You have Obama to thank for this

Since Obama pre-empted "The Good Wife", I am at the computer creating this wonderful, unplanned blog post instead.

The other morning, Sarah was playing in the living room when she declared she was "freezing." She dragged this queen-sized blanket over to the couch, snuggled under it and said, "Take my picture."

Feeling a bit cabin-fevered, I took her to the dollar store and got a few activities.  Here's what we bought.

This is a Pooh matching game.  We've already lost 2 cards but we keep lining them up anyway, over and over, day after day. (I promise we do get dressed....and I do clean my living room.)

Speaking of repetitive activities, Sarah looooves jigsaw puzzles.  She got one for Christmas that she's done 100 times.  Hold still long enough in our house and she'll ask you to do it with her.  I bought her a couple more at the dollar store because Justin and I were getting so sick of the one she had. But I actually don't hate doing it with her a few times each day.  She's really good at it and I like seeing her get better.

Before she noticed the camera.

After she noticed the camera.

 She dances and sings all the time.  She'll dance to anything resembling music and sing along to a song whether or not she knows the words.  Heck, even if she's never heard the song before she sings along.  And I hear her singing made-up songs to her toys or while she's playing by herself.   Here she is "dancing."

At bedtime I ask what song she wants me to sing.  The requests are usually what's going on in her mind at the moment. Some of the more difficult ones: doll song? candy song? book song? Mom song? Sarah song? fishing song? baby drink song?  If I'm feeling creative, I'll adapt a song to fit in her requested topic or I'll make one up. It becomes really challenging when she wants me to repeat it and I don't remember what I just sang to her.

I got her this toy bottle so she can feed her baby doll.  She didn't know what it was so I had to show her that it's for her doll.  I could never get her to take a bottle as a baby and I guess she has never seen one in use much.  She calls it "baby drink."  I love her messy face and hair.  What I wouldn't give to be 2 again.

I made this nursing cover today.  It was pretty easy and only took me an hour and a half. I followed this tutorial. 

I didn't have one of these with Sarah and got by just fine. I always used her blanket.  But I decided that while nursing a baby all summer long, a blanket might get a little warm.  Plus it only cost me $7 to make.

4 more months to go, as of yesterday. I feel like pregnancy is a terminal illness of sorts.  I have 4 more months to get done all these projects and do all these things I want to do.  Because in 4 months, my life ends in a way.  I will enter another "baby year."  A year of doing a little less in some ways and yet a ton more in others.  While I am sooo excited to have another baby, I will have adjust again to not getting into the shower until the afternoon and it taking 2 days to fold a basket of clothes.

Those of you with more than one kid, which was harder, adjusting to the first or the second?

But I really shouldn't complain.  I'm healthy, the baby's healthy and is punch-dancing his excitement to join our family as I type.

It's time for everyone's favorite game

Making Sarah Say Funny Words.

This week's word: Scuttle. We got The Little Mermaid from the library.  She thinks it's scary.

This is her "Farmer Jones" hat.

We are having a

BOY!

Which was what I thought but you never can be sure until the tech points out his "unit" --his words, not mine.

Looks comfy, doesn't he?