No answers. Just stories.
I did take the picture for March. It’s still in my camera. It was a horrible picture. I was contracting when I took it, trying to meet all my little obligations before driving to Labor and Delivery on that weird, weird day.
So just trust me — it was, like, gray and rainy and stuff. And sorry.
To make it up to you, here’s April. Which we did as a live-action.
Da Momma: Elizabeth, a journalist and college instructor. Formerly a latte-slinging, cell phone-talking Washington political junkie. Now a wild-dancing accidentally offensive woman with an irrational passion for flinging things on the floor and hanging things from ceilings. Wants you to think she's a grown-up, even though she calls her Dad the minute things get complicated.
Baby Eden: The Schmoopy. My sweet little Three, who shrank instead of grew. But she's always had Momma's back.
Mary: Devoted to hermit crabs and FREAKING OUT. Made me a mother.
Karenna: Peekaboo Streak. The Roodle, Doodley. Everybody knows about Roo. Passionate about folk music. Some werewolf tendencies. Always looking for new employees. Sophisticated vocabulary
Cute Husband, Esq: A former Marine, it was he who instilled in our daughters a love of getting up very early in the morning to go off and do things. Some days he's lucky he's still alive.
Da Posse: Three friends, six years, eight kids. Because no one can ever see her own stuff. So you gotta get some friends who see yours and tell you about it. And then promptly forget it because they are easily distracted by shiny objects. Oooo. Shiny. The moms aren't in this shot. Nor three of the kids. Just use your freaking imagination.
Moonbeam and Sunbeam: Yes, okay, somehow or other they got the same sorta names as our cats, Moonlight and Sunshine. That was a total accident. However, like the cats, they are super-cuddly, will get food for themselves if hungry, and they're part of the family. Like the rest of the family, they believe in the power of liquor, drugs, and hot glue. They have no fear of blood.
The Beasties: Two cats. And some cacti that refuse to die. This is a picture of a fish we killed a long time ago. Need to update that.
Look at that lovely round belly! Glorious
That’s pretty freaking adorable, right there. =)
You look fabulous!!
That smile tells the whole story!
Now, that’s a big baby! The angle is the picture is funny – it looks like you have one leg. And; you are standing up very well for somebody with such a big belly and only one leg!
I love it! You are beautiful! And what a cute maternity dress, too!
Oh wow, you look amazing! I could never pull off a dress in the last month of pregnancy, a mu mu maybe, but nothing that required shaving my legs. There are certain ways you just can’t bend at that point.
That is what life is all about my friend. Much better than a gloomy day in the backyard
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Your hair is looking amazing long and pretty.
Thank you all. It was super-cold when we took this shot. Sunbeam, Moonbeam and Sunbeam’s Twin were making faces behind the photographer, which had me laughing pretty hard. We didn’t get any great shots, but I like this one all right, and it does capture Delicate Flower’s size.
Ei: the hair. I grow it every pregnancy and then cut it and donate it to Locks of Love. I like thinking that the hair I grew with each girl went on to give another girl a new life, too.
You look positively radiant!
Damn, Liz…not only do you look radiant during pregnancy but you grow your hair to donate to Locks of Love afterwards? Thank God you also blog about your imperfections though I’m beginning to think those are just made up.
Oh Liz…you look all glowy and HAPPY! Congrats!
You are gorgeous!
That’s a beautiful sentiment, Liz. I have a sweet girl in my family who got herself a LoL wig this last year. It was a pretty cool thing. She thought it was HILARIOUS that her daddy would wear it sometimes (he shaved his head in support of her). So you might be giving some new life to a daddy too
You are freaking gorgeous!
You look wonderful!
This picture makes me want to have a third. Absolutely beautiful.
Beautiful! I grew my hair out while I was pregnant with #3 also. Just had it chopped off a couple of weeks ago (#3 is 10 months now) and donated 10 inches to LoL. It was nice telling my older kids about it too.