Thanksgiving and cravings...

Unfortunately, our internet is running like it's back in the dial-up days. So, while I did have a great picture to post of BJ reading to all 3 kids, it was refusing to load up because it was so big. Sorry, you'll have to settle for a story without a picture.

I ran out to the Sahara Mart today while BJ babysat to finish up my Thanksgiving shopping. Thanks to the sweet new baby, I haven't been feeling very good, and eating in general makes me feel sick afterward. However, something about the Sahara Mart, with all of it's wierd ethnic food and spices, smelled amazing. So I bought some "Extreme Garlic Green Olives" from a vat in the back of the store, and have been munching on them ever since. They taste amazing, and my stomach isn't mad about my eating them! David, who hates green olives anyway, came down in the afternoon for a break from work, and couldn't believe what I was eating. I've never felt like I have huge, wierd pregnancy cravings, but I think this one definitely deserves that name!

To Our Leiden Correspondents...

...you know who you are!

We wanted to let you know that you have got some legwork to do to keep up with us in the kid department! You'd better start hoping for sets of twins...

That's right, come mid-July, baby #4 will be on his (his, because Carver is prettymuch totally convinced that it's a boy) way.

So, now that you know, I'm waiting on pins and needles for some of your wonderful name suggestions...nothing Dutch, thank you.

Chocolate Chip Cookies!

My Christmas Present, a Few Weeks Early

David and I bought my Christmas present yesterday. It is an antique dresser that we found off of Craig's List up in Indianapolis. I am completely in love with it. It has been wonderfully taken care of, and the drawers actually work (which is the litmus test of dressers for David, who will nix a dresser based on that alone, no matter how amazing it may look)! The previous owners said that, based on the name on the back, it dates to somewhere around 1900, but I have no idea how they know that, based on my googling of the name.

Anyway, here it is! A big improvement on the plastic Wal-Mart storage bins we've been using since we got married! A scarf from my closet, a few old books off the shelf, and some yarn in a hurricane, and I'm completely in love with the whole thing!

Carver's Writing for the Day

Can you decipher it? Hannibal
Murdock
BA
Face (spelled two different ways)

Hey, if the A-Team encourages writing practice, I'm all for that :)

Snug as a Bug...

They aren't really rolled up in the rug, though that has happened a time or two. They've taken all the cushions off the couch and are using them as blankets as they sing each other to sleep. Pretty funny.

Eating with a Spoon!

Laura usually eats cereal dry, so that I don't have to feed it to her. This morning, I put soymilk on it, gave her a spoon, and let her go for it! She was pretty sticky by the end of breakfast, but she loved it.