28 Weeks and a Countdown

On Sunday I was 28 weeks.  The baby is now the size of a head of cabbage, according to the app I have on my phone.  

 

We spent some of the day packing.  I was feeling really lazy, but in the afternoon and evening I suddenly had a rush of energy and motivation, so I packed up some of our clothes, and everything in the closet by the front door.  It was mostly full of winter stuff, still, coats, hats, scarves, and gloves.  The kids stole them from the piles I was making and made up a weird, random game/skit Paige called "Cats Lost In The Atlantic".  Haha!  Such weird ones.  

 

Then one cat passed out.

 

 There's been more Lego creating around here too.  Cason suddenly got inspired and started making his favorite heroes.  They're really cute, he puts a lot of thought into the colors and includes details, like Captain America's shield.

From left to right, he made Iron Man, Captain America, The Incredible Hulk, and Spider-Man.

Neely made her first "racecar", which I find really impressive.  Jess loves the wheel placement.  It is pretty cute.

Paige has been asking for a baby doll carrier for a couple of weeks.  I looked up tutorials, but got overwhelmed, and kept putting it off.  Then we went to this baby store in town and they sold them for 30 dollars a piece.  She wanted to use her own money to buy one, but she's also been saving for an American Girl doll, so I felt bad and decided to just try making one.  I just took it one step at a time so the full set of instructions wouldn't overwhelm me.  It ended up going fine. Over the next couple of hours she kept running up to hug me randomly, and thank me for making it. 

 I figured Neely would want one, so I made one for her too.  She was really happy, and said "For ME?!"  But lost interest in hers pretty quickly. 

I asked if Cason wanted one, and he said "No thanks."  Ha.  Speaking of Cason, I had my last appointment here today, and he looked handsome for it.   

 We did the glucose test, and the usual stuff, like listening to the heart and all.  The kids play with toys on the ground and don't even look up for it anymore.  The first few times they were so excited to hear it, now it's old news.  Paige only got excited because she got to help take my blood pressure and turn on the doppler.  Ha.

I, for one, still love to hear the heart.  It's not AS exciting as it used to be, since now he regularly makes it known that he's in there and real.  Haha.  We think this boy kicks and moves the craziest of all our babies.  It took longer to feel him, because I have an anterior placenta, but once we started feeling him we REALLY started feeling him.  He squirms and rolls and kicks and punches.  I feel like he's going to kick his way out sometimes. 

Now then, we move in 11 days!  The countdown begins!

Surprise Toy Bag

Yesterday Jess came home for lunch and told me there was a bike and a big bag of toys by the front door. So I went to see, and it was from Misty, she'd already told me to take the bike, but we kept forgetting. Paige followed me out there, and was SO pumped when she saw it. She pulled it inside yelling excitedly that she got a new bike. So Cason has now inherited her old pink and purple trike, which I should probably spraypaint. Here he is, posing on it and saying "Cheeeeeeeeeeeese."
Paige asked me to take this next one of "me and Cason on our bikes".
I love Caso's fake smile.

There was also a barbie camera in the bag, and Paige loves it. She carries it around, and says "Hey mama, you be Paige, I'll be Brandi." and she takes pictures of everything. Cason grabbed it a couple times too. He holds it backwards, but pretends to look through it and says "cheese". Paige lined up her old ponies with the new ones that also came in the bag, and made them pose for a picture too.
We went for a little walk, Cason riding in the wagon, and Paige riding her new bike. Then we came home and had lunch outside, with the ponies.
Last night, while Paige was being "Brandi", she told me "I'm gonna go in the kitchen and take a pisker of Jess." So she packed her camera onto the back of the bike and rode in there.
Oh, and Cason's suddenly in a dropping his pants phase. Weirdo. He pulls them down around his ankles and runs around laughing, and sometimes dancing.

Little Ray In a Cauldron

Cason and I got up before Paige, so we had breakfast and then he sat in my lap while I checked my email and everything. Then I put on a youtube video of Ray Lamontagne singing Let It Be Me, and Cason watched in a trance. He wanted more when it ended, and after watching it twice he got up and walked off to the playroom. I figured he was done, but then I looked over and saw this.
My little musician. Now he's sitting on the ground "tuning" it, and singing along with Ray as I'm typing this. So cute. He just heard the part that says "feels like you can't go on" and he's singing "Gone, gone, gone..." :)


Last night Cason got into the football toy box when we were playing in the playroom. Paige decided to pretend to be a witch who put him in her cauldron. She got a spoon to stir him up. He went along with it happily, probably because he didn't realize he was the victim. He even made scary witch faces when Paige did...
...and even had a taste.
Paige added little things she found around the room, saying it was "ettuce" (lettuce), while making her "scary witch" face.
Then she pretended to look at her watch, and told me "30 minutes" in her girly voice. All of a sudden she remembered she's scary so she made her mean face again and then said "30 MINUTES! It's for my birthday!" in her scary voice. Weirdos.

Caso Curls and a Baby Tail

Lily joined our crew for the afternoon today. They had lots of fun. There was swimming, dancing, popsicle devouring, chicken nuggets, and chocolate milk.

I asked for a smile here, and they gave me these faces. :)
Also, feast your eyes on Cason's starter curls. In the orangey glow of our bathroom last night.
The boy is a dancer all of a sudden. When music first comes on, he starts bouncing if he's in a standing position, or flapping his arms up and down if he's sitting. It's gonna get crazy around here pretty soon. Dance Parties you wouldn't believe.

P.S. a while after I wrote this, Paige did this, and told us the baby was her tail. She's an odd one. Creative and odd.