Hawaiian Girl

 
 
Mom asked me to put a picture of Elinore in this new dress up here. I think Aunt Barby helped pick out the fabric in Hawaii. She loves it!

Harvesting Onions

 
 
 
Here are my kiddos harvesting young onions! We volunteered at one of our farms today. It was a perfect job for them. I loosened the dirt with a shovel, they pulled them out, Blaise slept on my back. We had fun!
What good workers they were. 336 onions AND good attitudes!

More from the Baby's room

We got the dresser/changing table this weekend and today we put it together. It was a lot easier than we were expecting and only took an hour and a half to put together from start to finish. It's the perfect height for me, no step-stool necessary! It's really coming together!

Now we just need the glider and we're set for furniture. Perhaps another bookshelf for all of Mike's book too, they really seem to just keep piling up.

Baby's Room!

We painted the baby's room this weekend! My painting clothes don't seem to fit quite as well as they once did. Weird. We had fun and are really happy with how the room turned out. This is just day one of painting. After the peach background, we did a stencil border.

Stenciling is harder than I thought. It didn't turn out perfect, but we are very happy with it. It matches really well with the bed spread.

We rearranged the room too. Initially we had the crib between two windows in the room, but it took up a lot of space, so we moved it next to Mike's desk and it really opened up the room. It was also a lot easier to paint.

For those of you who haven't seen the bed spread yet, here it is.
The pillow Elinore made is one the spread, waiting for the baby to arrive!

Now we just need to get the rest of the furniture and baby's things for the room to be complete. It's all coming together and getting more real. Last night I could hear baby's heartbeat with my stethoscope for the first time. Very, very cool. I'll probably be checking daily to hear it now. Baby's still head down, let's hope he/she stays that way!

IT'S A...

BABY! We did not find out the sex, but we got to see how the baby is growing. It is so much bigger than last time. We were able to see the heart and watch it beating. We could see his/her feet moving all over the place and we could see her/his little hands up by its face. It was head down today and everything was in the right place, fully formed and doing all the right things. For growth the baby was right dead center in the chart and based on the ultrasound the due date is October 19; initially it was October 16, so pretty close. I did get a video with my phone and I'll send it to y'all once we get back from Long Island. We're so excited to see the progress our little peanut has made!

I'll be darned.

I walked into the office this morning, and my diagonal desk mate was in a chipper mood. For the average person this would be a good thing, but said Diagonal Desk Mate is not your average person. Chipper for DDM means I have to standby while she chatters on about her cats, medical issues, and otherwise carries on about the incompetence of most of the abroad correspondence she has to deal with.

I was rolling my eyes and scoffing at my computer screen by 8:42 am. Not a good sign. Ear buds went in STAT, and my normal desk mate emailed me a link to a Metallica song on YouTube. "To soothe the mind," she said. Yeah, right, I thought.

But curiously, given the right mood and state of affairs, Metallica exceeded my expectations.
Well, I'll be darned.