140, 40, 7, 6, 3

This post is all about the numbers.

Its been 140 days since my last post where I announced that we are expecting a baby in May. A lot can happen in 140 days. This may be the understatement of the year.

For instance I was challenged to learn how to make macarons. The French version. The incredibly fussy, its the hardest thing I have ever made version. Its true I never shed tears during the process; unlike the lemon tart that I ruined driving it to a party or the beef burgandy that ended in disaster 10 minutes before company came over for dinner. But still, I have never had to give something 3 attempts before I felt like I was getting the hang of it.

I made pistacho macarons with chocolate ganache frosting.

And lemon macarons with vanilla bean buttercream. They are pretty. They are also incredibly tasty. I think I will make them again. Some day. These days I find myself thinking about making stuff like this.

40 days of Lent came and went. This year I focused on prayer and feel like the Lord revealed some more of His perspective on suffering. More about this later, as I have lots of thoughts to digest and put to paper...err....blog post.

7 items still on my master to-do list before Wednesday. Some are easy, like putting a trash can in the bedroom. Others are more time consuming, like finishing the layout and wordsmithing of the baby announcements. I was inspired by the birth announcement for my Aunt Susan that her father came up with when she was born several decades ago.

Speaking of which, there are only 6 days until this baby will be here. This makes me both full of anticipation because I can not wait to meet this little guy AND full of holy-smokes-we-have-so-much-to-do and I am So Tired, how will it all get done?

There may be some half-priced Starbucks involved.

And while we are on the subject of this baby, we have no idea what to name him. Last night we whittled the list down to 3. Today I was ready to chuck them all out and start over. You can read more about our name saga here. What is currently written on the board; Logan, Desmond, and Roland. Thoughts??

140 days has brought a change of season and big changes for Cedric too. We just went through a stuttering stage. Its adorable to me. You can see it in his face that he has LOTS to say but just gets hung up on the first syllable or even the first word. For example:

Hey, hey, hey, hey what's happening? Are those men building something with that boom lift and skidstear?

The stuttering never bothers me - it usually goes away in a few weeks and it usually indicates that he is going through a language development burst. Today he pointed out a picture of an apple looking at a peach and asked me what I thought they were thinking about. He's never asked something like that before or indicated that he understands other people (or apples/peaches) may have their own thoughts/perspectives.

So I guess that leaves me with 1 - 1 new thing that my 3 year old did to amaze me.