Excitement

It's been a good start to the week.

Sunday began with our first day of Sunday School. All went well, and the kids had so much fun.  After church, Mom and Nikki each took a kid.   Matt and I went and had lunch with Pat and Laverne (the people we bought our farm from), then came home and canned tomatoes and spaghetti sauce.  Yay for having a helper who was willing to peel tons of tomatoes.  He literally saved me hours.  Thanks, Matt. :)

The kids were so excited when they got home that night because Grandma Juli had let them borrow "Gunsmoke".  It's all they've been watching since they got it.  And they love it! It's black and white, but it's all they request.  It makes me laugh.  Matt loves it, too. He'll find any excuse to come in and watch a movie with the kids before bed. :)

Clarence started out yesterday by being privileged enough to ride in the corn chopper with Donald Burton.  Donald and his crew came out yesterday and chopped our corn.  Clarence was lucky enough to get to ride for three hours in the corn chopper.  I asked him how many rows he did.  He held up his hands, and said, "Five, five, five, five, five rows."  (That's a lot, I'm thinking.)  I wonder what he and Donald talked about?  Any guesses?

I'm guessing farming, cows, haying, chopping corn, etc.  Anything and everything that could have to do with the farm.  Donald even gave him pop and candy. What a lucky boy!

Tonight he had his pre-school open house.  We went to the school, found his room, his cubby, his nametag, his locker, and met his new teacher.   He had a lot of fun (and Adina had fun tagging along).  We read a book together, then had a snack, then went outside to play with the other kids.  I know he's going to have a great time at preschool. 


Today we spent a few hours cleaning up our toy room.  It was a disaster, to say the least.  Anyway, now we can easily walk in the door, through that room, and go right into the kitchen, rather than going around the long way.  It's lovely.

Adina found so many cool toys she had forgotten about.  She found one of my grandma's old purses full of dishes Nikki, Amanda, Savannah and I used to play with at Grandma's house.  She added her own little collection to the purse, threw it around her neck (that's how she carries it), and has walked around with it on all afternoon.  This morning she even picked 8 tomatoes and added to her purse and random collection.  Thankfully Clarence told me about them so I could take them out before she squished them and made a large, disgusting mess.

That's all the excitement I have...not as much as I thought, but it's all fun, anyway.

Oh, one more.  The baby's been moving for the last two weeks, and it's so much fun to experience it again!    Now I can even feel it on the outside sometimes.  I'm excited for when the kids will actually be able to feel it.  It won't be long now!  I'm 21 weeks along right now.  Baby's due January 20th, although I'm sure I'll have my c-section the week before...I'm kinda shooting for Jan. 15th, which is my brother's birthday.That would be fun!

Hope you're having a super day and week! And yay for cooler weather!