shes here!

This is Lia's mom blogging for her! Lia's water broke at 6:00 a.m., went to hospital, waited, waited, waited, checked again , broke rest of water had little sister at 3:00 something so it really only took an hour. 8lbs. 3ozs. lots of black hair! quote from Lia "I'm glad it's over". No name yet (so lame) oops did I say that.The problem is Tony wants a say..oops did I say that! shame on me! Welcome little romero daughter!!

I got this cute little rocking chair for James last weekend. He loves it, and rocks, rocks, rocks while watching his little train movies. Jonny actually fits it pretty well too, but James chases him out of it most of the time. So territorial! The chair also makes me want to take on another little project I've had in the back of my mind for a while...rehabbing Sofia's sewing desk (which she never uses, preferring my sewing machine to her own). I was going to have someone else do it for me...since there's not room to do something like that in our garage at the moment...and I'm too pregnant to be taking on painting projects, but I REALLY think I want to do it myself. Maybe I'll just put it off for a month.

Tony got home from work early yesterday, so we decided to celebrate by going out for Mexican food. Yum! I ordered a gigantic (so that I could share with the kids) virgin raspberry margarita. They brought me a gigantic non-virgin margarita. I thought I was pregnant enough that no one would bring me a huge alcoholic beverage, but apparently not. Luckily, it smelled strongly enough that we noticed before we started passing it around to the kids! Anyhow, Tony and I have decided that if any more children outgrow the kiddie menu, we'll only be eating out on VERY special occasions. $$$

Well, my count-down calendar is under a week now. We'll see how accurate that turns out to be. Either way (sooner or later), I think it's making Tony and I a bit nervous. He has been calling me every morning to make sure I have an accurate phone number of where ever he is (many of those places do not allow cell phones). My panic response is a little sillier. Instead of doing anything related to childbirth prep, I'm trying to rush through a bunch of long-postponed sewing projects. Avoidance? Maybe. Sofia's horse skirt is next on my list.

We're Winners!

...not big winners, but you have to enjoy the small victories in life. The kids had a lucky week. First they found a $5 cash card at the bottom of a cereal box. Then I noticed a buy one adult haircut, get one free coupon on the back of the Cookie Crisp box. (Tony likes to bring home sugar cereals, giant pixie sticks, reester bunnies, whatever he can find so that the kids will still love him. I think he feels a little guilty about his work schedule...as if he has any control over it!) For some reason, Anthony wasn't as excited about the free haircut? You'd think he would be, because they do a much better job than I do, and professionals seem to be able not to cover you in hair while they cut.
The kids have big plans to spend their winnings at the dollar store this week - one toy each.

What is wrong with me?

I'm not sure that I should be allowed out without adult supervision anymore. I was doing a little sample browsing and impulse shopping with the kids at Costco today. Fun. When we were headed back out to the car, I suddenly couldn't find the keys that I was SURE were in my pocket. They weren't in my purse either...uh-oh...little panic starting to seep in. Can you guess where they were?

In the ignition of my car - which was ON the entire time I was in Costco! Where on Earth is my brain? I'm so lucky my car was not stolen, but just a bit worried about my mental state.

The Next Two...

Ok. Here are my other two projects. The first is a shirt for Annika, and the second is Sofia's blue dress. There was a tear in Annika's pillowcase, so I didn't have enough fabric to make it into a dress...a blessing in disguise! Cutting a little more fabric off of the top (where the tear was) gave me some extra fabric for a kangaroo pocket (that Sofia had requested..darn!) and a cute flower.

Well, I was semi-successful in my goals for this weekend. We've managed to listen to most of General Conference...and did anyone else cry through President Monson's talk on Sunday morning? Is it just me or did children die in each of those stories? So sad.
On Saturday, Tony managed to get home by 7pm (that's how you know it's the weekend at our house), so he barbecued for dinner...whoo-hoo! It made me really look forward to summer, when I intend to make him my barbecue slave whenever he's home.
No, the house did not get as clean as I had hoped. We did reclaim the upstairs family room, and the kids put all of their toys away (in a desperate bid to save them from Goodwill). I wanted to do some sewing, so we're saving the bathrooms for Monday.
After returning library books, buying bias tape, and dropping stuff off at a donation site, I decided to skip down my list to the pillowcase dresses. No regrets there! Annika's was lovely, and when Sofia saw it, she said, "Hey, how come Annika gets a new dress? I want one...in blue." I was a step ahead. Her blue dress was already in the works. I'll put up pictures of the other next two dresses later. My favorite tutorial for this project was from Freshly Picked, although there are a ton of others out there if you look!

Keep Trying!

Ok. My life has not been especially eventful lately, and I'm trying to make it even less eventful until that one BIG EVENT happens. Somehow, it seems like I'm still getting roped into various obligations, but I have successfully dodged a few.

We haven't signed up for any more of the upcoming dance performances - not even the one in May (I'm really hedging my bets there, huh?).
I did say that no, I didn't think I could watch my friend's children when she goes into labor. We share a due date. Is that hypocritical (since I'm sure to be asking someone to watch my own children) or just realistic of me?
Every time Annika mentions the birthday party she's planning, I remind her that we only do that every other year...and NOT this year. No, not even a "family party" at the skating ring. I'm sure we can scrounge up something fun to do, but I'm not obligating myself to anything beyond cake and presents. Did I mention that her birthday is 3 whopping days after my due date?

I'm just planning my life one day at a time...tomorrow I'm going to oversee the cleaning of the house. (I love making my kids clean! It's so much work, but then you get to see them have some cute realizations. Today, Sofia looked at the very full kitchen sink and said, "What!? I just loaded the dishwasher this morning!" Yes, well, we've had two meals since then. So, expect at least 12 cups, 12 plates, plus misc. cutlery to be in the sink.) I'm going to write thank you notes for all of the lovely baby gifts people have given me. And, assuming that I'm not totally wiped out after that (I have got some VERY low stamina going on right now!), I really want to sew some pillowcase dresses! They look so easy and fun, and I bought 3 adorable pillowcases at Goodwill the other day for that express purpose.

Stay tuned...if it happens, I'll post some adorable pictures and a link to a pillowcase dress tutorial!