i'll have to owe you...

i know it's ten smile tuesday...but its also VBS week (meaning i'm spending the mornings crafting with 250 4th-6th graders!)...and i'm also 33 weeks pregnant and exhausted! :) we have been smiling....and cooking and stocking the freezer (it seems my "nesting" this time around has mostly involved food-ish items)...and dressing up like cows for free chick-fil-a....and making delicious trail mix (and eating it...of course)...and going to OB appointments and hearing a certain precious little heartbeat....and enjoying some long overdue time with dear, dear friends...and celebrating in a pregnancy/new birth boom of sorts as of late...and on and on and on.

my belly just keeps on a-growin' (and seriously, i find myself wondering just how much more it can really expand!)--this time around i am definitely carrying the baby much, much differently...as in straight out in front instead of all over my body. and this sweet little baby...the one tucked safely inside...well, this baby NEVER stops moving...okay, that might be a slight exaggeration, but just slightly...really, even as i type i am watching the baby trace patterns across my belly with his/her foot.

elizabeth would love to tell you all about how much fun she is having at VBS...and perhaps tell you all about all of her little friends she is hanging out with. she would surely love to show you her little boat craft from yesterday...or perhaps the "fishy pond" she made today...or, she could go on for hours about riding the bikes during recreation time...or the delightful afternoon she spent with her "aunt" jill and best buddy brennan while mommy visited the OB this afternoon.

and kate...well, she would surely just love to smile at you...and babble away some jibberish of a little story. she could tell you of her absolute LOVE of strawberries...and newfound love of peaches...and that mommy and daddy were elated that this fruit love translated into great bribery training in getting her to eat her entire plate of dinner last night. she would surely smile and tell you all about the jellybeans she enjoyed as a result of that clean plate...and share that in just 3 short weeks she turns TWO (where oh where is time going!).

so i suppose i will have to owe you the "official" smiles...and you will just have to savor these little tidbits of moments! :)