Look who's here....

My! brand! spanking! new! camera!

Hello you little Rebel T2i, welcome to the family!


Since your arrival (19 hours and 52 minutes ago), I've been dedicating every spare moment I can to playing with you and getting to know all the yummy details about you...

And my oh my, you are one intricate little fellow.


Some might say I'm a little in over my head here...


And I would be the first to agree...

Yes, in addition to whatever else I am these days, I certainly am quite in over my head in LOVE with this bundle of joy!

Come help me on the hunt!

To find me?!

No, but I can understand why you might think it's for me since I've been a little MIA these days with the move and the baby and the reason for this hunt...
but no... for now, this hunt isn't for me.

To find my kids lost in the endless stack of boxes?

Closer... but no... they leave a trail of crumbs and noise to help with that!


For a new camera??

Pictures from here

YES!!!!!

Eeeeeee!

I.am.too.excited.to.sleep.

That and my belly is so darn big that I just can't sleep no matter what, so I might as well be too excited for it!

Our camera (tear) started slowly breaking a while ago and I was actually promised a new one for my birthday in Feb, but with the move and the baby and ___(insert)___ whatever else excuse we decided that we shouldn't spend the money just now.

I pretended to agree, but in my heart of hearts I just knew that a camera was in my destiny sooner rather than later :)

So the big question-

WHAT KIND OF DLSR SHOULD I GET?

Quick, quick, send me your comments, fill my inbox, tell me please so we can't order away before we find another reason to wait!!!

Do I have to bribe you with pictures of the new baby when he arrives any week now?!


I promise, no old point and shots were intentionally broken or harmed in this pursuit. All fatalities were the result of natural causes.

Growing babies and heading north

Hello there little guy!


I can feel you kick, kick, kickin' away in there all day!


My other two pregnancies were spent anxiously impatiently awaiting the arrival of a new bundle, but this time around I have to admit I've been a teensy bit distracted....




Before we could announce IT'S A BOY!
Or even, boy, oh boy, am I really going to have 2 boys?!

Daddy got offered a new job in Portland and the next thing we knew I felt like I couldn't even find my belly bump over the pile of boxes!

So I thought now that we've arrived (at long last) to our new home in the Northwest it's about time I dedicated a little blogging to the little you growing inside

And just to show you how much we think about you we even packed a new suitcase just for you!


Ok my little man, now it's all up to you, so

GROW



BABY





We can't wait to love you so much more than we already do!!

And hey, seems like 32 weeks sure does fly when you've got a house to move, so I what do you know?!

I guess we'll be seeing you pretty soon....


Yippeeeeeeee!!!

Gorgeous photography courtesy of Kiss The Camera, check out the amazing work Christine does in Scottsdale, AZ.

Quiet is bad

I never thought I'd say that!

But I'm learning quickly that no noise, means trouble with an almost 3 year old...

Silence

"Sienna... where are you?"

Little mouse like squeaks of noise in the kitchen


Grab the camera, who knows what you'll find in that kitchen!


CAUGHT!


"Sienna, what are you doing?!!"

"Mama, I just eating a snack"

Frantic searching around the kitchen for the rest of the unopened 16 oz crate of blackberries

"Sienna, where are all the blackberries that were in there?"


"um... I just put them in my tummy"

"ALL OF THEM?!"

"Um, yes, I did it!!"

Mouth gasps open with blank gaze of disbelief.

How did you find them in there?? Geez, how long was I in the bathroom!??

"Sooorrr-reeey Mommy"

Surprisingly no stomach ache to teach her a lesson..

But what's even more surprising is that Mommy didn't learn her lesson about the quiet thing either, because a few days later I walked into my bedroom from doing the breakfast dishes to find this...

"Sienna, what are you two doing in Mommy's make up box?!"

"Um, I'm playing make ups nicely with Jonah and he likes it too!!"

Oye, I think I learned my lesson this time. Bring my camera when I'm going to catch my kids in trouble??
No, no, quiet is bad. Quiet is bad.

"You aren't supposed to play with Mommy's things. Let's get out of my room right now and play nicely with your toys!"

"Oh, and, uh let's just not tell Daddy that Jonah liked playing make ups too."

Needless to say these little darlings have been making it a difficult to sneak away for any quality sewing time lately! So I decided to use their momentary (if only that were true) mischievous streak to take my machine in for it's tune up.

So no sewing for me this week until my machine get's out of the shop, but I do have a really cute dress I made over Christmas to share.... soon :)

Prince Charmings

Mama, can Jonah be my prince charming?

Do you blame her for asking?!


Who wouldn't want this little stud for a prince charming all dressed up in his tuxedo?


As much as she adores her little brother now, I have a feeling these will be words to tuck away for some time down the road when she might need a little reminder of how much she loves her brother.

But he sure does look cute in that little tuxedo I scored a few months back for just $15, doesn't he??!

We've been going to a lot of weddings lately and especially since Sienna got to be a flower girl for my brother and new sister-in-law's wedding a few months ago she has been convinced that every bride and groom are princesses and prince charmings.

And to take it a step further, she is desperate to have one of her own!

It's all she talks about.

This is her literally asking in the middle of the wedding....

"Mama, one day when I grow up I'm gonna get a prince charming like Daddy, he's gonna give me a ring right here (points to finger) and then I can get a baby in my tummy too!! I can't wait!!! I can't wait!!"

Not.Even.Joking.

She really asks for this several times a week. Don't even get me started on the baby in the tummy deal she's always daydreaming about...


It might be my fault for telling her that Daddy is my prince charming, and you know, she really loves that guy. I don't blame her for wanting one of her own, but the girl is not even 3 yet!

Hold the stage coach and horses please!

But, alas, when we told her Jonah wouldn't be her prince charming forever she settled on the ring bearer, but I don't think it was quite what she hoped for...

Thank goodness!

But they did have fun dancing together after we convinced them it was ok to hold hands.

Now for the true confessions...

I was the same way when I was a little girl.

(I just had to show this old picture of me I found while I was packing for the move!)

I guess some of us are destined to be mothers and something just tells us from the start!

Although, wouldn't you say by the look in my sister's face here that she might not have agreed...

Remember the magic

We're going where Daddy??!!
I'm too excited to sleep!!

And to be honest, so was Mommy!


It all started when Daddy decided one Monday morning that he thinks we need to go to Disneyland before Sienna turns 3 and needs a child's ticket. I agreed like a good wife to a constantly planning husband would thinking that we had a few months to go and sure, maybe it'd happen after the holidays. Little did I know he meant...

Let's go to Disneyland this very week!!

As in why aren't we packing yet?!

Hold the Dumbo ride! He means business!

So we called my Other Mother who lives a short drive from "the happiest place on earth" and asked if they had any plans that week. Of course she did, but since she loves us so much she rearranged everything so that 2 days later she not only let us stay at her house, they decided to come with us!!

Who can resist joining in on the first family trip to Disneyland??

We managed to go on the perfect day, with the perfect weather and almost absolutely no lines at all! Can you believe that?! The best part of all was the we had some extra help to trade off sitting with napping children tucked snuggly in their strollers while Mommy and Daddy dashed off to some rides all alone!


The gentleman that I married always makes sure I get to take the splash in the face on the Matterhorn, but I still love him.

You're probably thinking, Matterhorn?! Aren't you pregnant?! Uuhhhh, yeah, about that, I made sure to hold the baby belly on the turns....

I guess that's the difference between pregnancy #1 and #3!

Or maybe it's my daring personality and I just can't help but pass it along to my kids inside the womb and apparently outside as well....
Yup, that's our 2 1/2 year old on her first roller coaster!

She LOVED it.

I, on the other hand, have to say watching her on that ride was probably waaay worse for this pregnancy than any Disneyland level coaster I rode on. But, she loved it and still talks about it weeks later.

We met all of the princesses and characters who Sienna proudly tells any available warm body that she now personally knows. Funny that she recalls the encounter as such a time of bonding when she was clearly too star struck to make actual eye contact with the characters or with the camera...

You may think little Jonah was too young to enjoy this adventure, but I'd have to argue that it's a magical place to be for a toddler with new walking legs!

He was on a mission and had the walkers to take us with him!


No Jonah should go to Disneyland without meeting his famous whale!

I'm pretty sure he has no idea what a whale is yet, because I don't think he'd be smiling like this after a few more years worth of references to his namesake....

When we got home we asked Sienna what she thought of her first and undoubtedly most spontaneous Disneyland trip...

I'm gonna guess that this smile means Disneyland definitely is the place where 2 year old dreams come true!

Counting by numbers

First, we consulted the oldest and wisest of all our children to tell us what number she was...

Without hesitation she proudly choose number 1, of course!

Next, we asked the little guy what number he was...

He may not be the oldest or wisest, but in his short lifetime he sure has learned that when his big sister gives him something to play with he should quickly and quietly take it, because that kind of generosity doesn't last long from 2 year olds... so Jonah was happy to take the number 2.

Knowing that 3 comes after 2, which came after 1, Little Miss Mathematician started asking mommy who the number 3 was for....

Well.... looks like we'll find out in April!!!!

That's right! We're expecting our third bundle of joy at the end of April!

I'm 13 weeks and some days with a nice little bump to prove it!

I want to thank all of you for hanging in there these past few weeks while I sort of admittedly just checked out. Out of all three pregnancies I have certainly been the sickest with this one. I couldn't do much to get off the couch or out of the bathroom let alone try to sew, create or blog, but at nearly 14 weeks I'm feeling much better and ready to go!

It'll be a slow start getting back in the swing of things for a few weeks, but hopefully with all this 2nd trimester energy I should be plugging away in no time :)