Let the messes begin!

And the moving of bedrooms begins. We are rearranging everything to accommodate my new preschool room, big wahoo, and a new baby sister coming. Step 1 was moving the boys downstairs to the old preschool room. They spent their first night there last night and did great! Win! We also moved Rachel into the boys old room. It's still a mess, I'll get pictures soon. For now, the boys room.

Father's Day!

We had a good Father's Day yesterday! The kids made cards for grandpas and we got to visit both grandpas over the weekend. That was special since we never see Davee. 

We saw grandpa Craig too. The kids love playing at their house. My siblings and I gifted him a new push broom, which was really needed!!!! See his old one? Oh gee! My parents wear things out til the last thread. Always have, always will. 

Cards from Dayton, I love his spelling.

Rachel making hers.

We are sure blessed to have an awesome dad! He is great with our kids and I love him for it! 

He was spoiled with breakfast in bed too.

Thanks to all those dads in our lives! We love you! 

Tonight I found this...

Our kids love sleeping on the floor, I don't know what it is. And, they love being together at night. Sometimes it seems they fight all day and then at night they instantly need and love each other. Siblings!!!!

Anyway, Adam and I have been working on moving all my preschool stuff out of the basement to the new room in the back of the garage so kids went to bed on their own. When I came up at 10:30pm I saw this. How sweet! I love that midst all the normal sibling "bugging" they still do this! 

We are getting a driveway!!!

Yeah! 

Per dr Foley request and our inability to get up the driveway in the winter or shovel or snowblow it we are getting asphalt. The kids are in heaven watching the trucks work. This will be so so nice! And much better for Adam this winter who can't shovel, a snowblower is much better for his NMO.

Before:

After: 

Redneck riding

Carter rode his little pink trike, used to be Rachel's, on our entire 1 hour walk today like a champ. Sporting his favorite snow boots and undies. It was so blog worthy! A must remember! 

Carter goes potty!

I have been thinking of potty training Carter for about a month now but wanted to wait til I didn't have preschool anymore. I was going to start a couple weeks ago but when I tried big boy underware and sitting him on the potty he screamed "no no big boy mommy" and cried in what seemed like fear of the potty. So, I decided I better wait til it was his own idea and he was excited about it. A big key to successful potty training. Well, today was that day. At 8:45am, of course right before we were leaving for church, he refused a diaper and got big boy underware out of his drawer. He put on 3 pair. He pulled out his potty seat and sat on the toilet too. No success but hey, he did it all on his own. So... We were a bit late for church because I didn't want to discourage his excitement. I did put a diaper on after he sat on potty though cause there was no way he was making it 3 hours of church and nursery. Anyway, after church I wrapped his presents, but them in visible sight above toilet, got a sticker chart going and smarties. Yes, lucky I had all those already on Sunday. We strapped on those big boy underware and as of today we have officially started potty training. His first success was 7pm tonight after an hour walk, when he stayed dry, and coming home to poop on the potty. Yeah yeah yeah!!! He got a present and a sticker and mom freaked out like a crazy woman dancing and hugging him. We are going to be super diligent about this for a week. If he is having success we will stick to it, if not, I learned my lesson with Rachel I will wait another month or two. 

His first present. He really was excited even though his face doesn't show it in the pic. 

22 weeks!

I'm 22 weeks along with baby girl! I can honestly say this is the hardest most painful pregnancy. I have no idea how I am going to make it 4 more months! I just ordered compression hose with a maternity band in them off amazon, should be here within a week. Hopefully that helps my vericoae veins more than my thigh high hose I have now. Contractions have started, already. Ugh! Usually at end of day and night when I've been going all day. My back and hip are killing me. Add hemroids, headaches, and chasing 3 kids and I feel like I could collapse just about all the time. I'm praying for strength and hopefully that some symptoms will let up. Please let them.

Here is the belly shot, 22 weeks and a bit! 

Lagoon!!!

It's the first full week of no school and we are playing hard, lagoon! This is Carters first year. He had the deer in the headlight look most of the time but on some rides got very responsive and screamed "wahoo." He loved bulgy the whales and the planes. Tilt a Whirl was definitely too much for him. Oops. 

Rachel was a champ! She was sad she couldn't go on the big roller coasters like Dayton but she did try some big rides and loved everything. She is pretty darn brave. The only one she hated was the House of Terror which she begged to go on then when she came out said, "that was terrible just terrible!" Too funny, she is right! She is and was a great big sister the whole time. Her and Carter were buddies on the kid rides while Dad and D went on roller coasters. She loved the merry go round, we did it again and again.

Dayton was killing it at lagoon! He is 47" so he could go on big roller coasters! He was literally jumping out of his skin excited. Oh how I love this boys personality. He always tries new things and has a good streak of thrill in him. He went with Adam on Wicked, Colossus, and the old white roller coaster multiple times. Plus, lots of other rides. 

Grandma Sue came along too. She does every year and we love it. Another adult to help especially when mom is pregnant and she is fun!

Adam was able to stay cool with his hat, cooling towel, sunglasses, lots of water and shade. That made me so happy! With his NMO disease he is very sensitive to heat so that was a huge miracle for us. Yeah! 

We had great time! Happy start to summer!