So the summer is just zooming past! It's exciting, though, knowing we're moving in two months! I can't wait! We went to Ohio over the fourth of July weekend. We got to see my dad, his wife, and the whole gaggle of kids. :) We don't get to see them often, so it was fun to get to play with them. When we move to Maryland, we'll be much closer to my dad and we're all looking forward to that.


I'm thirteen weeks pregnant now. Some exciting things have been happening with Baby M. lately. On Saturday, July 11, I was listening to the baby's heartbeat via doppler and I kept hearing a persistent noise. I turned to Adam to ask him what he thought it was and he said, "I think it's hiccups!" and sure enough, we were listening to our baby having hiccups. HICCUPS!! At thirteen weeks! It was amazing! The baby's heartrate is still good. It's been about 145-155 bpm. Adam's thinking girl, I'm thinking I'll end up with a house full of boys. We'll be thrilled either way, but I'd love so much to have a daughter. And yesterday I was convinced there was a team of acrobats hanging out in there! :) This baby moves so much and I can feel a lot of movement already. It's wonderful!! :)


Yesterday we also got our Rainbow Resource order in! THRILLING!! I loved opening that box! Now today I have to go through our learning cabinet (as Adi calls it) to organize our school stuff. I should say that the cabinet is quickly becoming too full. We have another one in the garage, and we'll be able to use that inside when we move, but there's absolutely nowhere for it to go in the house right now. So I just have to make do with what I have. School was going to start on August 3, but I think we'll be changing that to at least a week earlier, though I have no problem starting next week. I'm pretty much ready to go. I ordered a planner from Well Planned Day that I have been anxiously awaiting for, but it's not going to be mailed out until Friday, so I HOPE to have it early next week.


The boys are doing well. Adisson is excited to start school, but it's hard not to be when he sees all the amazing goodies we have to use for learning. He's disappointed that he's not going to public school because he wants to pack a lunch. I assured him I would buy him a lunch box and he could pack it everyday if he wanted to. :) Zander also got several goodies from Rainbow Resource. The Kumon First Steps workbooks look like so much fun! He's going to love them. I also got him a feltboard, but I have no felt pieces to go along with it. :) I'll have to work on that. Zander's school lineup looks like tons of fun with several preschool activity bags, file folder games, felt board and pieces, and books. He's going to have a good time!

That's about the extent of the fun we're having here. We're getting VERY excited to move. I cannot wait to live so close to so many different, amazing places! In the meantime, it's storming like crazy and I've got laundry to do. Back again another day!

It's been a busy week! :) This past weekend we decided to try to take the kids fishing. They've never been before and when we were in Ohio last, we picked up Adam's old fishing pole as well as his little sister's old pole. We went out to a pond we've never been to before. We didn't even get out of the van. It was gross and disgusting. We went to another pond we knew of in town. We pulled up to see that it was closed, half empty, and nearly covered in vultures. It was even more disgusting and smelled so bad. So then we went to a spot on the river, but with such rocky embankments, we couldn't really let the kids fish at all. We didn't stay long before we decided to head to another park in town where the city was showing a movie on a big inflatable screen. This month's movie was Madagascar 2, which the boys like, so it was a really great time. It was a good ending to a crappy day of fishing.

On Sunday Adisson called me in to the kitchen telling me something was wrong with one of our hermit crabs. I go in to find the crab in the water bowl (wasn't much water left, the sponge in the bowl had soaked it all up) with crab pieces filling the bowl. I think the crab has died and the other crab has dismembered it. I take the water bowl out of the cage and dump the contents in a plastic bowl, TO FIND A CRAB STARING AT ME! The thing wasn't dead! He had molted!!! We put him in a bigger bowl and raced off to WalMart to get another cage and some sand (they have crab wood chips right now and that's not good for a freshly molted crab). We get the new cage all set up for the weak little crab and put him in there. He died during the night. Despite our best efforts. It seems that molting takes so much energy and sometimes crabs can't even make it through the process. Rest in Peace Sharky. I think his friend Melvin is mourning the loss.

We're heading to Ohio this weekend. I have no idea what we're doing because no one in my family can make any kind of plans. Well, no male in my family can plan anything. It's so frustrating! My dad can't make decisions, Jordan and Lucas can't make decisions....it makes me want to pull my hair out! :) Fortunately for the world, I can make decisions! I suppose I'll be planning our time together after I talk to the three of them tomorrow.

Things are good here. The boys are doing well. I am getting ready to place a HUGE school supply order tomorrow. We start school at the beginning of August so I have to get our school stuff soon so I can finish with my planning. I ordered some extra goodies for Zander, too, so he doesn't feel left out of the school supply box! :) He'll like the goodies that are meant for him! I'm excited to be working with him on some new things this year, too.

My little Baby M is doing well, as far as I know. I listen to a heart rate nearly everyday. It still reads a strong 165 or so. It's a wonderful noise to hear.

We move in a little less than three months. I can't wait! :)

Love and vinegar!