you're so corny!

the corn is ripening just about everywhere you go, and my dad's sweet corn patch isn't excluded.

the kids and i went up to do the first batch of frozen corn yesterday. we did two rounds, and wound up with 34 cups. and then we had corn on the cob with dinner.

madi really liked the spinach-ham-and-swiss cheese quiche i whipped up (cole did too, actually. it shocked me.)

cole really went goofy for corn. he helped mom and i husk some, then helped with the blanching process. he helped with the end part, since that involves cold water... we didn't need anyone's little fingers getting burned! when we started cutting it, though, he REALLY had a ball. he was eating it as fast as mom could cut it off the cob. i had to cut him off (i felt so bad because he obviously loved it)- i was afraid he'd get sick from eating so much corn!
i think he takes after my dad... they both can make an entire meal out of fresh corn.

and this is crazy, i know, but i'm still in a state of half-disbelief...

four days, four tests, four positives.

it just blows my mind.

see, when it comes to this, i'm a "doubting thomas". even when i was first pregnant with cole and then with madi, i never completely believed it until we got to hear their little heartbeats. same with this one... since that's weeks away yet, i just had to test twice more, to be extra-extra sure. if these things were free, i'd test every day for peace of mind.

i guess i'm not entirely sure why i don't let myself just be satisfied with the results of the first two- maybe it's because i'm afraid (now that i'm head-over-heels in love with this itty bitty person) of losing him or her. everything went smoothly with cole and madi, but they didn't the first two times- yes, that must be it. fear. but even with that niggling worry, i'm still enjoying this.

even the nausea/hunger.

pregnancy has got to be the ONLY time a person can feel yucky and absolutely ravenous at the same time.

(and when i say "yucky", i mean mild nausea... i've been fortunate enough to not have ever had the puking that lots of people get. i'm pretty lucky!)