Numbers

30 weeks – pregnant

1 week – left of formal language class

9 - number of the floor where my language class is - thankfully the elevator goes to the 8th floor

30 minutes – about how long I can lay or sit in one position

25 minutes – the length of our bus trip to school & about how much I can take before wanting to be sick

3 – bathroom breaks each night

2 – number of breakfasts I have each morning: baby takes the first one and leaves me starving again by 9

1 - number of nights we have tried letting Micah sleep in his 'toddler bed' - Rick removed the side of his crib and attached the low toddler side. Micah can now hop in his own bed. We'll see how he does!

Wake Up Part II

Morning routine...

It's hard to capture Micah's morning recitations through the door...but here is his joyful self after the door is opened!

Dangerous Games

This is what happens when you leave Dad and Lad alone to form their own entertainment.

Just hanging out...

 Snack time - note they are not making each other crazy!

Practicing our stacking skills. Thanks Grandma & Papa V!

 Looking for creative entertainment.

Checking out the cool rocks on mom & dad's new 'home decorating'.

Baby update!

Our first baby gift! Micah tried to put them on. Can anyone have such small feet? A classmate knitted them for us. How very sweet. Our baby is supposedly now the size of a butternut squash. I like that size. But I could be biased toward autumn vegetables.

Hobbies

 Well, seeing as I have so much free time between being a wife, mom, and student (read: heavy sarcasm), I thought I needed a hobby that was not TV. So, on a whim, I bought some colorful ikea frames that I must now fill. I've decided to attempt to paint some of the same animals that are on Micah's border. There are probably plagiarism laws about such things, but I don't plan on selling them. In fact, I sadly remember so little from my 8th grade painting class, that I made my first attempt with acrylic paints on computer paper. Questions then arose: why is this paint not drying EVER? and why is there a ring of oil around my cute little lion? Due to the input of a much wiser artistic friend, I have realized I must buck up and buy canvas. Thus, this morning's trip with Micah through three different art shops. Alas, the canvas does not fit inside the cute little frames I bought! So, I will attempt to use 'multi-purpose artist paper' and see if it works any better than computer paper. I know you artsy folks out there are shaking your heads...but you know that he won't like lions anymore in a year anyway!