As-yet-un-named Baby Girl (I will refer to her as BG) is a very active little thing. I'm pretty much guaranteed a kick every few minutes. She's started having hiccups. (My favorite thing with all my babies!) I've experienced a lot of false contractions in the last couple of days, whatever those are called. Probably because my sweet twin cousins took me out to the Bombay House the other night. Rob refuses to eat Indian food because the color of every meal on the menu is usually something that reminds him of a baby's diaper. So they took me on a date instead! Even though I ordered my meal 'medium', my first bite informed me they got it wrong. It was SPICY! But it was delicious! I ate a lot. And I had heartburn a lot. And my belly tightened up a lot. So the tale I've heard of spicy food starting labor in your last days might actually be true!
Connor has been making me laugh quite a bit lately. The sentences that form in his brain make me stand in wonder! The other day in the van he started laughing out of the blue. When my cousin asked him what was so funny, he responded with "Max's butt!!" And when asked why THAT was so funny, he said "Because it's gone!" The funniest thing about that is that Max really doesn't have much of a butt. When playing with balloons, one popped in my cousin's face, while Con was watching her blow it up. We laughed so hard at his reaction! After the laughter evolved into silent shaking, he thought we were all crying. So he patted my cousin's knee and said over and over, "It's ok. It's just a party. It's just a party." Which of course made us heave and cry even more!
He asked Kacee (my cousin) to draw him a train. Kacee struggled with it a bit, but finally showed him her train. He stared at it for about 15 seconds, then sadly shook his head and said, "No. You can't draw a train."
And of course, my favorite line is when he walks proudly into a room and announces, "I'm beautiful!"
As if we didn't know it.
Max says Thank You constantly! When you pick him up. When you hold his toys for him. When you give his toys back. When you kiss an owie. When Connor shares a toy. I love to hear that! "Tay-too, Mommy!" His first words in the morning are, "Where's Tonnow?" They are best friends. Everything they do, they do together. He's always looking out for Connor's comfort. I often hear, "You otay, Tonnow?" They are both sweet, loving boys. I got pretty lucky.
Today is one of those days when everything is going right. Pandora is getting every song right. The boys are playing happily together, creating trains with blocks and cars and naming every one of them Thomas. The sky is just gray enough to be cozy. And we're all spending the morning in our pajamas.
Rob and I have found ourselves repeatedly talking about Minnesota. About all the people and the things that we miss. The conversation comes around more and more frequently lately. Things like the get togethers that everyone enjoyed. And the places we would go. The green that surrounds everything. The dates and the restaurants and the friendliness of people. We don't talk about moving back. But it usually feels like we both wish we hadn't moved away. We certainly realize what we left behind!
Valentine's Day is tomorrow! Rob brought home flowers yesterday. Today I found a gift bag on the counter, but nothing in it... Wondering if he hid something somewhere? But what do you do for a man on Valentines Day?? I'm open for suggestions!
Connor has been making me laugh quite a bit lately. The sentences that form in his brain make me stand in wonder! The other day in the van he started laughing out of the blue. When my cousin asked him what was so funny, he responded with "Max's butt!!" And when asked why THAT was so funny, he said "Because it's gone!" The funniest thing about that is that Max really doesn't have much of a butt. When playing with balloons, one popped in my cousin's face, while Con was watching her blow it up. We laughed so hard at his reaction! After the laughter evolved into silent shaking, he thought we were all crying. So he patted my cousin's knee and said over and over, "It's ok. It's just a party. It's just a party." Which of course made us heave and cry even more!
He asked Kacee (my cousin) to draw him a train. Kacee struggled with it a bit, but finally showed him her train. He stared at it for about 15 seconds, then sadly shook his head and said, "No. You can't draw a train."
And of course, my favorite line is when he walks proudly into a room and announces, "I'm beautiful!"
As if we didn't know it.
Max says Thank You constantly! When you pick him up. When you hold his toys for him. When you give his toys back. When you kiss an owie. When Connor shares a toy. I love to hear that! "Tay-too, Mommy!" His first words in the morning are, "Where's Tonnow?" They are best friends. Everything they do, they do together. He's always looking out for Connor's comfort. I often hear, "You otay, Tonnow?" They are both sweet, loving boys. I got pretty lucky.
Today is one of those days when everything is going right. Pandora is getting every song right. The boys are playing happily together, creating trains with blocks and cars and naming every one of them Thomas. The sky is just gray enough to be cozy. And we're all spending the morning in our pajamas.
Rob and I have found ourselves repeatedly talking about Minnesota. About all the people and the things that we miss. The conversation comes around more and more frequently lately. Things like the get togethers that everyone enjoyed. And the places we would go. The green that surrounds everything. The dates and the restaurants and the friendliness of people. We don't talk about moving back. But it usually feels like we both wish we hadn't moved away. We certainly realize what we left behind!
Valentine's Day is tomorrow! Rob brought home flowers yesterday. Today I found a gift bag on the counter, but nothing in it... Wondering if he hid something somewhere? But what do you do for a man on Valentines Day?? I'm open for suggestions!
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