NO BABY!!!!

Thats right, If you'll take a look to the right of my blog and see my baby counter, it says 0 days, well, unless a miracle happens today, ITS WRONG! I am no longer trying to be positive about being pregnant, I'm through, but apparently she isn't. I am tempted to try castor oil at this point, it's sitting on the counter in my kitchen, but I don't know if I dare do it. If you know of any sure fire ways to evict a child from your womb, without techinically being induced, please let me know. I know there really aren't any, but I'm willing try just about anything. The good thing is my mom showed up on wednesday, so I've had a little help with the girls and keeping them entertained, which was getting to be difficult. I'm very ready to meet this little girl, so wish me luck, who knows just how much longer I have.

PS - the baby in the picture on the countdown has WAY too much room. I know there isn't that much room in there for Lexie, You'd think she'd be uncomfortable with no space to move, but I guess not.

Pregnant Together

We have all resigned ourselves to the fact that Lexie just won't ever come out. So the girls decided it was fun to be pregnant and decided they would try it themselves, with their own baby dolls. I asked Halli if she could still touch her toes and she easily did it, lucky girl, I haven't been able to for months! Really, we don't want to see this sight for a long time, but I wish I looked as cute "pregnant" as they do! :)

Curiouser & Curiouser

I know most kids start asking "why" all the time around three years of age. Well, Halli never really did that, at least not to the point that it stood out to me. But here we are at almost 5, and this girl is so curious about some very odd topics.

Some of the odd things she has been wondering about as of late:

Where do the Angels live?
What do Angels look like?
Are Angels and Fairy's the same thing?
Where does the Tooth Fairy live?
What does Heaven look like? (then she said she already knew, cause she saw a picture at grandma's house, and that's what heaven looked like.)
How does Ariel breath under water?
Who will Sydney marry? (Sydney is Blakes cousin and Halli is afraid she'll try to marry Blake. That would be bad as far as Halli is concerned, cause she is going to marry Blake.)
Why does santa come down the chimney?
How do our bodies move?
There was a storm the other day and the lights kept flickering, so she asked How the power would go out, and why?


I have to say I'm getting better at explaining things. But every time she asks a question, I'm kinda taken aback and just how inquisitive she is. It's amazing to see those little minds at work trying to figure out the world around them.

Book of the day

In an effort to stave off summer boredom, which Halli already has, as she has told me more than once that we have a boring house, I'm starting a book of the day. I saw this on someone else's blog, they would read one book that day and then do a craft that went with the book. I thought that looked fun and fairly easy to do, so we started today and our first book was "Ten little ladybugs." Then we made our own ladybug hats with antenna. The girls both enjoyed this, and I think Peytons favorite part was the glue and then tearing her hat apart after we took pictures. Oh well, at least it kept them happy and occupied for a little while.

The girls showing off their hard work, they really did have fun, even though they don't look like it in the picture.

Halli reading the book to Peyton.

Peyton looking cute as always.

Reading together. Halli has always been a bookworm and reading is one of her favorite things to do. Peyton on the other hand is just starting to be interested in books. I have always loved to read as well and hope this is something the girls can learn to love and enjoy doing forever.

little things from the Williams household

I haven't posted much about the girls lately, but they are doing wonderfully so I thought I might add a little about whats been going on at our house the past week. Nothing out of the ordinary, and life has been pretty mellow, but the girls are so cute and I'm enjoying not running them around everywhere and being able to just hang out with them a little bit before life gets hectic with a new baby.

The other day I ran to the grocery store really quick while Kevin watched the girls, and when I got home, Peyton came running up to me happy as could be, and this is what I saw...

She loves to color on herself. Not so much on paper or on other objects, but she LOVES to color on her legs, hands and arms. This was the first time she'd used her face as the backdrop.

We were out riding bikes the other day and Halli's training wheel wasn't tight enough which caused her to fall a couple times before we figured out the problem. Well, Peyton must have thought that falling looked fun, cause she got off her tricycle, pushed it over, which is what she's doing in the above picture, and then she sits on the ground like she just fell. She never did fall off, just tried to make it look like she did. Where do they come up with these things?

While they were riding bikes, Kevin rode around on his scooter with them and he thought it would be funny to keep "running into" peyton, well, she didn't like it. This is a picture of her lecturing her Daddy for not giving her enough space. She is one demanding little girl.

And lastly, Here's a picture of the girls just having fun. Halli is loving being the boss most of the time and Peyton will follow her almost anywhere and she wants to do everything her big sis does. It is very cute to watch. In fact, check out my sister-in-laws blog, (eric & Jill, sorry I ahve no idea how to link things, guess I'll have to learn soon), She has a video posted of the girls swimming this weekend and Peyton is trying to do everything Halli does. It's so cute!

So not a whole lot happening, but thats the girls, they keep life fun and interesting, even when they're not doing too much. Gotta love 'em.

Unsolicited Advice

Now that preschool is over for Halli, I no longer have the leisure of going shopping with only one little duckling following me. (I call them my ducklings cause no matter where I go, it seems I always have two little girls following me, I'm sure many of you can relate.)

Well, now that she is usually with me, and since my belly has grown quite large recently, I tend to get quite a few comments. "You've been busy", is a fairly common one, as is..."Were ya trying for a boy?" anything along the lines of trying for a boy seem to be the most common. After which I inform them of our third little girl. This is when the unsolicited advice happens.

Just today I was at Target and an older lady asked if I had read any of the books that tell you how to get one gender over the other. I said I've read a few things, after which she proceeds to tell me, in the middle of the store, what to do.

This may not really seem too odd, until you think about the fact that a TOTAL STRANGER is telling me to use douches and that frequency in my sex life matters.....in the middle of Target! This has happened more than once. I suppose that after all this wonderful advice I'm receiving, if our next is a girl then we just don't know what we're doing! ya gotta love people that just feel the need to let you know how things are!

The Art of Expecting

Since I only have a little over two weeks till Lexie arrives, at least I pray it is no longer than that, I thought it may be a good time to ponder the things I appreciate or enjoy about being pregnant. It is very easy at the end to dwell on how miserable everything has become, from the heartburn to the fatigue that hits whenever I do anything.

Okay, on to the good stuff, the number one greatest thing about being pregnant is feeling your baby move inside you. Especially at the end when it's not necessarily kicks your feeling, but you can actually see little protrusions in your belly when they stick an elbow or foot into your side. At night I just love to sit there and feel her move and put my hand on my belly to feel her little body parts, it is just such a comforting feeling.

Being able to take a break from everything in the middle of the day and not feel guilty about it, cause I really and honestly just need to sit down for a little and veg. The girls don't necessarily love it, but they tolerate it pretty well.

Although I know I shouldn't, Eating whatever I want is great. Heaven knows I can't lose weight right now, so why even bother? I will enjoy a whole box of cookies. I know I'll pay for it once I want the weight gone, but for now it sure makes the aches and pains go away, at least temporarily. Unfortunately this is one thing heartburn has taken away from me, when I eat sweets at night, I have massive acid reflux and can't sleep, so I have stopped that ritual, at least for the time being.

I would really LOVE to add foot massages from my hubby to this space right here, but he detests feet and refuses to touch them. He has done it once this pregnancy, but I had to BEG him to do it. (I'm hoping he'll read this and feel guilted into offering me one last foot massage at some point in the near future). I do think I've spoiled him too much by having easy pregnancies, so he hasn't had to do too much to cater to me.:)

I'm sure there are a few other things I could add, but I may be up all night trying to think of them. Maybe I'll do another post of the things I look forward to after she's born, but that could be a VERY long list. Until then, I'll try to think of more things that I enjoy and that I just might miss in a few weeks after our little girl arrives. Wish me luck and feel free to send lots of labor dust my way in hopes of bringing Lexie out soon!