Day 91 - March 31

Right up until the dog woke us up at 6:15 this morning (gotta love waking up to the sound of a dog getting sick on your living room carpet... I don't understand why he won't do that on the tile!!), we had big plans to go to Bellingrath Gardens today for their annual Easter Egg Hunt on the Great Lawn.

What we realized at 6:15, though, was that it was raining out. A lot. So we went back to bed for a while and hoped that it would stop sooner than later so it would dry out a little before the hunt started at 9:30. When we woke up at 7, we started to realize that wasn't going to happen. We got moving anyway, just in case, but it wasn't looking good.

Finally, sometime before the kid got up, and while we listened to thunder and watched sheets of rain come down, we decided not to try at all. Instead, we quickly stuffed some plastic eggs (re-using the candy Michaela had already gotten from the Coast Guard Easter party... now that's thinkin'!) and broke out the eggs we colored yesterday and hid them all around the living room, dining room, and kitchen.

When Michaela got up, she seemed to have forgotten about going to Bellingrath, but she was MORE than happy to look for eggs around the house. She totally got into it, squealing whenever she found another egg, and loved all the candy!

So we managed to avoid the disappointment of the missed hunt and the "princesses" (Azalea Trail Maids), and I think we may have even done better here at home!

Day 90 - March 30

Do you know what happens when you wait a day to put your picture up?

You can't pick a single picture.

I knew I was going to have to put up more than one for yesterday anyway since we went strawberry picking AND we colored Easter eggs, but I have so many more than that. Besides just liking a bunch of the pictures, I had a lot of fun editing. So I have five pictures.

And since I'm going to put up five pictures, I'm going to stop saying anything. I think the pictures tell their own stories.

Day 89 - March 29

So there we were at the dinner table, and Michaela had finished all her dinner - plus some seconds - so I asked her if she wanted dessert (not a normal thing around here).

She asked for a marshmallow - a recent obsession because the bag of them sat on the counter for a few days after we thought we were going to do the s'mores thing in the backyard last weekend. So instead of just giving her a marshmallow, Jason and I did that parents-communicating-with-no-words thing, and decided to get a fire going in the backyard and do the s'mores. With no work for him tomorrow and no activities for the girl, it was a good night to delay bedtime if we needed to.

So there we were, roasting marshmallows and putting together delicious s'mores in the backyard, and all the kid wanted to do was run around, keep an eye on the lizards hiding out in one of the Adirondack chairs, and eat a marshmallow out of the bag (followed by a piece of chocolate and a graham cracker).

And, of course, she wanted to play in the hammock which is generally off limits because we left it out all winter and it's grown green stuff in it.

But it was bath night anyway, so Jason tossed her in there and then let her think the hammock was a swing. I think she enjoyed!

(And it's time for the latest edition of Belly Watch, but I think I'm going to just put that on our other blog. So head over to The FlyingFish to see that if you're interested! I'll tell you this... I've grown a LOT in the last 2 weeks and 2 days!! YIKES!!!)

Day 88 - March 28

Shhhh......

Michaela's "sleeping."

On the "beach."

Day 87 - March 27

It's a.............

BABY!!!!!

Most people have a boy or girl announcement to make when they go in for the "big" ultrasound at 20-ish weeks, like we did today.

But we've decided to keep Yellow's gender a mystery until s/he makes her/his grand entrance this summer. So our first comment to the ultrasound tech today was to tell her that we did NOT want to know the gender. She very nicely avoided the critical areas until she absolutely needed to look and then told us to look away.

So Yellow is still Yellow and will stay that way until we see the goods in person. But everything else looked good on the ultrasound and Yellow is measuring 1 pound, 7 ounces already, which could be why I feel huge.

Oh, and Yellow is an acrobat like her/his older sister was in the womb. We have an ultrasound shot of Michaela's feet up by her head, just like we got of Yellow today. In fact, s/he spent most of the time bent pretty much in half.

Day 86 - March 26

After reading Michaela her story before nap time this afternoon, she decided to play teacher and "read" the book to me like story-time - holding it in front of her and telling me the story. This was absolutely adorable and I just HAD to get a picture.

Then she realized what I was doing as I changed lenses on my camera and got the settings just right to take a useable picture inside a semi-well-lit house.

So instead I got a grumpy, "Don't take a 'pitcher'!!!" face (not seen here), and a bunch of other goofy shots.

The first one was taken right after a pretty nice close up shot. I was told, "Mommy, take a 'pitcher' of my back!"

The second one was after I asked for a smile.

She's so cooperative.

Day 85 - March 25

Remember how I said Jason and Michaela had to check out the growing beans in the garden after the rain went through the other day?

Well, I checked 'em out today, too... with iPhone in hand.

Not bad for a week since the seeds went in the ground!