Monkey love

Hailey is in love with monkeys. She has decided that she wants to use monkeys for Trevor. Anything monkey she loves and wants to get. It's cute - so our new blog background is dedicated to Hailey and her love for monkeys.

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On Sunday we had some crazy weather around our parts. We were at church when the worst of it hit. Lightning, thunder, rain, hail, total craziness. When we got home, this is what we found:

The kids had a blast playing in it and throwing it at the dog; who absolutely loved it. It was quite cute.

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33 weeks today! Woo Hoo!

Taking a tour of the hospital on Monday night. Getting excited for that. This will be the first time at this hospital. I have heard good things but the rooms for after delivery (recovery rooms??) are shared. I am a little spoiled from our other hospital where I had private rooms so I am not looking forward to sharing a room.

I need to find a new pediatrician. We switched insurance companies a year ago and picked a dr. for the kids. She has been ok but the other day I realized that she would be the one to come to the hospital to check out Trevor and all of the sudden I realized I wasn't THAT comfortable with her. I asked my OB for some recommendations. He gave me 3 but I am not sure how to go about finding out about them and deciding if I am ok with them. Any ideas on how to find new doctors?

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Can I just say that being a work mom is really hard sometimes? Add homeschooling to the mix and it gets really, really hard sometimes. Sigh. One day at a time.

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Mothers Day was ok. We had a good morning and then went to my dad's for dinner. He did a great job cooking a yummy dinner. I did good all day until my dad asked me if I wanted to go through my mom's jewelry. I went to the closet and didn't know what to do. I just stared at it and started crying. I ended up packing it all up and bringing it home. Some day I will be ready to go through it all. I am going to have to hide it though - the girls keep trying to get into it. It is like a treasure box of goodies to them =)

Nesting

My nesting is taking form as a laundry-crazy-mama. I am so on top of laundry right now it isn't even funny. Every dirty article of clothing makes me want to run and throw it in the washer but I try to control myself and wait for a full load.

I also am into putting the clutter away. Not really cleaning as in dusting, vacuuming, and that type of stuff but more just attacking the clutter. Our poor bedroom became a dumping ground and collected everything. I have been working on one section at a time and it is slowly looking like a room we might actually want to sleep in. I will have to take pics when I get it all done.

Does your husband nest? Mine does. With Evan's pregnancy it was painting. He wanted to paint every room. I managed to limit him to the family room and Evan's room. I was 8-9 months pregnant and on the floor trying to trim the moulding and after those two rooms I said no more. Not to mention that trying to pick paint colors was going to drive me insane. We had 9 color squares in our family room and 9 squares in Evan's room trying to decide what colors to use. I finally told him to just pick something - I didn't care anymore - and I do have to say that he picked great colors.

This pregnancy Kurt is into decorating the house. The poor guy was blessed/cursed with a wife who doesn't like to shop. Blessed because he doesn't have to worry about me spending money. Cursed because our house never changes because I don't like to buy anything new. So Kurt has taken this up lately and here are his goods:

A new picture for the family room:

He finally hung this picture above the fireplace. It has sat up there since Evan was 2.

(That's only 3.5 years to hang a picture!)

We got Evan's new room all set up.

Evan shares his room with Cody (who wanted to be in the picture).

The new rug he got for the kitchen.

Cody is modeling the it for you.

After several years of having princess quilts on their beds (the last few years they have complained that it was way too little kidish), we finally got the girls new bed sets. Kurt found them.

We even got them cute sheets to go with it.

I have to say that I think he is doing a great job!