Newcorn Battles

The kids have been fighting lately. It took quite a while for it to start, but it has. They get SO unreasonably angry over toys. Lately it's Paige's new unicorn. Or "Newcorn" according to Paige. Cason steals it any chance he gets, and refuses to give it back. Here he is yesterday, covering it with his body and burrowing into this rug to keep from losing it, while Jess tries to convince him to trade. And by "trade" I mean "stop stealing and play with something else". Ha.
He finally gave in though.

And when they aren't fighting they're still SO sweet together.
I scored a boppy pillow for nursing, AND a cover for like $ 19.99 today at Ross, which I was excited about. I saw it a week or so ago and was sure it would be gone. But it was still there! I'm glad because I'll need a couple. Our plump babies flatten our boppies to pancake thickness in no time.

While I was at Ross I spotted these trunks with a butterfly koi on them. Cason swims in the nude currently, and will NOT wear trunks for anything. So I got them in a size 4, because I'd rather wait 2 years to see him in them than live without them. Butterfly koi are another thing I have a thing for. Maybe even more than snails. I'm not sure. We'd have a pond in our backyard full of them if I wasn't a paranoid mom who worries about anything and everything that could go wrong with my kids.
But back to baby stuff, I wanted a baby journal to start filling out before the baby's born, because they usually include lots of pregnancy stuff. I obviously can't choose pink or blue, but I didn't feel like having green or yellow. I found a lady on Etsy who will do custom ones, so that's what I asked for for my birthday. It came and I think it's so cute.
I've been working on a painting for a certain pregnant couple, so Paige and Cason of course wanted to paint too. They have a huge canvas I let them paint on all the time, so today they worked on it. Cason paints big blobs and yells "SEE MAMA?! SEEEEE!?" He also often says "Wook Mama, WOOK!" or "Wook Daddy, WOOK!" That always sounds unbelievably cute. Sometimes the "wook" is closer to "weck" and sounds especially cute and funny.
Paige did "wotsa" whales.

Snails And An Even Quicker Trip

I've been preparing to make baby mobiles to possibly sell on Etsy. Since I love snails with every fiber of my being I'm starting with a snail mobile. I made a couple little practice snails. Cason plays with them, but Paige requested a big version, which I made this morning.
All the felt I could find here in town is really dark or really neon, so we made another sudden and quick trip to Vegas for fabric. (If you were one of the people texting/calling while we were away, I couldn't find my phone, so it got left behind. I wasn't ignoring you.)

On the way, they played and fought over toys. Cason tucked his little snails into the pant legs of his shorts for some reason.
Paige pointed out the "Kitty towers".
Paige also spotted a "volcano". Cason kept pointing at every hill he saw and yelling "'Cano" after that.
We ran into Babies R' Us for some onesies. I'm pretty obsessed with onesies, but especially Carter's. They actually fit the size they're supposed to, unlike a lot of onesies, and they have the cutest prints. So I bought a girl set and a boy set. I figured we can just give the set we don't use to ONE of these couples we know having a baby.

Then we went to eat, at Macaroni Grill again. They've never failed us. The hostess took us to the same booth as last time, and Paige goes "We're sitting here AGAIN?!" She never forgets anything. Our waitress this time was the lady who was singing last time. She serenaded them again, "I Know You" from Sleeping Beauty. Cason was really happy.
Paige was too, but she ate while she listened.
Cason did that WONDERFUL thing he does where he suddenly gets a rush of love for you and throws his arms around you. Jess was the lucky recipient.
Then we went to Joanns, got my felt, and came home. We definitely spent less time IN Vegas than we did driving there and back.

Tonight we were outside and the kids went swimming. After that Cason ran around in the nude, wearing only Paige's cow boots. After a while Cason and Paige started fighting over a toy. Jess came over to resolve it, and was telling Cason to stop screaming. Cason looked at him, and deliberately stomped Jess' foot with his cow boot. It was REALLY naughty, but his totally naked except cow boots-bod turned it funny.
Then Jess knelt down to talk to him and Cason took the headphone out of daddy's ear and started listening to the music like he'd done nothing wrong at all. I like this next one, when he turned around, holding the earpiece in.
I don't mind posting booty shots, but I'll censor that one.

Now then, I'm either 26 weeks, or about 23 and a half, depending on what the doctor says.

A Cuddly Afternoon

Today I took the kids for a drive to get Cason to nap. We drove and drove and drove and he was NOT looking sleepy. He just kept playing, and then Paige, who never naps anymore, fell asleep and he was still wide awake. So I gave up and went home. Paige actually woke up fairly happy, although she pretended to be mad I interrupted her nap.
Cason was just happy to escape his nap. He cuddled Gia.
AND Paige.
I walked out of the room and when they started cuddling they yelled for me to "come see". They know when I'll think they're cute.

Scottie Mobile: Completed

Well it doesn't spin or play music, or even hang all that straight for that matter, but I still think it's pretty cute.

I rediscovered some argyle ribbon I bought a while ago with no purpose for it in mind. I just thought it was cute, because I love argyle and I love black and grey. It worked perfectly for little collars for the black scotties.
So I'll just put pink or blue on the 2 white ones later. Then I drew the bones on a piece of wood and had Jess break out the jigsaw. Painted it white, tied it all together with some fishing line, and voila: A mobile.
Now let's finish with this post-bath cutie:

Tiny Scotties

A couple days have passed. We did a little cleaning. Had a couple dance parties. This one was planned and executed by the kids without any help from us. They even set up chairs so they could take turns dancing and watching from a seat.

Paige dancing, Cason watching:
Cason dancing, Paige watching:
Saturday I had a baby shower, a visit from an out of town friend and her new baby, and then we went to dinner for Alex's birthday. After the dinner the girls came to spend the night. They were really excited, so we went to Hastings for a movie. Faith decided she wanted to go home with her mom before we even made it to our house. Haha. But we went home so they could play a little while before her mom got there. Alex did some cooking, sometimes with, sometimes without Paige. (Sorry in advance for how dark these pictures are, our camera's not doing too hot)
Faith ate cookies and threw "bones" for the little dog children to fetch.
After Faith went home the other three settled in to watch what may have been the most poorly made movie I've ever seen. "Cop Dog" in case you're wondering. But they liked it.
I couldn't watch too much, so I worked on a little baby project. Little tiny scottie dogs for a mobile for the baby's room. They were fun to make, quick and easy and cute. They'll just need little pink bows or blue collars later. Then I had to make bigger ones for the kids, because they kept stealing my tiny ones.

We also had the 4th of July/Mollie's birthday of course. I forgot my camera though. :( It was smaller and quieter than usual, but still lots of fun. I may have tried 3-4 different desserts. Shooting for an 80 pound weight gain this pregnancy. Paige wanted to watch a movie at Mollie and Tim's, so we kept the poor people awake longer than they probably wanted. Then she didn't want to leave when we tried to convince her to in the middle of Snow White. So Mollie asked if she wanted to stay the night. She said yes, so we kissed her and said our goodbyes. Then we drove for a few minutes, waiting to see if we'd get a call that she changed her mind. We did, of course. This was only her 2nd time even thinking about spending the night somewhere, so she's not QUITE ready. So we turned around and picked her up again. :)

Ultrasound Day

One more scottie painting:
I am not going to be winning any competitions with my sewing skills, but I finished my quilt. And from at least 4 or 5 feet away, it looks pretty good. Ha. Enough to make me proud of myself.

Front:
Back:
Now I start gathering fabric to start the boy quilt.

While I was sewing on the binding today the kids had a tea party. It was cute. Paige talks in an extra girly and fancy voice. "Would you like more tea, Cason?" He of course answers like she asked him to come hunting. "YEAH." They were both having fun, until a while later, when he was stealing cups and she was getting possessive. I heard them arguing, Paige said something and when I looked over Cason folded his arms across his chest and yelled "FINE!". Then Paige told him "I'm going to have a tea party instead of YOU!" and he shook his finger and said "NEVER NEVER." Haha. Pretty soon they were playing happily again. Right now they're at the picnic table, and Paige asked Cason "So what did you do today?" Then she told him "What I did today is get my makeup to put on me. All my kids were in Vegas."
We had an ultrasound today. I was really nervous she might confirm my fears that this baby is gigantic, but it was the opposite. She said it's not as accurate this late as it would've been if we'd had an ultrasound much earlier, but based on the measurements she got, the doctor COULD move our due date BACK, to November 1st. He may not do that, since we did have our ultrasound this late. I hope he doesn't, then I'll be less worried that I'm going to give birth to a 9 + pound baby. We'll see what he says at our next appointment I guess.

During the ultrasound Jess kept saying "HIS hand" and "HIS face". Ha. It'll be a girl just to surprise him.
We were trying to show Paige the baby's face, but she couldn't see it. I told her you can kind of see the baby's bones, like a skeleton. She goes "What's the skeleton baby doing?" Ha. If she DOES think I'm going to give birth to a skeleton baby, she didn't seem distressed about it.
I THINK he or she is sucking on a thumb (or whole hand) here.
Besides Jess, nobody slipped and accidentally told us the gender, thankfully.

Dance Day

Today Paige had her 2nd day of dance. Although it was the first day she did tumbling and tap. She, Lily, and one other girl were in the class. The other girl was the one who was mean last time, but Paige said she was nice today. Although she also said "She was smelling me."

I have no idea what that even means. Ha.

Veronica, Cason and I peeked in a few times, and it was SO cute. I saw them tiptoeing around, walking along a little balance beam on the floor, and doing somersaults along a mat. They all looked like they were so excited, but they were doing really well and listening to the teacher. Yes, Paige's skirt is definitely on backwards. Didn't notice until we got home and I took this picture.
Cason misses her while she's gone during class. We waited out front with Veronica, burning alive because they keep it unbearably hot. When the girls came out after class, Cason went up and gave Paige a huge hug because he'd missed her. So sweet.

I'm 25 weeks. Although we have an ultrasound tomorrow, so we'll see if they change my due date.