Friday, January 11, 2008

Puke practice and pregnant flappers!


The house project got off to a great start last weekend! We have one room of flooring and baseboards done. (pictures to be posted later) After a very sore week, Daddy and Mike will be tackling the nursery this weekend. The first item on the list is paint, then flooring and then baseboards. The current color of the office/nusery is a lovely mustard color (NOT our choice - it came that way!), but the future color is a soft yellow which means the walls must be primed first. This weekend's fun activity for Mom is WORK. Yes, it's tax season again........

After a day's labor for the boys, it's off to a gangster-themed birthday party Saturday night, complete with dress-up! We managed to acquire a gangster suit and fedora for Daddy and a red flapper costume with boa for Mom. (somehow I don't think that there were many 7 month pregnant flappers in the 20's......)

We had some practice getting up in the middle of the night to tend to children last weekend. Daja (our fur child, pictured above) decided to be pukey at about 2 am Saturday morning which involved four episodes over two hours. I told Daja that we didn't need "practice" for things like this, but she insisted. Luckily, it just seemed to be an upset stomach with no lingering effects.

The 27 week doctor's appointment went well this week. Doctor says everything is measuring right on target. Blood pressure and weight are good. This visit also included the glucose screen test which we passed. Yay!
It is not a slight thing when those so fresh from God love us.
--Dickens


If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.
--Vincent van Gogh