winding down...

so, today is 38 weeks...can you believe i've been doing this pregnant thing for THIRTY-EIGHT weeks? i can't... i am rolling along fine...dilating a few here...effacing some there...and now my spouse is finished working his month of nights, so i'm thinking i might be able to relax some and get this thing started soon...but who knows?

so here are some belly shots...i've been promising my mama tribe. i did these last week, but, as i think you can tell by the concentration it took just to get the shots in my bathroom mirror, i am a total novice at this. (oh, and my shirt is not dirty...the kids' bathroom mirror is dirty...see? i didn't even think to clean it off before i started this...) i did a couple with my shirt down, and a couple with my shirt up. my husband swears i still don't look pregnant from behind, but whatever... :)



yeah, so by that last one, i realized i could actually look at the mirror and get a face shot in there...not that that's exactly the face i would've chosen, but i just wasn't about to try to redo these. (oh bonnie, where are you when i need you?...)

the baby's going to be a pumpkin for halloween tomorrow, so i'll get my spouse to take some pics of that, along with all the other kids, and maybe i'll get those posted before thanksgiving...hehe. actually, i've been having some pretty intense abdominal muscle pain and now have to take it easy as much as possible, so i'll probably get them posted next week since sitting at the computer does not constitute overdoing it.

ok, well, there are things to think over...and i'm sure i'll get around to those...but for today, pictures is enough.

peace out

just feeling a little reflective

when we moved to houston for my spouse to start med school, i was 33 weeks preggo with my youngest. here's a picture of the kids the first mother's day we lived there, which was may of 2004...
my goodness, they're such babies... i forget they were that little. really...i do.

then, this past year, my cyber mama tribe asked me to send an updated picture of my guys, so my friend julie took this picture on her camera phone, which would've been sometime around november (i think?) of this past year, our first year in this house...
so even though this picture is three and a half years after the last one...i still am a little tearful over how much they've changed from the kiddos in this picture. i mean, it's not as dramatic as the first, but it's still there.

i don't really have anywhere else i'm going with this...just wanted to post the pics so i could look at them.
peace

a little peek through my eyes lately

i told you spring was green this year...

and here are the roses in my backyard... (i never really liked roses before...i always thought they were kind of sissy, but not anymore...these guys are pretty tough)

and here's my new wall...take down some vertical blinds, add some curtains, paint the wall "purple earth" (i did not make that color up, i swear...) and here's what you get....
and here's the other window on that wall...it looks through the rabbit room into the backyard.

okay...that's all...peace out