Some Randomness

1.  4 weeks left.

This picture was actually taken a couple of weeks ago, so my tummy is sticking out even more, if you can imagine it.  I'm feeling just about ready to be done.  I do think that the last month with all its discomforts is necessary because up until a couple of weeks ago, I was feeling really anxious about the upcoming delivery.  The last month of pregnancy, I think, is a tender mercy of the Lord to prepare you to do ANYTHING it takes to get that baby here.  bring. it. on.

2.  The cradle is up.

Arthur brought out the cradle from the closet, dusted it off, and assembled it the other day.  The kids were all really excited about it.  Hayden kept saying, "That Baby Cindy's bed!"  He carefully put one of my pillows in it and told me to get in.  (He knows that baby "Cindy" is in my tummy, so how else would she be able to take a nap in that cradle?)

Since I needed my pillow, Sean outfitted the cradle with some other stuff in preparation for his new baby sister.  

Just for the record, we did finally decide on a name.  This is the first time that we've decided on a name this far in advance.  Since we've never found out the gender in advance, we usually we go to the hospital with a couple of names to choose from depending on if it's a brother or a sister.

I don't think we would have a name even now, except that Arthur has a conference on the East Coast the week before I'm due, and I told him that if I have to deliver this baby without him, I will name this baby whatever I want!  Clearly, he had some strong opinions about some of my name options, because soon after we had that conversation, we came to an agreement on a name.  It's actually not Cindy--but that's pretty close.  We are naming this little girl Sydney Hazel.  And since Sydney is hard for a 2-year-old to say, Hayden calls her "Cindy."

3. Here's to some great ski memories

Arthur has been busy with all kinds of projects lately.  One of them was cleaning the garage, which included finally putting away all the ski/snow equipment.  So we washed all the snow pants and ski parkas, and I found all of these ski tags on the dryer.  Just had to document it as a testament of the great ski season our family enjoyed this past season.  

4.  Time out

For this story to make sense, I need to preface it with a couple of things.  First: Hayden's word for vitamin is "spiderman."  Second: Sitting on the washer or dryer in the boring laundry room is our time-out spot.  Well, just the other day, I discovered an oddity in the laundry room.  If you look close at this picture, you will see something that doesn't belong on the washer.

It's Hayden's gummy bear vitamin.  He put it on time-out during breakfast, and when I went to do some laundry later that morning, he was still sitting there good as gold and not making a peep on his time-out. It made me smile.  Hayden thinks it's funny too.  He saw this picture and laughed, "Spiderman sit on the dryer!"