Me at 34 weeks

Just thought I'd toss this in, you know, to keep a record of all that is my life. I'm getting bigger, baby wiggles a lot, and we are excited to be in the last little bit before she arrives! I'm ready to have a baby that comes earlier than just a few days... but I'm also prepared to get into the beginning of October before she arrives. Either way, healthy is the best!

From Ben's garden!

Ben decided today was the day to pick some cantaloupe from his garden. They weren't very big but they looked ready, and smelled ready! He brought it inside and we weighed it just to see how heavy it was - over 2 lbs. The seed packet said it would yield 2 lb fruit. He was so excited to cut it up and try it and share it. We took it to a pot-luck dinner party with Kevin's coworkers. It tasted awesome and he was thrilled! Way to go Mr. Farmer!

 

For those who are interested...

I just posted a couple more old events back in July. If you want to see anything about our trip to Colorado or other older events, you'll just have to go to Older Posts.
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The things you learn.

Tonight, Kevin brought out a 1000 piece African animal scene puzzle to work on with the kids. I took Harmonie into the library and played with her (chasing her, tickling her, surprising her, putting her on my back, etc.) until I couldn't do it anymore. Then we got out books. One book was about animals and I like to do the sounds so she can hear them. I decided I wanted her to hear what a real zebra sounds like, so we went to the computer. Domonique joined us and we had fun listening to all sorts of different animals. One of the clips we watched was about giraffes. We learned all sorts of new facts about them. I went into the dining room to see how the puzzle was coming along, and someone was actually talking about giraffes. Perfect opportunity to share some of the things I just learned! I asked, "Do you know how many vertebrae a giraffe has in it's neck?" Marissa immediately said, "The same as a human." Kevin said, "Look how long it is. You really think it only has 7?" I giggled and said, "Well, yes, it does!" Then I looked at Marissa and said, "How did you know that?" She looked at me and said, "I read it." Of course you did! She has read so much stuff - and that happened to be one of the things that stuck. I'm sure she could teach me all sorts of things, if I could just ask the right questions!

Torture the Pig.

Before dinner tonight, Kevin and I were doing the dishes that had piled up from breakfast and lunch. (I'm not one who does them right away, unfortunately.) Kemiah was standing in the kitchen doorway and asked her dad, "Do you want to snuggle?" Sweet, right? He said "not right now" because he was helping with dishes. There was a pause, then she asked, "When can you torture the pig?" I laughed right out loud and Kevin got a big smile on his face. You see, Kevin's nickname for Kemiah is Pig. So, she was asking him to come and play with her. It was so funny! He had to give in and went and played with her, and snuggled because he is really tired right now. It was a really great moment that I wanted to remember forever.

Domonique's desire.

Today, at the library, after story time, I was sitting with Harmonie when Domonique walked up to me. She pulled on a zipper on the backpack and said, "I want a fier." I looked at her and asked why. She simply said, "Because I want to suck on it." Of course, that's what you do with a pacifier. I was wondering why, after not having one for a couple weeks, she wanted one at the library. She never really did answer me, just that she wanted one. I finally talked her out of it, reminding her that she's big and doesn't need one. Strange, how the desire just stuck her to want it.

She has been doing great without it. She no longer takes naps in the afternoon because she won't go to sleep as quickly and ends up playing. Therefore, she's more tired at night and goes to sleep fairly easily at bed time without the fier. Good job little one!

Poor thing!

This little girl has taken a beating. The end of last week she got a bonk on the head from a door (you can see the bruise on her forehead above her right eye). Today she bonked herself on the cheek with the same door (you can just make out a pink line below the outside of her right eye). Then while playing with her sisters today, she slipped on the floor, and landed on her mouth. She cut her lip and it started getting fat. Then I think she landed on her face later on tonight and the lip got even fatter, and I think she may have hit the bump on her head because it hurt to touch it. She'll heal but it sure was a hard day.

Fortunately, she can still talk and eat. I gave her some medicine and put her to bed early. Hopefully she'll feel better in the morning, and hopefully the swelling will go down.

Garden dinner

The kids decided that dinner should come from the garden tonight. The kids went out and picked some corn, and as they husked it we realized it wasn't quite ready. There were a couple ears that were good but most were not full grown. I guess we still could have eaten them (and I saw a couple kids walking around the yard eating corn off their cobs). Anyway, they picked carrots from Ben's garden, and a large cucumber from Xiomara's. We cooked the corn, prepared the other veggies and I cooked some eggs (from our chickens, of course), so we had a very fresh dinner! We are all very excite to have more corn because it was delicious!