House Work

Aaron and I wrote out a list tonight of all the things we need to do to the house to be able to sell it. It's a big stress in me in its current state, thus the list... If we averaged crossing off 1 thing a week every week it'd take over a year (62 items) to finish, which of course won't happen, something else is bound to break. I just hope we start making progress... I'm tired of everything falling apart.

Garage sales!

I love this time of year, it's nice outside, i can do gardening, i love having the windows open... But I really like garage sales, and today there were some good ones! Toys, clothes, firniture... I'll look at pretty much everything, but i'm picky and cheap =)... Today I found some good stuff though, toys: 2 dump trucks for sand boxes one of them is the metal Tonka truck (retails $35 or $40) it's a little scratched and missing a sticker but for $5 you can't beat that, the other one is for mimi's house and makes noises (it may not make it to the sand box)and a lawn mower for Mimi's house. We also found a fasterner cube, with a zipper velcro a button... stuff like that, it needs new batteries so we'll see what it does, however it's already been played with so maybe we don't need batteries hummm... we found a popper that sings... the one that doesn't sing costs 12 and i found this for 2... and the last one we found was a fireman puzzle...they don;'t make ambulance puzzles for uncle 'nunun' so we get as close as we can. I found a table that i'm going to put some sides on for tobin to play cars or trains and 2 end tables...a fresh coat of paint and we'll be good to go (all for $12). I saw alot of great baby stuff... if only my brother lived closer...
I also found some great vinage sheets for amy (mimi) and 2 mini muffin tins and a cheese cutter that will actully work... i'm excited to try it out

Observations of life without a Dog

We had to let our dog go a little while ago, he was very possessive of the kids and I and we couldn't have people over and feel comfortable with him in the same room. Fortunately we were able to give him back to the people we got him from so we know he's doing well. However, things are different around the house without a dog. 1. There's no barking, which is good and bad... no one to wake up the babies when they're sleeping or just randomly back a person walking across the street, but also no one to let me know that someone has come home or someones at the door. 2. There's allot less hair and dust around the house. This is a big one when you have hard wood floors, I can kinda keep up with the house not looking so dusty now. 3. No one to clean up the messes on the floor. Either the food Tobz dropped on the floor from eating or the messes he made, like yesterday, (video to follow) or Zeke's spit up or something dropped while I'm cooking, it all now has to be swept or picked up by hand. 4. Tobz is missing a play mate... the cats just don't interact the way the puppy did. 5. I've got no running partner. 6. No dog poo to pick up... That's a really nice one... I can just send Tobz to the backyard and not have to worry about him. I've sure there's more but now by baby's awake and I must go. Despite the list I still miss our Jack.

zekers

poor baby spit up blood last night. we took him to the er and had some test done... we'll hopefully get more answers tomorrow... poor guy I want to help him to feel better =/

Peculiar People

So here in Iowa it's a beautiful day, so beautiful I have the windows open. We live on a busy street and so we often watch the traffic and people walking by while we eat dinner. Well today there are alot of cars parked on the street, one of the neighbors must be having a party. There is however a strange thing happening... Tobin and I sat down for dinner and there was a girl in a car sitting in front of my house, looked like she was talking on the phone... Time passes, she hasn't moved... then i guess she decided that she was going to be there a while and pulls out her books and starts studying... At this point I thought if she's waiting for Alan then she's going to be sitting there for a long time... Then right after that thought well at least she's studying, so at least she's making good use of her time. She sat there for over 30 minutes before leaving her car, I guess she was on time to whoever she was visiting. It was just weird though.

Sleepless nights

Oh how good a full nights sleep sounds right about now. I was probably in my 8th month (November) of pregnancy the last time I slept the whole night. Zeke has switched his days and nights and has no interest in going back to sleep when he wakes up at 3 to eat. Needless to say it makes for one really long night... because he's awake at midnight for an hour too.
It's getting light here earlier everyday which is nice, I like waking up when it's bright out. However, Tobin doesn't sleep as late so I get up earlier =/ which means even less sleep. It was 6:45 this morning when he started wailing. Oh I'm ready for him to have a toddler bed. So in all I got 20min + 2ish hrs + 2.5 hrs + 1 hr = almost 6. So not enough... maybe it would be if it were in one stretch but it's not and I'm tired. A nap would be nice but Zeke has this astonishing ability to wake up hungry 5 minutes after I fall asleep.

Volleyball

We got to play our first game of outdoor volleyball yesterday and it was great fun. I'm really rusty and Tobz want to play too so it was interesting at first. Tobin and Zeke turned out to be great spectators with the help of mommy or daddy so it turned out to be a lot better than I thought it was going to. It was a beautiful day and today looks like it's going to be even better. Started planting the seeds for my garden yesterday and hope to finish up today =) Can't wait to be eating those fresh veggies and have a fence around the whole yard! We have posts in yay!

Throw Up

So my first real experience with throw up this morning. Tobin was sitting on our bed this morning got a i don't feel so good look on his face and threw up all over the bed... I'll be washing sheets today =) Poor guy, he responded to the incident saying 'oh no'. to which Aaron and i responded it's ok buddy don't worry about it.
Then about 45 minutes later it happened again... I was holding him and saw 'the face' and leaned him away from me just in time. Poor guy doesn't feel well, so we're off to the store to get some pedialyte or whatever it's called and some Gatorade. I however was proud of myself for not throwing up right there next to him... I didn't even gag!

Rain and Baallll

It was raining and Tobin wanted to play ball... Maybe after a nap it will be sunny and he can play... Man that 20 month old loves to shoot hoops!

meanwhile zeke spit up all over me again... enough to warrant a change of shirt but he's smiling at me now so it's all good