3 Fast Years

Tomorrow is Adam's third birthday. While it seems like it was just yesterday that we were bringing him home from the hospital, it also seems like ages. He is excited for his birthday. Me on the other hand just think about how time is getting away from us. Everyone always says that you have to enjoy this time. I understand that, but am sure I will have a better appreciation for that advice as Adam gets older. It is hard for me to think about how else to enjoy this time. What will I wish that I would have done differently when I look back 5, 10, or 20 years from now? Will I wish that we would have gone on more vacations? Maybe it will be that we should have taken those swimming lessons or gone to story time more. I don't know. I have a feeling it will be the things like turning off the tv and playing games together, or sitting at the dinner table having silly conversations or playing at the park at every opportunity (even if I have a million other things that I need to get done around the house).

I think I am enjoying everything now, but I know there will be things when I look back and wish I would have appreciated them more. If anyone has any great advice - please share.

When you have a second, you should check out this song by Mark Harris called "Find Your Wings". I love it. It really talks about how I feel right now. It is great. I hope you enjoy it also.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnA1XhEcROA

In the mean time, while I am trying to enjoy Adam - I also have what feels like an alien in my stomach! We are reaching the time that when it moves around, my stomach moves around and it feels like it's about to reach through my stomach. This is my favorite thing about being pregnant. I love feeling the baby move and watch it move around in my stomach. It cracks me up. Jeff loves it to. It just kind of blows our minds.

I will post more with birthday pictures.

Check out our pictures

Check out www.memoriesbybrandi.blogspot.com to view some of the recent family pictures that Brandi took. She does an awesome job! If you ever want pictures done, she's your girl. She always has a way with getting the kids in their most natural ways. She is wonderful.

Thank you so much Brandi! Can't wait to see the rest.

While you are there check out the other pictures that she has done. She is so creative. There is also a link on the side of my blog called "Memories by Brandi."

Guess what we're doing

I'll show you 3 pictures. Guess what we are doing:

This evening, Jeff and I were upstairs putting stuff away and Adam was downstairs. He started laughing and talking but we couldn't really make out what he was saying. Next thing we know he is upstairs with no clothes on. He proceeded to tell us that there was a mess downstairs and that there was water on the floor. He wanted me to go look at it. I said to Jeff "I am afraid to go down there." When I walked into the bathroom, I found water everywhere and the toilet was overflowing. Apparently, Adam had to go to the bathroom and decided to stuff the remaining toilet paper into the toilet. I do not know how much toilet paper was on the roll, but it was obviously too much to go down the toilet. So, along with of the other mess we had going on in our house with the carpet getting installed, we had toilet water everywhere. It has been great.

Oh, one other thing. Adam was playing with the doorbell and now it will just start buzzing for no reason. Probably going to have to get a new one of those also. Like I said before - It never ends!

What a day

Today has been an interesting day. It started that I woke up and felt really crappy. Had a sore throat and a big headache. I had a doctor's appointment scheduled for 8:30 (OB appointment) and was planning on going to work before my appointment. When I woke up and felt bad, I called work to tell them that I would just be in after my doctor's appointment. Then I slept for about another 45 minutes. That helped a little, but still have the sore throat. I am sure it is just sinus stuff. No big deal.

Anyway, I went to my normal checkup. It was my 28 week appointment where I had to drink that yummy (not really), sweet, sugary, orange drink and then get my blood drawn (after waiting one hour). Hopefully that all comes back ok. Everything is going well. The baby is very active and while the nurse was trying to hear the heart beat, the baby was moving all around like it wanted to be left alone. It was kind of funny.

Then we got new carpet installed today in our 2 upstairs bedrooms. It looks really nice and I really like it. The bad thing is now the other carpet in our house looks old and bad. I swear it never ends. Our house is a mess. We had to empty out everything from upstairs. We have put a lot of the stuff back, and I just want to burn everything else. I do not even want to sort through it. We have so many clothes, it makes me sick. I am just going to bag it all up and take it to a church or something. I need to declutter.

So, I think that this is the first time that I have sat down all night. We have been moving stuff, Jeff had to trim the doors to the bedrooms and closets so they would close, and I have been trying to pick up the house a little and set back up the desktop computer - which is a pain in itself. After our desktop computer dies, we will never own anything other than a laptop.

If you have made it to the end of reading this post, thanks for caring. It makes me tired to go back and re-read it for proof-reading so I apologize if there are a ton of mistakes. I need to go to bed now. I am hoping that when I wake up in the morning, I will have found that the "house-cleaning/organizing fairy" came overnight and my house will be all organized and clutter-free.

Halloween Treats

Adam is finally over his little "cold" or whatever it was he had. So let me just say that he is a totally different little boy when he doesn't feel well. After my last post, you probably are thinking that he is a little terror. So, I will just say that I am so glad that he is feeling better. He is so much more fun to be around when he feels well.

Here are some pictures from Halloween.