It seems as time goes on I have less and less time to blog. Hm... I wonder why...lol. I crack up that I was able to post almost weekly when I was pregnant with Richie. Now...how many weeks am I with number 3? *consults cell phone chart* Ah yes, 19 weeks today of course. Actually we have our 20 week ultrasound next week so that should not be so hard to remember. R & L tell me it is a girl. I'm thinking boy. We will see.
A few topics I'd like to discuss:
...goals: Amidst the winter blues I am excited to start a new year 2017 with high hopes and high goals (at least before June, then all chaos will begin). Each year we sit and discuss the goals of the upcoming year labeling it 20XX the YEAR OF SAVINGS. Then that never happens! Obviously from previous posts you can see we did some major renovations last year. We were able to sit down and discuss real plans to pay down the home equity loan we used to pay for it setting aside a weekly amount at least until June. I'm excited, its ambitious but doable.
...where do we put all these babies? We have a little rearranging to do before #3 arrives including moving our bedroom downstairs into the room now labeled "toy room", moving L our of her current room "the nursery" and making adjustments to "the nursery" depending on if we are having a little boy or girl.
conversations from the potty... we have made definite strides with potty training our 3 year old. He started at about age 2.75 ... hm you know what I mean. He has his ups and downs but here is the part that has me laughing and questioning my parenting skills. We aren't modest in front of our kids. Often times when nature calls an adult will be using the bathroom at the same time as R or if one of us is in there he will yell out "I HAVE TO GO POTTY TOO"! Okay get in here! Now he has started noticing things like never before... Momma are you pushing "it" down? We always have to remind him to push it down to keep it from spraying every where. Ummmm eek oh um no honey, Momma doesn't have to push it down. As immature as it sounds we have settled on calling "it" a wiener ...um is that bad? I know I should be saying penis but I just can't. Anyways, sigh...um honey Moms don't have wieners. "OH does Grandma have a wiener?" No honey. Only boys like you and Daddy. ...more thinking... "where does the pee come from then?" Ohhhhh sheesh...so many questions. Yup I said it..."girls have vaginas". Blank stare. Conversation to be continued at a later date... Even more entertaining is our 20 month old girl being super interested in potty training being in the bathroom when Daddy is going potty. *Mind blown*
Anyways, here we sit in 2017 ready to become a family of 5...if you told me in 2012 that was my future... "Julie in 2017 you will have a family of 5" I would have probably had some choice words for you because it sounds almost as unbelievable as it is. R will be 3.5, L will be 2 and we will have a newborn. Unbelievable and crazy! As always I move forward trusting my gut instincts, working hard for what I want and putting my faith in God that he is right there next to me as we navigate this crazy life!
Julie
A few topics I'd like to discuss:
...goals: Amidst the winter blues I am excited to start a new year 2017 with high hopes and high goals (at least before June, then all chaos will begin). Each year we sit and discuss the goals of the upcoming year labeling it 20XX the YEAR OF SAVINGS. Then that never happens! Obviously from previous posts you can see we did some major renovations last year. We were able to sit down and discuss real plans to pay down the home equity loan we used to pay for it setting aside a weekly amount at least until June. I'm excited, its ambitious but doable.
...where do we put all these babies? We have a little rearranging to do before #3 arrives including moving our bedroom downstairs into the room now labeled "toy room", moving L our of her current room "the nursery" and making adjustments to "the nursery" depending on if we are having a little boy or girl.
conversations from the potty... we have made definite strides with potty training our 3 year old. He started at about age 2.75 ... hm you know what I mean. He has his ups and downs but here is the part that has me laughing and questioning my parenting skills. We aren't modest in front of our kids. Often times when nature calls an adult will be using the bathroom at the same time as R or if one of us is in there he will yell out "I HAVE TO GO POTTY TOO"! Okay get in here! Now he has started noticing things like never before... Momma are you pushing "it" down? We always have to remind him to push it down to keep it from spraying every where. Ummmm eek oh um no honey, Momma doesn't have to push it down. As immature as it sounds we have settled on calling "it" a wiener ...um is that bad? I know I should be saying penis but I just can't. Anyways, sigh...um honey Moms don't have wieners. "OH does Grandma have a wiener?" No honey. Only boys like you and Daddy. ...more thinking... "where does the pee come from then?" Ohhhhh sheesh...so many questions. Yup I said it..."girls have vaginas". Blank stare. Conversation to be continued at a later date... Even more entertaining is our 20 month old girl being super interested in potty training being in the bathroom when Daddy is going potty. *Mind blown*
Anyways, here we sit in 2017 ready to become a family of 5...if you told me in 2012 that was my future... "Julie in 2017 you will have a family of 5" I would have probably had some choice words for you because it sounds almost as unbelievable as it is. R will be 3.5, L will be 2 and we will have a newborn. Unbelievable and crazy! As always I move forward trusting my gut instincts, working hard for what I want and putting my faith in God that he is right there next to me as we navigate this crazy life!
Julie
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