Cherry Picking

Karis' favorite fruit are cherries, she loves all fruit but she really loves cherries. Since she has a such a cheap maybe I should frugal mom she rarely gets them. But a local pick your own happen to have sweet cherries this year (which for our area is pretty rare) so a few Saturday's ago I branched out of my comfort zone and took 4 kids cherry picking.

We had a lot of fun picking A LOT of cherries and the result was many evenings of full bellies and also a sweet cherry pie. Karis was actually a GREAT picker, very helpful, unlike my other assistants who only ate cherries and complained about how hot it was.

On another note, I decided to buy a Cherry Pitter and this is now my favorite little kitchen gadget, guess I might have to start buying cherries after all.

Nesting

Quote:

"Nesting brings about some unique and seemingly irrational behaviors in pregnant women and all of them experience it differently."

Umm...yes

This week I have painted a room, pulled out all baby gear & clothes (or rather sent my husband into the attic to find them), washed them (along with the rest of the family laundry), made curtains, changed outlets and light switches, hung an screen on our awning, moved all of Jedi's things in Jotham's room, scrubbed the floor in Titus' newly painted room. I feel an uncontrollable urge to get things done. Am I being irrational?

The official date of delivery at this point is June 29th. Our little man is breech (this is the 3rd one who is) so the doctor will do an External Cephalic Version and if successful then I'll be induced right after, if not I'll have another c-section.

We all can't wait to meet our new little man.

Beach

Last week we went to the Jersey Shore (our favorite place to be) and had a very relaxing time enjoying time with each other and Erik's parents.

A few pictures from our time:

Annual photo with Grammer & PPaw, we love you thanks for having us!


Eating a "Pig" at Yum Yum's:


Getting ready to join the ranks of men in family who love to dig holes on the beach.

Climbing that dune to see the wonderful sea.

Do you know...

What is happening in this picture?

Do I?

Amazing Mom

Erik's parent's sent me a Mother's Day card from our kids, it was one of those singing cards and it sang something like, "Amazing Mom how great you are...."

Jotham opened it up, listened to it and with the greatest excitement said, "Mom it says A Lazy Mom..."

Happy Mother's Day to me.

Prodigal Daughter

This is so powerful.

Babies

There is a new documentary out called Babies. It follows 4 different babies from 4 different parts of the world from birth to age 1. I was really looking forward to seeing it. Tonight Erik planned to take me. Well..... viewer beware! Even though the movie is rated PG it contains pretty extensive non-sexual nudity. Mostly of the breastfeeding nature but this is not like the, "Oh that woman over there is feeding her child and I sort of can see something if I look down." kind of nudity. It is more the here is closeup of a breast (the entire thing) from every possible angle and here is another closeup of a breast from another angle.

Anyway, I leave you to your own convictions on this matter but just wanted to warn you in case you were as unaware of us. And though I don't really know what happens after about 15 minutes into the movie, I am going to make the assumption that the trend continues because in many cultures women breastfeed their children for a LONG time (as was shown in the sibling nursing scene).