Lost things

This week has been a fun one for me. Monday, I was working on the computer and left my wallet in front of it while I ran into my room for some papers I needed. When I got back, James was happily playing with my now empty wallet. I removed my possesssions from him and went on with what I was doing. A few minutes later, I realized that my all of my debit and credit cards were missing. This started a massive search of the living room. I looked in the couches, I checked out the vents, I even moved the TV cabinet and looked under it. Of course, no luck.

I did find them about an hour later. James had shoved them into the DVD drive on our Mac. Oh no! I called Michael in tears and he nicely came home to comfort me. We ended up having to take the computer into the Apple store where they were able to remove them, and they did it without laughing visibly in front of Michael. (His supervisor laughed ALOT!)

Of course, last night right before Pack meeting, Peter can't find his cub scout belt. We search the entire house and find all sorts of interesting other things... but no belt. I did manage to find it this morning after doing another search of his room. It was stuck in the space between the wall and his dresser! No wonder we couldn't see it when we looked under the dresser!

The good news, is that I can look back and laugh now. However I propose that we now only find things, not lose them!

New bed!

Now that we know what we are having, we decided that it was time to move James out of the crib and into a toddler bed. The kids were very helpful and cleaned the old crib and toddler bed as we were trying to get them all set up.

James is very excited about his bed. He very happily points out the moon and stars and kicks any eager siblings out of his bed. He was very excited till it was time to go to sleep that night!

Now I spend every naptime and bedtime next to his bed waiting for him to fall asleep. Last night, I think I beat him! I fell asleep first! Dark, quiet room... tired Mama.... you get the picture! I think I miss the crib, but once he is adjusted, life will be easier again.. I hope!

It's a....

We went to the my OB today to have an ultrasound done. Michael and I had taken Jared and James along with us. It went well, everything looks great! Jared looked at the ultrasound machine screen and declared, "It's a dinosaur!"

So there you go guys... You have the big news! We are having a dinosaur in January! I know you are all so excited for us! How often do you really get to have a dinosaur?

Any guesses yet? Okay, I'll tell you...

We are having a baby girl!
(I know some of you were hoping for the dinosaur option.... sorry!)

School Morning

Today is the first day of school. As is tradition, we got up, got ready and had our back to school Father's blessings. Than off to the bus stop where Mom, armed with camera was ready to go.

The elementary school kids are ready for the bus!

Annie

Peter

Kathleen

David
(note all the beautiful smiling faces this morning....)

Carina waiting for her turn to go to the bus stop at home

Carina showing us her real feelings about waking up for school!
Have a great year kids!

Fun in a tent

Once upon a time there was a tent built by a big brother. Everyone couldn't wait to come and play in it. So all gathered around and crowded into the tent.

And then they decided that they were tired of pictures so they closed the flap!