bathtime!

last night kelvin got cole out of the tub after his bath so i could take a much needed but VERY quick soak. cole was just SO cute, i had to take pictures. of course. unfortunately, i no longer have my free trial for corel and every other photo software that i have tried, i just am not completely happy with (thanks much for the suggestions from others though!). so until we get the software from best buy, i'm outta luck for monkeying around with them!
i LOVE the expression- just wonder what he was thinking!

anyhoo, tonight we are leaving cole with philip and jeanette and the kids so we can go to olive garden. i know it's a new mommy thing that i really need to get over, but i felt so bad asking if they would like to take cole. i mean, they have their own kids and maybe they had things they want to do... i feel really guilty even thinking about asking someone to take him for awhile! oh well... we need an hour or two to ourselves, i guess. so i AM looking forward to it, just with the big cloud of guilt hanging over me in the meantime. i have no doubt that cole will be fine, it's the sitters i'm worried about!! (lol)

i wish i'd had the camera with me on wednesday night on the way to bible study... with the icky weather coming in, the sky ahead of us was this really dark gray-blue, but the sun setting behind us was an intense gold, amazingly bright. there was this dead tree in a field kind of close to the road that we pass all the time, and it's gray and weathered, and the way it was lit up by the sun with the really dark sky behind was just awesome. it would have made an amazing picture, but since i didn't have the camera... it would have been even better if i had a "good" camera. keep dreaming. huh.

another though i had today- this time around, i am going to splurge and get a pair or two (or three, we'll see) of maternity pj's. i didn't last time, but it was also summer before i got huge, and so i got away with sleeping in a tank top and my underwear (large enough to accomodate a small toddler as a parachute, but really comfy...), but this time it will be late fall and winter, and now that we have been down here for awhile, we'll be freezing once it gets below 65. tanks and undies just won't do this time. but enough of my rambling... it's time to go grocery shopping so that we can make our date!!!