The Happenings at our House

Not that it is all that interesting or anything, but I figured it had been a while since I blogged, so here is what is going on....

Conner's birthday is next week. He will be 4. I often sit back and am amazed at how different Conner is then Brayden in several ways. Conner is VERY independent. He'll just decide one day that he wants to do something himself and you can't change his mind about it. He will argue till he's blue in the face about something. He has been cracking us up lately because he has his whole birthday planned out, and has informed me that this is how his birthday will play out. 

Here is his agenda: 

~Wake up, go have pancakes at "The Pancake House", come home and play a game. 

~Then we will go to swimming lessons (they start next week, and both boys are very excited for that!) and then go to Chuck E. Cheese for dinner. 

~Then we are to come home and Brayden and I are to hide behind the couch, and Daddy is to turn off the lights, and then when Conner walks in the house, Dad's job is to turn on the lights, and we all jump out and yell "SURPRISE!" 

~Then he will hunt out his presents that we are to hide (a few upstairs and lots downstairs) once he finds them all, he will open them. 

~Then we will have cake and ice cream. However, what kind of cake we are to have keeps changing. It has been everything from Spongebob, Wall-E, Doggy, and Spiderman, but I think he has decided on a Transformer cake. At least for now. That may change once or twice again before the big day next week.

He is such a funny kid!!

In other happenings....

Brayden has been getting so good at reading! He really loves it too. Yesterday I took them to a new Library that has recently opened (which is a MILLION times better then the one that is closer to my house, so it's worth the extra drive time) and Brayden was so excited to pick out his own books that he would be able to read on his own. Since he is on track break I figured it would be good for him to keep up on his reading skills. I have found him more then once reading a story to his little brother... so sweet!!!

Patrick keeps crazy busy as always with work. There is never a dull day at his office.  So he is defiantly looking forward to the long weekend he has coming up for the 4th. He has also been keeping busy earning the 

BESTEST HUSBAND OF THE DECADE 

award. He has been massaging my tired, sore, swollen, pregnant legs and feet, almost daily over the past few weeks. It has been heaven!!! One night when Brayden came in the family room while Patrick was doing this and Patrick and I were talking, Brayden asked "Dad, why are you doing that to Mom??" Patrick simply replied, "because this is how you treat your pregnant wife."  Well, I'm not gonna argue that! I'm so glad that he is teaching our boys how to treat girls right. He tells them all the time that we let girls go first and open doors for them and things like that. My boys try all the time to open the door for me, sometimes they still need help, but they always give it a try. I sure hope my boys grow up to be nice gentleman like their dad is!

As for the pregnant thing... its going fairly well. I'm still NOT a fan of being pregnant. I'm almost to my last trimester, and I'm feeling it. Last time I went to the Dr. he told me the baby is measuring a little big, but nothing to be concerned about yet.  I have been starting to get sore from just about anything I do, especially sitting or laying in the same position for too long. I get up and I look like a 100 year old lady wobbling around. This was only confirmed last Sunday at church when I got a few comments about how I have "the pregnant walk", not sure that I'm a huge fan of that either! I'm pretty sure this kid will be like Brayden in the way that he's already so low that it hurts to move my legs up to do simple things like put on pants or get into bed. Oh the joys!!!  :)  Do any of you remember seeing Brayden when he was born, he had a huge dent in his head from grinding it into my pelvic bones, well I'm thinking this kid may have the same thing... good thing it goes away quickly. I asked my Dr. about the pain from that last time I saw him and he just nicely smiled and said it will only get worse as the baby gets bigger, and even worse still if I was to have yet another baby. Gee, thanks!!! So if you see me wobbling around, looking like I'm in pain, and holding my stomach up, that is why. I am in pain. Feel free to laugh, I know is a funny sight... Patrick and the boys chuckle at me often. Hey, I even laugh at myself, you just have to laugh at things like that sometimes!   However, I am happy to report that Conner has come around to the idea of have this baby. He often gives me hugs and then whispers to my belly "Hi Baby!" It's so cute.