Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Haircuts etc.
The girls finally got haircuts. So here are the befores and afters:
Gwen:
Naomi:
Naomi and I both donated our hair to Locks of Love!
Then one day the girls decided it was time to have a snowball fight! I guess middle of summer is a good time to pretend that right? I have been keeping it very cool in the house, even sometimes too cool for myself but I can't stand to be even a little bit hot right now so its usually chilly. Thus, snowball fight!
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Poor sweet Naomi has had some evil reactions to bug bites lately. We kept assuming it must have been a spider, but I think she might just be allergic to mosquitos. Brian is freaking out more than I am saying that she needs to go to a doctor, but each and every bite has almost entirely healed up. So I am not worried.
This was the worst bite! It swelled up a lot and had a blister on top. It was more red than you can actually see in the picture, but it went down the next day.
We thought this was a separate rash, but I am pretty sure it was just another bite.
You can see how swollen it is here.
I am off of bed rest now. I got off on Friday of last week. Now that I am at 36 weeks I am allowed to have the baby whenever. Of course now that I am off bed rest it doesn't feel like she is going to come anytime early. Brian is more excited than I am and keeps reminding me that he can leave work in a moment if I call to tell him I am in labor. The only reason we have survived with the bed rest is because my mom flew out and has been keeping up with the house. Brian says he has been way outdone because she pretty much finished up my "list of things that have to be done before Bianca" and then some. She has found somet things that weren't even on my list, like replacing 90% of the light bulbs in our house because they were burnt out! Oops, I had missed that one! Although it is still Brian's responsibility to paint the living room and sod the backyard. Other than that we are all ready. I am the other hold up in that I need to get some sewing done!! I want to make blankets for Bianca and Gwen for their room. And then I have one more curtain to make to complete their room.
I decided to go ahead and throw Gwen a birthday party this Saturday. I know if I don't do it then I'll keep postponing it and the baby will just be on time and not early. If I throw the party then she will probably come on Saturday right?
Someday we will get some pictures of all of the rooms we have completed, but I have yet to get to that. Soon!
Gwen:
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Naomi:
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Naomi and I both donated our hair to Locks of Love!
Then one day the girls decided it was time to have a snowball fight! I guess middle of summer is a good time to pretend that right? I have been keeping it very cool in the house, even sometimes too cool for myself but I can't stand to be even a little bit hot right now so its usually chilly. Thus, snowball fight!
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Poor sweet Naomi has had some evil reactions to bug bites lately. We kept assuming it must have been a spider, but I think she might just be allergic to mosquitos. Brian is freaking out more than I am saying that she needs to go to a doctor, but each and every bite has almost entirely healed up. So I am not worried.
This was the worst bite! It swelled up a lot and had a blister on top. It was more red than you can actually see in the picture, but it went down the next day.
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We thought this was a separate rash, but I am pretty sure it was just another bite.
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You can see how swollen it is here.
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I am off of bed rest now. I got off on Friday of last week. Now that I am at 36 weeks I am allowed to have the baby whenever. Of course now that I am off bed rest it doesn't feel like she is going to come anytime early. Brian is more excited than I am and keeps reminding me that he can leave work in a moment if I call to tell him I am in labor. The only reason we have survived with the bed rest is because my mom flew out and has been keeping up with the house. Brian says he has been way outdone because she pretty much finished up my "list of things that have to be done before Bianca" and then some. She has found somet things that weren't even on my list, like replacing 90% of the light bulbs in our house because they were burnt out! Oops, I had missed that one! Although it is still Brian's responsibility to paint the living room and sod the backyard. Other than that we are all ready. I am the other hold up in that I need to get some sewing done!! I want to make blankets for Bianca and Gwen for their room. And then I have one more curtain to make to complete their room.
I decided to go ahead and throw Gwen a birthday party this Saturday. I know if I don't do it then I'll keep postponing it and the baby will just be on time and not early. If I throw the party then she will probably come on Saturday right?
Someday we will get some pictures of all of the rooms we have completed, but I have yet to get to that. Soon!
Friday, July 9, 2010
A few more flower clips and tutus
These are some of the only things I can do sitting or laying down. So you may see more and more of these!
I know these are almost the same but her facial expressions I love!
Naomi is making a weird smile because she wants to be sure her lack of tooth is showing.
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I know these are almost the same but her facial expressions I love!
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Naomi is making a weird smile because she wants to be sure her lack of tooth is showing.
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Flower Clips
I finally got the clips I ordered to make the flower clips for the girls. And here is our result! I have about 10 more I can make but I will be taking it quite slow even though they only take about 2 minutes per clip.
You can also see that Naomi lost her first tooth yesterday. The tooth fairy came and everything! She told me something about the tooth fairy that I didn't know. Apparently the tooth fairy turns your tooth into sweet dream dust. She was excited to get a dollar for her tooth because she thought she was getting a tooth brush! haha.
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You can also see that Naomi lost her first tooth yesterday. The tooth fairy came and everything! She told me something about the tooth fairy that I didn't know. Apparently the tooth fairy turns your tooth into sweet dream dust. She was excited to get a dollar for her tooth because she thought she was getting a tooth brush! haha.
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Bed rest
I have been put on bed rest. I don't know yet if it will be for the rest of the pregnancy or just for a few weeks. Friday night I was feeling contractions and they were painless but I could tell they were coming a lot. So we went to the hospital where we found out the contractions were coming every 4 minutes and I was already dilating. I was able to go home and keep taking the terbutaline to stop the contractions. Tuesday I saw my doctor who recommended a modified bed rest where I can get up to get the girls food and minor things like that but to be in bed as much as possible. At least I get that! It was a very boring and frustrating weekend to say the least! And that is only the beginning with Brian actually being home all weekend. Its very hard to look around and look over my list of things that I need to do and not be able to figure out how I am going to get them done. We have all of the basics in order but there are some aesthetic things and just things that would make life easier if they were done before the baby was born. So for now just know that I am bored and frustrated!
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Hollah!
We are done painting Naomi's room! It took forever and lots of math but we are done! And here it is!!
Are we great or what? The argyle is just on these two walls, the other two walls are the grey that is above and below the argyle section. Now we can start moving her stuff in and making it look like a real room! yay!
And here is a cute picture of the girls.
Our backyard was full of giant weeds and scary stuff so they never went out there. Brian went out two weekends ago and purchased a lawn mower and mowed it all down. So they spent the evening out there sitting on the cement making wishes on the one star that was out that evening. They sat there and watched the sun go down. It was very cute! If you look closely you can see the there were still tons of pointy weed stems sticking out of the ground so they did not want to go running around in it yet. Last weekend Brian tilled up the whole thing and soon we'll get around to putting down the sod! That will be nice!
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Are we great or what? The argyle is just on these two walls, the other two walls are the grey that is above and below the argyle section. Now we can start moving her stuff in and making it look like a real room! yay!
And here is a cute picture of the girls.
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Our backyard was full of giant weeds and scary stuff so they never went out there. Brian went out two weekends ago and purchased a lawn mower and mowed it all down. So they spent the evening out there sitting on the cement making wishes on the one star that was out that evening. They sat there and watched the sun go down. It was very cute! If you look closely you can see the there were still tons of pointy weed stems sticking out of the ground so they did not want to go running around in it yet. Last weekend Brian tilled up the whole thing and soon we'll get around to putting down the sod! That will be nice!
Monday, June 21, 2010
More baby blankets and tutus.
This is pretty much my life right now. Baby blankets and tutus! I am in the nesting phase but everything I need to nest involves moving big things or painting little details or large rooms so I am pretty much in the wait for Brian to help me on every little thing phase and its annoying!! So that leaves me to baby blankets and tutus. I am going to start making flower clips soon but I want to finish up the sewing I have before purchasing a bunch of flowers and headbands etc. Today, we are lucky enough to have Brian out buying our lawn mower so he can finally mow down the huge weeds we have growing in our backyard so the girls will be able to play out there again! yay! He is encouraged to do this because I said if he does it he can purchase the grill he wants for his Father's Day present. Its a shame, I know, he has to work to get his present! We have still not finished putting together a single room in the whole house. Each room is waiting for something in another room to get done before organizing or setting stuff up so its like a giant construction zone here. I know, i know I only have 56 more days until Bianca is born. I keep reminding Brian that we have to start picking up the pace! So once we get a whole room finished I will post pictures! I need for it all to start coming together! I hate being unorganized like this! Anyway, here are some blankets I made and tutus I made for the girls. I am seriously considering selling the tutus, but I won't be able to start that until a bit after Bianca is born. But I still love seeing all the colors possibilities!!
So you probably think, "oh another Gwen doesn't smile picture", but in reality this is her Project Runway modeling pose! I don't know where she gets these things, but they crack me UP!
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So you probably think, "oh another Gwen doesn't smile picture", but in reality this is her Project Runway modeling pose! I don't know where she gets these things, but they crack me UP!
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