Halloween 2009

 

praying for Stellen

Baby Stellen is again very sick. Click here for the latest blog post.

36 weeks!

headed to the doctor tomorrow….

The past week in review….

 

The Body Walk

headed out to a Halloween birthday party

Steph 13 weeks, me almost 36..this angle was kind to me!

 

Betsy gave me a great shower!

pumpkin carving

finished pumpkins

Archie Andrews…and another Wimpy Kid

I loved to read as a child.  I read Nancy Drew, I read Trixie Beldon.  I read Judy Blume books.  I read pretty much every book in the Fairmount Public Library and the Jamaica Elementary Library.  But I had a special love for Archie Comic books.  My mom bought one for me at pretty much every grocery store we went to.  I can remember getting one at the Catlin Grocery store on a regular basis.  I somehow kept  a decent number of the books that I had bought for me as a child.  My dad gave me a tote a few years ago that I was astonished to find contained many of my Trixie Beldon’s, Nancy Drews, and my beloved Archie comics!  I know there were many more, but even a few dozen of these well worn, well loved books were a treasure!  I put them on the bookshelf that contained my other books about a year or so ago.  I believe that this is how my daughter discovered them. 

One of my daughters loves to draw, pain, create works of art.  This is about the only time she is sitting still!  Otherwise, she is moving around, playing, wiggling…and doesn’t care for reading one bit!  If I read to her, I swear she isn’t paying any attention, but her listening skills are surprisingly good, and she  has a good comprehension. She just dislikes, hates the reading herself!  This was a blow for me, because this child is very much like me.  I will protect her identity..lets just call her “Baby B.” 

Now, the other child.  From now on referred to as ‘Baby A” for no particular reason of course, is nothing like me (at least in looks and mannerisms.)   Baby A has soo many of her dad’s looks and interests that it is a huge surprise that she would be a comic book reader.  No offense intended, but her dad’s idea of a good read was an internet article on the latest Fighting Illini recruit!

But somehow, she likes to read..and I love it!  Of course, I can’t talk her into Trixie, or Nancy..or the really GREAT books, but she is totally addicted to Archie Comics.  Even I type, she is 2 feet from me, reading one of these books that is dated from the 1980’s!  These books are all over my house and in the car.  In fact, her sister has been known to hide them so that she will play with her in the car.  This child misses lots of family car conversation because she is soo engrossed in her reading, and often wants to read them aloud to me. 

Yesterday, we headed to Bismarck Grade school  book fair so that the girls could pick out books that their Nana (the librarian) could choose for them for Christmas.  We do this every year. Baby A chose “The Diary of the Wimpy Kid.”  Now, the book fair had 4 of these books, so she  bought the first one (her own money) and gave the names of the other 3 to Nana, who wrote them down.  Now, this child finished that book (all 217 pages of it) by this morning!  Last night, she was laughing out loud, and reading me sections of the book.  You have no idea how much joy I get from watching my children enjoy anything..but a book…I just LOVE it!  Of course, now we have to wait until Christmas to get the next few books…..

34 weeks

 

This isn't exactly the usual pregnancy update picture..but today IS 34 weeks!

It is definitely autumn..pumpkin time!

Lauren and Brookelyn are staying over tonight..so we decided it would be fun to decorate a pumpkin..like the big on that I carry around every day!  Apparently I have no shame, because I have included some pictures, as well as a link to the progression of pictures as they were taken..I am off to shower very soon!

http://picasaweb.google.com/setrn92/PumpkinBellyShots?authkey=Gv1sRgCILCtZbdmv3LTA#

 

Happy Birthday James

James took a vacation day to be off work on his birthday today.  We had dinner at home and my parents, sister and James’s mother came over.  So poor James ended up cooking his own birthday dinner!  Earlier in the day, we had taken the girls to the dentist, then hit Walmart to buy what we needed for dinner.  While we were there, Paige took the opportunity to purchase the wig you see in the picture below.  She wore it all evening.  She told us it “suits” her!  Too bad that girl has no personality!  Peyton showed Grandma Pat how to use the Wii Fit.  I am a nice daughter-in-law, so I didn’t take any pictures of that! 

 

Anyway, I was glad that James took the day so he could be here with us today.  He has been a huge blessing for as long as I have known him, but no more than in the past few months when he has pretty much done EVERYTHING around our house to keep it going.  I hope he had a good birthday, even if he claims he doesn’t want to celebrate birthdays anymore.