Big

This photo is pretty dorky but I haven't taken any of me with the giant belly.

I started to write this post at week 20 but here I am at week 27 and the above photo is week 26. My belly was gigantic at 20 weeks. It's enormous at 27. A woman at the post office asked me if I was having twins. And the cashier at Target: "You're due in July? Me too. You are way bigger than me." Too true, too true. From Chipotle: "You are the tiniest pregnant lady!" Wow, that's a change in comments. "When is the baby due?" Uh not until July. "Oh. You have a loooong way to go." So, strike the tiniest part I guess. One advantage of the baby being cantilevered over my feet is that he isn't squashing my diaphragm or kicking my ribs. The bright side, right?

A few months ago, Addie said my stomach was going to get so big it was going to explode and then I would die. Poor girl started to cry and said she wished she had never thought that and now she was sad. I reassured her that my stomach was not going to explode and that the doctor said the baby was healthy.

Addie is definitely playing the responsible Big Sister role. She has told both Cap and I separately that the new baby is "going to be a lot of hard work. Mommy has to watch the baby and Daddy has to watch Eliza." I told her we would all take care of Addie too and still play lots of fun games, do projects together and read books. We are a family and we can help each other out. That's what families do.

Easter!

By 8:30 this morning, the girls had followed the jelly bean trail from their room to their Easter baskets, consumed copious amounts of sugar and chocolate, ate a real breakfast, gotten dressed in matching floral ensembles and hunted down a dozen or so eggs in the backyard.

At that point Addie wasn't much interested in sitting for a sisterly portrait.



The girls had Good Friday off from school so I took the day off and celebrated with 3 vaccinations for Miss Eliza followed by ice cream. That afternoon, Cap got off work early too and Addie's friend Rya and her family came over to dye eggs.


This was Eliza's first time to get in on the action. She successfully colored 5 eggs and 2 hands.


Once she figured out you could eat chocolate bunnies, she was totally on board.


Addie plays the bunny. Saturday she told me that at her swim lesson James was teaching her the backstroke. It's a secret though and I was only supposed to tell the Easter Bunny because he can keep a secret. He IS a secret she said. Obviously Mommy can't.


Jelly bean score during the egg hunt. She was content to find one egg and when pressed to find a second, this time a real one, she preceded to crack the egg and eat it right there.


Multi-tasking. Egg hunting, chocolate bunny eating and you may notice a roly-poly bug on her right thumb which she escorted around the yard.


And Easter just wouldn't be the same without the Easter Slug. The only difference this year is that it's not a snug. I miss snugs.

Is that scary?

Addie goes goth warrior, and little Eliza is not so sure she likes the transformation.

19 Months

She loves the water. She drinks stagnant water from puddles, bird baths and even from the petting zoo animals' water dish. Obviously totally disgusting. She loves playing with the water in the sink and her pink watering can. She loves bath time and seems perfectly content lounging on her belly and blowing bubbles.

We've started to take Eliza to the pool during Addie's Saturday morning swim lessons. With arm floaties on, she bobs around in the shallow end watching the other kids in their lessons. Cap usually gets in with her because I look like a lopsided buoy in a bathing suit, but with Cap out of town last weekend (Seattle) and again starting tomorrow (Rio!), I'll be on full time kid duty which will mean pool time too. I think she's just about ready for swim lessons of her own.

Happy 19 month birthday little fuzz head. Kisses!

Spring Caterpillar

Addie told me she made the antennae into a heart because she loves Eliza.