Belly Button?

 

(30 weeks pregnant with Joseph)

 

Umbilical hernia.

My “turkey timer.”

The Third Nipple.

It has been called many things.

It is humorous,

it is sore (because it IS a hernia),

and it is my signature pregnancy feature.

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A few days ago, I was getting out of the shower Joseph walked into the room.

He stopped, looked at my stomach, and smiled.

He ran over to touch my belly button, and proudly proclaimed “PENIS!  Mama penis!”

Now, did I really want to get into an anatomy discussion with Joseph?  Especially when my belly button, to be fair, doesn’t even look like a belly button?  When it does, just a teensie bit, look like a penis?

I just smiled and said, “That’s right honey!  Now who wants to watch Sesame Street?!”

My poor confused little boy.

You Win Some, You Lose Some.

 

 

The Good News:

 

I was walking by a mirror today while wearing a V-neck shirt, and I noticed that HELLLOOOO “Ladies!”  Looks like somebody isn’t going to have to get breast implants anytime soon- wowza!  Looking good!

The Bad News:

I have a sinking suspicion that this means that, in a few months, I am going to have an eight pound human barreling out of my va-jay-jay.

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Kind of brings a whole new meaning to the phrase “You win some, You lose some” doesn’t it?

25 Weeks

 

Here we go, folks, time for another belly update:

25 weeks

And, for comparison purposes

 15

                         20

                                                   25

Not that much bigger, but definitely rounder and higher, yes?

Preggo

 

It’s nice to know that we are all in this together!

My best Idaho friends: Colleen, (me), and TRex Mom

If you look closely behind my legs in this next one, you can just barely see Joseph who was clinging to me and crying:

Please note that we are lined up by size and not by due date.

Colleen is due in 2 weeks, I am about 24.5 weeks in this picture, and TRex Mom is about 27 weeks.  But, for the record, my husband is about a foot taller than their husbands, so I would like to think that my baby is just about a foot taller too…?

I can’t believe that we are adding THREE MORE KIDS to the mix!

(Cooper, Joseph, and TRex)

Autumn

 

 

                                                                      

                                                  

                                      

Halloween Cookie Decorating: But Keeping it Real.

 

Joseph, Brian and I had a great time baking and decorating Halloween cookies last night! 

Really, it was a lot of fun and it held Joseph’s interest for a long time.

But, when I started thinking about the post that I would create to commemorate this family time, I thought- you know what?  It wasn’t all fun.  And it wasn’t all perfect.  So I’m not going to pretend that it was.  Because that’s what makes it MY LIFE!

So, there are two parts to this post.

1st: The memory I was going to post

2nd: What was really going on.

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Let us commence on our idyllic holiday

decorating journey with PART ONE:

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My darling little helper, Joseph, ready to mix up some cookies!

 

Seeing him roll out these cookies was seriously just about the cutest thing ever 

                         

Carefully cutting out Halloween shapes

Decorating time!

    

Lots of sprinkles…   

Smelling the frosting (why not?)

 

My baby’s first Decorated Cookie!

 

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Okay, Are you ready for what was REALLY going down?

Part Two:  Cookie Decorating in

My Real World

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Shorn

 

 

 

My little fella needed a haircut. 

It is a time that I dread.

Imagine, if you will, how a child may cry if he encountered, say, a ten foot tall monster with huge claws and shark-like teeth that chased after him yelling “I’m going to EAAAATTT YOOOU!!!” 

Then, multiply that by a thousand, and you may have a slight idea of how Joseph cries when he comes face to face (head to razor?) with the clippers.

It’s not pretty folks.

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So, generally, our motto is

a) Go fast!

and

b) Make it count. 

As in, Cut it short enough that it doesn’t have to be cut again for months- if ever.

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Without further ado, I give you, my poor, poor bald baby:

( And he looks balder in person, because his hair is much lighter without the flash)

Yes, he looks like he may have just gone through a horrible bout of head lice.

Or, maybe he is related to Dewey from Malcolm in the Middle.

  

And thank you for those of you who will, undoubtedly, say that Joseph still looks cute.  We think so too.  But, as his parents, I think it is okay if we go ahead and say that he looks a little, teensie bit LESS cute.

The good news is that he will, potentially, not have to get his hair cut again until summer.

The bad news is that he has his Two Year Old pictures coming up next month…

Any tips to make hair grow faster?

Note to Self:

 

 

When you are pregnant, never, never, NEVER let anyone take your picture while they are sitting on the couch, and you are looming above them.

 

Helloooo, Big Mama!!

Snack Time With Joseph

 

Three minutes in my life- as told by pictures.

                                    

   

  

  

 

(Yes, in those last few, he is smelling his feet and saying they are stinky-stinky!  Which they were, a little.)