Dear Edamame

Dear Edamame,

Thank you for sleeping over three hours today!

It was great, and I got a much needed nap in

Thank you for letting me do my exercise video in exchange for

your condensed version of Finding Nemo(only Nemo, no finding).

As I was doing our dishes from breakfast

(Oh and thanks for loving the peach crisp oatmeal experiment this morning

it was good, wasn't it!)

I was thinking of all the reasons I love you.

You give me hugs when you see me crying,

despite the fact that I know you don't like our new bed time method,

you go along with it anyway,

and sleep through the night without coming to our bed.

When I cried about it, and going to the hospital in 3.5 months last night,

you didn't wake up,

but you knew that today for nap time

the best place to fall sleep was

on the couch with me.

Trust me, it was what I needed.

You are so domestic,

your future wife will love you!

You want to help mommy vacuum, cook,

clean, and you throw you banana peels in the trash with a smile.

Oh, and you like to turn the sewing machine on for me too.

You of course had to model the shopping bag that we made together!

I love your energy and imagination.

This last week as we've played with Daddy after he got home you've been

Mr. Ray(repeatedly saying 'open sea!'), a snake, a cat, a mosquito,

and a few other animals.

Most of them needed a band-aid today too.

You also wanted to hold your baby brother tonight,

and tried to take him out.

I know you'll be waiting for me to make the same sound as the microwave so you can see him.

I love you, you needed a letter.

Sleep well.

love,

mommy

Baby Wrapping

...'cause you want your kid to be a burrito on your belly.

Actually, this is for Sarah, and well anyone else who wants to wear their baby with 4 or 5 yards of fabric, and wants their back to not hurt with little or no sewing. It's useful, and Edamame still likes to be worn like this, but I don't use stretchy fabric for him anymore, but I will for Adzuki. I'll try to post it on YouTube soon, but they are performing maintenance right now.





Oh and the baking soda trick(if I understood it right, correct me if I'm wrong Pam). You mop/sop up the pee as best you can and then put the baking soda on the carpet and let it dry out, usually a day or so, and then brush it up and then vacuum it up. I tried straight vacuuming and it didn't work as well as sweeping it up first and then vacuuming did.

...another hint, DON'T make ice pops out of mashed sweet potatoes with honey and a little cream...it doesn't work well.

Ok, gotta wash the dishes and see if I can make myself a grocery bag in the next 45 min before Edamame wakes up!

Belly dancing

My whispies are getting very long and thick and starting to look like bangs.  It is an interesting look.


Grandma called on Saturday, someone else wanted to talk on the phone too.


Oh, and someone was absolutely in LOVE with these Thomas squirty toys for over a week, he still digs them, but they aren't attached to him anymore. He was sharing his meals with them for a few days. He renamed them Thomas, Mommy and Daddy. I got to be the green one!

Crafty family

Despite being tired, I still did a lot of crafting during the 'jet lag recovery' phase.  I like it, it is cathartic, and helps me feel more organized in a weird way.

Here's a almost short list of what I did, I'll take a picture of the second dress this weekend when 007 is home more.

One regency era dress.  This will only fit a bit longer, but should tide me over until it starts to cool down.
One rad tablecloth and some peach yogurt pops(today's ice cream flavour is sweet potato and carrots).  As 007 put it 'wow it looks like a real kitchen table now!'

An impromptu cape (Edamame calls it a princess costume, but whatever) out of fabric scraps.


Crepe's for breakfast.  I figured out how to make them for Edamame too.  Grandma got us some AWESOME egg replacer, and I use that instead of the vegan recipe...turns out much better.

Re-potty training, it must be working, he's pretending to go to the potty in some funny places.  I convinced him to go poop in the potty this morning by telling him it'd be easier and he could play with his music books.  It worked 'easier poop, mommy', and I was right, it was easier!

We painted the bag we put our kiddie bowling pins in.

Daddy did some work on the shower.  I love how good he looks in the picture, rowr!
Of course, someone else had to do some shower improvements too.



One more regency dress, but modified to fit a pregnant me, I'm quite pleased with how it turned out, but I have a few questions that I'll pose when I post the picture.

And last but not least...a baby.  Ok, so the pictures aren't that great, but I'll try to get a real belly shot soon.  When we went to the Dr. on Monday after getting back the kid was measuring almost 2 weeks large, and was supposedly('cause it isn't THAT accurate) over 1 lb.  He's kicking hard, now if we can just compromise on a name for him...oh and he's still a boy.

by the way, we are being bunnies here.  We sometimes watch Yoga Kids, Silly to Calm, and he likes the part about being a bunny.

Vacation Synopsis

We had a blast visiting Grandma & Grandpa, going to their newlywed party, seeing our Great Grandparents, playing with Tenna and Andi(so much fun that just yesterday Edamame asked to hug the girls, and when I told him they were too far away he said 'Tenna and Anni ride airplane' so that they could come here and play.), and eating lots of good fruit and veggies.  I'm a horrible person at remembering to take pictures, but fortunately my sister and 007 are.

Oh and Edamame also has us drive to the Dinosaur park and airplane museum when we are playing too.  He had a lot of fun in Utahaha it seems.

Let the running dialogue begin!

We started at Grandma's house, hit up the aquarium, and got over jet lag.

we were also fortunate enough to be introduced to the VERY exciting Aunt Jen while we were there.  Edamame even brought her up last night.

Eventually we made it to Aunt Pam's house,  and had fun playing and goofing around.

We also made it to church a few times, but of course, we needed snacks afterwards.



Aunt Pam is awesome and took us to fun places like the Dinosaur Park!

...and the airplane museum!

this was how he was the WHOLE time we were there...ohhh AIRPLANE, ohhh AIRPLANE! Helicopter!

We even managed to convince everyone to go camping.  It was insane, but the kids had fun, the daddies got to be manly, and we even got a kiddie respite while they went fishing in the morning.  If only the outhouses smelled a little less disgusting.

Of course we had to celebrate Andi's birthday while we were there!




...Finally the very very sad day arrived and we were on our way home....goodbye!  We'll miss you tons, and hopefully see you soon, though not soon enough.

Oh and we made it home safe, sound, and tired

p.s.

I'm thinking of changing the background...any ideas?

Almost there

The house is almost clean, except for some baking soda that needs to be vacuumed up(thanks for that pee removing tip Pam!), I'm reducing clutter i.e. sewing projects that are almost finished, the dishes in the sink are done, and hopefully in the next few days I'll be able to stay awake past 8:30 pm.  When that happens, I'll give a nice good post of our vacation, one of our new bathroom and kitchen and the moth infestation, a Japan cool! post about fish, and even a pregnancy pic for anyone who wants to see it.

In the mean time, to tide you over, and because I told La Yen I'd post these, pictures of Edamame enjoying princess time with his cousin 'Cinderella'.  Hey at least he asked for the green dress.  Oh, but the pink shoes were all him.

our princesses playing with a princess ball


our princesses helping the daddies with the lawn mower


our princesses serenading us with music

have an Enchanting Day!