Ice Ice Baby

Well a little late but whatever. The Friday before Christmas we decided to take HP Ice Skating. Expeditions like these are really hit and miss, especially with the fact that HP doesn't like to get dirty. Steve laced up some little skates on his feet and they ventured out to the ice. I stayed in the semi-warmth and took pictures. It ends up that HP LOVES to ice skate, steves excited and can't wait to strap some roller blades on the tykes feet and teach him roller hockey

Here is his first round on the ice.

Here is HP crying after Steve decided to skate one round on his own (to straighten out his back) and yes that brown smudge in the bottom left corner is my belly.

Here's their second go round, this time HP had no problems dashing out to the ice.

Happy little skater

And finally to get him off the ice (before Steve stroked out) the celebratory popcorn.

After skating for an hour, Steve took HP to the adjacent rink to watch some guys playing hockey, which HP loved. I would just like to state right now that I refuse to move where it snows. I don't mind visiting but no moving. I hate the cold. Plus I think HP has a nasty cold now from the rink, could either be that he dropped his blankie on the super disgusting floor and we didn't have a spare or from the super cold rink to the 85 degree weather outside. Either way it's no fun.

5 weeks and counting (32 days to be exact)

Well I'm still pregnant at 35 weeks. That's good in my book. I did have some horrible back pain on Sunday which made me miss the knitting christmas party :( I don't think it was contractions. More likely I pulled a muscle while trying to scrub the grout in the shower. I'm not swelling (woo hoo!) so we may be out of the woods for Preeclampsia. I'm still crossing fingers and knocking on wood tho. HP was born exactly at 5wks because I had preeclampsia with him.

Of course now I'll probably be miserable and go past my due date thus landing me with having a 9 or 10lb baby. I still don't think I'll make it the full 40wks. I have a (painful) feeling in my pelvic region, my assumption is that Aiden has dropped. It's getting a lot harder to breathe and now when he kicks it hurts. No longer pleasant. But really I'm not complaining I want him to stay in as long as possible. We had a trying time with HP's hearing, asthma and jaundice due to being 5wks early I just as soon not repeat that. I should have pictures soon maybe tonight.

Steve is accompanying me to Kobe's for the Gurls Who Purl christmas. Yummy! In other news, HP just fell off the ottoman and is begging me to kiss his knee.

"Mommmmmmeeeee, it hurt my knee. Kiss it, peas peas peas peas". Duty calls I must go and attend to the injured.

Just call me "Sucker"

So I was not real happy with the kitchen we bought from ToysRUs. Soooo I took it back and bought one from Sam's instead. It's way more than I wanted to spend and it's nicer than my real kitchen. Oh well. You're only 3 once.



Thank god they didn't carry this one:



I'd have a hard time explaining to Steve why we need to add onto our existing house for a play kitchen.