vegetable soup and baby flutters

today was just a really good day around here. i woke up with a belly that was a bit rounder than yesterday, school went really well, wolfgang took two long naps, i felt well enough to bake blueberry muffins and chop veggies for soup. the icing on the cake was that i felt a butterfly flapping it's gracious wings in my tummy. a spark of magic ... immediately filling me with giddy feelings and it finally hitting me ... there really is a baby in there! at one point i overheard eleanor telling wolfgang in a baby voice, "you're going to be a big brother ... yesssss you are." it was music to my ears. she has even been showing him how to hold and feed her baby dolls. as of right now he likes to toss them on the floor, but he'll get there. ha ha. arick pointed out that he noticed there is a jar of pickles in the fridge and that i haven't purchased pickles since i was pregnant with eleanor ... maybe girl??? who knows! we will be happy either way. anyway, it was a really good day and i hope you all had a really good day, too. xo. 

p.s. this song