A New Day

We are starting out today fresh...and with good smells in our house...

One of those days...

I'm two days away from my due date and SO VERY READY to have this little boy on the outside. There isn't much more preparing we can do, and this weekend was supposed to be the quiet before the storm...except a different storm hit today. 

We all got up and started our Saturday as usual...read books with Daddy, kept grumpiness to a minimum (I'm not a morning person), read the paper, played, and made breakfast. Things were fine. 

Until the toaster started on fire. 

No flames, but a lot of smoke, and burnt-to-a-crisp waffles. It's an old toaster and didn't pop when it should have. I smelled it in the living room and ran to the kitchen. I unplugged it and took it out the back door. I opened the entire house (all two windows that actually open and both doors) but the smell. Ug. Smoke smell is awful, and it makes Logan terribly congested for weeks. 

So we set out to clean all the surfaces off as Google told us to do, and we took all the curtains down to wash them, etc. In 3 minutes we had a full days worth of cleaning to do. Everything smelled like smoke...including my bags of stuff packed for the hospital. Ug. So Logan took the laundry downstairs to start it up. 

That's when he found out the main drain had backed up in the laundry room...for the second time in 48 hours. 

That's also when Logan noticed the washing machine wasn't working. 

So I called the plummer...again...but they wouldn't let me schedule an appointment this time. No, this time my landlord had to call in. So I called/texted the landlord but he was on his way to his daughters Confirmation Mass and couldn't do much right then.  

I got in the shower to try to make it to my prenatal massage appointment, but two minutes into my shower Logan came in and said the main drain was backing up so fast from my shower that the water was almost out of the laundry room and on the carpet.

So no laundry, no shower, and no toilets. But lots of smoke smell. 

I cancelled my appointment. We cleaned up what we could. The boys played really nicely for a while while I got all my stress out by crying. My husband cleaned like a maniac despite his crazy 40 week pregnant wife. We tried to have nap time but, of course, the plummers showed up right as quiet time commenced. How do they have such horrible timing every time?!

That's when I called Grandma. 

We let the plummers finish their work and headed to G&G's for playing and dinner. Grandma Susan bought us a new toaster. We picked up groceries. Logan got the washer working again and finished the laundry. And then it was bed time. 

I went to my landlord's house to apologize for interrupting Confirmation and we got to talking about the hospital we planned to give birth at. 

That's when I realized the hospital never called me to confirm my registration. 

So I called them and let's just say I was seriously starting to question their ability to provide quality care. 

So I called the other hospital two days before my due date and asked for a tour. They said sure! How about tonight? So we toured and switched hospitals two days out. 

That's about enough for today. I'm spent. 

A Good Day of Play

Miracle of miracles...the boys though of, set up, and played nicely a game of cars & trucks!!! It lasted a satisfying amount of time. I just sat on the couch and tried to be invisible. 

From after naps on they were outside. They rode bikes, played on the playground, played with the neighbors, made mud soup, and spent time swinging. Augustine only came in because it was his bed time. 

You know it's a good day when your bathroom walls look like this ^. 

Congrats Julia!

My Goddaughter & niece received her 1st Holy Communion last weekend! We were so happy to be there and celebrate with her!

Receiving Jesus' body, blood, soul, and divinity!!! She looked beautiful in her dress and veil...a bride of Christ!

Congratulations Julia!

Keerun's Wedding

Yesterday was a beautiful day spent helping the bride on her wedding day!

Everything was just gorgeous...especially the bride!

A few of us were blessed to see the big reveal...so fun!

(I didn't take any photos during the Mass.) We stopped at Carmela's after Mass for a drink. The college girlfriends plus Keerun's sweet sister!

Anne, Keerun and I had such a great day together! We had some good laughs and it was just lovely to see first hand how happy Keerun is!

Indian sand art to greet guests at the reception. 

The boys haven't been to a wedding reception other than when they were babies so they had tons of fun learning about it and eating and wishing for cake. 

Hopefully our last photo as a family of four. I'm due a week from tomorrow. 

Cheers and all our best Mr. & Mrs. Huppert! Thank you for sharing your special day with us!

April Fools Day

Today we did a few art projects while Augustine was at school. I forget how much Lewis likes art because I'm so used to Augustine who couldn't care less about it. 

He loved gluing feathers onto this plate. No particular reason we did this...just an interesting texture and he loves glue. In the background you can see he also made a turtle and a peacock. He also cut up a plate, again for no particular reason other than he loves to cut paper. 

We made a HyVee but it wasn't much of a game...just a mess. They weren't into it. 

Grandma Kathleen stopped by with a surprise for the boys! Look at that face! The kid loves those rescue pups. Lewis still wears a 2T in swim suits or else the pants are too big. Augustine is graduating to a size 6 and I just can't believe it. 

And last but not least we played a little trick on Daddy. We covered this with foil and put it on the stove. :) Thanks Angelyn for the harmless joke idea! Even my joke-hating eldest son thought it was quite funny. Logan decided to take it to the neighbor's house who is our landlord and offer them some along with the rent check. Said landlord made a big deal over the joke (because he's fun like that) and proceeded to take a bite of one and chew it up. Apparently, Augustine was giggling and Lewis couldn't believe his eyes!

History, According to Augustine

Augustine asked why we celebrate the Fourth of July. I'm pretty sure this came to mind because he was thinking about the (new to him) bike he started riding the other day, which reminded him of the Fourth of July parade. 

So, Logan explained the holiday to him over dinner last night. When he mentioned it is America's birthday, Augustine thought hard about it. Then he asked how America started, so I asked him if he knew who sailed the ocean and found America. (We didn't go into the complicated part about how there were already people here.) He didn't skip a beat in answering my question and said, "Jim Wilson!"   

Um...no.