Two for Two

Aren't my boys pathetic when they are sick? By mid morning Ben was fevered and crying (he melts at everything when he is sick, he HATES having anything wrong with him...a hangnail will top a days conversation should one dare arise on a finger...so anything more than that qualifies total catastrophe). Tomorrow I fear my lap might now be big enough for the "3" of them...

Jakey

Poor Jake. This boy is a whirlwind of non stop energy. He plays hard and then he sleeps hard. He stops only to eat...which he also does with great gusto.

Then my Jakey moped around for a day...he laid on the carpet...then he asked for his "bobble" to go to bed early...then he woke up hot, oozing, coughing, and sucky. Jake was sick! this is unheard of! Once he got a weird rash...and other than that I can't think of a time when Jake has been truly out of commission.

20 minutes after Jon got him out of bed he was asleep again on the couch...with untouched breakfast beside him! This alone should have caused a 911 call I am sure...we opted for the clinic instead. He promptly told the nurse his ear "owie owie" and sure enough on top of a nasty virus he also has an ear infection. He laid on my lap for an hour in the waiting room and everyone over the age of 30 who came in looked at him and said "poor little dear" to which he looked up with his heavy head in his croaky- full- of -pacifier -mouth "yaaaa" and then sadly put his head back down.

Ohhhh I really don't like when my kids are sick, especially the super pathetic extra sick kind of sick...the too sick to be cranky and are just sad and sucky sick.

This kid is getting his fair share of all the "bobbles" he can drink, vitamin D, Vitamin C and some nasty banana antibiotics (followed with a healthy dose of probiotics when they are gone)but other then that all I can do is just hold him and say "poor little dear".
He likes that.

***He looks so big on the couch doesn't he?! but he isn't...he can still curl up in a little ball on my lap...

Like Father, Like Son

These boys of mine, they sure have a thing for anything with buttons. Even Jacob knows how to play games on the Ipad...or the iphone...or anything he can get his gadget inclined hands on!

My Big Love

Yup this guy right here.
He is the middle piece. You know...the part of the puzzle that has it all make sense.

And my little loves...the reason I am.

Happy love day!

Oh...the BEST part!!!

I am getting a little bit overwhelmed at the thought of moving. The date is coming closer...I am getting wider and I can't carry anything without getting contractions so I am feeling a bit useless and more than frustrated. We have lots of gratefully offered help but some things only I can do...like all the sorting, purging and organizing. When I am looking at our heaps of belongings (where did it all come from?!) and boxes that are quickly stacking up I think of one thing...



TAAAAA DAAAA!!!!!
THIS is the crown jewel on our new home... Oh yes...lovely kitchen, nice landscaping, beautiful master suite...dark hardwood...lots to love...but THIS- This is what gets me motivated to do just one more box!


My second floor laundry. Right smack in the middle of the bedrooms! How much SENSE does that make! No more lugging laundry baskets up two flights of stairs...it is all right there. I am actually looking FORWARD to doing laundry, and that is a small miracle! It is not painted or decorated obviously...and I have so many ideas for this darling little room...so tiny, and yet SO eagerly anticipated.

Convenient!

The bedrooms in our new house presented a bit of pressure on the gender of this baby. Though the painters were on standby...
It is a little too pink for my taste- I am thinking the future three year old girl in our family would be a little upset if I painted over the perfect princess retreat. So it will stay...and the boys can keep the race car room ( I am not a fan of the "theme" bedroom...but they love it!).

I do love the third floor finished attic...I have big plans for this space...but again, I have to wait for the novelty of the princess, Thomas and Cars murals to wear off before I make any drastic changes.

From all Around...

Ben came bursting out of the bathroom the other day (I have noticed that men...big and small do their best thinking in the bathroom?!) and said;
"Mommy! We are having a baby girl and we are calling her...(shyly looks away and grins at me sheepishly) Ella!

I told him that we trust that God has picked the very best baby to come to our family and that might be a girl OR a boy.

He wasn't convinced.

Last night we told him that we were going to get pictures of the new baby taken by a special camera so we could see what baby looked like and we could know if it was a boy or a girl.

"Remember! I ONLY want a girl!"

Mmmm.

He was very excited to hear that he is getting the baby sister he wanted so much and has been drawing her pictures ever since. (I am going to keep them all for her.) He is only calling her Ella. Fortunately this would work well as a nickname for another name that was high on the "girl list".

Jakey? He dances around like a maniac if you even mention the word "baby" -the boy LOVES them. He is so rough and tough and boy all over but put him near a baby and he is so sweet and gentle with his trembling hand trying to be touch gently and his little falsetto voice he talks to them in. I can't wait for my boys to meet their little sister, she is a lucky girl!