10 things

#1 - I had a baby appointment this last Monday.  I will be 28 weeks tomorrow (Sunday).  Yay!  I am now at the point where I can start going to appts. every 2 weeks, but she told me everything's fine so if I want to space them out more for now, I can.  Baby's doing well....moving a lot.  Clarence was patient enough to wait for a kick the other day.  He thought that was pretty cool.  Adina just pretends like she's feeling for it, but she's too impatient. 

#2 - My doctor is due with twins Feb. 9th (I'm due Jan 20th)...I'm hoping she'll be around still when I have my baby...I really want her to do my c-section!  I've set a date the week before my due date, but for now, I'll just keep it a secret...it's fun to be surprised when babies show up out of the blue, don't you think?

#3 - Clarence still loves school.  He likes when Matt picks him up after school so he can come home and get work done, though.  I think he worries the farm can't make progress without him when he's at the babysitter.  He's really into watching cowboy movies lately.  His new favorite is a John Wayne movie, "The Cowboys".  He talks about bringing his cows to Belle Fousche all the time.  He'll load his cows and horses in his big semi and say he's bringing them to Belle Fousche.  You can tell he's seen the movie a couple of times!

#4 - Adina's doing great as well.  She now loves having her hair done...we do braids and pony tails with barettes to hold her bangs back.  She looks so grown up with her hair done.  The only time she takes her hair out is if she's mad at me...like it's supposed to bother me or something.  She's definitely going through her "terrible twos" these days, though.  Or maybe it's just because she's a girl, I don't know, but her mood changes almost instantly.  She'll be happy and cheerful one minute and screaming if she doesn't get her way the next.  She's really been testing my patience level...:) Most of the time I handle it well, though, and leave her alone and let her get over her tantrums by herself.  She's getting a lot better at doing that. 
She's also big into makeup, perfume, and pins.  Grandma Carmen sent her home with a box full of pins she wore to work in the '80's.  Adina's a huge fan.  We decorate her whole shirt with weird little pins, and then do photo shoots.  She also loves having her picture taken...I say smile, she does, then wants to see each picture as we take them.

#5 - Matt's been working hard, as usual...he's been working on putting up a new fence on some land we have north of our house.  He wants to put the cows out there to fall graze this next week.  The kids and I have been helping some, but he's done a lot of the work himself this last week.  He's also been continuing to work on my house...thanks, hun!, and feed cows, etc.  Clarence tries to make sure he helps feed cows every day...it's important to him to be involved. 

#6 - The kids and I made sugar cookies last Sunday. We used Halloween cookie cutters: a bat, an owl, and a pumpkin.  Then, we frosted them and put candy corn and sprinkles on them.  The kids had so much fun with the sprinkles and eating the frosting.  We have a lot of randomly sprinkled cookies, but they're so, so cute! And we had such a fun afternoon doing that together.  It's one of my favorite memories from when I was little - doing the same thing with my mom. 

#7 - Mark and Andrea are here today to help put up soffit and fascia on the house and to start the siding on the addition.  Yay! I'm so excited, I can hardly stand it.  I can't wait to get the addition closed in better so that we can use the back door as our main entrance, even if it's only stud walls.  I'm going to lock the front door and have a real living room again! Yippee!

#8 - Clarence and Adina spent the night at Grandma Juli and Grandpa Lowell's house last night.  On the way there, Adina talked about "riding Hico" (Chico) the whole time...she's obsessed with Chico. (I think it's definitely time for me to look for a nice old horse for the kids!)  Clarence talked about going to the farm with Grandpa Lowell to drive his little pickup around the shop and the farm.  He was so excited to be going there.  I called Mom's house this morning and Clarence answered the phone - it really surprised me! He did so well talking to me, though.  He told me they're making cookies this morning with Grandma.  They love getting to help bake in the kitchen.  Adina talked to me, too.  She was pretty excited, so I couldn't understand everything she was talking about, but I got that she slept well, she's making cookies, and she's been drinking chocolate milk. :)

#9 - I'm excited for snow. And Christmas. I love this time of year so much...I wish it lasted longer. :)

#10 - I'm going to be subbing a lot between now and Thanksgiving...better to sub now than after Christmas when I'll want to be home with my kids and the new baby! 


Hope you're having a super weekend! And month!