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About a week ago Madelyn was begging to invite the little boy that lives in the house behind us over to play.  He's a few years older but they have always played well together so I said sure.  I called over to his house to talk to his mom for a little bit and when I got off the phone this was our conversation:

Madelyn: "Is JT coming over to play?"

Me: "Yes, he'll be over in a few minutes."

Madelyn: "Great, I got to go check my hair to make sure it looks good like it always does!"

She's worried about what she looks like in front of boys!  ALREADY!!

Sunflower Beauty

Due to drought and my lack of energy our garden suffered greatly this year.  But I've got a game plan for next year though so hopefully we'll have more home grown goodness than this year.  Anyway, here are one of the many sunflowers we had going this year in our garden.  I was quite surprised they bloomed about a month early and only stayed nice and perky for a few days before they drooped their heads over. 

Rain, Rain

Took this cool photo from our rain storm a week or so ago.  What a beautiful sight, my flowers thank you mother nature!

18 Weeks

This pregnancy I decided I would take weekly belly photos to help capture the experience.  I always meant to do this when I was pregnant with Madelyn but I was so sick and tired, I never really got around to it. I started taking pictures at 18 weeks because there wasn't too much of a difference before. So here goes, hopefully I can try to keep up (I'm already behind!)



18 week (taken 3 weeks ago)

Pregnancy Highlights:

Symptoms: still sick a couple of times a week, growing pains in my belly and back, tired, tired, tired

Cravings: mashed potatoes, oranges, grapes

Total Weight Gain: 4 pounds

Movement: this baby is an acrobat

What I miss: more than one cup of coffee, wine

Best moment this week: showing Madelyn the pictures of the ultrasound

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Healthy Baby!!

We had our 18 week ultrasound about 2 weeks ago and baby looks perfect!  We chose to be surprised of gender again this time around although it was tempting to find out because we have set on a girls name but are really, really struggling with boys names.  Baby was moving and wiggling around so much it was hard to get good picture and our ultrasound tech took most of the pictures in 3-D which I think look kinda creepy alien baby but it was helpful for Madelyn to actually see the baby's face, arms, and legs! 

Kindergartener

Hooray for KINDERGARTEN!!

We were all so excited for school to start, especially Madelyn!  She couldn't wait to be in a big kid school and Mommy's school.  We had a few fun activities planned the evening before the first day and a super cute book to read but she was so tuckered out from daycare that she slept all evening!!  So we squeezed in a quick photo in the morning and the "Kindergarten Fairy" delivered a little gift of new hair accessories and a sparkly lotion to her!  We were all so excited for the fun new adventure that school brings that there were no tears from any of us.  Madelyn was a little scared when I walked her to her desk and she saw that the only people seated there were boys.  Her exact words were, "Mommy, I don't like boys."  So I pointed out the girls names that would be at her table but just hadn't arrived yet and then she was fine.  She wouldn't let me hug her of give her a quick kiss so off I went to my class.  Later the first day she raised her hand and told her teacher that she didn't realize that kindergarten would be so much fun!  That just melts my heart, I hope she continues to love learning and love her teachers!



MIA

How can it be that this is my first post for the month of August and the month is almost over.  Oops!!  It's called Back To School!!  I have lots to post.  A ton of pictures and funny little stories that I don't want to get lost in the shuffle as we try to throw ourselves into some sort of routine!  We finished up the summer with a few fun activities but my whole ignoring the all day morning sickness didn't quite work out.  We also finished a bathroom redecoration, in the middle of a laundry room reorganization, and getting started on finishing our basement.  Then you throw in a new KINDERGARTENER  and a few doctors appointments for the "baby on board" and well there you have it folks, life has been crazy!  I promise to catch up soon but for now here is my favorite story from the second day of school with Miss Madelyn:

Throughout the afternoon I keep hearing from staff in the building that there a great story about Madelyn in P.E. Our principal even comes into my room, interrupts my class to tell me how hysterical my daughter is.  So naturally I'm a little worried, "What could she have possibly done on the second day of school?" Right?

While in P.E. class there was this little boy named Charlie and he was having a rough day.  So he decided to run out of the gym.  Well, the music teacher was in the hall and escorted him back to class, no worries.  But Miss Madelyn, aka Little Informer, was worried.  So at the end of class she walked by the P.E. teacher and said in her most matter of fact voice, "Make sure you tell Kim (our principal) that Charlie ran out of the gym."  REALLY  KID, you tell the P.E. teacher to do her job, oh, and you also use the principal's first name while doing it.  Great!