Thursday, July 19, 2007

Where does the time go?

I have been bugging my sister for not keeping her blog updated when I realized that I am really the one slacking in this area. We have been so busy & I just haven't taken the time to make note of it. So this will be a quick summary. At the end of June, Eric & I were able to steal away for a weekend. My parents came to watch the children (all 5 of them) and we had 3 days to spend together. We have never done this before & in all honesty I was a little nervous. What were we going to talk about? Well, we figured it out;) & had a great time! I have decided we need to do this more often, I'm shooting for late Oct or early Nov, of course, I will have our newest one in tow but it will still be a treat. Seth turned 4, (WOW!) the following week. I can't believe he is so big, he is my baby boy! We went to the local Museum of Arts & Sciences to see their Dinosaur exhibit. He really enjoyed it. The following week I contracted some sort of stomach bug that has lingered since then making the last few weeks lots of fun. I have been so sick, off & on, it comes & goes. I believe part of it is a recurrence of morning sickness, JOY! So, being sick, I did not take the kids to see fireworks for the 4th of July. I felt so bad about that, we love fireworks. Eric's b-day is the 5th but he was in AL working so we celebrated when he came home over the weekend & then he also had a week of vacation. We were so glad to spend an entire week as a family, Katy celebrated her 2nd birthday, another one that is hard to grasp although her 2 yr old colors are nice & bright! For her birthday we all went to a local nature center, they have all sorts of wild animals that were injured or abandoned & cannot be re-released back into the wild. We saw a Black Bear, bobcats, a cougar, foxes, alligator, an eagle, bison, different owls & others. The best part is that it is free. More about that in another post. I think she had fun. The kids came down with the stomach bug as did Eric so instead of spending the week working on the house as we had planned, Eric spent most of the time taking care of us. He did get the girls room painted but we still have to finish the trim & put in new carpet & a few other minor things. I'll post the before & after pictures when we finally finish. So this week has been a time for recovery, realizing that this new baby really will be here in the next 8 weeks or so, I haven't spent much time thinking about the baby up until now, so the baby has its first new neutral outfit & newborn diapers waiting patiently in the baby's drawer. It's so sweet to see those tiny little clothes & diapers. I can't wait to smell that newborn breath, watch the little one sleep on my chest, and everything else that goes along with a newborn. I am in a nesting phase & am trying to declutter the house, hopefully I will have most of it done before the baby shows up. It will make packing easier after if I have most of our stuff in order. That pretty much sums it up. I will post more with pictures when I get a chance. So much for a quick summary.