Home Sweet Home

We're in our new home.
It's a deliciously wonderful chaotic home right now, but each day it's getting less chaotic and more home.
We love it.
We love love it.
So much space- both inside and out!!
I will be honest, tears welled up the other day as I was unpacking inside and looked out the window to see my boys playing in their very own sandbox and driving their bikes around and my love was organizing the tools in his garage....
It's our home.
And in another month or so, we will have a new little family member that can call this place home.
Exciting stuff!!!

Moving Week & Favorite Things

Well, next weekend at this time we'll be completely out of our apartment and have the keys turned in and all that.
I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!!!!!
So ready to get in and paint and be settled!!!

On that note, also ready for whatever flu-ish thing I have going on to be GONE.... I was hoping it was a 24 hour thing, but of course, it's been 2 days of non-stop sicky-gross-ness every time I stand up.... So, it better be gone here soon, because I don't have any room in my calendar this week for "sick time."

I also have to add in my most favorite things right now:
E:
- How you think brown eyes see better in the dark and blue eyes see better in the light. (You have the darkest brown eyes I've ever seen, by the way.)
- I was looking at a picture of a kidney the other day and you asked me what that was. I told you it was a kidney, and you replied "Oh. Well what does a grown-up-ney look like?"

Ez:
- You call me Momma-girl. Melts my heart, every single time. I hope you don't grow out of that for a long, long time.
- You see a semi truck? It's called a 'mommy-guck.' You see a carved pumpkin? You say 'sirly punkin.' (silly pumpkin.) The list goes on and on......

I love you boys so much! Can't wait to move you to our new home and get you all settled and having over 5 acres of our very own yard for you to play on!!

Good Times....

Distracted. A little concerned. Tired of coughing, tired of hearing coughing. Glad that we have been able to have 2 nights in the last week where we have been able to sleep through the night. Packing. Thinking of what I need to get for painting our new home. Planning moving.

So many things on my mind!

My little E is sick. Again. Fever, on and off. We thought he was better, and his fever is back. He's missing kindergarten. Again.

He's coughing. And coughing and coughing and coughing. I feel so bad for the poor little guy. Coughing to the point that he's woken himself up throwing up from coughing fits.

Today I was making lunch, he was playing. I realized it had been quiet for a few minutes too long and went to do a check on the boys. E was laying curled up in a ball on the floor, he felt sick. And that's when I felt him and he was burning hot and sick. And so I picked him up and got him cozy on the couch, poor thing didn't even want to go somewhere comfortable to lay down, just gave up on the floor!

Tomorrow morning, we are going to the doctor just to make sure everything's okay and make sure it's okay for him to go back to school and everything. This has gone on for too long. Well, this particular time has only been a week, but this is the 3rd time since July that this has happened- a week of sickness, fevers, etc....

Not to mention, if something is off and needing to be addressed, we'd like to address it before we get our new house in 9 days and move. (Just a little excited about that part of what's going on!!)

Ez has so far dodged "the sickness" mostly. He had a 24 hour period of probably almost that many dirty diapers (well, not quite... but close). Don't know if it's something else or the same thing just manifesting differently in his little body.

In case you were wondering, that's what we've been up to the last while. So I guess I should get back to it!!

I Am:

- so happy we found a home. a home. a place that will be ours, where we plan to stay, for a long long time.
- a little (okay, a lot) anxious about moving at over 8 months pregnant. I mean, I get winded just from walking up the stairs these days, not to mention my aching breaking back... and now I'm supposed to paint and clean a huge house and move everything over there?? it will be an intense couple days- but so very worth it!!
- glad that my E is settling in nicely to his new kindergarten class. because of us moving, he was switched from the morning to the afternoon class as of this week so he can ride the bus, it was his choice to either stay in the same class and I'd drive him or switch classes and take the school bus! (and because he chose to switch, we figured it would be easier to switch him now instead of waiting until we move and having one other transition then!) he knew a few kids in the afternoon class before switching, and at least it's still obviously the same teacher and same classroom....
- happy that my little Ez is sleeping after an extremely grumpy late morning/ early afternoon, and love that when he's grumpy, he asks for "Momma minute!" (to cuddle with me for a bit.)
- loving small town living, that there are less than 30 kids total in kindergarten between 2 classes at the only elementary school, that everyone knows everyone and the accountability that goes with that, walking to the post office and chatting with the lady who runs it because I know her from way back when I was a little girl and lived here....
- loving having family members also be some of my best friends
- absolutely in love with my husband and our 2 little men
- so impatient to get settled in our new house so I can start going with all my hormones and instincts and FINALLY start getting ready for my new little sweet heart to join our family!!!
- looking so forward to holding my new little baby, I can't wait!!!

Favorite Snippets

This morning while I was taking a shower, I thought to myself how the boys were playing so nicely together and I hadn't heard them once. I peek around the corner and see Ez sitting on E's lap, E had gotten him cozy with his special blanket on top of both of them, gently touching Ez and Ez is singing his 'cozy' song that he usually only sings when feeling the most cuddly before bed time or nap time.

Today after Ez woke up from nap he apparently wanted to play with his big brother, so he went (all by himself) and got out 2 semi-trucks, he put cars in the back of both of them, and then drove one over to his brother and said "here you go, sweetheart" in his cute not-quite-2-year-old voice to E.

These moments far outweigh the occasional bickering over toys or occasional too-much-roughness.

I am blessed.

We're Moving!!

Surprise!!!

We bought a beautiful place up here.... Just over 5 acres of land, a nice home with enough bedrooms for each of our soon-to-be 3 children to have their own room!! (oh it will be SO NICE!!)

We're just outside of the same tiny little town that we currently live in, just out in the country. So E doesn't have to switch schools or anything....

We're moving in the middle of November, I'll be 8 months pregnant. Yup, that's some good times right there!! But, I only have to remind myself of the alternative (staying here and having 3 children!) to remember that I will force myself to have enough energy and good thoughts to make it work!

Oh it's a dream come true for this family!!! After losing so much, after living in limbo for so long, after not owning a home for almost 2 years now, after trying so hard to be putting everything back together again..... We're ready to put those roots down and feel a bit more stable! Seriously, I am more excited about buying this property than I was about even buying our first home. It really is a dream come true (and a huge, huge blessing)!

Yup, we're pretty giddy around here.

On that note, I need to go call our utility company and phone company to get some stuff transferred.....

Later!!!

BOY or GIRL???

I'm ready to know, that's for sure! With E, I was so sure I was having a boy I bought blue bedding and all that for his crib before having him. I knew I was having a boy. I had a one day freakout about 2 weeks before he was born because I realized "I might have a girl! Oh my goodness, what am I going to do if I have a girl?! I've never thought of that!!"
With Ez, I must have been too busy to pay attention to any intuition because I had none. Nope, no clue. Boy? Girl? No clue.
Same this time around. I'd say if I have any feelings, they'd be leaning towards the pink side of things, but really, I have no clue.
Things that make me think boy are that I'm carrying the exact same as with my other 2. That's about it.
Things that make me think girl are that my morning sickness only lasted for 3 1/2 or so months (and it was considerably longer with my other 2), I'm actually getting the occasional blemish (I didn't know that could happen when I am pregnant!!?? I've always had the most perfect skin in the world when I've been pregnant!) I don't have to take iron for the first time ever (not that it means anything, but it's just different from usual for me) and this little ones heart rate is always a bit higher than my other 2 were, but of course, not so much that it's crazy different....

Sad how with my first we took a preggo pic every 2 weeks religiously. With my 2nd we took a few (here's the post with a pic at 29 wks), and with this one, this picture is the 2nd one we've taken. The first one I have lost somewhere and don't have a clue how many weeks I was for it anyway.... I'm 30 weeks and counting!!! A pic of my belly, as requested....