The Rest of January

I don't know why I've been such a bad blogger this past month. I have by no means been 'too busy', I'm just down-right lazy!  Here are a few highlights of the past few weeks:

On Saturday the 23rd, I wasn't feeling the best, so we decided to have a pajama day, since dad was at work for the evening.  The kids pulled out the toy dishes, the kids table and decided to play 'Resturant'! Here's what I wrote about it in my journal:

I love my kids! They have decided to block off the living room and open their own resturant! They have the table from the toy room and all the play dishes out to make food. Xander told me that it costs a penny to enter the resturant and when I'm done I get my penny back (but it has to be a real penny). Also we all have to share a pancake, and it's only for Xander, Turtwig, Mara, Bear, & me! And it's Bear's birthday and she's turning 5 and they are making a cake for her! I just love how excited Mara gets when she tells stories!

Menu: pizza, grapes, cake, pancakes, vegetables.

I just wish that I could video tape all that's happening (i know that i can, but the kids don't act like themselves when it's on)

They have the table all set up with chairs and plates and all for the 3 of us, and then Bear & Turtwig are on the couch with their stuff :)

I just love the imagination on my kids!

I have been playing around more with Mara's hair. The fact that I'm taking pictures of each style is adding up! I can't decide if I should just post the pics on my craft blog, always post them here, or start a seperate hair blog!  Because one can never have TOO many blogs, right???    So here are the latest dos:

* I'm always looking for something new to keep the hair out of her face.

I FINALLY made skirts for my nieces Bryton & Aubrey that live in Boise.  I bought the fabric after Thanksgiving with their mom, Amber and it's just been sitting in the bag for a month, but I finally got it out and went to work.  Yes, I did a little bit each day, so something that would normally take me a day to make took me a week (remember, I made 2). But they turned out WAY CUTE!!!  Mara was sad that one of them wasn't for her, but I told her that I will make some new ones this year that will match with baby sister, so that made her happy.

*Don't mind the shirt Mara's wearing, she was still in jammies when I realized that I needed to put them in the box to send, asap.  Amber took pictures of the girls in the skirts, so I'll post it as soon as I get it!

Here's a cute picture I have to throw in.  Whenever family comes over the girls HAVE TO play dress ups!  These are 2 of the favorite dresses that Aunt Karri has found at Target. I wish I had a dress like these to play around in!

And the last of the pictures of January.  Mara wanted to play Sleeping Queens with Karri & Mana (I wasn't invited to play).  I don't know who won, but they were sure cute!

Now that January is over and February has started, the days seem to be brighter.  It's finally nice enough to run errands without a coat, but I still don't want to spend time outside.  And I have 4 months left until the baby comes!  So far this pregnancy is going really fast, I can't believe that I'm already 23 weeks.  The kids love touching my belly in hopes to feel the baby move, but she's still too small for that to happen.  The other day they decided to start giving her hugs and kisses!!  I'm just glad that they are old enough to know better than to lift up my shirt to do it :)   We've decided on a first name, but the middle is still iffy, which is weird for me since it didn't take long for us to decide Xander's name, and we had Mara's picked out way before I was even pregnant with her.  But this time it's taking me a little longer to make the decision, I just don't want to get it wrong.  I'm not really keeping the name secret, I just don't want to post it yet. I have too many friends having babies and I don't want anyone to steal it ;)

Hopefully I can post at least once a week and get back to my regular blogging habits. Thank goodness January is OVER!!!!!!!!!!