This morning we had Praise Band practice at church, and after some time, Julia toddled off to watch drummer Josh play. This isn't the first time that she's done this, but it's the first time I've thought to take a picture of it! :)
erin
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Friday, July 17, 2009
Sepia: Sisters
A picture of my sissy (Lis, Melissa, Lissy... or whatever you want to call her!) and me...
Though I cannot tell you what year this picture was taken (though, I will guess... 1983... mom?), I can tell you WHERE this picture was taken. Here we are sitting on Grandma and Grandpa Schroeder's back patio, and as you can see, we like croquet mallets. :) I thoroughly enjoyed playing croquet at my grandparents' house, and now own the set that I am holding...!
Very soon Julia will have a small brother or sister that she can play croquet with in our backyard... hopefully she wants to PLAY with him/her and not bang him/her over the head with the mallet...!
erin
Though I cannot tell you what year this picture was taken (though, I will guess... 1983... mom?), I can tell you WHERE this picture was taken. Here we are sitting on Grandma and Grandpa Schroeder's back patio, and as you can see, we like croquet mallets. :) I thoroughly enjoyed playing croquet at my grandparents' house, and now own the set that I am holding...!
Very soon Julia will have a small brother or sister that she can play croquet with in our backyard... hopefully she wants to PLAY with him/her and not bang him/her over the head with the mallet...!
erin
31
Yesterday I was 31 weeks pregnant. In less than 5 weeks, I will be 31 years old! Ha!
It is hard to believe how quickly the time is flying by with this pregnancy. I have fleeting thoughts about getting this ready or going through that box or whatnot. Last week while Adam's mom was here, I carpet-cleaned Julia's room and re-arranged it to make room for our new addition. Today I had thoughts about maybe cleaning up the changing table and figuring out what was all on there... maybe.
Here is a picture of my belly from last week... at 30w2d... I don't have one from this week yet. I know, boo.
As you can see, I've figured out pretty well how to hold Julia with the ever expanding, although, she is partial to be carried ON my belly as opposed to on my hip. Oh, well! Funny how I don't think twice about doing things while pregnant this time around that I never would have imagined doing last time (i.e., like carrying around a 20-some pound kid...!).
Nine weeks from today we will have a new little one with us... boy or girl? Name? What will he/she look like? I'm excited and nervous and anxious and... well, I can wait, and I can't... and I'm just full of a jumble of thoughts and whatnot. But, regardless, it will be all good.
erin
It is hard to believe how quickly the time is flying by with this pregnancy. I have fleeting thoughts about getting this ready or going through that box or whatnot. Last week while Adam's mom was here, I carpet-cleaned Julia's room and re-arranged it to make room for our new addition. Today I had thoughts about maybe cleaning up the changing table and figuring out what was all on there... maybe.
Here is a picture of my belly from last week... at 30w2d... I don't have one from this week yet. I know, boo.
As you can see, I've figured out pretty well how to hold Julia with the ever expanding, although, she is partial to be carried ON my belly as opposed to on my hip. Oh, well! Funny how I don't think twice about doing things while pregnant this time around that I never would have imagined doing last time (i.e., like carrying around a 20-some pound kid...!).
Nine weeks from today we will have a new little one with us... boy or girl? Name? What will he/she look like? I'm excited and nervous and anxious and... well, I can wait, and I can't... and I'm just full of a jumble of thoughts and whatnot. But, regardless, it will be all good.
erin
Family Pictures
Adam's mom took a few photos of us together last week...
Friday, the 10th:
Saturday, the 11th:
erin
Friday, the 10th:
Saturday, the 11th:
erin
Buscha Comes to Town
Adam's mom, Marcia (aka, Buscha), visited last week Wednesday (8th) through Saturday (11th). She had a grand time with Julia... she didn't come to see me, after all, and Adam wasn't here (at least, not until Friday), and I could hardly get Julia out of bed in the morning before she was whisked away for the day... ha!
Here are some pictures from her visit:
Vrrrroooooommmmmmm!!!!!!
Run, run, as fast as you can!
Playing "tea party".
Whatcha readin'?
Buscha and Julia together...
Monkey See, Monkey Do.
Going through the barrel...
erin
Here are some pictures from her visit:
Vrrrroooooommmmmmm!!!!!!
Run, run, as fast as you can!
Playing "tea party".
Whatcha readin'?
Buscha and Julia together...
Monkey See, Monkey Do.
Going through the barrel...
erin
Monday, July 13, 2009
Rethinking This Baby Business
All right.
I realize that 31 (almost) weeks pregnant is a little late to be rethinking anything to do with this baby, but I couldn't help but wonder at about 3 am this morning if maybe we could have a "do over" or something. Ha.
I say this, because I realized last night that in 20 (almost) short months of Julia's life, I have relearned how much I LOVE sleep and my body has forgotten ALREADY what it is like to wake up multiple times in the night.
And, soon we are bringing a newborn into our lives... a little body that will require a lot of attention at odd times of the night.
All of this thinking business came about because Julia has been up A LOT in the last four nights. Her... bowel movements... have shifted such that she requires being changed nightly at around 3 am or so. (I say "requires", because she is starting to realize that she abhors a poopy butt and demands it to be changed, regardless of the hour. Of course, this doesn't mean she is ready to potty train. Really, it only bothers her when she is trying to sleep and she doesn't seem to realize why she is waking up and whimpering... but I can sure smell why!)
The first few nights I managed just fine, and fell back to sleep just fine, and Julia went back to sleep just fine, but last night... LAST NIGHT... she woke up at 1 am... not because she needed to be changed, but simply because she was in a new habit of waking up and well, it seemed like fun to her to read books and play at 1 am.
This new baby will have one advantage that Julia did not have... when I am awaken in the middle of the night, I am FULL ON AWAKE. So, this new baby will not have to suffer a half-asleep mama trying to remember who she is or what she is doing or for goodness sake, what IS this writhing being in my arms and oh, yes, it is my newborn child. Whew.
Julia has trained me to be AWAKE. I think I was much more awake from 1 - 3 am this morning than I was... well, have been at all today yet. I was fully aware of what was going on, I was fully able to read books in the dim light of her room, and I was fully able to say, "Lay down. LAY DOWN. Julia, lay down, please. PLEASE. It is time to go to sleep."
As I crawled back into bed and listened to Julia putz around in hers (so obviously NOT going to sleep as her little seahorse dude began playing bubble music and whatnot), I thought to myself... WOW. I am wide awake. WOW. I am so not looking forward to being up half the night and then trying to function the rest of the day when this new baby comes. WOW. I think poor Adam is going to suffer a lot more this time around because after only four nights of Julia being awake in the middle of the night, I was ready to start bawling and ask Adam to get up and please go put His Child back to bed... and well, if that can almost happen after only four nights... WHAT is going to happen when it is EVERY NIGHT? FOR THREE MONTHS? Gosh, I hope this new child starts that "sleeping through the night" business sooner than later.
I believe I prayed myself to sleep last night after laying Julia back down... I am pretty sure of it... I remember starting to pray and then I remember being jolted back awake at 3:30 am by some noise... I checked on Julia and she was sound asleep, cuddling her cat. I went back to bed... and finally, instantly fell asleep.
I'm not so sure where this post is going today. As I have told a few folks today, I have some serious diarrhea of the brain (mouth) today. It has to do with being overly tired.
I think that this post is simply a way to get my thoughts out of my head; a way to help me realize that yes, I will get through this newborn business again... I want to do this newborn business again... it's not going to be so terrible, and I can look back on the night before and maybe smile a little bit. And hope that I don't cringe at the thought of going to bed tonight with the fear that I will be woken up before it is Time.
And, now that I am thinking back on last night... I realize that even still... the time that we have with Julia is so precious and will go by so fast, and who shouldn't want to read books to their child in the middle of the night? And isn't it a little funny when you try to bring her into bed with you, hoping she will sleep, only to hear her say "uh, oh" as she drops her nuk and blanket down the crack between the wall and the bed simply because she thinks it is a hoot? And, who doesn't love their 20 (almost) month old figuring out how to take up more than 50% of a king-sized bed?
So... writing all of this out, I am reminded too that I am blessed to have Julia in my life, I am blessed to be pregnant (and it has been a healthy pregnancy at that)... and a few nights of little sleep are completely worth it.
Rethinking... finished.
erin
I realize that 31 (almost) weeks pregnant is a little late to be rethinking anything to do with this baby, but I couldn't help but wonder at about 3 am this morning if maybe we could have a "do over" or something. Ha.
I say this, because I realized last night that in 20 (almost) short months of Julia's life, I have relearned how much I LOVE sleep and my body has forgotten ALREADY what it is like to wake up multiple times in the night.
And, soon we are bringing a newborn into our lives... a little body that will require a lot of attention at odd times of the night.
All of this thinking business came about because Julia has been up A LOT in the last four nights. Her... bowel movements... have shifted such that she requires being changed nightly at around 3 am or so. (I say "requires", because she is starting to realize that she abhors a poopy butt and demands it to be changed, regardless of the hour. Of course, this doesn't mean she is ready to potty train. Really, it only bothers her when she is trying to sleep and she doesn't seem to realize why she is waking up and whimpering... but I can sure smell why!)
The first few nights I managed just fine, and fell back to sleep just fine, and Julia went back to sleep just fine, but last night... LAST NIGHT... she woke up at 1 am... not because she needed to be changed, but simply because she was in a new habit of waking up and well, it seemed like fun to her to read books and play at 1 am.
This new baby will have one advantage that Julia did not have... when I am awaken in the middle of the night, I am FULL ON AWAKE. So, this new baby will not have to suffer a half-asleep mama trying to remember who she is or what she is doing or for goodness sake, what IS this writhing being in my arms and oh, yes, it is my newborn child. Whew.
Julia has trained me to be AWAKE. I think I was much more awake from 1 - 3 am this morning than I was... well, have been at all today yet. I was fully aware of what was going on, I was fully able to read books in the dim light of her room, and I was fully able to say, "Lay down. LAY DOWN. Julia, lay down, please. PLEASE. It is time to go to sleep."
As I crawled back into bed and listened to Julia putz around in hers (so obviously NOT going to sleep as her little seahorse dude began playing bubble music and whatnot), I thought to myself... WOW. I am wide awake. WOW. I am so not looking forward to being up half the night and then trying to function the rest of the day when this new baby comes. WOW. I think poor Adam is going to suffer a lot more this time around because after only four nights of Julia being awake in the middle of the night, I was ready to start bawling and ask Adam to get up and please go put His Child back to bed... and well, if that can almost happen after only four nights... WHAT is going to happen when it is EVERY NIGHT? FOR THREE MONTHS? Gosh, I hope this new child starts that "sleeping through the night" business sooner than later.
I believe I prayed myself to sleep last night after laying Julia back down... I am pretty sure of it... I remember starting to pray and then I remember being jolted back awake at 3:30 am by some noise... I checked on Julia and she was sound asleep, cuddling her cat. I went back to bed... and finally, instantly fell asleep.
I'm not so sure where this post is going today. As I have told a few folks today, I have some serious diarrhea of the brain (mouth) today. It has to do with being overly tired.
I think that this post is simply a way to get my thoughts out of my head; a way to help me realize that yes, I will get through this newborn business again... I want to do this newborn business again... it's not going to be so terrible, and I can look back on the night before and maybe smile a little bit. And hope that I don't cringe at the thought of going to bed tonight with the fear that I will be woken up before it is Time.
And, now that I am thinking back on last night... I realize that even still... the time that we have with Julia is so precious and will go by so fast, and who shouldn't want to read books to their child in the middle of the night? And isn't it a little funny when you try to bring her into bed with you, hoping she will sleep, only to hear her say "uh, oh" as she drops her nuk and blanket down the crack between the wall and the bed simply because she thinks it is a hoot? And, who doesn't love their 20 (almost) month old figuring out how to take up more than 50% of a king-sized bed?
So... writing all of this out, I am reminded too that I am blessed to have Julia in my life, I am blessed to be pregnant (and it has been a healthy pregnancy at that)... and a few nights of little sleep are completely worth it.
Rethinking... finished.
erin
(A Badly Needed) Haircut
When the cat's away, the mice will play...
... and that's exactly what this mouse did while her husband was out of town this last week.
After months of thinking about it, I finally got a badly needed haircut... not just a trim, but an actual CUT. Adam might beg to differ, but I felt like it was time to loosen up and let go of some of the length... and I am so glad that I did!
I bought a few "short hair" magazines so that I had ideas to take to my hairdresser, and she looked as well for ideas. This is how it all turned out...
... before...
... and after...
Yes, that is me taking a picture of myself in my car with my cellphone... I almost forgot to take a picture before the big cut.
And, I think... maybe I need to use makeup a little bit more. Ha!
erin
... and that's exactly what this mouse did while her husband was out of town this last week.
After months of thinking about it, I finally got a badly needed haircut... not just a trim, but an actual CUT. Adam might beg to differ, but I felt like it was time to loosen up and let go of some of the length... and I am so glad that I did!
I bought a few "short hair" magazines so that I had ideas to take to my hairdresser, and she looked as well for ideas. This is how it all turned out...
... before...
... and after...
Yes, that is me taking a picture of myself in my car with my cellphone... I almost forgot to take a picture before the big cut.
And, I think... maybe I need to use makeup a little bit more. Ha!
erin
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Battening Down the Hatches
I've been thinking about doing this for some time, and I decided today was the day. I have decided to "lock down" my blog so that only people who are "approved" by me are allowed to read it.
I post a lot of pictures of Julia, I talk a lot about my family, and it wouldn't be hard to find me or figure out where I live. I have had an increasing number of random comments (most of which I have deleted) lately, and I have decided that all too many people in Blogosphere have access to what I write and to what I post (picture-wise).
So... if you are interested in being an invited member, just visit my blog site (erin-quilter.blogspot.com), and request to be added. As long as I know who you are, no doubt I will add you! :) And please, only request access via one email account; I have a limited number of "allowed" members, and I won't be adding anyone via more than one email address.
Hugs & Thanks!
erin
I post a lot of pictures of Julia, I talk a lot about my family, and it wouldn't be hard to find me or figure out where I live. I have had an increasing number of random comments (most of which I have deleted) lately, and I have decided that all too many people in Blogosphere have access to what I write and to what I post (picture-wise).
So... if you are interested in being an invited member, just visit my blog site (erin-quilter.blogspot.com), and request to be added. As long as I know who you are, no doubt I will add you! :) And please, only request access via one email account; I have a limited number of "allowed" members, and I won't be adding anyone via more than one email address.
Hugs & Thanks!
erin
Baby (in the) Pool
Today before Julia and I took a walk up town to purchase sewing accoutrements, we filled up the baby pool. It was a rather warmish sort of day, so I figured she'd enjoy a dip in the pool after her afternoon nap.
Well, after we came home from shopping (and checking out the car show on the square and purchasing some yummy cookies from Jaarsma's), I let Julia out of her stroller. I figured we would play outside for a bit before her nap.
I kicked off my shoes and stepped in the pool, never thinking for half a second that Julia would want to climb in the pool. The last two times we played in the pool, she sat on the outside and splashed in the water.
Well, as Adam pointed out earlier tonight, "monkey see, monkey do", and Julia stepped right into the pool... socks, shoes, shorts, and shirt!!! And to add to that, she plunked right down on her butt and started splashing. She was having a grand ol' time.
So, I stripped her down to her diaper, laid her clothes out to dry on the grass, and let her play to her hearts content. She had a wonderful time. And, at 2 pm, she went down for her nap and slept for 3.5 hours!!!
After dinner, I took her outside to play on the swing (she was in a new / dry outfit), and she ran right for the pool! However, I said, "no" and she stopped. But, the second I let down my guard... in she went again!!! This time I had the camera with me.
I suppose we won't be going outside much anymore if the pool is filled with water unless Julia is wearing a bathing suit. Ha! After her dip in the pool, I took her inside and put her in the tub... she was full of dirt and grass from wanting to go down the slide and swing and such.
erin
Well, after we came home from shopping (and checking out the car show on the square and purchasing some yummy cookies from Jaarsma's), I let Julia out of her stroller. I figured we would play outside for a bit before her nap.
I kicked off my shoes and stepped in the pool, never thinking for half a second that Julia would want to climb in the pool. The last two times we played in the pool, she sat on the outside and splashed in the water.
Well, as Adam pointed out earlier tonight, "monkey see, monkey do", and Julia stepped right into the pool... socks, shoes, shorts, and shirt!!! And to add to that, she plunked right down on her butt and started splashing. She was having a grand ol' time.
So, I stripped her down to her diaper, laid her clothes out to dry on the grass, and let her play to her hearts content. She had a wonderful time. And, at 2 pm, she went down for her nap and slept for 3.5 hours!!!
After dinner, I took her outside to play on the swing (she was in a new / dry outfit), and she ran right for the pool! However, I said, "no" and she stopped. But, the second I let down my guard... in she went again!!! This time I had the camera with me.
I suppose we won't be going outside much anymore if the pool is filled with water unless Julia is wearing a bathing suit. Ha! After her dip in the pool, I took her inside and put her in the tub... she was full of dirt and grass from wanting to go down the slide and swing and such.
erin
Fun Saturday Purchases
With the quilting of the wall hanging on the horizon, Julia and I took a trip to our local quilt shop (Vande Lune Fabrics) and checked out quilting threads and templates today. I was also in need of some paper-backed fusible web for a project (the next project on my mind), so I wanted to pick up some of that as well.
I took along two threads I already possessed (the two on the right) and leftover scraps from the wall hanging. I picked up a few new spools.
Also, I looked at templates and picked up a few as they are rather cheap, and whether or not they are used on this quilt, I will most likely use them in the future. I'm very excited to get started!
And... a picture of the fusible web. I have never used any for a project, so while I had an idea of what I was after, thankfully when I said, "Fusible web?" to my shop owner, she said, "For fusible applique?" and upon my nod and "Yes", she pulled out exactly what I needed. YAY!
So... maybe these pictures aren't so exciting or inspiring to you... but they make my mouth water! Ha! Yay!
erin
I took along two threads I already possessed (the two on the right) and leftover scraps from the wall hanging. I picked up a few new spools.
Also, I looked at templates and picked up a few as they are rather cheap, and whether or not they are used on this quilt, I will most likely use them in the future. I'm very excited to get started!
And... a picture of the fusible web. I have never used any for a project, so while I had an idea of what I was after, thankfully when I said, "Fusible web?" to my shop owner, she said, "For fusible applique?" and upon my nod and "Yes", she pulled out exactly what I needed. YAY!
So... maybe these pictures aren't so exciting or inspiring to you... but they make my mouth water! Ha! Yay!
erin
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