Melanie ~ look at me with starry eyes...

It's finally kind of cooler outside so I tried to weed my front garden and I now have more than 10 15 mosquito bites on one arm, and some on my back. Annoying!!! It's too hot during the day and too buggy at night. I need to just adjust my thinking and accept the fact that I am going to be a disgusting sweaty mess when I weed.

Easy going day today. Paxton and I slept in till almost 10, Reagan went to a playground with Amy, Amelia and the baby. If I hadn't just woken up, I would have gone too. Paxton got fussy around lunch time so I put him down for a nap and I fell asleep for 3 hours with him! Reagan played in Amy's pool and Tim mowed the lawn. I was so tired I didn't even hear the lawn mower going.

Tim took care of the baby so I could remove my toe nail polish and have a bath and shave my legs. It's amazing how you take being able to do those things for granted before having a baby. I tried to remove my polish with Paxton running around but he kept touching my nails.

Dinner, attempt at weeding, Reagan wrote her journal, said goodbye to Tim and Reagan and now Paxton and I are just hanging out downstairs. He spent about an hour last night with an empty Puffs container and a little ball, putting the ball in and out of the container. He even tried to put the lid on it. Apparently it was fun enough to repeat tonight.

I think I'll catch up on some So You Think You Can Dance. I didn't watch any while I was in Canada, and that's a lot of dancing in the DVR!

My grass is finally growing! I'm happy we've had a bit more rain than usual, since we pay for our water usage. I've been watering on the days it doesn't rain, and it's finally paying off. The grass that was already there is getting way too long, and will be a pain for Tim to mow, but we want the new grass to be established before mowing.

I scraped the top off my pinkie finger when I was planting. I stood up and scraped it on the patio concrete, and it's amazing how such a teeny little scrape can annoy me so much!


I made smoothies today, with bananas and strawberries, and even though it soured my tummy, I drank half of mine and that's the most fruit I've had in a long time. My indigestion is bad again today, but baby just seems to be stretching up further and further towards my throat. :P

Tim's painting the baby's closet, so the bedroom will be finished and I can start hanging up baby clothes. Yay. Speaking of Tim, I feel so bad for him, his poison ivy rash is so bad, big welts!!

Trying to use this bit of extra energy for things around the house. Folded a load of towels, did some other laundry. Need to strip the bed this afternoon. Stripped the beds. Really really need to attack Reagan's playroom, but also need some shelves and better storage for in there. I think I'm going to put away about half the toys, it's just a big mess because there is way too much to play with.

Went outside and gardened for about an hour. So so close to being done with one bed. They were not well taken care of, so many rocks and weeds, and the onions are bizarre. There are wild onions growing all over the neighbourhood in everyone's lawns! It's stinky when I'm weeding though.

Michael, the neighbour boy who is 12, walked by and asked me why I wasn't inside the house relaxing. I told him I was pregnant, not dead! :P He's the one who was shocked to see me mowing the lawn last summer, and told another neighbour he "had never seen a woman mowing before".

I also went into our marshy backyard and hauled all the broken branches from storms, and brushes into a big pile in the corner of the yard. We need some kind of an ax or hatchet or something, plus a big compost box to put yard clippings in.

It's so weird to be feeling the baby all the time. I keep feeling like I'm going to have to fart, but don't, I just associate belly rumbling with gas but this is all baby. Last night I was pushing down on my belly and felt some really good kicks. It's amazing, such a blessing.

This spring I want to plant so many things.. hydrangeas, sweet peas, shasta daisies, clematis in the back yard, plus a ton of other flowers like nicotina, zinnias, poppies, fox gloves.. I think I'm really really sick of snow because I just want to see flowers.

I have to figure out what grows well in Virgina though! I'm used to planting for the west coast.

I'm excited about a veggie garden too. I know tomatoes and peppers will do well here, even without a greenhouse. I'm very excited about the peppers. I want to plant some fruit trees as well, but we probably need a good fill put into the yard first, and who knows when that will happen.

Of course, this means my morning sickness is going to have to go away, so I can actually do some weeding and planting.

Today I..... sat on the couch.



Well, I also did my dishes, and cleaned out my purse, watered my garden, did some laundry, watched some movies. My throat still hurts and I feel so tired, but I want to work tomorrow, so I'm trying to just get better as quick as I can.

One of my beans finally did a grab for the strings I hung, I love the way they twist around.

Last night I walked around and took pictures of things that make me happy, from my yard.

My stone stairs. I really need to clean the dry grass away, and scrap the moss off, but I love my stone stairs.


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And, last but not least, I love my peas and beans that are so cute and little but will soon provide me with tasty snacks.