Update….

I have let life get away with me.  And let me just say, it has been fabulous.  We have loved our Winter break from school.   Jonathan had December 19th through Jan 27th off from class and we had no where to go.  So we just settled right in to enjoying it by:

Busting out a few good dance moves!

 

(this one is dedicated to and inspired by Moira.  Can’t get enough of that girl’s moves!)

Working from home in our pajamas all day (Jonathan’s Jan-term specialty),Learning a new song or two,

Starting (and knocking down) few building projects,Picking up a new instrument,

And playing in the snow.  Twice!  (Don’t my boys look warm in the hats and scarves I knitted them?  I felt so happy to send them out into the snow with stitches I’d loved into shape for them!)(walking in the snow is hard work…)(Yep, you haven’t really experienced a good snow storm until you get a drippy nose and snowflakes stuck in your eyelashes!)(Snowflakes are good to eat!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now that classes are back in session, we are busier and gearing up towards our birthday month in February, (Charlie’s second birthday is in two weeks!) and Baby girl’s entrance into the world around the end of April. 

I am resigning myself to the fact that I am becoming gargantuan.  In utero, Charlie demanded collard greens, broccoli and nectarines—and I think I only had bites of desert if pressed, because it really just didn’t sound good.  This  baby girl wants chocolate and pastries, oh and by the way, some potato chips, please, and some more chocolate—I’m doing my best to resist, but I fear she is persistent!  27 weeks!  I post this picture with the warning that if you ask me if I am having twins (as three people already have in the last month) or any other such nonsense,  I will probably seriously consider terminating our friendship!  =)  My sensitive pregnant skin is getting thinner by the comment!  (And yes, thank you dear fellow mom at the playground this week, who lied and told me that you couldn’t even tell I was pregnant!)

All this to say, though we are far from wealthy, we are definitely healthy and well!  I hope you can say the same yourselves!

Friendship….

Hi dear readers, I know I have been letting you down.   And I have plans to address the issue in the near future.  However for a little update on Charlies life you can check out this blog post, written by his friend Alaythia’s mother about their afternoon and evening together.  They were babysitting Charlie while Jonathan and I went out to dinner.  

Guest Post: Bad Mom Complex?

This is the husband.

Every once and a while I will say something to Keren that I think is completely ridiculous. She undoubtedly catches on that I’m using some sort of reverse psychology to prove a point. Here’s the situation from this morning.

Recently, we’ve both been marveling about how much Charlie’s features have become more elongated than round.

“He looks so much older!” we’d say, “Where’d our little boy go?” Of course it excited me that he was growing tall and strong. On the other hand, Keren would worry that she was feeding him enough. “Are we giving him enough food? Do you think he’s starving?”

In order to prove beyond a doubt that Keren is not the bad mother she sometimes thinks she is, I said, “Gosh, Charlie sure is looking gaunt today!”

Far from the response I was expecting, she joined in, “Yeah, I know!”

I stood there quietly, a huge smile on my face, waiting for her to turn to me. As soon as she did, I had to recoil in defense of the swinging fist toward my gut. Then we both looked at each other for a second, and erupted in laughter.

Keren is not the bad mother she sometimes thinks she is. I’m sure you all will agree with me.