Arkansas weather

It's been a cold, rainy day here. Lane volunteered at an inner-city medical clinic this morning, which he really enjoyed. He hopes to sign up for another time in March. He then had to study for the remainder of the day. The kids and I stayed inside all day. We played "Jason's Deli Restaurant", watched too many cartoons and made strawberry milkshakes. (By the way, Rhett was the manager and chef of the environmentally-friendly pretend restaurant. He brought a basket to the table and told me to put everything in it when we were finished with our meal. He said, "We sort through everything: we wash the dishes and use them more times, we put the things like banana peels in the compost pile and we pick the seeds out the apples to plant and grow new trees so we'll have more apples for the restaurant.")

This evening, we made a quick trip to the clothing store where I photographed the possible portrait dresses last week (thank you for your comments and suggestions--I appreciated the input!). I thought their sale ended today (it's actually tomorrow), so I wanted to go ahead and get A's dress. I decided to try my top two choices on her--the all white one and the white and pink one. I really thought I would probably get the plain white one, but this one seemed to fit just a little better and the little bit of pink seemed really sweet on her. So I went with this one:
I didn't get a bow, socks, etc. today because the kids were in the dressing room slamming the door over and OVER, and I felt like we were driving the sales lady crazy. We'll figure out shoes/accessories later, but I'm glad to have this decided on before Crosby arrives. Now if it will just stop snowing so the azaleas can bloom, we'll be in good shape!

We have a few jonquils blooming along our front sidewalk, but can you see the sleet falling on them? It was sleeting when we left for the clothing store...
...and snowing hard by the time we left there to go meet Lane at McAlister's for dinner. I took this from the car. You just never know about Arkansas weather. Three days ago we were at the park and Rhett was wearing shorts. I think the poor Bradford Pear trees might have rushed spring a bit.Well, I said at week 30 that I was done posting pictures, but I decided to do a 35 week photo just for the sake of documentation (warning--it might scare you!). Maybe I'll do one more "on the way to the hospital" photo at 40 weeks (or hopefully a few days before that). I was glad Alexee wanted to be in the picture with me. Rhett was the photographer.

Yikes! 35 weeks tomorrow:

It has been a truly happy, healthy pregnancy. I'm so thankful for that. It is, however, getting more and more difficult to take a deep breath, keep up with Alexee, lift her into her car seat, crib, etc. I'm also finding it difficult to get comfortable at night. I wake up a lot. But I want to cherish these last 5 weeks of pregnancy because this is it for us (assuming no BIG surprises from the Good Lord). Even though I feel like Crosby is the perfect way to complete our family, the thought of closing this special chapter of my life hurts my heart a little bit. I'm extremely grateful that I've had the blessing of experiencing God's miracle of new life.