I've been thinking a lot about what this new baby is going to look like.
I posted this picture on Instagram this morning saying that I hope the new little one looks exactly like Bennett.
Actually I hope little brother is exactly like B in every way...he is such a sweet boy and is a smarty pants and makes us laugh constantly.
Bennett is a complete blessing and I can't wait to see him as a big brother.
And just for comparison's sake...
Here are some pictures from Bennett's first few months:
(we shall compare little brother to these in a few short weeks!)
It's hard for me to imagine anything cuter, though I'm sure little brother
will be just as cute in his own little ways.
Happy Friday friends and have a great weekend!
This weekend was Chris' birthday weekend and it felt like it went on for forever which is always nice!
Thursday we had a playdate with
Lauren and Fern, and
Echo, Poppy and Alomae.
Bennett was totally outnumbered, and he may have even been convinced to put on a tutu.
Friday night, Chris chose to get Broder for his birthday/date night dinner.
No complaints here.
We can never pass up aebilskivers as an appetizer:
Chris got the burger with the amazing pea salad (I don't even like peas but I could eat this all day long).
I got their famous Pyatt y Panna (smoked trout hash) with baked eggs and walnut toast.
I usually order the dark hot chocolate but decided to try the raspberry apple cider and it didn't disappoint!
Sooo good:
Saturday morning, someone woke us up early wanting to play blocks.
We appeased him by playing blocks in bed for a bit then we decided to finish putting together the nursery and rearranging B's room.
The changing table/dresser got moved into the nursery and his bed and bookshelf got flipped around.
He has so much more floor space to play on now!
and the nursery is pretty much done:
(I'll do a full post later)
Saturday afternoon B tried on some of his new summer clothes and he didn't want to take them off.
He especially loved the little euro swim shorts:
(don't they look lovely with the socks?)
During nap, I whipped this up:
(a triple layer chocolate cake: top and bottom were dark chocolate cake and the middle layer was brownie with chocolate frosting in between and on the outside. I stuck pb chips on the outside because well, Chris loves chocolate and pb)
Saturday night we had friends over for cake and coffee.
Nine of us could only finish half of the cake:
(the other half was demolished by Chris' co-workers before 10am yesterday)
Sunday morning Chris woke up to a scavenger hunt:
Then we went to Lovejoy Bakers to get our favorite breakfast:
then to Barista for some delicious caffeinated fuel:
we walked over to REI to get our new stroller, but B really wanted to play in the 'airplanes':
I forgot to take pictures of our amazing food, but I did get a picture of B throughouly enjoying his mac n cheese:
(Chris got his usual double scoop with double fold vanilla and stumptown espresso with cocoa nibs and I got a single scoop of one of the new flavors, honey lemon with ricotta walnut cookies. It was SO good!)
Yesterday it was an amazingly gorgeous day, so after Chris got home we ate a quick dinner and took our new toy out for a test ride to the park.
(yes, we realize how dorky we are)
Only missing one little wiggly thing:
Oh and this weekend we managed to squeeze in a belly picture.
Who knows how many more there will be?!
(pray that this little guy turns head down, a c-section does not sound like fun with a toddler running around)
and here's an outtake, but it accurately shows how I feel:
Pregnancy #2 is way more painful/annoying/difficult than #1 ever was and
Chris gets to hear about it all the time (sorry Chris)!
I feel guilty for complaining because there are people who have really, really difficult pregnancies, but compared to my first one (which was a complete breeze) a majority of this one has been lame.
To put it simply, sciatica sucks!
Come on baby...flip and come out!
Well I was perusing it the other day and noticed something new up in the corner...
(I may be a little late to this party, as I usually prefer to tastespot)
a Gawkerverse of other awesome gawker sites!
Pretty much they are like curated pinterest boards with specific topics,
(other than food of course)
aka eye candy for the visual person.
(why wasn't this around 6 years ago)
(for the diy nerd in all of us)
and last but not least...
(pretty much like Apartment Therapy for people that like pictures more than words)
Did you guys already know about these?
How awesome are they?!
I'm really excited about the craft one, that should have been created long ago!
Bennett went to the dentist for the first time last week.
This was the coolest dentist office I've ever seen and everyone was so nice which helped a lot.
In the waiting room, I was happy to see that he chose low tech over high tech toys:
I was also happy to find this in the mail:
(it's going to save us $120 on our new/fancy/crazy expensive double stroller!)
I was reading Bennett a book when he said "I'll be right back",
then he ran into his room and came out like this:
(then he proceded to clean his ears and every time he would look at the q tip he'd say "eww"...haha)
Thursday was a random snow day.
We got about 3 or 4 inches!
Scout was jealous that he couldn't go play in it:
(his breed is a "Snowshoe" so it's in his blood right?)
then we warmed up with some mac 'n cheese:
(organic Annie's topped with ketchup of course)
in the afternoon I made
these dark chocolate toffee cookies with sea salt:
(I normally like fluffy, soft cookies and these were more on the flat, chewy side but were still really good...
I've never met a cookie I didn't like!)
for dinner I made
these quinoa veggie mexi bowls:
(super good, though I just used what I had)
B drew a picture of a boat:
(clearly.)
spotted dragon fruit while we were out grocery shopping on Friday:
(how pretty are they?)
B got his strawberry milk when we were done for being a great little shopper:
(bribery works people!)
this conversation took place:
For date night Chris and I went to see Hunger Games just to see what all the hype was about. Neither of us knew anything about the books other than people were crazy for them. Apparently it's a "teen flick" and it had just opened the night before. We were lucky to even get tickets. I'll say that it wasn't a bad movie, but a very strange plot for kids to be getting so excited over (killing eachother? really?).
Am I missing something?
Sunday, Chris played at church and we also started taking down some doors to
paint them and put on the new hardware:
(B's fort = makeshift sawhorse)
B and I went over to play with Lauren and Fern.
He pretty much loves her:
Our little playdate ended with some delicious froyo at
Yogurtland:
and B played keys at church Sunday night:
(no big deal)
and here is a little nursery progress:
(I just kind of threw this together, but I like it!)
and that is your weekend in review on a monday.
Hooray!
(I'm off to do a little painting and some walking to get this little man to stay head down darnit!)
