Building day and Family Home Evening (FHE)

Marlee was in building mood today. She built this little "Rapunzel" castle. (She has never seen tangled, but her friend, Bostyn, has the Rapunzel barbie that she absolutely loves to play with.) 

 Then she wanted to build a fort for her babies (I did help with this one.) 

Oh how I love when she entertains herself while Josie is napping.

  

We went outside probably five times today to go see and hold each of the baby goats. They are cute and the girls can't get enough of them. 

 

• Put all my laundry away, dishes, etc. Maintenance is my goal before this baby comes so I don't have to do any "big" cleaning projects.

For FHE we returned a red box DVD, and on the way home we asked Marlee what she wanted to learn about for FHE. She said, "Jesus and Heaven." So Ivan taught her about how we all lived in heaven before we were born and Marlee seemed to enjoy that we all lived in heaven. And then she proceeded to say that when we die we go back to heaven. Short and sweet lesson! Then we had cookies and called it a night.

New kids on the block and blessings

Not the singing group. Our two pregnant goats had their babies tonight!

Princess had two babies.

Brownie had one baby.

  Ivan is feeling pretty confident of helping me out in case I have a home birth! (just kidding)

We had an enjoyable Sunday dinner with the Winters and Tanners. Lyndsay this post if for you. Any run on sentences so far? Great food.Great company. Kids played well together.

Marlee woke up with some massively swollen glands. I stayed home from church with here and she was obviously not feeling well. I put some oils on her and then when Ivan got home from church we asked her if she wanted a blessing, she said, "Yes." So Ivan gave her a blessing and then she took a good nap When she woke up she was feeling better and said, " I am feeling better because Daddy gave me a blessing and Jesus wants me to feel better." She was also good about letting us rub essential oils on her neck to help with the pain. It truly was a little miracle. The faith children have is incredible. What a blessing!

Piano, grandpas, park, cleaning and cookies

Ivan's Grandparents got their piano back that they had bought back in 1969. They had a newer one and asked if we would like it. Grandma Marje knew that I have wanted a piano for a very long time. So she arranged for to be brought out to our house today. Grandpa guy and Grandpa Mack (Ivan's dad) brought out the piano and with the help of a couple of our neighbors,  they unloaded it and its sitting here right now! So exciting!
Marlee and Josie were so excited that both Grandpas were coming out. We picked up take out food and had a fun enjoyable lunch with the girls and their Grandpas on the Mack side. (Ivan was still at work.)
After they headed home, we played on the piano a while, took naps and when we woke up, Ivan was home!!!
Marlee was excited because it was still light outside when he came home. So we went to the park and then came home from the park and tag teamed cleaning the house and the girls. We made cookies and watched a movie together! Quite the eventful, enjoyable day.

"Mom, please dance with me..."

This afternoon, Marlee got all dresses up in her princess dress and helped Josie get dressed in her dress too. Then she came to me and said, "Mom, will you please dance with me? I am a princess and I need a prince to dance with. You can be the prince." How could I turn that down? So I twirled the girls around while we sung all of the different princess songs. It was actually quite fun!
I went to the doctors today and told her about my nausea and she said that its common to have that before labor and delivery due to the hormones releasing preparatory for child birth. I am not due for another ten days and have thought all along that I am going to go over due, so I am okay with having this baby whenever. I am lucky to not be in any pain and still be able to be on the move and not bed ridden and still able to dance with my princesses:)

No baby...

Still having nausea, a couple of contractions here and there. Girls are not feeling well. Kind of a chill day:)

Just in case

today could possible be the last post before I have this baby.... I think I have been feeling contractions. Its because i feel nausea hit me about every ten mins or so. Last time with Josie I woke up from a great nights sleep had a few hard contractions and had her within two hours of my first contraction. I have not felt anything painful yet, just nausea followed by lightheadedness? Who knows whats gunna happen. I think I am finally okay with the fact that our baby could come. There were a few things I really wanted to make sure got done before we had the baby. It was to make sure we were stocked up on hay for the goats, get my glasses fixed and finish the thirty day freezer dinners with Natalie. Finished the meals Monday, had our great neighbors drop off 8 bails of hay this morning and stopped by walmart and got my glasses fixed. Yea my house is not "ready" but will it ever really be clean and ready? Guess only time will tell:)

Nutrition, nap, and lots of play time

We started our first day of a four day lesson about nutrition at preschool today. It was fun to try and teach the students the difference between fruits and vegetables. (Most of the students are three years old:)) 

After preschool we got to take naps. I was thinking that I post a lot about how excited I am about naps, but I feel really tired lately since I can;t sleep at night(that's when this baby boy comes alive.) So every day I get a nap in is super exciting!

Josie woke up before Marlee and came out of the play room with a big smile on her face and said, "Daddy's hat!" She loves Ivan and gets super excited when he gets home from work! 

The girls have basically been playing really well together non stop since they woke up from naps. They've played pretend to go to the park, eating dinner with their kitchen food,  puzzles, hide and go seek, polly pockets, etc. I love it. I have been able to get the boys room a little more organized.Good day!