The Lilly Pad

I'm not sure what the statistics say but I can promise you that this has been the hottest summer of my life! Last week we had a very close A/C call and you can believe that I played the "I'm 8 months pregnant. When can you be here?" card. Don't worry though. We've gotten really good at staying cool. Between popsicles, the play area at the mall and frequenting the freezer section of our local grocery stores, we do everything we can not to break a sweat!

Adelyn: "I fink we should rent dis house and move to a beach condo." Me (in a surprised and perplexed voice): "You think we should rent this house and move to a beach condo?" Adelyn: "Yes!" Me: "Why?" Adelyn: "Because, I just wike beach condos better den dis house." Another time... Adelyn: "I fink the way you get to heaven is dat you fly dare on a plane wike Jeremy* and when you get dare God, Jesus, and Dakota** open up the door and walk in and say "hi, guys!" *Jeremy is the plane from Thomas. ** Dakota is our cat that we put to sleep when Adelyn was 18 months old -- well over a year before she made this statement.  We have no idea where she comes up with this stuff but I can assure you that both conversations were totally out of the blue and not prompted or manipulated in any way.

We had a little visitor come play at our house this week. Don't tell her though - she's a big girl!   We tried to get a picture of Adelyn & Kinsley together. If you've ever tried to take a picture of a child you can probably relate... This was our best one. Don't you just love Adelyn's red eyes, runny nose, and creepy smile.    Come see us again soon Kinsley!

  33 weeks with Baby #2                                33 weeks with Adelyn  The pictures don't lie people, I'm gettin pretty big!! (I really don't even know why I'm willing to post these except that I'm officially a crazy pregnant woman and have pretty much lost it). For the most part I'm still feeling good but definitely out of breath and I really don't make it through the day without Tums and a nap. We had an ultrasound on Wednesday and everything looked good. She told me the baby weighs 5 something pounds. That's bigger than average in case you're wondering. We really did not get any good pictures because he is so smooshed up in there. The one below is a 4-D and if you look really closely you can see that he is sticking his tongue out to the side of his mouth. Both Matt & his dad do this when they're concentr...

We said "I Do!" And in 6 short weeks, we'll welcome Baby #2! (I'm definitely not as skinny as I was back then. At least I have a good excuse :)

Adelyn officially hit the 2 1/2 mark a couple of months ago and oh my, this kid is a mess! She is just so full of life, personality, words, thoughts, opinions, energy, did I mention words? There are days when I'm pretty sure she's trying to reach her 5,000+ words used for the day quota before lunch time and it wears me out! She is also the sweetest, smartest, funniest, most charming 2 year old in the whole world. (In my humble opinion as her mother of course.) Don't get me wrong, she is by no means perfect. The past couple of weeks she's been in rare form but we think the two's are far more terrific than terrible. She is very much into the details and notices everything. She sees those decorative ball things that go on car antennas everywhere. One day she saw a red Mickey Mouse head and told me the reason it's red is because his overalls are red. It's been so neat to hear her start to use logic and reason or give explanations. Adelyn is quite the tease an...

Last week Holly Mathis  hosted a giveaway on her  blog for a print from Sugarfresh . I rarely even bother to leave comments for giveaways because I never win. But this time I did and I won!! Now I just have to decide what to get. Here are a few I'm thinking of... I love this  one for the baby's room. These  would be cute too! Adelyn would love having this  in her playroom or bedroom. And since I love sunshine, I could go for this  one as well. There are so many great choices, something tells me I'll be getting more than one!