Yee Haw!

lets go to Mia and Bop's house!, originally uploaded by SIMPLY.MADE.

Ride 'em cow boy!
Matthew had a lot of fun on his new 'ride'. We'll have to hide the suitcases from now on!

oh, no, it broken.

oh, no, it broken., originally uploaded by SIMPLY.MADE.

You know it's turning to a bad day when you see this out the back window of your car... after a thud- when you are pulling INTO the driveway...

figure I may as well blog about it, because everyone is going to hear about it any way....

no. I don't know HOW it happened, and nope, it wasn't on purpose. I wasn't being chased by police, there was no animal in the street... just happened.

Maybe it's because I'm pregnant? can I blame it on that? One of Erik's co-workers ran over a can of paint when she was pregnant... and she didn't even know it until her husband asked why she had paint all over her 2 week old car. see, stuff happens, I'm not the only one!

Sadly, our ride may have to look like this for a while...

dent in the van, originally uploaded by SIMPLY.MADE.

yep. passenger door. know what though- the door still works! so yeah, people will see me coming and say "watch out for that driver!" but hopefully no one will wonder about the color of my neck, or if my kids got a rat tail and how long it is.... yuck. I mean, sorry if you've got one or ever had one, but they kinda have the same connotation as a mullet now, right? So if you did have one, you'd have to know that people make fun of you behind your back... oh, you didn't? Well, sorry.

I like Matthew's explanation of what happened best: "OH NO! Mail bok broken... car broken... mail bok a HIT car!!"

a crazy question from me

big boy bed, originally uploaded by Hillary Lang.

Because you know, when you don’t jump on the ball and do something, you just over think it…

Do you use quilts/ comforters in the summer?? Is it an individual preference thing you think, or a learned thing?? Matthew kind of uses his comforter now… but not really really… Erik and I are both the same in that we prefer to have some sort of blanket with some weight to it over us no matter what the temperature… me, I could live with the duvet year round, but Erik gets too hot and so we end up switching to our ‘coverlet/ quilt’ thing until he gets upset about it slipping off of the bed always… and then we switch to… well, I don’t know what it’s called… like a really thick sheet… which leaves me wanting more (I feel more protected, more safe with a heavier blanket over me…) but whatever… so since I’m over thinking this quilt/ duvet cover with race cars (maybe in an attempt to talk myself out of making it?) I’m worrying about its practicality and usage. Matthew never really did like blankets over his feet… one when he’s in the car, now, yes… one over his head when he was a baby, yep. but even when he was a baby in my belly, no blankets, thanks… I’d have to sleep with a blanket for my feet, and another for my top half… belly uncovered, even in the middle of winter.

OK- so if you can, post a comment and let me know how you sleep at night, and if the changing of the seasons changes that... and maybe I'll get brave and start thins thing any way... you just hate to put so much work and thought into something (and learning too- I've never really appliqued before) especially when your in an emotionally shaky state... but enough rambling on and on about it...

photo from Hillary's blog (wee wonderfuls)... my inspiration for what I want to try to make, but I promise a complete coincidence in the child's book shelf and color, and future IKEAshelves... though I did choose the stripey IKEA boxes because she had them...

Camera found!!

It never was REALLY lost... I just didn't know where it was for a little while. :)
While laying down with Matthew to get him to go to sleep tonight I started thinking "I KNOW it's somewhere!!" and well, it was. The last picture I took? of my mom trying to make a snow man in the snow... and then I'd have put it in my pocket... but I've checked my coat pocket a THOUSAND times!! A little more deep thinking reminded me that it wasn't in MY coat pocket because I wasn't wearing MY coat! I'd used my mom's coveralls... which were in the car waiting to be returned... ah HA! one check revealed it to be true... and the rest, as they say, is history.

Baby Girl has been moving A LOT today. Not that any of the moving is constant or strong enough for Erik to be able to feel anything yet- just a bunch of fluttery kicks and flips. We've got an acrobat- at least until she grows more and can't flip any more.

pull me up the hill!

pull me up the hill!, originally uploaded by SIMPLY.MADE.

The snow also gave us opportunity for some sledding fun- our yard, I think, provides just enough of a hill for a little person...

oops! wait! I fell off!, originally uploaded by SIMPLY.MADE.

oops! And just enough of a hill to fall off on your ride back up.

snow angel classes

snow angel classes, originally uploaded by SIMPLY.MADE.

a few nights ago as we were playing outside, Matthew got a lesson in snow angels... he didn't quite get it...

AND WE'VE GOT A...

GIRL!

baby girl profile, originally uploaded by SIMPLY.MADE.

Just as we (and many others) predicted. She was modest for quite a while but the sonographer was nice enough to let me get up and go to the restroom and try again before calling it quits. We even had to poke at her a bit. While she was moving around a lot, her legs were curled tight.

baby girl's arms , originally uploaded by SIMPLY.MADE.

She was covering her fce a lot through the ultra sound and the sonographer said that seemed typical of a lot of the baby girls she saw- primping and messing with their faces, even before birth. Look at those beautiful arms and little finger bones. Perfect, right? :)

hi, how's it goin'?, originally uploaded by SIMPLY.MADE.

"ok, bye now, see you in July!" She seemed to say near the end of our visit. Check that out... 5 little fingers. How cool.
She's been moving all around today, perhaps to say "mom... why are you sitting so still!?! Get moving!"

But my darling little girl, this cold of mine has continued and while the medicnes are helping me feel a bit better, they're making me quite sluggish too.