a few stories & pictures to share

addy kissing the baby belly @ 35 weeks

the baby belly in all its glory, 35 weeks

so we are at 35 weeks now. it seems like not too long ago i was saying that we could finally do a countdown to L-Day (labor/delivery day) on two hands & now we are down to one hand! (social workers aren't known for math skills, i have learned to count with my fingers & it works well, a very good visual). this is the dress i have been wearing almost every day during this humidity spell here in o-hi-o. addy enjoys using the dress for play; it's a tent, a hiding place, something to try to hang on...so it works well for both of us. from what i know, wes has no opinion about it, other than it lessens my complaints about how hot i am, so it's good for him, too, i guess.

our pizza creation: almost all homemade (no, we are not amish)

on this pizza: basil from our herb garden, roma tomatoes on top from our garden, the sauce is made of a few beefmaster tomatoes from our garden w/ shallots also from our garden. the fresh mozzarella cheese we made last sunday (or saturday?) from milk from our cow...no, just kidding, the milk was from the farmer's market. but we made the cheese! pretty cool, we think. using the kit wes gave me for my b-day, it was really pretty simple (http://www.cheesemaking.com for those interested...i don't know why it won't let me link it, you'll have to copy & paste i guess). i didn't get around to making pizza dough yesterday, however, so the dough was purchased. ah well, we can't be too home-makey.

addy's 'junior' chair...she is such a big girl!

addy has been throwing the most delightful tantrums during meals b/c she no longer wants to sit in her highchair. as a saying goes 'what hill do you want to die on...' or something like that, we chose not to make sitting in a highchair the hill we want to die on with addy at this point. in fact, it may help b/c J2 will need the highchair in 6 months or so & this eases the transition even more smoothly. so we went out on a little date wednesday night (thanks kristi!) & bought a junior chair for addy. she has already learned to crawl up on it & seems VERY proud of herself to be sitting at the mama & daddy table. she is also proud of herself to be eating adult cereal now also! for those who don't quite know what a junior chair is, it's just a combination of a high chair & an adult table chair (up higher, has a footstool, has arms to hold her in & sits right under the table). it's very wonderful thing. then we went & got ice cream & watched everyone else manage their kids while we sat & ate in quiet!

addy the hipster in mama's hat

addy trying on mama's hat, it was just a cute picture

and, final story. addy has really taken to imitating me at times & trying to do & have things that i do or wear. she absolutely loves it when i wear a hat, so when she spotted this on the stairs to be taken back to my room (i wore it on date night due to a very bad hair day), she quickly snagged it & hid it under her slide, where she found it again the next morning (thursday) & then proceeded to put it on & walk around the house talking/babbling. i'm assuming she was trying to say what i say or something, or maybe she was making fun of me, even, who knows. but i almost always have both shoes on.

those are some recent stories to share. the past few days have been very emotional for me for some reason...i blame it on the hormones. hopefully things will level out soon & i will be back to my normal moderately grumpy pregnant self for the duration of the j2 pregnancy.