Big Changes...

If I had to choose one word to describe our life recently, it'd be something like "whirlwind" or perhaps "change." While growing our 3rd boy and preparing for his arrival, Jon was offered a new job in Dallas! This was wonderful, exciting, much hoped for news. However, we don't live in Dallas. Thus, the change. So we are now putting our first home on the market, and looking to buy our second. So my time the past few weeks has been spent de-cluttering the house and doing various home projects, moving the boys into the same bedroom, getting the baby's room ready, landscaping, interrupting said previous tasks to take one boy to the urgent care to get stitches, and celebrating b'day after b'day after b'day. Did I mention that baby boy is due in just 1.5 weeks?! I'll attempt to sort thru some of this chaos in some pictures below-

 

Jack's room as painted before:

 

Jack's room as painted before, white walls surrounding the striped wall-

 Jack's room painted AFTER-

 

Yellow walls, brown chair rail stripe (that was fun), and a blue ceiling!

 

 And the reason to paint Jack's room? We wanted to give it a new identity since we would be moving Jason in with Jack, and it'd officially be "the boys' room."

 

Speaking of moving Jason in with Jack, we had to first get him trained to sleep in a big boy bed. No More Crib, sigh. Here is Jason opting to sleep on the floor instead of his bed-

 

He fell asleep in his bed!

 

Daddy's b'day rolled around on April 2nd! Mmm, chocolate cake. Funny antecdote- when I mentioned it was Daddy's b'day, Jason's immediate response was to squeak "cake!" He's got his priorities straight.

 

Jason still figuring out the mechanics of sleeping in a bed, instead of near it. Loving the shot of just his legs sticking it, it's so reminiscent of the Wicked Witch of the West, no?

 

Jason sporting 3 stitches beneath his lip, after tripping over his shoes and smacking a chair head-on.

 

Jason's 2nd b'day rolled around on April 22nd. A day for more cake!

 

Playing with his brand new Mater, with Jack coveting it.

 

 Celebrating more b'days with my Mom's coming in 2 days after Jason's-

 After about a month of learning to sleep in a bed, it was time to move Jason into Jack's room, thus making Jason's room available for the baby. I admit, this was much DREADED on my part! Bedtime is a sacred ritual at our house, and I did not want to disturb that by moving the boys into the same room. It went about as well as I had anticipated. Both boys acted like monkeys hyped up on speed- jumping on the beds, climbing the furniture, screaming, throwing their feces (okay, maybe not that one), and smothering each other.

 

Evidence below of Jack using baby brother as a body pillow-

 

Jason yet again trying to kill himself, as he fell and hit his head on the concrete sidewalk, scraping up his forehead. This may be my child who's a regular at the ER...

 

Jack's b'day rolled around on May 9th, turning the big 5! We brought cupcakes to his class and he loved the attention-

 

Getting a transformer for his special day, or in his words a "robot truck."

It's been a hectic past month, but I finally feel like we're *nearly* to the point of being ready to have baby boy arrive, what with getting the house ready to list and preparing the boys for baby. I still have some organizing to do, and prepping and freezing meals, and house hunting, and a million other things- but, hey, that's life, right?

Among my list of things to do is to update my blog! So be prepared to experience my pregnancy "nesting instinct" shining through as I try to get the blog whipped into shape over the next few days.