bellies!

afton also got a picture of my belly, so i got one of her's too... see how we compare :)

afton's discovered the camera

afton borrowed my camera today and started going crazy! within just a few minutes she'd taken over 30 pictures... i'm so glad for digital cameras, no harm done! anyways, here are a few of her masterpieces:

coming together

so it appears that things are finally starting to come together... hopefully. we've got a town home reserved (bar something weird) in garland, not far from a park and a bus route (for paul to get to school). it's actually a little bigger than our house here, so that's nice too.
speaking of our house here, it's just about ready to put on the market, our goal is still monday, though it may take a little longer to finish some of our projects (ie, paul's repairing our retaining wall out front, and if he finished the stucco on saturday, we'll still have to paint it sometime, but that's okay). i think it'll be okay though. we've already talked to the realtor, and he seems to think it'll sell, and he seems to be realistic what with the market the way it's been lately. we may not really make a profit, but hopefully we'll at least break even.
we're just about ready for baby to come too. the cradle is set up, and there's some clothes out for her, not that we're rushing, but it seemed prudent to get everything out before people start wanting to see our home (especially since afton loves to help with the baby things... it makes for a long, cluttered job, but it's cute). we've still officially got 3 1/2 weeks before she's due, so i figure that means we've got 4 weeks--i'm planning on the 30th, anyone else care to guess?
paul's been working a lot lately, i sure appreciate him! afton's been playing hard, and doing her best to follow daddy at all costs... preferably attached to his leg (he loves it too), she sure misses him while he's at work.
anyhow, that's our little update. i'll try to get more pictures up soon.

nap time...

how is it that kids figure they are old enough to phase out naptime? i've been putting afton down around 2 pm forever... and just lately she's started passive resistance. she'll lay there playing with her baby doll or her bink or blanket or whatever might be in her bed, but i'll hear her playing for a good hour... then she's hard to wake up, once she finally crashes, around 4.30 or 5. and i don't dare let her sleep past 5 cause then she thinks she doesn't need to go to bed at night (one night last week she was up til 11!--still crying in her bed cause we wouldn't get her up, i was so tired that night!). i guess it's not generally too bad, cause she's still quiet during naptime, and i know she still gets the rest she needs, but it still drives me crazy too... such is life, i suppose.

drawers part 2

yesterday was a new record too... eleven. (i don't know how she does it!)

drawers

yesterday afton set a new record... she made it through the ENTIRE day without emptying a single drawer... usually dressers and kitchens are no match for her, but it was a nice record. i don't think that's happened since she learned how to open them 6 months ago. today she'd emptied 6 before nap time... oh well, some things are too good to last.