coming soon...

last weekend's drive up highway 12, a hike through natural bridges state park, lunch in spring green, and pumpkin carving and costumes at troy gardens...

fourth month update

this picture was taken at the beginning of week 17...

you will notice that the baby is still refusing to make itself known. or, as the experts seem to think, i simply have extremely strong abdominal muscles... what can i say, except that there is just no way i can believe that one... but... i will happily accept it as the truth anyway.

in related news... greg puts together a crib we brought back from indianapolis this weekend...

oliver says...

lobster? what lobster?

happy fall

saturday scribblings

so, where are we?

...well, we're in a land that provides coffee.
good!
i'm sure coffeeless lands exist, but i'm not ready to visit those yet.

a place with a floor of records, in a museum celebrating 40 years of existence.



okay, okay...
this should tip you off...
yes, that's right, chicago...


to visit with aunt and uncle.

the four (or, if you count those in utero) the six of us...
and no, i am definitely not having twins.

30 n. lasalle... my mom's old stomping ground.

little people... or big buldings?

prairie-scape with city or city-scape with prairie?

millennium park's anomaly of sorts...

it was unseasonably warm last weekend (unlike today, which feels unreasonably cold and requires a sweater)
but at millennium park there are plenty of options for cooling off...

the brave...

and the timid...

oliver was not able to go with us to chicago last weekend because he was invited to bowser's house and dogtoberfest. he came home with loads of prizes from the fest, including this oh-so-cute land's end jacket...

whoever said dog clothing wasn't cute, never saw ollie in his super-cute red land's end jacket.

as for the present time: greg and i have been on very different schedules the past few days. i've been getting up at 6 to drive 1 and a half hours to milwaukee for a three day conference/training put on by the state public defender. greg gets up around 10 to go to work at 5 p.m. (around the time i'm driving home from milwaukee), and getting home around 2 a.m.
also, i have passed the 16 week mark-- well, i'm right in the middle of it. which means... i need to put up a picture update soon. i fear that it still won't look much different from the other pictures though.
apologies!

out of town

we left madison this weekend. but where did we go?

pictures coming soon...

apples, cumin, birthdays, utilities

who says this is a weed?

well, 2 weekends ago was an adventure to the epplegaarten, south of madison, on a beautiful fall day...

a little treat, for a little one...

gruffy goat...

horse rides...

raspberry picking...

and of course, lots of apples...

this weekend, it was a quick trip back to the epplegaarten with grandparents to collect pumpkins, lunch on state street, the capital farmer's market, and of course, greg's birthday!

sunday night, i made kosheri, an egyptian dish-- brown rice, topped with lentils, topped with elbow macaroni, topped with light fresh tomato sauce, topped with crisp fried onions, topped with spicy tunisian sauce...

delicious!

and pumpkin spice cake with cream cheese frosting for dessert.

the other big news from this weekend-- greg, geoff, and jason (happy birthday to you too!), turned the laundry room into a laundry room with a utility sink and a cabinet... beautiful...