We're Expecting!!!!!

that's right. baby number three is on the way. and if you ask us how we were persuaded to go for the third I give you

Exhibit A

whoops let's try that again. . .

hmmm. better...
le'ts move on to Exhibit B

well of course how can we not want more of that??

so put in your votes now for girl or boy becuase you have a long wait people. we are going to leave it a surprise if we can. mwah haa haaa. . .okay a little dramatic maybe. now please excuse me while I go attempt to clean house without puking. oh, and the motto this time around?
" 'tis better to burp than barf "  . . .something to think about. Due date is June 10th. but since that is my birthday and I already share it with a twin there will be an induction on the 9th. well, we'll see.

Beautiful Butterflies

Yes blake freaked out and convinced trinity the butterflies were too scary and we had to leave the exhibit. Are you kidding me? I LOVE butterfly exhibits! And they love me. A morhpus Blue or whatever the heck they are called landed right on my shoulder but of course it did not open it's wings for the shot. I thought I would share a couple of the nice ones. My favorites are the bottom three.

 they loved me, they really did!

 this shot is just okay

 two different ones at once. that was lucky.

 I'm watching you. . .

 good old black and yellow. how's that for a scientific name?

 this was my favorite butterfly though the picture doesn't do it justice. enourmous and pink!

just a really pretty flower

 getting better, bottom left a little washed out

 this green one was truly beautiful

Hello!

my super fave.

science center

Today we took the kids to the Seattle Science Center for the first time. They seemed to have fun but really mostly wanted to play with the water cannons. It was great to hang out with my bff Laura and her boy Eric. He's a SCIENTIST (echo echo echo). Jeremy has a man crush, hah ha. Anyway, they are starting a new program where scientists give mock-up demonstrations of their actual experiments and we get to pepper them with questions, or if it's more fun, heckle them. hee hee. Nah, I didn't heckle him. =) I forgot to take pictures of his demonstration though. lame. Blake was a little nervous in the dinosouar section but they LOVED anything to do with water. They also particularly liked the bee hive that had glass walls. you could see the bees coming and going from the outside through a wide plastic tube. Last but not least trinity's favorite was probably this giant square hung from chains. you pay two bucks for a large sheet of paper and markers and you get to push it around and make cool designs like a giant spirograph or whatever those toys are called. Lest you think it the perfect outing it was by this time that Jeremy was in full swing allergy attack (as usual whenever we try something fun on the weekend) and trinity went bersek when my "helping" her swing it wide to make a big circle ended with the paper getting caught above the pen and smashing up. Ugh. As I pulled it off and straightened it back out she screamed at me that I had ruined it and put on about as big a fit as a six year old can. Can you say embarressing? this was followed by our attempt to leave during blake's major no-nap meltdown when we wouldn't let him carry the giant paper to the car on this blustery day but instead "rolled" it up to keep it safe. He assumed that meant folding it and ruining it and proceeded to scream and cry and fight us halfway to the car where Jeremy finally picked him up and forced him to chill. Thank heaven sanity was restored when he fell asleep two minutes into the car ride home. So here are some pics.

 trinity was actually a good shot

 they both have their eyes closed. lol

 more fun with water (see blake in background)

 cool amphibion

 trinity weighs 1,000 lbs on the sun. . .

 cool planet thingy

 the bee hive

 mommy the only one brave enough to hold the hissing cockroach

the space needle