Day 182 - June 30

Corn, anyone?

Day 181 - June 29

A group of CG wives headed to a local paint-your-own picture studio tonight for a girl's night out. I've been wanting to try it out and figured I should probably get there before the baby comes. Painting through Braxton-Hicks contractions turned out to be difficult enough... I'm imagining it would be a lot harder with a baby in a carrier!!

So I painted something to hang in our bathroom... where we have nothing on the walls and we've been here for 2 years. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out!

And in the interest of full disclosure, I'll say that I did all the color, but one of the girls who works at the studio did the cool black and gold detail work. I'd like to say I could've done that (you just copy a picture), but I couldn't have.

Even though my artistic talents run in the music and photography arenas, I actually had fun and have something hang-able to show for it! YAY!

Day 180 - June 28

Today was an easy day to get a picture. 

All I had to do was sit down to check messages on my phone after M and I got out of the pool this afternoon, and she stood right in front of me and said, "Take my picture!"

So I did.

And the smile is courtesy of her being close enough to tickle her a little... much better than the "cheese!!!" smile she gave me three pictures earlier.

Day 179 - June 27

First of all, I can tell already that if/when I look back at this post, it's going to drive me insane that I didn't edit these pictures at all. They're a little too "warm" looking, courtesy of taking them by the light of a bazillion lightbulbs in a dark house. Ugh.

Now that I got that out of the way...

I was CRAFTY tonight! And I have to say I'm a little proud of myself. I saw this idea on Pinterest and actually pinned it and then DID it. CRAZY. (Usually I just pin things and forget about them. Which is totally not the point of Pinterest.)

I thought the idea of a "Big Sister" bag would be cute to have at the hospital to give Michaela when she comes to visit us for the first time after Yellow is born. So after a trip to Hobby Lobby the other night, I had all the supplies I needed to put this one together. The bag is stuffed with some things to keep her busy (pipe cleaners, some coloring pages and washable markers, color your own stickers, and foam boards and stickers), and we'll also put the "Big Sister" outfit I bought her months ago in there. We'll have her change into it when she gets there.

Watch out world... I know how to use a glue gun now!! I'm pretty impressed with myself for this being the first time I've tried anything like this. Granted, it was easy stuff, but still....

Day 178 - June 26

Oh, some days I just don't know what I'm going to do with the toddler. Then I get scared about the fact that another child will be here in about a month. What am I going to do with the toddler when I also have to deal with a newborn? *sigh*

For some reason this morning, Michaela was sad about everything. Maybe she didn't get enough sleep last night, maybe she just woke up on the wrong side of the bed. I don't know what it was, but everything was pouty faces and, "I'm just sad that....." from her.

At some point, mid-morning-ish, she asked for a snack of peanuts. Generally, she has to eat peanuts in the kitchen because they're greasy, but I was feeling bad about the pouty-ness, so I told her she could sit in her rocker instead. She chose to use the ottoman as her table, and I thought all was well.

But minutes after getting situated, I got a pouty face and a declaration of being sad about something (I don't remember what it was), and I was just happy that I had my phone ready to take a picture already. That look on her face is just priceless. I call this one "Snack with a side of pout."

The drama. Oh, the drama.

Day 177 - June 25

I apologize for being a day late on this.... I fell asleep on the couch sometime between 8 and 8:30 last night. I'm proud I managed to stay up that late because I really thought I'd be asleep hours before that. I think it's safe to say that 6-ish hours of sleep are not enough for someone who's just about 36 weeks pregnant.

Anywho.... before falling asleep, I did manage to make my way outside while Michaela and Jason enjoyed a watermelon snack. You'll remember the ginormous watermelon from a few days ago - yeah, we (and by that, I mean Jason) finally hacked into it and we now have ginormous quantities of watermelon in our fridge.

Before chunking it up, though, Jason cut a few slices for Michaela and himself, and she enjoyed sitting at her picnic table, dribbling juice everywhere, and then finding seeds just so she could try to spit them out.

So the picture for the day is a valiant effort at spitting a seed. Nice, right?

Day 176 - June 24

This is what a well-conditioned dog looks like.

I'd say well-trained, but he's not the trained one... we're the trained ones.

Since he was a puppy, we've been giving Fred a big treat at dinner time so that he won't beg at the table. He hasn't tried to beg in years, and yet he still gets a treat. On the nights we eat out, he flips out when we get home, following us around until we get him his treat - even though we didn't eat at home.

So this is what he looks like, not-so-patiently waiting for me to get around to giving him his treat, after Michaela and I got home from our dinner out.

Deprived and desperate dog.