27 weeks!

Wow it's been a while since I've posted! So I'm nearly in my 3rd trimester now! Time is flying. Life has been crazy.

As of lately my children have been crazy little munchkins. Jackson has learned how to take his pants & diaper off & apparently feels it's a good idea to pee all over his bed. We only have 3 onesies in the house because he's a t-shirt and jeans boy so now I need to make a mad dash to the store in the next day or so for more onesies.

I can't believe my little man is already 2 years old! These 2 years have gone by so fast!

Amber is doing well in pre-school. She has about 1 month left. Once she's out I plan on potty traning Jack. I'm really hoping that I can get him potty trained before #3 gets here.

This year with Amber has flown by. She has learned so much. She's learned how to write her name, all the letters of the alphabet (how to write them in upper & lower case) and the months of the year, days of the week, and her phone number! She's one smart cookie. She also is very well aware of the fact that she's 1 smart cookie!

The dogs are the same. Rocky still wants to eat the little dogs that live behind us. Carl is basically the most amazing rottie on the face of the earth and Duke.......oh Duke. A few weeks ago somehow he managed to rip out a bag toe nail! We took him to the vet to be sure there was no infection. He was fine. He wouldn't stop licking it so we had to put a cone on him (per the vet) and then he still managed to lick it. Apparently we have the most flexible dog alive. So we decided to tape a tube sock to his foot to prevent him from licking it. Then we realized in the morning, when the grass was wet, the sock would get all wet & dirty. So we started then taping a plastic bag over the tube sock on the cone wearing dog so he could use the yard a few times a day. OMG. Can I just say he is one SPECIAL little creature.

As far as family goes. Family is still family. My mom is still the absentee grandma. She comes around when it's convenient for her. Amber was in a trike-a-thon last week and my generous mother donated $10 and made a stink about getting a receipt for tax write off purposes. Uhm....it was $10. Seriously? Then she stopped by for all of 5 minutes and darted out of the house to run (in her words) "1,000 errands".........At least Bob's mom has been making an effort to be around the kids and in 2 weeks my sister is babysitting! That'll be nice. She hasn't babysat since Amber was under a year old. She's never babysat both kids. Should be interesting.

My Brother-in-law was laid up from his city job. Funny thing about being laid up. He informed my hubby that he could only pick his child up from school (or take her), go out for food or go to church. He's been going to family parties, to the movies, on nature walks and even out to gamble. So my poor hubby has been working all those shifts. My kids started asking him "daddy? do you live here?" because he hasn't been around. FINALLY, now that tennis season is nearly over my mother in law can work some of those shifts so my husband is off on the weekends. This past weekend was the first weekend since January that my  husband was off for 2 days straight (other then when he had his vasectomy and I took the kids to my mom's that weekend anyways so he could rest).

We still have quite a bit to buy for baby #3. We need a high chair and dresser. We also are considering cloth diapering so I want to pick up some ecobums and give those a try. I need to find my breast pumps and then I think I'll feel much better. My Hubby did buy me a moby wrap last weekend and I'm super excited about that! I need to be a baby wearing mama since I'm going to have 3 kids so close in age!

Onto more exciting news, we're hoping to move. We would like to list our house by next Spring at the latest. We've found our target neighborhoods and we're very excited about it. The hubs has quite an extensive list of things he wants in a house though so I'm hoping we can find what we want in our price range. He wants a 4 bedroom w/ a 2 car garage and it has to have 2 bathrooms. He also wants a family room in addition to our living room and we definitely need to have a dining room or an eat in kitchen that can accomodate a table that seats a family of 5. A fenced in yard would also be nice because of the dogs, but worse case scenario, we'll have to tether them and let them out for potty breaks only until one can be installed (and that would be at the top of our to do list!).

We were hoping to move this summer but it seems unrealistic. The family has to sell the extra house and then the grandkids get their portions (inheritance from hubby's grandparents). That, along w/ the money I have saved will be our down payment. We're just hoping not to have to many problems saving our house. We are prepared to not make a penny off this house, but we don't want to come to the closing table owing money either.

I'm very anxious for the release of Aprillynne Pike's last book in her Wings series to be released on May 1st. I read the 1st three books of the series last year and I've been going nuts w/ anticipation for the conclusion! I can't wait! 4 more days! If I'm up having problems sleeping due to the lovely pregnancy induced restless leg syndrome, heart burn, acid reflux, braxton hicks, round ligament pain or just ten thousand pee breaks I might just find myself purchasing it online at the ereader store shortly after Midnight on May 1st while DH snores away in a blissful slumber LOL.

My friend Caletta is in town now too. It's nice for the kids to have their godmother in town but she's been in for over a week and has only seen us once so far. I am meeting her for tea tomorrow though. I know she's staying about 45 min to an hour away and she has a lot on her plate in her life right now but I feel like she's making time for someone else (plenty of it too) and that's not where she should be focusing her attention right now because she has so much to do and figure out. Not that I'm against her hanging out w/ this person in any way at all, I think it's good for her but I know she's only here for a short time and really does have a huge to do list. I guess I just thought I'd hear from her more. Tea will be nice tomorrow though (especially in the lychee bubble tea form from Bello Tea). Then I plan on stopping at Sweet Pea Consignment over in westmont to look at more adorable baby items for the munchkins, I don't know if she'll want to come with or not but I plan on going either way.

And while I'm talking about shopping. My mother in law actually has brought up going to the outlets with me twice now! I'm really excited. I love shopping for baby stuff but in all honestly, I'm not going to be the size of a beached whale all summer (god willing) and I'd love to check out the liz claiborne outlet and find some cute comfy tanks (preferably ones that will work for nursing since I plan on being a baby wearing, breast feeding, cloth diapering hippy mom it seems LOL).

My mom also said she's going to buy number 3 a new mobile. We like the fisher price one because it is battery operated and has nice lights. Our fish tank finally bit the dust after almost 4 years of use and I never liked the crank to start mobile 'cause it never lasted long enough.

OH and we have a name. Alayna Grace. I'm so excited! So we'll have our Amber Rose, Jackson Robert and Alayna Grace.