Only good news this time

No. Not good news. GREAT NEWS!

Aaron finished classes last week. He claims he is done being a student for the rest of his life. Hopes are that he'll finish his thesis by June (before the baby arrives) and receive his Master's Degree in Engineering then also. Congratulations honey. You know that I am SO proud of you!

Aaron has also been working on setting up a swing set that a neighbor gave us. This neighbor told us in early January that if we wanted his swing set, to go and get it. So, in freezing temps, Aaron (with some help) got it taken apart and moved into our yard. Since he's been in school, it's taken longer than he would have liked to get it set up in our yard, but his first free Saturday from studying (last Saturday), the kids were able to fully utilize it. They were in heaven.

Now our backyard takes twice as long to mow with the obstacles to mow & weedwhip around.

Olivia got the remainder of her immunizations she needed before starting kindergarten (this fall) this week. Three shots. Not one tear. What a tough girl!

The last part of our great news is that Olivia found my ring!!! I think I freaked her out with all the hugs and kisses and excitement. I held my hopes high the entire time it was missing because of some good friends that let me know their's had gone missing for a month or two and then it would show up.

(Olivia's hand is much cuter than mine these days.)


It really is a miracle though. I swear I lost it in Olivia's room while putting lotion on Carter. Well, Olivia just found it laying on the living room carpet. I have vacuumed in here several times, had several babies playing on this carpet, gone through a disgusting vacuum bag, etc...



I'm so lucky!
(this song is for Cathy)

Olivia's got skin

I have really been bad about taking pictures lately. I can blame that on being tired all the time, right? I have remembered to write down some of the fun things that Olivia has said lately though...

** While I was doing Olivia's hair one morning last week she asked me a question that I had to be careful with. "Mommy, am I skinny?" My mind was quickly trying to come up with a place where she might have heard this because we really don't use that word around our house. So I asked her, "Do you know what skinny means?"

Olivia quickly answered, "Yes. It means you have lots of skin."

Oh, well then, sure! You are skinny ;)




** Olivia was styling Aaron's hair on Sunday morning. She had combed and combed for quite awhile when she stopped to tell Aaron this: "You have a hole in the back of your head."
She was referring to his cowlick.



** While I was doing some ironing earlier this week, Olivia came downstairs and asked, "When you are 40, are you a teenager or a grown-up?" I let her know that 40 would probably be considered a grown-up. She responded with, "Oh, so all I have to do is wait until I'm 40 and then I'll be a grown-up?"


Yup. Sure.

It didn't end there though.

Olivia then asked me if I have been 40 yet.

Good News & Bad

Good news first. I'm going to make it official and say that

CARTER IS POTTY TRAINED!

(knock, knock, knock on wood)
It's been nearly three weeks with no accidents during the day and staying dry at night. I've not used a pull-up for over a week and I've quit reminding him over and over that he needs to go potty. Hooray for Carter! I just really hope that we don't have a relapse in June when someone new invades his world.

(Olivia was pretending that Carter was her baby and he fell asleep. Carter is trying to give up napping all together, but still has a hard time making it to 5pm without zonking out wherever he is.)

Bad news is really just my own bad news. I took my wedding ring off over two weeks ago to put lotion on Carter and haven't seen it since. Talk about a sick feeling. I think it's around the house somewhere, I just don't know where since I've looked in all the obvious places about 1 billion times. I may just throw a party if I do find it. Not to mention, never take it off again!