This and That

Last week was a busy week, so this week we have been taking it easy. Trying not to be overscheduled and catch up with some friends. It's quite enjoyable really.

Keira had her second dance class today. As I was walking out of the room, I heard the teacher ask the group of kids if they had brothers and sisters and I heard Keira yell very loudly, "My mommy has one in her belly!" Out of the mouths of babes. She told me today that she really likes the tap part of dance better than the ballet. I say, it's the shoes!

I volunteered to "help" at VBS this year. I was supposed to be what they called a herder - shuttle the kids from one activity to another. Well, apparently they are super short on help and I get to be a teacher! Oh boy! I get either 2 or 4 year olds - she gave me a choice, but I couldn't decide, so I just told her to suprise me! Should make for interesting blogging material.

Weather here has been awesome this week so far. The oppressive heat is gone and it's in the mid-80s. Love it. We've actually been playing outside again and don't have to be near water.

Keira had some friends over to play yesterday. She has these little decorative erasers that she loves to play with - they are in different shapes, like rainbows, teddy bears, hearts, etc. I don't know where they came from, but they are a popular toy for her. There are two of each shape. Anyway, yesterday she was carrying around the two rainbows and decided to give one to her friend for him to keep telling him "It's for friendship". I just thought this was so sweet. She talked about it for the rest of the day and even told Daddy about what she did when he got home.

I had my first icky garden experience today. I noticed one of the green peppers had little holes in it, so I plucked it off and opened it up - and there was an icky worm inside. Ugh. I freaked of course and threw it over the fence. Going to have to study up on what it was and how to stop it.

Baby Girl Hacker #2 is quite the mover and shaker. She is a kicking machine. Except when Wade has tried to feel her. Apparently, she is stubborn! I feel her anytime I sit down all day - except when Wade is around to try to catch a quick kick.

I think that is all I know for now. More soon, hopefully this week. Sort of sadly, next week sets off another three to four week extravaganza which includes more swim lessons, a visit from my MIL, dance, gymnastics, VBS, a trip to chicago, a weekend where wade has to work, and probably a few things I am forgetting. I love to be busy, but I may have gone overboard!

Oh and how could I forget to mention (and this part is really for one person only) that I have come in 1st place for 3 weeks in a row in my fantasy golf league. I would say it's fairly impressive considering the amount of time I spend picking my players - last week I timed myself - 4 minutes 27 seconds! Yeah for me!

Slip and Slide Fun!

Garden Update

Just a quick update, cause no blog posting would be complete without a garden update ;)

I've got about 6 pepper, 1 probably ready in a week. More tomatoes than I can count (last count was near 20), they are all still green. I have no idea when they will be ready. Lettuce is done thank goodness, we are soo over lettuce. Carrots probably ready in about another 2 weeks. Lots of onions, but they are big yet, no idea when they will be ready. We've been eating lots of sugar snap peas - Keira loves them, yippee! I've got 3 tiny jalepenos. Lots of baby cucumbers (and I mean itty bitty), but they don't seem to be getting bigger, not sure what is going on there. ANd the most exciting news - the cataloupe that I have been so down on actually has a bloom - dont' know if anything will come of it, but we'll see. Oh and Wade stepped on it the other day too. Poor thing isn't getting much of a chance.

That's the update. There are yummy things in our future I hope!

Swim Lessons

So today was the last day of the first session of swim lessons - I decided to sign her up again even though I hate the schedule. It's two weeks long - 4 days a week. Ugh. And I picked the lovely time of 4:00, so it has been so hot, it's crazy. So hot in fact that today it was only 96 degrees and that actually felt good to me as the past few days it was well over 100! In utero Hacker has been voicing her displeasure of the heat by kicking the crap out of me during the lesson. Keira did really well - she is not fond of the normal swim stroke yet, but like the swimming underwater part. She does really awesome at floating on her own (see pics below). She has no fear of the water and love the diving in practice they get. Here are a few pictures!

Floating ...

Still Floating ...



Really?!? Still Floating ...

Oops, Sunk!

1st Day of Dance

Keira started dance class this week. I am kinda bummed because the Moms can't watch except through this tiny little window that we all have to share, so that kinda stinks, but Keira was pretty excited about it. It is a combination of ballet and tap. She LOVES the tap shoes. I mean LOVES the tap shoes. There is a little program at the end that the Moms and Dads get to come for, so I'll have more pictures then. For now, I keep trying to get her to show me what she learned, but all she does is twirl ;)

More Garden Pics

More garden pics ... for those of you looking for keira pics, I did sneak one in there ;)

Pulled these just to see where we were - still have a few more weeks, but they taste yummy right now!

This is the biggest one I've got - probably pick it this weekend. Lots of babies though!

Tomatoes!!! We'll have lots - I planted regular ones and romas.

First peas of the season -these are the sugar snap peas - and they are soo sweet that I have already eaten all these. More to come!

My little green pepper. I've got two others that are smaller than this one.

Half-way there!

OK, so a little more than halfway seeing as I'll deliver at 39 weeks - but YIPEE, I am 20 weeks pregnant today. Had a dr. appointment today - and it was so great to have the dr. find the heartbeat immediately - baby is too big to hide anymore ;) Keira thought it was neat too! We had a big conversation on the way home about how she was going to push the baby in the baby swing when she was big enough to come out of my belly. It is amazing how their minds work. So anyway, every thing sounded good - she thought the blood pressure issues I am having are pretty normal and all I can do is drink more fluids. Ugh. I am going to float away as it is.