Guess its time to make it "blog official", even though everyone who reads this already knows. By the end of next May, our family of 5 will be a nice even family of 6. Oh gosh - unless God wants to really challenge us with twins or something crazy like that.... Ok, lets not go there. Anyway, I'm only about 6 weeks along and am feeling quite well. Only one day did I feel yucky, but that's been it. I know its still really early, so there is plenty of time to start getting that 'sick' feeling. It seems I felt sicker with the girls than I did with Eben, and from the get-go, Jared and I thought this was a boy, so maybe feeling good is a "boy thing". I have guessed all the kid's genders correctly thus far, though I don't really know if it was just what I wanted, or actually what my gut said. Either way, 3 for 3 is pretty good. I figure we've got to even things out. If its a boy that makes 2 boys and 2 girls in our family, 4 boys and 4 girls on my side, and 3 boys and 3 girls on Jared's side. It just makes sense :) We shall see though. I do think it would be strange to have 3 girls. Poor Eben really wants a boy. We had debated not telling the kids we were pregnant until I was showing a little, but haha, like I could wait!! The kids shouted "YAAAAAY!" for about a minute straight when we told them. They talk about the baby every day and I just love hearing them. Nora asks what seat the baby will sit it, Aliza asks every morning if the baby is still in my tummy, they talk about how big the baby is, Aliza asked if she could hold it. I just love it. For now anyway. We have a very long wait, so we'll see if they sort of forget about it a little or if they'll be driving me bonkers by Christmas asking when the baby is coming. :)
So this is my first year, and last for a few, that I will have some time to myself. Wow! I just realized that. Next year Nora and Aliza will be in school 1/2 day every day, but I'll have the new baby, so this is really the only time for 3 years that I'll have some "me mornings". That's weird. Anyway, I am filling it with cleaning, reading, helping in Eben's class, PTO stuff, and walking. Oh yeah, throw in a few minutes of feeling bad that Nora was crying yet again as I left her at school and that about sums it up. Good times. She talks about how she likes if after school, but the anticipation of school just makes her cry. I try not to come right out and say "its a school day" even if she asks, b/c then she is just in tears until we get to school. I'm hoping it continues to get better. We also continue to have struggles with potty training. Why are these girls so difficult. Oh yeah, probably b/c their mom is super impatient and makes them potty train when they aren't ready.... ugh!! So, pretty much every day she has an accident or two, or more. She actually went two whole day with being dry, but then today she had 3 accidents. I just don't get it. When we notice she says, "I'm sorry Mommy. I love you." Can she be any cuter, the little rascal!!
Eben and Aliza are doing well in school. Since I'm helping a little in E's class I can see he is at the top of the class for sure. Jared and I are very proud. He is doing great at reading too, which is so wonderful too! Aliza likes school, even though some days she says she doesn't want to go. Today she said something like, "Do I have school tomorrow and I don't want to go?" What a goof.
And on to our last topic of the post. BEES. If I never swat at another yellow jacket in this house it will be too soon!!! It is ridiculous. I can't even imagine how many I've killed in the past week. The nest, however far it is inside our wall, must be the size of me!! I am grateful however that they seem to be pretty laid back at this time of year. If we swat and miss, they don't seem to care. They never are aggressive. They usually just sort of seem drunk - crashing into the walls and lights. Weird things. So, first off we foamed up the entrance to the nest, or at least as close to where we thought it was. Yay, no more bees coming in! Oh, but wait, that means we have trapped all the bees in the nest, and therefore in our house. Not so good. They liked clinging to the basement windows with the light, so Jared did some spraying and killed a bunch. But they just kept coming. Today after coming home this morning, there were 10 on the hall window. We finally found out they were coming up from a huge hole near the heating vent in the living room. I killed about 6 just walking out from under the vent. Nothing like having to watch where you step in your own living room so you don't step on a bee! So, Jared filled that in. Hopefully they will be mostly trapped in the basement. Like I said before, they like to cling to the light from the windows down there, so maybe we'll get some more spray and zap those buggers. We are SO over these stupid things. The poor kids. A very common phrase from them these days is, "There's another bug." Stupid things....not my kids, of course :)
Wow, how was that for a super lame paragraph about our bees. Sorry you just had to read that.
Later all! Oh, enjoy the pics of the kidlets :)
