Orange you glad Daddy can jump?!!

Our friends the Mezas told us about this little pond at CSUN. They took us there last week and we've been back two times since then. It's the cutest little pond in the middle of the CSUN orange grove. There are turtles and ducks that you can feed and I can't tell who enjoys it more: Mat or Lana. We decided to go yesterday and after feeding (and catching) the turtles Mat was tempted to pick some oranges. Lana and I were encouraging him and I thought you'd enjoy watching his attempts and final capture. In the end we walked away with 4 oranges and Mat all sweaty. haha. It's hard work!

The Sticker Club

I thought this was the cutest idea and I'd love to see who's interested. (I would feel bad sending it to anyone who really didn't want to do it). A friend of mine sent this letter to Lana inviting her to the "Sticker Club." It's like a chain letter where you send out 6 letters and then get a ton back. You choose 6 (or more if you want) people that you'd send a sheet of stickers to and mail it out. In return your child would get a ton of stickers from other friends. I thought it was a cute idea because Lana LOVES to get mail and if it was a letter with stickers...oh man...what's better than that?! Anyway, I have the letters to send out and needed some of your addresses and maybe even phone numbers (I recently lost a phone and got a new one). So please, if you think your child would enjoy getting letters from other kids with stickers, e-mail me your address. Or if you don't care that it's on here, leave a comment. Thanks!! Here's to getting some fun mail. :)

Sheena and Belly at 33 weeks

This is yet another "taken-by-Lana-photo." I won't tell you how many pictures were taken in order to finally produce this shot. When Lana takes pictures she usually ends up with a close-up of my boobs because of her height and where she holds the camera. I didn't realize how much I complain about that until she took this shot and says, "See mom, I didn't get your boobs!" Good job Lana girl!

So I feel like I'm getting to my full pregnancy glory right now. I'm starting to get the sympathy help from strangers: "oh, let me get that door for you" or "here, please sit down." Usually I'd say, "That's so nice, but that's alright..." Now I'm just so relieved to get help and get a break that I take full advantage of this! :) My friend felt sorry for me today because I told her I had trouble tying my shoes and she gave me (and Lana!) a pedicure. Isn't that a great friend?!

Random Pictures

Here are just some random pictures. The two cute Japanese girls in the first picture are Shana (a sweet girl from Lana's Friday class) and Lana. These two really hit it off last week and Shana's mom and I hung around for what felt like hours after their class was done waiting for the girls to finish playing together. It was really cute!

The second picture is of Lana waiting patiently for one of my many regular doctor's appointments. I had to use all my bag of tricks to keep her busy and I even had to pull out the camera and snap a picture to keep her quiet. It worked and I like her little smile. She always sits nicely for the actual check-up and likes hearing the baby's heartbeat. Oh, and she enjoys watching me get blood drawn. (as long as it's me not her, right?)

The last picture is what I found when Lana yelled across the room, "Mom, I'm doing my website!"

First Diaper...

We got a sample newborn diaper in the mail from Huggies. I've forgotten how small those things are. What a nice little wake up call to what I'll be seeing A LOT of in the VERY NEAR FUTURE. Here's to more pee and poop.

On a very different note, I got sucked into the Bachelorette again and I like Jillian. I find the show very entertaining and I also like to watch Here Come the Newlyweds. I wish Mat and I qualified as newlyweds and could go on that show (I think we should qualify...we're just reaching our 5th anniversary this month...that's still new, right?). I think we'd have so much fun on that show. All the challenges are so funny except for the last episode where they had to carry bugs with their bare hands. Mat would have to do that one on his own. I'd hold the door open for him though...