Frozen In

Sheesh it's a cold one again today. Supposedly the groundhog did not see his shadow today so spring should be coming. Hmmmm. Don't know if I belive that one. Oh well. We let Jason take the car today (when he left for work it was -7!!!) so Easton and I are home (we didn't have plans anyway) and we're making the most of the heated house today. It's rather nice. It's "textile day" as Jason dubbed it. That means we're washing all the sheets and changing out the towels. That's how every Friday is around here but whatever. Textile day is fine too.

Easton woke up and we cuddled and watched some PBS in our bed before heading down for the day. Mmmmm cozy. I could hear poor Jason shoveling outside but E and I were toasty warm. It's nice to be pregnant sometimes. Gets me out of the tough stuff for now. :) Well, I've got other "tough stuff" going on and to look forward to. So there.

Once Easton and I finally headed downstairs we made muffins for breakfast. He actually ate quite a bit of muffin and then asked for cereal too. So he had a few Cheerios and then we decided to do a "craft":

Cheerios strung along a piece of dental floss! Wow! Easton snacked along the way:

He really impressed me with his fine motor skills to get the string (that I held) through the O hole so well. He had a good time with it and when he was done he had a necklace like Dada wears:

Trying a nibble:

When and if we make those again we'll have to use plain string or at least unflavored dental floss. Easton is apparently not too fond of the minty aftertaste.

After all the Cheerio fun we ended up doing some actual FINGER painting. Easton started off with a brush since he normally doesn't like the paint-on-his-hands part of finger painting. But, he quickly switched to using his hands and had a blast:

Yay for E! "Hmmmm...this disturbs me but I'm sure Mom can get it off later..."

I let him pick two colors and he went with blue and orange.

I think I can safely assume that he's pulling for the Bears in this weekend's Superbowl. Jason and I are going to be rooting more for the Colts, though.

Once we were through finger painting and cleaned up as best we could we headed for a shared dip in a bubble bath. My contractions have been a little different today not to mention the near-constant back pain that apparently goes with being 8 months pregnant (tomorrow!) with a 7 pound (maybe) child--so anyway, a soak in the tub sounded mighty nice to me too. We had so much fun. Easton would slide down my legs, we made bubble beards, and sang fun splashy songs. You know...the usual tubby time antics. We got out and dressed (sort of) and I found Easton sitting down on the steps to read Elmo a story:

That's his Elmo TMX and after the story he tried to send Elmo tumbling down the steps by tickling him. Goober. Let's hope he doesn't try that stuff with his brother. Yowsa!

He's down for his nap now. I tell you...he's so much easier getting down for a nap these days than he is at bedtime. I wonder if part of it is that Jason's home at bedtime? But he's not usually home for long before it's off to bed. I think E might be a little more riled up for his bedtimes than he is for our weekday naptimes. Yeah, that's what I think. Bedtimes lately have been a little rough. Goes with the territory I guess.

In non-family related news I learned that the final Harry Potter will be coming out July 21st...just in time for my birthday on the 25th. Yay! I know what I'm getting...now hopefully I can get some time to read it too.

Well, there's just 3 weeks now till my scheduled C-section. This is getting crazy. I'm still not sure if I'll make it that long--not for preeclampsia...but I feel it's entirely possible I could go into labor before then. Eek! You just never know with these things. I'm washing Baby D's going home outfit today. Just to have it packed. We're waiting till next weekend for most of the other "getting ready" stuff on the To Do list. And on that note...enjoy your weekends, friends. Bye!