the card that didn't make the cut

this was suppose to be their valentines card, but it didn't turn out how i wanted...

i heart them

1001 rules for my unborn son

i love my girls.  there is nothing like having a little girl melt your heart.  but i have always wanted to be able to teach a little boy to always open doors for women, that the snow isn't going to shovel itself, and all the other manners a man should have. 

i have been eye balling this book for quite some time and finally have a reason to buy it.

advise in this book is appealling because it seems our culture is losing traditional standards of sensible behavior. 

snippets from the book:

- after lighting a firecracker, stand back.

- always stop at a lemonade stand.  tip well.

- the pleats on a cummerbund face up.

- at a ballpark, never start the wave.  but don't let it die. 

- no one wants to watch you practice the guitar.

- eat lunch with the new kid. 

- if you need music on the beach, you're missing the point. 

ten little fingers... ten little toes...

and oh he's gonna have one of those! 

the girls will have a baby brother to play with soon.  daddy is a tad on the excited side... i don't think the smile has come off his face since we found out.  we now have to fill the house with blue stuff.  i admit, the thought of shopping for a little boy will be a nice change. 

maternity series

i wanted to start this series when i first found out i was pregers.  but the nausea took the best of me and it didn't get started until this week.  the goal is to have a picture every week until i have the baby.   i have a broken tripod so sid helped take the pictures.  a tad on the burry side.  but hey, she's a beginner. 

v-day decorations

i need a new cheese grater now, but it was worth it. 

dirty/clean

snow bunnies

weeee!

the girls decided to get in a little practice before we hit the real slopes outside. 

toofers

kinz got a new tooth so i was checking it out when sid opens her mouth and says "i'm missing a tooth".  she pointed to the gap between her two front teeth.  it was so funny...  i can't believe she even knew about the gap.  i'm always so careful not to talk about it in front of her.  i don't want her to think it's a flaw.  i love it.

nesting has commenced

i cleaned all the closets, organized old baby clothes, took the christams decorations down and we took a truck load of stuff to goodwill the other day.   today i woke up and wanted to clean out more stuff.  (the girls stayed at mama & papa's last night so i have uninterrupted time today.)  aside from the normal piles of laundry i really didn't have anything else to do.  (i know, there has to be something...)  well i decided to organize the girls birthday and holiday cards.  (this is how i knew it was nesting, who does that?)  I have kept just about every card they have received and they're starting to become jumbled.  sid still pulls them out and loves to look at them, so packing them up in the basement wasn't an option.  so i did this...  a little hole punch and metal ring did the trick.  now the girls each have their own ring for cards.  and they can still pull em out and enjoy them. 

ringing in the new year

this about sums it up.  stomach flu for the whole fam.  not fun.

christmas morning recap

not once but twice

i heard a cry.  tried to wake myself and remember if i had a bottle made up in the fridge or if i would have to fumble around in the dark to make one.  before i could finish my thought or even my dream, i heard it.  a child puking.  this would not be my normal wake up call from kinz.  i couldn't even get untangled from the blankets before i heard it again.  sid had puked, not once but twice.  and since she has been on such an OJ kick, it was orange.  i calm her down and change her bed sheets.  one of my least favorite mom tasks.  i return to bed, but know not to fall asleep because kinz will be waking soon.  she is like clockwork.   30mins later kinz is up.  i go to her room and find she has wet the bed.  i have to change sheets again.  not once but twice.  i return to bed... again.  this time i can not get situated.  i am a stomach sleeper but am approaching the stage in pregnancy when it is becoming uncomfortable. 
a day passes.   the girls wake up at 6am.  we eat breakfast.  kinzie pukes it up.  not once but twice.  my queasy prego stomach can not take the smell.  i almost puke.  not once but twice. 

my last minute christmas shopping has been put on hold since the girls need to stay in and recover from whatever it is they have.  lets hope they are not sick on christmas or we might be celebrating on a different day.  i must come to the realization that in just 6 short months, it will be not twice but three times. 

i think i'll return to my dream now.. ah basking in the sun on a warm beach. 

we should just get a cow

and perhaps an orange tree.  sid has decided OJ is all she'll drink. 

in case you haven't heard...

12 weeks

look two posts in one day!

took the girls to the christmas party at the firehouse.  they had a hay day.  lunch, crafts, santa, gifts, and of course popcorn.  no trip to the fire station is complete without it.  
after dad and i got them loaded in the car and we were headed back home, sid turns to me and says "that was the best christmas party EVER!" 

for one good little girl

just finished kinzie's christmas gift.  a set of hand painted nesting dolls.  i hope she loves them as much as i do.