If Wishes Were Horses

It's no secret around these parts that I am definitely trying to brainwash my little cowgirl to loving horses

 

                    

          My plan seems to be working she loves to go and feed the horses. She loves filling the hay nets with little handfuls of hay and carrying the grain buckets. Such a good little helper. I am pretty sure horses will be her calling. Show jumping here we come

 

Chris has other plans

 

 

    It's a tough argument. I mean look at that baby's pen holding form. She was only 1 in this picture.

She loves writing her name, which she has been doing for months... every once and a while needing a little help with the N and R depending on the day. 

  

Her favorite thing to draw is happy faces

 

 

Yesterday Chris was busy working on the remodeling project and I was busy deep cleaning the little artists and the new Babyloves bedroom  (can I just state, that for the record, I'm crazy and love to clean, I have baseboard day at least once a month, a lot of times 2x a month. It's a day were I sanitize and wipe the baseboards and door frames and everything else in site. Me being crazy, not just nesting)

Nory Bug came running in saying, "Look at my kitty, look at my kitty."

We didn't expect what we saw. We didn't expect what our 2 1/2 year old had come up with when left to her own devices

 

(Not only did she produce this awesome picture, she just happened to draw it on expensive transfer paper which I had left on the table. She colored on every sheet of it, but just look at that cat, definitely worth it!)

I feel I should state, we are so excited to see what this beautiful baby will have a passion for and the phases she will go in and out of. In no way will we force her to love something (well... I will force her to hate monkeys and country music because, well come on, both are just gross :)). We will just give her a world of experiences to enjoy.
Chris and I talk all the time about how excited we are to meet the new Babylove and see what she will love to do, how she will be similar to Nory and how she will be different.
Life is beautiful people. And we plan to live it!

But let it state on the record how super cute she looks in her cowgirl get up!

 

 

 

Final Count Down

The count down is on. This new little Babylove is only 5 short weeks away from coming into this crazy world and joining this super crazy family. Man, we are so excited, mixed in with a whole lot of terrified.  2 babies, I am definitely not responsible enough for 2 babies. Ready or not

(This counts as my 35 week picture, look at that crazy huge belly)

 Chris and I are always super organized and always planned out. Lists and checking them off and such. For example, When I went into labor with Nory love on my due date mind you, I definitely had my bags packed and ready to go. I didn't have to dig out all the camping stuff to look for a bag hidden in the back of the closet and I didn't have to do a load of laundry because I had plenty of clean underwear to take to the hospital, of course I did, duh it was my actual due date.
Now because we are so organized, is it any surprise that about 4 months ago we decided that we should rip out the plastery walls in our bedroom so we could add insulation and nice, new sheetrock?

 

Heaven knows that there isn't anything more comfortable, when 8 months pregnant and sleeping on a mattress in the front room. I really love rolling in and out of a mattress on the floor every 3 hours to go to the bathroom at night.

I seem to be having a little deja vu. The night before Baby face #1 was born, the paint was just drying and we pretty much slid her crib into place before we loaded into the car to go to the hospital. But it worked out great, she came home to a non asbestos walled bedroom complete with insulation and a super cute set up (I would post pics of her room but they are on my currently crashed computer).

Just wait until you see the finished product. Chris can do some pretty awesome stuff, all with just a picture I found on the internet. I do feel bad because when I was prego with Nory Girl I strapped on a ventilator and mudded, sanded and painted with the best of them. But this go 'round I have been feeling pretty crappy. Sick about 70% of the time, so I have just been watching the work from afar. Although I did provide the picture that inspired our new master bedroom to be :) That's something, right?