Happy Harvest

This year we went to Pheasant Fields Farm.  We've gone there the last few years.  It's local and Nikki is a good friend.  They have a small area of pumpkins for the kids to pick out and a corn maze. My dad came with us and it was a great afternoon!

Silas...he's a sweet boy and very humorous but it's very difficult to get him to obey right now.  He loves Play-Doh and Lego's and puzzles.  He loves going over to Grama B's house whenever he can. 




 It only took like 15 shots to get the one where they were all looking!




Eli really loves school and loves/thrives off of the structure of the weekly routine of knowing that Tuesday is Library day, Thursday is early day and show & tell and Friday is cooking day.  He's good about making sure I remember all of this and HATES it when we're late.  It's been a good balance to have him home with us in the morning and then for the afternoon he get's to have school.  I love getting up in the morning and taking our time, eating breakfast, playing upstairs or going for a walk. 5 is a good age...He's an awesome kid!


Mo is completely potty trained during the day.  So now we only have Mo wearing a diaper at night.  That's only ONE diaper a day!!!  Moses also is speaking 4-5 word sentences.  He came up to me Sunday night and said "Mama, you all done?"  Smart kid!  He likes carrying around one mini-fig Lego guy and calling it his "bad guy".  He wants to wear "jammies" all day.  He hates getting dressed unless it's "Jammies", so whatever, we'll let him.  He loves to snuggle and follows me around all day.


We honestly haven't been doing much...well that's not completely true.  Let's see...we got pregnant...started kindergarten...put our house on the market...was nauseous for 4 months...and I'm doing school in all this.  And I'm doing a pregnant version of P90X with running and swimming, about 4 days a week. 
I almost canceled Facebook like 6 times, because I was thinking that it's like a time-sucker vortex that when the seconds are added up at the end of the day add up to like, oh I don't know...like probably an hr.  Oh the precious hr that I can't get back. 
A few weeks ago I dropped my phone for the 100th time and it finally did the spider crack.  The wholes screen all crackled.  I sighed and put it in my pocket.  It was a free phone from a year ago, some sort of knock off flip phone that did the job.  But now I couldn't even read the screen.  I went to the At&t store thinking I would just get a Pay as You Go Phone.  I didn't think I was due for a new one yet.  Come to find out I was and not only could I get a new phone, but I could get a free iPhone3gs for FREE.  I wanted to hug the sales guy.  My day that day had been like a toilet bowl so this was very redeeming in so many ways.  I felt new again...awake!  All my tires could have been flat and my car spray painted purple and I still would have been like...whatever, cool!  I have Pandora playing on the Bing Crosby Christmas station all day now and Jeff even went to Goodwill and found me some speakers to hook it into so that it's Christmas in the whole house.  It's the little things..

Little sneaky bean is 18 weeks old today and is already doing somersaults inside.  I'm still nauseous most days...eating what sounds good.  It' been hard because meat is almost always very unappetizing and I need protein.  Some days it's just hard to get enough though and then I'm really tired when I work out.  My pregnancy herbal infusion tea helps a lot, it's just hard to remember to make it every night. Every week my emotions are changing, some weeks I feel lonely, some irritated, some isolated, some angry, some just plain exhausted.  I can't figure it out and would really like to check myself into some sort of mental hospital and save everyone the pain in the rear that I'm sure I am most days.  What's left when your weeks are labeled by really depressing emotions....good question.  I don't know. I told the boys this morning at breakfast.  "Boys, today mommy is angry, I don't know why, I just woke up that way.  I can't fix it and I don't want it to ruin our day.  I don't want want to speak harsh words or be short.  I really need Jesus today boys."  Eli said "Mom can I pray for you..." and he did and he also told me, "it's ok mom, Jesus still loves you even today." 
Think that's about it...
oh yeah...I love my family.