I remember that in my last pregnancy photo in 2010, I said something about how I needed this baby to be born because I was running out of clothing I hadn’t worn in my weekly photos. This time around, I’m pretty much running out of clothing, period. I don’t know if I’m just carrying this baby MUCH lower or what,…
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Obligatory “Child at Pumpkin Patch” Photos
As “they” always say, what’s the point of even having a blog if you can’t foist festive pumpkin patch pictures of your child upon the Internet during the month of October? No point, really. So here is Ella, fake-smiling her way through a trip to the Elgin Pumpkin Patch. And wondering why I only packed a single lone…
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10 Books Ella Currently Loves: Fall Edition
I felt like, over the summer, Ella lost a bit of her interest in books. We still read them, but not like we had in previous months. She was quick to lose interest and the days of “again, again!” after every book seemed gone. Happily, in the last two months, her love of books appears to have returned in full…
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Week 34
Bart asked a few weeks ago what the first thing I’m going to do when I’m not pregnant is. The answer is sleep on my stomach. The thought almost brings a tear to my eye. Also, I mentioned to Ella the other day that eventually she and the baby sister will be sharing a room. And Ella got very concerned…
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A Weekend in October
Some weekends are spectacular failures. This past weekend was not one of them. It started out with our fake-camping trip. The weather was beautiful, we had our tin-foil dinners (by which I clearly mean tin-foil wrapped pitas from Pita Fusion), and a bag of carrots to feed to the donkeys. Ella talked about the donkeys the whole way up there,…
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