probably do the touristy stuff, I love taking people to the pier in Huntington Beach, there is a restaurant at the end of the pier. That's always fun. There are always things like Disney, Sea World, Hollywood etc, to go and see.

2. If you could form the most perfect career for yourself with your own two hands, what would you be doing?

I don't know. I get bored easily, so I'd probably like to do something a little different every day.

3. If you were to win $10,000, what would you do with that money?

This is sad, but it would go in the savings account for a down payment on a house. Not too exciting huh? :-) We don't really have any debt or any other major stuff we need.

4. What are 2 of the most important qualities you look for in a good friend?

Someone who will keep up with me when I'm being antisocial, and someone I can trust.

5. What personality trait do you love most about yourself? I can laught at just about anything.

What physical quality to you love most? My blue eyes.

I'll be back...

later today, I have a bunch of stuff I need to put up, but the laundry just won't wash and dry and fold itself. I really wish it would though.... I hate laundry. :-(

If i'm not back in a few hours send a search party. I'd start with looking in the 37 loads of clean laundry covering my bed...

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http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/02/libby.sentence/index.html

I guess I'm not really surprised...