Aw, look at my girl in her Easter dress, with her little matching coat.
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Easter Sunday
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Just like Jared
Nora and I walked to Subway for dinner, just the two of us, and then hit up 7-11 for slurpees and donuts on our way home. She’s such an awesome, sweet, polite, smart kid sometimes (a fact that should be documented for the future, so I can look back when she’s 7 or 16 and have something to smile about).
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31 weeks
The bad news: the best BabyCenter could come up with for a 3.3-pound equivalent was four navel oranges. The good news: recipes with oranges are really easy to come by. Since potluck this week was a double-whammy of Easter Sunday (with my parents as special guests) and Eat Yo Baby, we had an unprecedented FOUR orange-themed dishes. I made orange herb roasted chicken (my first whole chicken experience ever) and orange rolls, Jeffrey made a salad with cranberries, apples, almonds, and oranges, and Sarah made a cake (in the shape of an ampersand) with orange-flavored frosting. E and my mom made awesome (non-orangey) contributions as well, and we all ate ourselves silly.
Citris Grill
Grandma took me and Nora for dinner and a little love-in.
30 weeks
This week, our baby weighs three pounds, which is apparently as much as a head of cabbage. After a certain amount of “not cabbage again!” moaning, Jeff unearthed a crazy-sounding recipe for Cabbage Quickbread, and Blake had the brilliant idea to bring spring rolls. The baby must be eaten, no matter the cost.
Progress! (nursery edition)
You guys probably haven’t noticed (because I can’t imagine that anyone really cares), but I have been checking stuff off my before-the-baby-comes house list like crazy. Blake has been awesome, and Sarah and E have helped a ton as well. Thank goodness for tax refunds, too.
I took some (confusingly blurry) photos of Nora’s spruced-up room with her new bed and rug. I haven’t reassembled the crib yet to put in there, but we have measured everything out and the new furniture arrangement will fit the crib if we take out the rocker and the easel. I’m not sure if the magnitude of this discovery is clear, but our rooms are pretty tiny and I am VERY excited that it’s going to work to have the girls share the upstairs bedroom.
As a reminder, the before photos are here. It’s not so much a redecorating as it is a rearranging. Still, it means a lot of work and Nora is super excited about her big bed (and about her future roommate).
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Really Fast
Nora just wants to show you how fast she can run.
29 weeks
This week, our favorite delicious baby weighs as much as a butternut squash (2 1/2 pounds). Jeff included cubes of squash on some of his marinated steak and chicken kebabs, and Sarah baked up some yummy squash with honey, olive oil, and chili powder. Everybody tried to be really careful and not let the squash touch any of the other food, but unfortunately this Eat Yo Baby session almost killed Blake. Thank goodness for Benadryl.
Bonus belly shot! Clearly, I have been putting all these great Eat Yo Baby meals to very good use.
28 weeks
Since the baby now weighs as much as a Chinese cabbage (2 1/4 pounds) I made a stir-fry with chicken, veggies (including cabbage) and rice for our Eat Yo Baby potluck main dish. So far this fetus (and this project) has been tasty AND fun.
the monster at the end of this book
Sarah took some footage of Nora “reading” The Monster at the End of This Book for Kaeleigh and McKenna’s Great Read-Aloud Project. She has certainly performed more flawlessly in the past, but this is pretty cute.