Welcome, Willow!

Childish Phrases

... that we love and adore! Here are some phrases / pronunciations Hadley says that will never get old:

oops, faw dawn! = fall down
jumproaCH = jump rope
whoopies! = whoopsies
brawn shuugaa = brown sugar
muk = milk (even though he can easily say, "milk")
ha! fun-ny
mam (as short and fast as you can say it) = mom
mam, I diiid it.
let. GO. (in a very naughty, commanding way... stinker)
kias, you come don! (as in, Zaccheus, you come down!)
Maya-hee, Maya-ha-ha (he sings this to his cousin - Maya - just about every day)

Oh, may I never forget how sweet it is to hear this little voice and these goofy phrases. What a fun age!

In case you're wondering...

This is what we've been up to around the house lately:

DONE
Pack bag for hospital
Stain deck
Buy an upright freezer
Catch up on thank-you cards
Finish all filing (business and home)
Plan out menus for after baby (4wks)
Organize downstairs shelving
Pre-register at the hospital (10/15)
Stock dresser area with diapers and wipes
Organize closet shelving
Buy fleece for nursing pads
Make nursing pads
Make cloth wipes
Hem curtains for dining room
Hem curtains for Hadley's room
New carpet installed in back room (10/9)
Arrange childcare for Hadley for birth
Clear dresser drawers for baby
Wash/organize girl 0-3 month clothes
Finish bathroom project(s)
Clear top of my dresser
Wash diapers for baby
Finalize YAW details (baristas, sitters, etc)
print return label stickers
Create baby announcement photo card
Raspberry tea, vitamins, and iron supplement (daily)
Plan out "schedule" for 0-3 months
Organize stair area
Wash baby car seat fabric

BAKE/COOK/FREEZE
Chili
Potato Soup
Chocolate Chip Cookies (6-8doz)
Pumpkin Butterscotch Muffins (2doz)
Whole Wheat Waffles (2doz)
Pumpkin Bread (4 loaves)
Banana Bread (3 loaves)
Cooked/Pureed Pumpkin
Lasagna
Spaghetti Pie
Meatballs

... and there's still a lot left on my "hope to do" and "hope to bake/cook/freeze" lists!

We'll keep you posted on any baby news - Ray's goal is to get a photo up within an hour after she's born. =)

Yay! Full Term!!

Feel free to join me in praising the Lord that we made it to full-term (37 weeks) with this baby. Now we're praying for a healthy, smooth (and quick!) delivery. It could be happening within 0-5 weeks now! =)

Big Belly Kelly

It's official. I would be allowed to have the baby at "our" hospital (the one across the street from our house) if I go into labor today (FYI - that's not going to happen). Here's how big I was last week, Thursday:

We're getting closer - yay!

New Schedule (I'm Hopeful)

(click on it to be able to read it...)

Well, that's the *plan* at least... because, um, I'm a Type A. And I like to see things written out. And color-coded. We will see if it ever looks like this on any given day - HA! =)

Fishies

We bought four canvases while we were still living out in Portland, for the sole purpose of creating some artwork for Hadley's bedroom. Five months later, we finally got a little motivated (I'm crediting my "nesting" instinct).

Hadley has shown SO much interest in fish in the past couple of months, so we decided we'd hand-paint some "fishies" for his bedroom. We wanted to go with simple, two-color creations with the color blue as a base for the four of them. Here's what we created:

Sorry for the phone camera-quality of these pics - that's all we had around at the moment. But aren't they cute? Can you guess which ones I did and which ones Ray did? We had lots of fun painting them together!