28 Weeks and Hello 2011!

Happy 2011!

I decided to do something a little different this year.

It's not a New Year's resolution, but I suppose similar.

Something I want to try and keep up all year.

Photo-A-Day blogging.

I take a lot of pictures.

But I might take 75 pics of E playing outside one day,

and then nothing for a week.

This year, I am going to try and take a photo a day

that we be a memory of what that time was like in our lives.

Here's what I've got so far for 2011:

Jan 1:

My first craft project completion of the year!

I have lots in the works and ideas in my head so hopefully this is the first of many.

It's for Elijah's room, to hang up his artwork.

Jan 2:

Yup. I'm getting a bit large.

Adam thought it would be funny to see if I could balance a small bowl on my belly.

Turns out, I can :)

Jan 3:

This picture describes my child right now in many ways.

1) Getting him to wear pants is a daily challenge.

2) We are obsessed with Toy Story, and this reminds him of Woody and Jesse.

3) That smile is wonderful. And we've been seeing a lot of it lately.

Jan 4:

Elijah and I went out (a rare occasion) to get a birthday present

and someone backed right into us.

Bummer.

E, R & I are all fine,

but my Jeep got a little banged up on the side.

Jan 5:

Blocks, blocks, blocks.

He LOVES to play with these blocks.

I'm not sure what it is, but something about watching him play with his blocks

is so soothing to me.

It's like the relaxing feeling I get when someone rubs my back.

He's so quiet and you could just see his mind working.

He'll place one block somewhere then decides that doesn't work and replace it with another.

Very few things capture my child's attention for such a time as these blocks do.

We've really been enjoying the year.

Elijah is talking so much every day.

The other morning at breakfast, we sat there for an hour while he ate a bowl of grapes

and he just talked and told me stories.

It's so wonderful and hilarious.

We went to Red Lobster the other day and E got to see the lobsters in the tank.

We told them they were like crabs.

First, he kept calling them "monsters".

We told him, "Say LOB... STERS".

So now he either says

"lob-monsters" or "crab monsters".

It's like when he says acorns...

he calls them "egg corns" (two words, he pauses).

Here are some other recent pics of him,

enjoying some of his Christmas presents

and playing outside.

Playing with his easel from Grandma

(Thank you Grandma!)

Playing on his tricycle from PawPaw

(Thank you PawPaw!)

And playing with his baseball set from Nana

(Thank you Nana!)

Little Adam:

In baby Reese news:

I went to the Dr yesterday for my 28 week appointment.

Had to do my glucose test and get another rhogam shot in my hiney

(good times!)

I now go every two weeks

(where has the time gone?!)

and my next appt, we schedule my c-section.

My due date in March 31

and Dr Snow has always said we'd probably schedule for the 29th.

Yesterday he said the same thing but added,

"You'll probably go into labor before that and we'll just go over and do it then."

Huh?

What?

Why?

No, no.

We're not even CLOSE to being ready for her yet.

She needs to wait until the 29th.

I thought that scheduling her arrival would mean I wouldn't have to worry about all this.

Sigh...

I guess not.

Time to get working on little sister preparations!