Still waiting ...

Still waiting for baby here. God's certainly got a plan in mind for when she's coming; we just wish we knew that plan, too :) I was thinking Mother's Day would have been a nice day to have a baby, but I guess God has other plans.

We've been having some fairly low-key weekends and evenings lately, especially since Matt and I are still fighting our stuffy noses. The whole family enjoys taking naps, or at least rests, in the afternoon and then playing outside in the late afternoon and after dinner. One benefit of not having the baby yet is that we've been able to put in most of the garden already during these outside times. Peas, onions, lettuce, broccoli, spinach, beets, radishes, etc. are all up and growing well. We planted potatoes a few weeks back and put in the beans, tomatoes, and some herbs this past weekend. Plus, we've been able to have asparagus a few times a week for awhile now and can see flowers/fruit growing on our strawberries, raspberries, and fruit trees. Hooray for spring!

Anna's become quite the talker on the phone lately. She tends to give a bit of a running commentary (some intelligible, some unintelligible) about what she's done lately or what she sees. It usually helps if Matt or I is on another line to help translate for her, or to prompt her conversation. She did very well telling both of her Grandmas "Happy Modder's Day, Gramma" on Sunday ;)

Actually, Anna's gotten a couple of special calls from her friends lately, asking for play dates. Last Thursday night, Sadie called to ask if Anna wanted to play at a park on Friday morning and then Carly called last night to see if Anna wanted to come out and play. Of course, anything involving outside gets an immediate positive response from Anna.

In fact, since we pulled our picnic table out of the garden shed a few weeks back, she asks "Anna eat outside?" for almost every meal. I don't mind, as long as it's not raining or too cold, because then there's less to clean up afterwards :) One afternoon last week we even had a picnic snack out in the yard so we could watch the tractor go back and forth in the field planting seeds!