The Countdown Is On

Just so you know...this is officially the LONGEST I have ever been pregnant. I am 39 weeks today and I know, I know, I'm not even late yet...but with Cameron and Tucker I was finished by now and home. This sucks. I have had contractions for over a week. Hard ones. Not these pansy-ass Braxton-Hicks fake contractions that women compain about. These are the real deal...BUT....every time I think about going to the hospital, BAM! They peeter out to nothing and I am left sore and exhausted. Apparantly this kid absolutely does NOT want to come out, because not only is he still in there, at my last appointment on Thursday, he had actually moved back up further than he was the previous week. Yup, he hears what goes on in this crazy house, and he actually grabs on to my uterus and climbs BACKWARDS for dear life. Poor guy. I don't know how to convince him that he'll adjust to the chaos and it's not nearly as bad as what it probably sounds like from in there. And quite honestly, this uterus is about to close down. So, today I plan to do the following:

Shower
Balance the checkbook
Bounce on an exercise ball while watching Free HBO Weekend on TV
Bounce some more
Bounce
Bounce
Bounce
And time contractions

And hopefully that dang ball will push him back down where he has to atleast try to see daylight. But, as I type, both kids are pretending to be cows and Mooing around. They sound demented, a little possesed, and quite honestly, if I had a uterus to crawl into, I would have by now. I really can't blame him for wanting to stay.

This is how you know I'm exhausted

This is how you know I'm exhausted. He's drinking his milk...with a spoon...naked. And I don't even care. Did I mention I have about two weeks to go until due date?

Fairy Notes and Five Year Olds

I had a great idea. I thought it would be fun for Cameron and her friends to make Fairy Houses at her birthday party. We found tiny flower pots, turned them upside down and painted and decorated them with a door, some ribbon and some flowers. Then they were supposed to take their fairy houses home, put them somewhere close to a garden or flowers, and see if they could catch a fairy. We even talked about the fact that fairies are small and shy. So they are very DIFFICULT to actually catch.

Cameron of course, took hers out to the garden, and proceeded to check her house hourly. She was clearly getting frustrated with this whole fairy operation. She then went and added some glitter and cleared a trail so the fairy could find it. Still nothing.

Then the most frustrating thing happened. The neighbor girl got a fairy note in her house across the street. So we checked for a few more days and nothing. Finally, I was starting to feel bad about the whole situation, and Cameron finally found a fairy note in her house. The note explained that this particular fairy was small and very shy (already explained) and that she would probably not see her because she was afraid of Sammy, and so on, but she LOVED her house. I thought this would be the end of the fairy quest. But, Cameron being Cameron, is now more determined than ever to show this fairy whose boss.

Rosebud Sparkle Fairy, I'd watch out, because if you're out there, you're going to get caught. Cameron is determined she will coax her out of her shyness and has not given up yet...and her birthday was a month ago. I would have never guessed that this would continue this long.

One More Summer Update

Because it's officially the "End of Summer" today, I thought I'd update with a few more summer pics. These are Cameron's 5th birthday shots.

Here she is opening gifts with the family. She is wearing her newest fairy costume, regardless of the fact that I had a nice birthday dress for her to wear that evening. Oh well, if there's anybody that can pull off the fairy look, it's her.

And here she is proud to be five. Face paint compliments of my sister from the party earlier in the day. Don't look too closely for perfection on her cake. This was her second cake for the day, just for family, and I was EXHAUSTED! She was lucky it got frosted and the fairy wands got stuck in the top. Not what I had invisioned, but when it's this hot and I'm this preggo, this is what you get.

On the other hand, this is the invitation to the fairy party that I did for the girls. We bought wings from a fairy website (yes, they have those). Then I wrapped them in cello and tulle and added a stamped fairy image with invite to the front. I was pretty proud of how these turned out.

A close up of the stamped and colored image.

Our fairy party. I made big tissue paper flowers for each of the chairs and decorated with streamers. Not able to balance on chairs, again leads to some that are not exactly what I would have liked, but this is what we went with.

All in all, it turned out to be a great party. We had a scavenger hunt, made fairy houses, and ate fairy berries and fairy punch. I think Cameron was pleased and is already planning for next years event.