P is for Pinkboots!

REMEMBER : Two(or one depending on where you live) days left for your second baby guess.  Carefully read comments, and be specific on the month or I'll assign one to you.

Now onto our regularly unscheduled blogging.

Edamame, as you can see has chosen some pink boots to accessorize with for post-church outings.  He wanted to buy them all by himself.

The more pressing matter of present is his preference for the letter P.  Aunt Pam and Grandpa P will be most pleased to perceive that our Pre-schooler can now recognize the premier letter of their name.  Wow, I'm pooped!

It's the only letter he recognizes, and he picked it off the fridge(we have that leap frog game where you press it and it sings a song).  I may be an English teacher, but I'm more of an unschooling kind of parent, so he's done this all on his own.  Once he realized that he could recognize it he's become obsessed with letters.  The next one he asked me about was 'L'(go Grandma!), and we've been reading one of our ABC books non-stop since, including first thing this morning, BEFORE breakfast.  He's even asking what letters as he does our ABC puzzle.  

...remember, I'm an English teacher, that's why I have this stuff lying around.

Let the extra stuff begin!

That's right!  Anyone who has guessed for the baby day now has three days to add 1 more guess.  I bought a bunch of treats today, so it would behoove your stomach to make another guess.

On that note, I'm pooped.  007 took a sick day and it's been busy with laundry, vacuuming, trips everywhere, a stop by the optometrist, and everything else in between.

Pictures later.

Engrish

007 was checking out his cell phone bill online and asked me 

"What is the past tense of log-in?"

moi: "Logged in, why?"

007: "That's what I thought, check this out..."

Gotta love this country....oh and I did fuzz out his name, not like anyone could read it, but whatever.

DV lottery

Remember : Only a few more days left to email/comment your baby birthday guess.  It has to be an UNTAKEN day.  Look at the calendar on the left to see what's still open.

Now onto what I'm really going to talk about...the Diversity Visa Lottery.  We enter 007 in it every year(we forgot last year though), and every time we need a recent passport/mugshot for both 007 and me.  They aren't very becoming, but since the camera was out 007 did grab a belly shot...so for Pam...Happy Belated Birthday Present.

Me at 35 weeks.  If you don't know what that means, it basically means the end of month 8.  I turn 9 months next week.

..hope everyone had a fun and thankful Turkey glut.  Enjoy your black Friday.  Good night!

Scaaary

Ok, so I'm not a breastfeeding nazi or anything like that, formula has it's place, but this articles sure makes me glad Edamame was a mama's milk only boy.  Hope all the parts work again so that I don't have to worry about Brass Knuckles.

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

So I'm not sure if she'll even read this on her birthday, but just to let her and the world know how cool I think she is....happy birthday Pam!

One of  the hardest things about being over here is being away from her.  She's always been a great example to me(yeah, I know, the younger sister leading the way), and super forgiving, loving and fun.

We love you!  Have an awesome day!

Environmental Wrapping

I'm a dork, I took apart our Rand McNally map book that Edamame had ripped the cover off of and started to use it to wrap presents.  It looks cool, but not very Christmassy.  Oh, and I know it is super early, but I have no idea where I'll be on Christmas Eve, so it is prep work.  Some people make meals and freeze them before they have a kid, I wrap presents.

I wrapped some stuff we got a week and a half ago from Grandma, and Edamame discovered the world's softest socks, and LOVES them.  Then we added the new hat that Obaachan knit for him.  I am so glad she did it again this year, in addition to babysitting, cleaning and just being a rad MIL.  We are spoiled with an awesome Grandma and an awesome Obaachan!

Dr update: Baby is healthy, moving and is estimated at 5.3 lbs.  Once again, an estimate that gets more and more inaccurate as the kid gets bigger.  I just like the idea that the ultrasound calculated due date is like two weeks before the original one.  Either way, who knows when this kid will come or how big he'll be, but it is fun to get the info.