Some things that we've been up to this week(ish):
1. David's been working late a lot of nights lately (hello, busy season). Every night Austin would ask to sleep in Lydia's bed/room, and so on a whim we moved Austin's crib into Lydia's room and things have been going great! I haven't taken a picture, or even really talked about it too much because I don't want to jinx it - but these two love each other and love sleeping in the same room. Half the time Austin falls asleep while I'm reading pages in a chapter book to Lydia, but the times that he doesn't, they are pretty good about chattering for a minute and then going to sleep. I love how much they love each other. Picture below was from when they moved their blankets out into the hall and begged to be able to sleep together out there. (Yeah, not going to happen.)
2. I had a pretty busy day planned for our Wednesday with a lot of moving parts and errands that needed to happen. By 9:30 I was already on "Plan C" for the day (A and B just hadn't worked out). By 11:45 I was on plan F, I had just gotten off the phone with David telling him that plan E hadn't worked out, but that barring any more plan-changes I would be by the office he was working at to drop off lunch to him within the hour. I picked up Lydia from preschool, headed to run one of our more important errands, and hit a teeny-tiny pothole in the road. Lydia was crying in the carseat because I had showed up a tiny bit early to pick her up and tried to hurry her to the car - lesson learned- and the pothole didn't even really register. However, we pulled up at the light a few blocks away from her preschool and I heard a loud hissing noise. Looking around, I wondered what it could be - until I started driving again and realized it was our tire. Plan F, out the window.
Thankfully, we had enough air to drive down Pioneer Crossing and pull into a brand new wasn't-there-a-month-ago-but-i'm-sure-glad-it-was-there-now gas station. I pretty much threw the rest of my plans out the window, called David back, called our roadside assistance, then went into the gas station to buy an overpriced hot dog and some candy for a make-shift lunch. We hung out in the car which wasn't bad at all thanks to the gas-station food and the fact that I turned a movie on the van tv for the kids to watch (Ha! Technology!). I wasn't going to try to change the tire myself (remember - almost 8 months pregnant?), but I was pretty proud of myself for figuring out how to get the spare tire down from underneath the center of the car.
Long story short- we spend an hour or so at Les Schwab, so that they could tell us that they needed to order in a new rim because it wasn't the tire that had popped - it was the rim that had bent. We came in the following Friday and had them put the special-ordered rim on our tire and now we're as good as new. Sometimes things in life happen and you wish that they wouldn't have, and almost always they happen at inconvenient times, but I do my best to roll with the punches and just keep on doing the best we can. I'm grateful for money in a "Vehicle Service/Parts" savings account, a husband who is loving and supportive at all times, and kids who are happy to just come a long for the ride.
3. I know that I've said it before, but Lydia and Austin are the best of friends. They play together so well and it just makes my heart so happy. Lydia is getting so big and her creativity and knowledge are just exploding, but even so - she makes sure that Austin is right there playing with her and being taken care of. If Austin is sad, or if she can tell that I just need them to go play for a little while, she'll say "Austin, want to play our favorite game???" (Their favorite game usually is doing somewhat dangerous acrobatics on the big chair in the Nursery, but sometimes is just chasing/racing each other around the house.)
4. We just renewed our Thanksgiving Point passes in hopes that we can have some fun adventures before baby comes, plus an excuse to get out of the house after baby gets here. Austin loves the nets, although not quite with the same intensity level as Lydia did at this age. I followed them around the net path once (at 35 weeks pregnant), then watched them go around about three times more before having to go another time to make Austin leave the airplane area. I thought that I had put myself into labor (not kidding), and was SO grateful to go home and lay down. I'm glad that they love it so much. I might not be able to do it with them again until after baby boy gets here!
5. I got 'heart-attacked' by the Activity Days girls. It was sweet and thoughtful and I appreciated the show of support for me in my calling. Lydia and Austin also loved it.
6. The weather is warming up! After a few days of rain, all of our snow melted and we now have grass again! The kids were thrilled and ran up and down the street while I took the garbage cans out one morning. The groundhog said six more weeks of winter, but it's starting to feel like spring already and we are all SO excited.
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