Family news:
- We left our sweet little blue house on S. Dunn St and moved into a house with more bedrooms and a much bigger back yard. The move happened over Thanksgiving weekend. Thanks to my parents for their help with the move and all our friends who pitched in as well! We all adjusted to the new house, and feel pretty settled. Already had to replace the windows, showers and tubs, paint every wall, Randy has started a fence (with some rain delays), Randy is also in the process of changing out some doors and hardware. There are many, many more projects to be done, but they will just take time.
- Guess what, we are having a baby! And it is a BOY! And he is coming in a few weeks, due date is June 13. I hope to do the vbac and I hope he comes early. If not, I will be very tempted to schedule me up a c-section. The pregnancy has gone very well so far. I am pretty blessed to have easy pregnancies and often forget that I am even pregnant at all, except for the extra ice cream that I treat myself too.
- Starting next week, we will be out of a kitchen for two weeks...hopefully only two weeks! Kitchen remodel is beginning and I am so looking forward to seeing the end product! New cabinets, countertop, and flooring! As long as the kitchen is finished before the baby comes, we should be all good.
- I will finish up teaching next week with the final exam being on Wednesday. It has been a good semester, but I am ready for a break. Not looking forward to all of the end-of-the-semester emails from students wanting to bump up their grade...don't know why they all wait until the end of the semester to get help!
- Rebekah: Our little girl is now 3 1/2 years old. She is starting to ask a lot of "what does that mean" questions, mostly about vocabulary. Just soaking everything in. She still LOVES babies and is looking forward to hugging her new brother. She can be so sweet with her sisters too. It is fun to see her talk and interact with them (when they are getting along). Our precious time is at bedtime when she wants me to sing "Amazing Grace" and rub her arm. She just closes her eyes and enjoys it. She can sing the whole sing on her own as well and often does as she "plays" the piano. Currently when Rebekah colors a picture, it will be a rainbow, with people underneath, a sun above and grass down below. Very predictable, but she is good at it. It can be hard to get her to try at something that she isn't good at. She doesn't like it when it isn't exactly how she wants it to be....a little bit on the perfectionist side. As we transition between needing a nap and not needing a nap, we have been experiencing lots of meltdowns. I just pray they ease up when she turns 4!
- Lydia, 2 1/2: Our sweet little princess is a little honey. Usually the first to share with her sisters, or help me with a chore. Get her really mad, however and she will bite you (mostly Rebekah...we are working on this) or she will turn into a wet noodle that you can't pick up. She will say the sweetest things and has a large imagination. Her new thing is to pretend that Rebekah's room is her room. She also cares for a large assortment of dolls and animals and takes really good care of them when they are sick. She also has somewhat mastered the potty. She wants to go once in a while, but will go right away. She will even do it by herself! Rewards are helpful and I think if I had time to really focus on just her and the potty, she could have it down in a few days. She had a few weeks in big girls pants, but then too many accidents have put her back into diapers. She will use the potty at least 1-2 times per day. Candy is a big motivation for her...somehow all the girls have their mom's sweet-tooth!
- Eve, 2 1/2: Little peanut... I mean princess! This girl is a silly little thing. She just figured out how to climb down from the bar stools. Seriously, this is a wonderful thing. Her sisters have been doing it forever and it is always a pain when she climbs up all the time and we need to help her down. Little things, I know, but a big step for her! She also has been wanting to go to the potty like her sisters. She sits and sits and sits....almost as bad as that potty book about Prudence...and sits and sits and seriously, the girl has no idea what she is doing on the potty! Today I can announce that before nap, after sitting for 30+ minutes, she made some tinkles! We all celebrated with the potty dance and chocolate! Not sure if it will become easier for her, but I sure hope so. Eve is always carrying around something, be it her kitty, or her spoon, or a medicine dropper, or a bracelet, or some little trinket. She is so funny about always having her "thing". Eve and Lydia have moved into big girl toddler beds. They are doing really well, except naps can be rough. The have a lot of fun together and really just love to laugh. Sometimes it is hard for me to be stern and separate them for naps when they can be so funny.
This is probably way to long...I promise....to any of you still readying at this point, to be better at blogging so the posts are not this long! I will try to post later this week about our adventures in cloth diapers...just on day 3 with Eve and Lydia! Also, check out the Picasa pictures. Just click on the girl's picture to go to the album.
