I am part of a Due Date Club (turned "Playroom" after our babies were born), in which all the women in the group were due to have a baby on or around August 2012. Anyway, we have this fun activity where we each do a "Day in the Life of..." and take pictures of our ordinary and boring day-to-day activities... and this week it was my turn! I ended up ( Read more... )

That's right. Just like with our second child, we again encapsulated the placenta with this birth. I'm not going to type too much about it this time, as the journal entry about the last one has all the info about it.

So, without further adieu... here are the pictures. BIG WARNING! These are GRAPHIC pictures of a once-inside-me organ being cooked ( Read more... )

Warning... this will contain LOTS of stuff that many will find to be TMI. If you're uncomfortable with that, you might want to skip all this and scroll down to the pictures. ;-) I will try not to post any pictures that have anything really "revealing" on them.

( CLICK HERE TO READ THE BIRTH STORY AND TO SEE PICTURES )

Well yesterday sure was fun... (sarcasm). It started out great, though. We had our ultrasound! Baby looks happy, healthy, and playful. I have such cooperative fetuses, lol. When I want to know the gender, they spread their legs for the whole world to see, and if I don't want to know the gender, they stay cross-legged! haha This baby stayed cross- ( Read more... )

Seamus has finally gotten his first haircut!  It had just got to the point where it was too long and too unmanageable.  That baby hair is so thin and fine that his hair would knot up pretty badly.  So we had Seamus look through pictures to pick out what he wanted his hair to look like (and I'm not ashamed to say that I "strongly encouraged" him to ( Read more... )

Ok, the midwives just left.  I had a nice 2-hour-long appt (*big smile*) in my home.  Denise is the primary midwife and Amy was the other midwife.  Anyway, I filled out some paperwork, talked about history, what I want with my birth, etc etc, I got weighed (I already gained 4 lbs!), peed in a cup (to test protein levels and such), and listened for ( Read more... )

Ok, so I'm ATTEMPTING to post more on this journal.  We've said from the very beginning (I mean, since my pregnancy with Seamus) that we planned to homeschool our children... and we've kept that plan!  Seamus has been homeschooled for about a year now.  Reading is his best subject.  He is now reading chapter books (like The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle, ( Read more... )

( CLICK HERE TO READ ALL ABOUT BABY #3! )

We had a fantastic Samhain/Halloween yesterday!  First things first, here's the videos I have for Samhain.  The second one is very long...

Part 1 actually takes place AFTER the first section in the second video, but I was able to upload this one first.

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( Alright!  Now the pictures! )

It's been so long since I've updated our family journal.  Mostly because I update on Facebook.  But other family members don't use Facebook, so they don't see our updates.  Plus, I wanted to try to keep up with my journal!

Seamus:
In the previous entry, Seamus had just become an orange belt in Taekwondo.  Well, he's now a yellow belt! <3  Doing great ( Read more... )