Almost finished

We are almost completely done moving stuff around. We have a couple of small things to take out of Mara's new room and need to get her a box spring. We got a mattress from a friend who had a mattress and the rails, but we didn't realize it had no box spring. So for now she's on the floor on just the mattress, but is still loving it. Asher is just fine in his "new" bed, which was just Mara's old full size. He needs rails for his, but he's happy too. We'll also need to get him some sheets that aren't pink, but at least he's got his superman pillow. I got his dresser moved in there today and vacuumed and moved stuff around and began the process of putting the baby's clothes into his dresser. And our room has all of our furniture, I've got the cradle set up by my side of the bed (I LOVE where it fits right into this corner, totally out of the way. We really have so much more room than we had before.) and almost everything is put away. Tim just has some stuff that needs to get moved out, like some toys and books. Tim spent the day cleaning the disaster of a playroom. And I really mean disaster. I haven't been in there in like a week for fear of falling because there was no where to walk. The kids trashed it and then we just didn't care because we knew we were getting ready to move stuff around and it was a low priority. But now it is almost clean too. Besides getting caught up on laundry and then just some normal light cleaning, I think I am totally just really ready for the baby to just GET HERE.

I have an appointment tomorrow, where I expect to find out that I am at least farther along than last week. But none of that helps and I don't really care unless I go into labor. Either way I know I'll have him by next week or so. I go to bed each night hoping to get woken up by contractions. Instead I keep getting woken up by the kids. So I haven't been getting much sleep, which has just been making me feel crappy. And the baby still keeps jamming his foot into my ribs. Good times.

Still around

Ugh. I don't really care that I haven't had the baby yet, but I just really don't want to have another c section. If I don't have him soon, then I don't have another option. So I am getting very frustrated. Everyone I know is having their babies early, and mine just don't want to come out.

Oh well. I am getting stuff done finally. Tim is out picking up a dresser right now for Asher, since the kids destroyed his and his clothes have been in the baby's dresser. We are in the process of moving our stuff to a bedroom downstairs and Mara into our room. It will be much better to separate Mara and Asher, especially since she starts school in a couple of weeks. Plus, Asher and the baby will share a room once the baby moves out of our room. I got my whole closet moved downstairs yesterday. That room has an actual real sized closet (the closets upstairs are ridiculous) so Tim finally has a place to put his clothes in the same room we sleep in. We should be ready to start moving furniture soon, we just have to get someone to help. Tim seems to think he can move it himself (it's just our dresser and bed) but I think he is underestimating their weight, he thinks I am underestimating his strength. Once it all gets done, it will be a little more organized around here (I clean SO well when I am moving stuff around)and everything I think will mostly have a place. I am also great at getting rid of things, but only when I am moving. The life of an Army brat I guess. That's when I do my purging. I don't know how to go through and organize unless it's in the process of moving. My closet looks great right now though. :)

My best friend Deb had her baby last monday, so I am excited for her. I wish I could have visited with them longer (and held the baby more) but I had my munchkins with me and I think I sufficiently scared both Deb and her husband about their future in parenting. :)

Not much else to say. Some friends of mine threw me a baby shower last weekend, which was really nice and so sweet of them, since I have never had one before. It was fun. I will have to share pictures once I get them sent to me. And just for fun, here is one taken of me last weekend, actually it was after my shower. I look huge.

The week so far

Not much going on..I got to go see an advance screening of Harry Potter on tuesday afternoon. Thanks Deb! That was awesome. It got a bit rough near the end when I started to get tired of sitting, but it was much better than trying to go to a late show. I was just glad that I got to see early. It was awesome, I can't wait for the next two!
Today my mommies group was on Good Things Utah, which was way fun. I got to go be in the audience. It was a little sucky though because the audience just sits on bleachers and by the second commercial break I was fidgeting around and my legs were going numb. I finally had to stand up during one of the breaks, but then the hosts of the show told me my belly was cute and started talking to me. They asked when I was due, and if baby was just done with sitting on those bleachers, and then someone brought three extra little pads for me to sit on Of course I got all red because I hate having attention drawn to myself. It was a lot of fun though, and the ladies were really nice.
I have an appointment tomorrow, so I am looking forward to seeing if I am any further along than last week. I hope so. We have started the process of trying to move things around, so hopefully we get that done before the baby comes.

once a week

I am already down to appointments once a week. On one hand, I am so ready to have this baby. I see people with little babies and can't wait for mine. On the other hand, he can hang on as long as he wants. I have a lot of things to get done before he gets here and not enough time, energy, motivation, or opportunity in which to get it done. We need to move our room downstairs and move Mara into our room. In order to accomplish that, I need to clean out my craft room, which kind of became the "catch all" place, and Tim needs to clean out "his" room, aka the place where he has all of his toys and which will become our room. Asher is such a handful that I can never get much done. He sees me being busy as his opportunity to get into all the trouble he wants. By the time I ever have the opportunity to do things, (like once the kids are in bed) I am way to tired to get it done at that point. I keep waiting for nesting to kick in. I will welcome it. I did clean and rearrange the living room the other day though.

I did have an appointment today. I am offically at the point (with the pushed back due date) where they will not stop me if I go into labor, which is the worst waiting period EVER, knowing it could just happen at any time. My doctor is going to look over my dates and info, since they pushed me back three weeks. We both don't want there to be any issues or problems that arise from going too far past my due date. Since I had a c section last time they won't let me go past really, so we need to make sure we have an accurate-ish guess of when that really is. But I am almost at a 2, which is really nothing, but at least it's something, ha ha. And it should move along faster since it's my third. I just keep waiting and willing for my water to break. I hate the "any day now..."

Splashy fun

I took the kids to a splash pad on monday. It was a lot of fun. Not too mch to say about it, just some pictures to share.

Asher enjoying his fruit kabob. He wouldn't play in the water. He just wanted to sit at the table and eat all the snacks that I brought.




The kids playing. I watch a friend's kids, which would be the extra ones in the pics.






It was a great way to pass the day. The kids had fun and we stayed nice and cool. I wish they had a splash pad closer to us.

Our Fourth

I haven't updated in forever, so I figured it was time. I'll start with our Fourth. South Salt Lake has fireworks and a carnival at Granite High School on the 3rd, so we walked over to that. I love that they have them. One, it's great that they always do them before the fourth, and two, they are so close to us that it's nice to not need to worry about parking or anything because we just walk over. Asher really enjoyed the fireworks. It was fun to see his reaction to them. On the 4th in the afternoon we went to Tim's aunt's house. We had a barbeque and there were cousins for our kids to play with. In the evening we went to Jesse and Anne's house. We had another barbeque. Jesse made delicious shishkabobs. Just a small group of friends. It was nice. When it got darker, Chris had brought some fireworks to play with, that the kids just loved. When those ran out, he and Matt went to get more. Asher just loved that again. We decided to forego the fireworks at Sugarhouse, which was our original plan. We'd already seen some and it was going to be crazy busy because it is the last year they are doing them there, and the kids were going to be too tired. I think that was a good idea to skip them.

The kids got home pretty tuckered out. Asher fell asleep in the very short ride home, as Jesse only lives a few blocks away. I managed to bathe them both (and they were FILTHY) and get them in bed with no fussing or meltdowns, which is saying a lot considering they stayed up way past their bedtimes two nights in a row.

All in all, it was a pretty fun weekend. And not too hot, which was nice.