toasty.

i've always been a fan of this time of the year...as the temperatures begin to drop and you can feel the brisk winter weather on the horizon. i love it. it makes me look forward to the days when i'll need to bundle up in sweaters, scarves and jackets, with my face pale white with rosy cheeks. and this past week we've started to feel the beginning of it as temperatures have dropped to the low 70s-high 60s. myka gets as excited as a little boy about the morning fog and the fact that tonight he needed his sweats and sweatshirt to feel remotely warm while taking the dogs outside. so as we shivered on our walk, we decided that tonight would be the perfect night for something we've been looking forward to...our first, nice roasty fire in our fireplace.

and what a nice, warm, romantic family night it turned out to be for us. and when myka opened up the front door later on in the evening, yume and i burrowed and cuddled into each other more as a very, very cold brisk draft swept into the living room. the cold is just around the corner and we can't wait!!

these boots were made for walkin...

on a recent, unplanned visit to the children's orchard my mom, gramma and i found these and for $1, we could NOT pass them up.

how cute will she be in these?!?!

nesting.

it's official, "nesting" has kicked in. tonight, i got up and said, i'm going to clean the house. so i cleaned the entire front room/kitchen/dining room, had myka rearrange the entire living room, cleaned out the junk in the spare room, carpet cleaned a few items of furniture and just rearranged everything. i then scrubbed my kitchen down and "swiffered" all my wood floors. now to some, this wouldn't seem odd, like c'mon heather, that's called house-cleaning. and you're right, it should seem odd, only that it was like 9P and it's continuing now at 12:45A. in addition, i keep walking around the house envisioning where the baby's things will be set up and how i would like to rearrange things furthermore. obsessive, probably. i'm sure myka is loving it though, as i'm usually too lazy to tidy up and he does it for me =)  i'm so lucky. he's the greatest man i have ever met.

to add to my "mommy/nesting mode," we found an AWESOME glider and ottoman today for $50 at the children's orchard. perfect for baby's room and exactly what we were looking for. i googled it when i got home and it normally runs for about $150 so i was stoked.  as you know with us, we LOVE projects so we'll probably refinish it (it's white and we'd like for it to be wood stained) and maybe do something with the upholstery. i'll be sure to post pictures of it as time goes on, because lucky for me, i found my small digital camera tonight (thank god for cleaning) and won't need to lug out the big camera as much anymore for small things.

all in all, today/tonight was awesome!

i'm HOT

i think i must have gotten a new batch of hormones in because no matter what i do or wear, i am burning HOT. thank god this batch of hormones isn't affecting my mood...yet at least. hahahaha. but seriously, it can be 70 degrees outside and i feel like i'm in the desert and the temperature is 105. wouldn't matter so much, as i love the heat, but try lugging around a beach ball deep in your belly and it gets very uncomfortable. doesn't seem to help that a heatwave decided to hit this week after our rogue thunder and lightning spectacle earlier this week. bleh. so in combination with my scorching hormones this week, i am all sweaty and hot and want to be naked and in an ice cold bath all the time. and even that doesn't help. UGH!

baby kicks.

i've noticed that as baby b's space grows increasingly smaller, her movements are definitely more noticeable (duh!). but i've noticed that some things make her even more "bouncy" than others.

1. MYKA - when myka gets home from work and in the hours following his return, i usually feel her kicking a little more (and not to mention harder) than during the rest of the day. i'm guessing that she's reacting to the sound of his voice and his energy, but i think it's adorable nonetheless.

2. MY BROTHER, KYLE - for some reason, the minute my brother talks or walks into a room, the baby starts kicking like crazy. myka, my mom and i think it's a combination of his crazy and loud energy and voice. but seriously, today he came over to pass time between class and all he did was eat and lay on the couch watching tv, and she kicked and bounced the entire time he was here. once gone, the kicks have been slim. it'll be so fun to see how she reacts to him out of the womb.

3. KEITH URBAN - ok, maybe not only keith urban, but i realized today, as i played keith urban that she kicks whenever she hears music. and usually to songs that her mommy and daddy like. i love it! and she seems to love classical music, which is so nice and relaxing!

4. DOGS - funny thing about this, is that she doesn't kick so much in response to our two dogs, but definitely in response to our neighbors dogs! if their dogs start to howl or bark (which has become a constant recently), she kicks like crazy. it's almost like she's echoing my thoughts in thinking "SHUT UP!"

5. VIBRATION - the other day i had my cell phone resting on my belly and every few minutes it would go off in response to a new text message. and everytime it did, she kicked the phone off. so naturally i would put the phone back on my belly, where she would again, kick it off the next time it vibrated. in addition, i have an amazing heating/vibrating back pad from my poppy for my incessant back pains, and any time i lay on it for relief, she goes crazy, like "WHAT IS GOING ON OUT THERE?!?" it always make me laugh out loud.

she's definitely a little jumping bean and we love learning more and more about her personality as the days go by!