Waiting For Baby

No baby yet to report...but we are patiently waiting. The "official" due date has been anywhere between January 26th and February 2nd. So...since today is the 19th of January we could have a long-haul ahead of us. Although we can't wait to meet this newest little bundle of love, we are enjoying our last few days as a family of four, and our last few nights of sleep! :)

While we wait here are some of the things that have been keeping us (mainly me) busy:

-Finishing Faith and Jensen's cowboy/cowgirl room...LOVE it!
-Setting up the nursery and new bed, washing all the baby clothes, sorting through Faith's baby clothes...man the girl stuff is so stinking cute!
-Painting the living room wall (Joe)
-Cleaning out every closet, under beds, garage, etc. and making endless trips to drop off goods at the GoodWill and the Community Clothing Bank.
-Sewing Burp cloths and blankets...hey I'm no Betsy Ross, but at least I remembered how to thread the bobbin...AFTER AN HOUR!
-Hanging out with friends.
-Making meals for the freezer
-Washing every article of fabric in our house (clothes, sheets, curtains, shower curtains, rugs, etc.).
-Organizing file cabinets...fun job let me tell you!
-Organizing the laundry room.

Ahhhh...the things that I think are FUN!!!!

The kids on the other hand have been busy, too. They love playing with their toys, espcially all their animals and Jensen's tractors and can set up quite the "farm" with Faith's barn and the wooden blocks we have. Both kids LOVE thier new easle from Auntie Sarah and have spent endless hours creating various masterpieces for mommy, daddy, and Faith's friends. Jensen has enjoyed washing dishes and playing with the bubbles. Faith has moved on from her water fasination and has now become quite the artist and creator. Yesterday she made perfume (vanilla, water, apple juice, orange slices and flowers), a robot (cereal box, paper, tape, markers), a terarium (tupperware, grass, sticks) for her "pet" lizzard Spiket (Spiket is a rubber lizzard by the way), and a trophy for her bow shooting skills. She's a busy, creative girl! Both kids LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the High School Muiscal movies and music. We have the first DVD, but need to get the second and the soundtracks. Plug here for High School Musical...they are ACTUALLY, TRULY G Rated which we think is great. Aside from one kiss at the end of the 3rd movie, I've had trouble finding anything not kid appropriate. Joe and I actually like them, too!

Funny Faithisms (and a few from Jensen, too):

-Grandma Val was telling a story about how Ladd was on the verge of making her late for school (she's a teacher) one morning and Faith said, "Well, when you're retired, you don't have to worry about being late. Right Papa?"

-"Is there an Ellensburg in heaven, Mommy? Cause I sure like it here."

-"Some people have bigger house then us, but I know ours is just perfect for us!"

-Jensen is in real denial about Mommy having a baby, and a little confused, too. He lifts up his own shirt and says, "Baby." We are beginning to think that he thinks a tummy is called a baby. Anyways, he pointed at Papa's tummy and said, "Baby." Papa said, "yep...Twins!"

-Jensen "Yucky! Yucky! Mommy it (get) it." Over the towel fuzz in the shower, from our new towels. He said this with quite the hysterically undertone.