What We Do For Fun

I'm at the very tail end of this pregnancy, and I haven't been motivated to get out of the house much. The weather had been blah and it just takes so much effort and energy to go anywhere, that by the time we get back I'm super cranky and short with the girls. So we've been laying low and staying home most of the time. But we do try and have fun sometimes!

In the past when we've done Play Doh, it's been primarily a Lily activity. Grace just wants to eat the Play Doh and make a mess and pull the table cloth off the table. But I was brave last week and let Grace in on the action, and she did great. She did stick some Play Doh in her mouth, but decided it didn't taste great and never actually ate it. After an hour or so of sitting in the hard kitchen chairs and helping roll out Play Doh, this mama was tired and sore! (I know, it doesn't take much!)

Making cakes!
Tasting the local fare.
Stabbing her Play Doh with a fork.


Then today I was feeling guilty that we never do anything fun anymore (my words, not theirs) so I decided to do some bath tub painting! I didn't have bath paints and I wasn't about to waste all my energy on a trip to the store (that's an event in and of itself), so I looked on Pinterest and found a DIY bath paint recipe. You take a muffin tin and in each hole you put 2 Tbsp. of corn starch, 1/4 cup baby shampoo (or baby wash, which was what I had), 5 drops of food coloring, and a couple of Tbsp. of water and mix it all up. If I do it again, I'll make a big batch of the plain paint, pour it into the cups, and then do the food coloring. It was a pain to individually mix each cup every time, especially when I'm at that point in pregnancy where my arms fall asleep and my hands go numb all the time. Mixing the paint was rather painful. But anyway, after I mixed up the paint, I stripped the girls down and put a couple of inches of water in the tub, gave them both a brush, and let them have at it.

Painting the tub and each other. (I don't know if you can tell, but Lily is holding her nose. The baby wash I had on hand was very perfume-y (I bought it on accident and never returned it) and she didn't like the strong smell.)

Goo painting herself.
I like painting in the tub!
Check out the nasty murky water after 30 minutes or so.
Then when they'd mixed all the colors and had their fill of tub painting, I turned on the shower and rinsed everything out. I also gave them a cleaning rag and let them wipe down the tub. I'm resourceful like that.
My big girl with her giant towel head!

So anyway, that was our fun for the day! The girls seemed to enjoy it, and it killed an hour or so of our morning. Oh, and they got a bath in the end, so it even served a purpose!

In case anyone wants a pregnancy update, I'm still pregnant! I'm 37 weeks today (yay term!) and ready to be finished! Everyone says, "Oh, I don't think you'll go until your due date!" but that's just one of those platitudes people say to make you feel better. They really have no idea. The truth is, I haven't been having nearly as many contractions as I had with Grace at this point, so I'm not holding out hope for delivering any time soon. Maybe Leap Day. My hope is that I'll go into labor instead of having my water break. I had the group B strep test the other day and was positive, which means that if my water breaks, I need to go to the hospital pretty soon so that they can get a couple of rounds of antibiotic in me before the baby comes. That's not the worst thing in the world, but in the past my water breaking doesn't send me spiraling into labor like it does most people, so I'll probably end up being at the hospital longer if my water breaks, than if I go into labor and get to labor at home for a while. I'll still need to be there about 4 hours before I deliver (like anyone can really plan that) for the sake of the antibiotic. I was strep B negative with Grace, and didn't make it far enough along for them to test with Lily, so they gave me the antibiotic prophylactically with Lily. I didn't like being hooked up to the IV every 4 hours, but I do remember that when she was born she smelled like the antibiotic and I kind of liked it because it was her smell.

Oh, and here's one more complaint for the record books. As I mentioned earlier, my arms are starting to fall asleep at night. Argh! This is one of my least favorite things because I wake up every morning between 4 and 5am with a painful dead arm... or two. And at that point my arms are all swollen and I can't just turn over and have it go away. It takes about 5 minutes, and they're asleep again. Not just tingle-y asleep, but PAINFUL asleep. Then, during the day they just ache all the time (especially my right arm) and things like blow drying my hair, or painting Lily's finger nails, or blogging will send them painfully asleep again. No fun!




One quick funny Lily story. When the girls were in the tub, Lily let out this HUGE fart in the water. Then she held up her Buzz Lightyear bath toy and said, "Darn it, Woody!" I laughed so hard! (And then when I stopped laughing, I did the responsible thing and told her that "darn it" isn't a nice thing to say.)