Happy Halloween!

 

Happy Halloween!!!

 

Love,

 

Krista, Steve & Peanut!

 

 



THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!!!

We are now in Week 28 and that means the beginning of the Third Trimester & the FINAL COUNTDOWN!!!

 

 

Da da daaaaaaaaaaaa duhhhhhhh da da da da da!

 

Da da daaaaaaaaaaaa duhhhhhhh da da da da da!

 

 

 

THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's on Baby!

 

 

Wow. I can't believe how fast that went. It feels like it was just yesterday that we discovered we were going to have a little Peanut.

 

Now, my Peanut is kicking lots and lots and my tummy can barely fit in booths in restaurants and we are in the 7th freakin month!!! lol

 

Can't wait to meet you my Peanut.

 

 

 

Da da daaaaaaaaaaaa duhhhhhhh da da da da da!

Da da daaaaaaaaaaaa duhhhhhhh da da da da da!

 

 

 

 

P.S. What the crap was Europe Counting down anyway? ;)

 

The Great Name Debate

"Be careful where you STICK that"

 

 

Hehehehehee.

We've had a solid short boy name list down for awhile...years in fact, but girls names are WAY harder to choose.

So my fabulous brother in-law Christopher suggested that we do what him and his wife did when they were expecting our nieces...use a little math.

Steve took the attached chart and then we both filled it out with our Rank order for a boy/girl. #1 being our favorite and #9 the bottom of the list. He then assigned points like this I think:

Rank #
#1= 10 points
#2=9 Points
#3=8 Points

And so on.

Below is the attached chart Steve came up with which narrows down our Girl Name List quite a bit.

It makes it a bit easier and I don't know but something about the fact that it is in Excel is comforting to me. :)

(Because I do EVERYTHING in Excel) LOL



Latest Baby Name List:

Name	Surname	Krista Rank	Steve Rank	Total Points
Simon	Beyer	2	1	19
Rhys	Beyer	1	2	19
Annabelle	Beyer	4	3	13
Elena	Beyer	8	2	10
Hadley	Beyer	9	7	4
Isabel	Beyer	3	5	12
Juliet	Beyer	2	9	9
Kayleigh	Beyer	7	1	12
Lisette	Beyer	1	6	13
Scarlett	Beyer	6	8	6
Zoe	Beyer	5	4	11

"Give Me My Baby Back!"

 

One of my co-workers just had a gorgeous little girl named Elisa :) and the office had a party to Welcome her.



 

While I was waiting for my turn to hold her something occured to me....

 

 

I won't have to wait to hold Peanut for Crap!

 

 

He or She will be MY BABY and I will have exclusive rights to hold him or her anytime I want.

 

No more throwing envious looks at those around me. If I want my baby, I simply TAKE my baby.

 

 

Muahahahhhahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

 

 

 

"Give me my Baby Back!!!"

 

LOL

 

 

 

Crrrrr.RAP.

Someone sent me this as an email forward this week.

 

I mean...it's hilarious....but yeah....also KINDA depressing.

 

 

Oh Crap.


LOL.

12 TESTS TO SEE IF YOU ARE READY TO BE A PARENT:
 

Test 1: Nights

To discover how the nights will feel:

1. Walk around the living room from 5pm to 10pm carrying a wet bag weighing approximately 4 - 6kg, with a radio turned to static (or some other obnoxious sound) playing loudly.

2.  At 10pm, put the bag down, set the alarm for midnight and go to sleep.

3. Get up at 11pm and walk the bag around the living room until 1am.

4. Set the alarm for 3am.

5. As you can't get back to sleep, get up at 2am and make a cup of tea.

6. Go to bed at 2.45am.

7. Get up again at 3am when the alarm goes off.

8. Sing songs in the dark until 4am.

9. Put the alarm on for 5am. Get up when it goes off.

10. Make breakfast.

Keep this up for 5 years. LOOK CHEERFUL.

Test 2: Dressing Small Children

1. Buy a live octopus and a string bag.

2. Attempt to put the octopus into the string bag so that no arms hangout.

Time Allowed: 5 minutes.

Test 3: Cars

1. Forget the BMW. Buy a practical 5-door wagon.

2. Buy a chocolate ice cream cone and put it in the glove compartment. Leave it there.

3. Get a coin. Insert it into the CD player.

4. Take a box of chocolate biscuits; mash them into the back seat.

5. Run a garden rake along both sides of the car.

Test 4: Going for a walk

a. Wait.

b. Go out the front door.

c. Come back in again.

d. Go out.

e. Come back in again.

f. Go out again.

g. Walk down the front path.

h. Walk back up it.

i. Walk down it again.

j. Walk very slowly down the road for five minutes.

k. Stop, inspect minutely and ask at least 6 questions about every piece of used chewing gum, dirty tissue and dead insect along the way.

l. Retrace your steps.

m. Scream that you have had as much as you can stand until the neighbours come out and stare at you.

n. Give up and go back into the house.

You are now just about ready to try taking a small child for a walk.

Test 5: Conversations with children

Repeat everything you say at least 5 times.

Test 6: Grocery Shopping

1. Go to the local supermarket. Take with you the nearest thing you can find to a pre-school child - a fully grown goat is excellent. If you intend to have more than one child, take more than one goat.

2. Buy your weekly groceries without letting the goat(s) out of your sight.

3. Pay for everything the goat eats or destroys.

Until you can easily accomplish this, do not even contemplate having children.

Test 7: Feeding a 1 year-old

1. Hollow out a melon

2. Make a small hole in the side

3. Suspend the melon from the ceiling and swing it side to side

4. Now get a bowl of soggy cornflakes and attempt to spoon them into the swaying melon while pretending to be an aeroplane.

5. Continue until half the cornflakes are gone.

6. Tip the rest into your lap, making sure that a lot of it falls on the floor.

Test 8: TV

1. Learn the names of every character from the Wiggles, Barney, Teletubbies and Disney.

2. Watch nothing else on television for at least 5 years.

Test 9:  Mess

1. Smear peanut butter onto the sofa and jam onto the curtains

2. Hide a fish behind the stereo and leave it there all summer.

3. Stick your fingers in the flowerbeds and then rub them on clean walls. Cover the stains with crayon. How does that look?

4. Empty every drawer/cupboard/storage box in your house onto the floor and proceed with step 5.

5. Drag randomly items from one room to another room and leave them there.

Test 10: Long Trips with Toddlers

1. Make a recording of someone shouting 'Mommy' repeatedly. Important Notes: No more than a 4 second delay between each Mommy. Include occasional crescendo to the level of a supersonic jet.

2. Play this tape in your car, everywhere you go for the next 4 years.

You are now ready to take a long trip with a toddler.

Test 11: Conversations

1. Start talking to an adult of your choice.

2. Have someone else continually tug on your shirt hem or shirt sleeve while playing the Mummy tape listed above.

You are now ready to have a conversation with an adult while there is a child in the room.

Test 12: Getting ready for work

1. Pick a day on which you have an important meeting.

2. Put on your finest work attire.

3. Take a cup of cream and put 1 cup of lemon juice in it

4. Stir

5. Dump half of it on your nice silk shirt

6. Saturate a towel with the other half of the mixture

7. Attempt to clean your shirt with the same saturated towel

8. Do not change (you have no time).

9. Go directly to work

"I Want CANDY!"

Guess who passed their Glucose Tolerance Test?

 

Me!

 

Oh Me!

Who kicked that Sugar's a**?

 

Oh Me!

 

That's Me!

 

 

 

 

 

WHA-WHAT!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

 

Why hello there.... Love-UH:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Always in moderation...of course.......

 

 

 

 

 



Krista..."The Burninator"!

The Setting: Our Bathroom in the morning before work...
 
 
I unscrew a cap of Antibiotic ointment and am about to spread some on an unfortunate burn brought on by my "evil" curling iron when I hear....
 
 
Steve: "No! Stop! What if you can't use that if you're pregnant?"
 
 
He snatches the tube of ointment away from me and begins to furiously check the "Warning" section of the medicine.
 
I snatch the tube back and point at the "Warning" section.
 
 
Me: "OH MY GAWD! It says it right here!"
 
"If you're pregnant and use this product.....you instantly turn into a fire-breathing DRAGON!"
 
"ROAR."


Then I make this gesture at him:

 
 
Heheheheeee.
 



Speaking of Dragons:

1. I have loved this VERY silly video since college.
2. I still find it hilarious.
3. AND..Yes. I own a "Trogdor" t-shirt....

 

 

"Oh Yeah. Check out all his MAJESTY!"

Just "Kickin It"

25 weeks this week and Peanut be " KICKIN' IT!"

I still can't feel his movements with my hand, but I am feeling lots of Peanut movement throughout the day and sometimes at night.

My Peanut is dancing all around and getting more excited to "Shake It"!

And, I don't think it's because I sing Lissie extremely loud and "out of tune" in my car...

It's because we are into month 6 already!

And I'll be coming into the final 3rd trimester in just 3 short weeks!

If I was getting a degree in "The College of Peanut" my finals would be approaching....

Time to kickstart my "studying of the baby books" into high gear!

Eeek!

Project: Peanut's Dresser

I've been wishing I had more time to refurbish furniture every since I discovered there is an easy inexpensive way how via these instructions:

All Things Thrifty Painting Furniture 101 and All Things Thrifty Glazing Furniture 101

I absolutely love that blog and if you are into crafting or creative-amAHzing-ness you should check it out too.

Anyways...I digress...

(Just love the word "digress" because I feel all fancy and "smart-like" when I use it) LOL

Inspired by All Things Thrifty, I first refurbished a coffee table as a "Happy Graduation from Law School" gift for my dear buddy Sarah.

Sarah's Coffee Table:

Before:

After:

Then, when I found out I was preggeroni, I knew that I wanted to find a dresser and flip it for my Peanut.

We found this dresser at a garage sale in May for only.........wait for it.............$35!!!

That price is Amaze. Balls.

If you add up the cost of the painting supplies that is only another $18, so the total cost of the dresser is $53. BOO...to...the...YOW!

How it's done:

(Steve did all the spray painting this time. As a good Daddy he didn't want me or Peanut inhaling the fumes)

1. Clean and Wash the dresser and remove the handles. My least favorite part. Cleaning=Lame. Sorry Mom! ;)


2. The dresser we purchased had some gunk that we think was glue or um we didn't want to know...on the surface. So, Steve and his awesome Momma, Grandma Beyer power sanded the top of the dresser. However this took the finish off and I learned that if you don't have a finish on part of piece of furniture it will look matte even under the spray paint so then we painted 2 coats of Polyurethane glaze on it. The glaze left a few rough areas so when it was dry, Steve lightly sanded it with 320 grit very fine sand paper. It made the dresser top very smooth and didn't take the glaze off.

3.  Then Steve primed the dresser with KILZ All Purpose Primer.

4. Then Steve spray painted the dresser with Krylon Gloss Ivory Spray Paint. We used 4 cans of spray paint as this dresser is very large. Dresser Dimensions: 71" x 31"x 18"

5. I glazed the dresser with Valspar Antiquing Glaze. You can find this little gem at Lowes for about $7. I have used one small bottle for 3 projects already and I still have enough left for one more project I think.

6. Steve spray painted the handles and knobs with Rustoleum Hammered Black Multi Purpose Spray.

7. To protect the surface and finish the project, Steve sprayed the dresser with Minwax Fast Drying Polyurethane Clear Gloss Spray. This step is optional, but recommended if the surface gets a lot of wear and tear like a dining room table or dresser top or coffee table etc.

8. Place handles on and Voila she is done!

Here are some shots of the dresser in Peanut's Room. Peanut's Room is very small but the dresser is absolutely perfect for the space and has all the storage we need: