The Sweetest Thing...

In all the racing around of life with 3 young children and very pregnant with the 4th. I sometimes miss the quiet things that my children are doing. Some times that's really bad because they are being naughty, but today it was bad because I almost missed what Lilia was playing. Dollhouse. Sofie and John had set up the dollhouse but then had gotten bored of it and moved on. So Lilia stepped in and kept up with the play. I was so impressed that my just-turned two year old was roll playing SO well. I tried to capture the cuteness.

And, yes, she is just in her underwear. I've gone to not replacing the pants when she has an accident. She just creates too much laundry when I keep having to put on new outfits!!


Here the dolls are getting there daily laundry done. Hmmm, what does she see me do a lot of! It was so cute how she was bring so careful with the little things so that she didn't knock them over.
And, of course, dollies need to go to the bathroom to. Another very common theme in our home...
Lastly, the Daddy and daughter enjoying some couch time. She plays what she knows. :) I tell you, it was so sweet to watch!!!

28 Week Baby Bump Check

Today was my monthly appointment to make sure the newest Wolfe is doing well. And from all outside indications, the baby is doing wonderfully! My body is adjusting well to this 4th pregnancy. The babies heart rate was around the 140's and measures at exactly 28 weeks. So everything looks to be doing well. I took all 3 kids to the appointment today. They were able to hear the heartbeat and see from the digital screen how fast the heart was beating. John was the most enthralled and kept craning his neck to watch the heartbeat numbers go up and down.

What a surprise this little one is going to have when it's born and realizes it the 4th in a long line of Wolfe children. :) Of course there might be some clues already. Such as the constant poking and pushing that happens to my belly from it's older siblings. Or all the loud children's voices that are pretty constant.

Now that I've technically hit that 3rd trimester time period I will start going to the Dr. every 2 wks. and the Dr. and I were discussing today that I have exactly 10 weeks before the C-section. Thank the Lord C-sections come early!!! The 2nd trimester seemed to have gone so fast. Let's hope the 3rd goes even faster. :) December 9th here we come!

Not Me! Monday

I love my friend, MCKMama's "Not Me! Monday" and I thought I would join in because, truly, it was one of those days. So with that in mind this is how it works...

I did not send my husband downstairs to change loads of laundry this morning. Even though he was running out the door late for work, and it was just so I would have some clothes to wear today. Nope not me.

I absolutely did not decide NOT to take the stroller into the Dr. office this morning because it was "just to much work" to get it out of the car. Even though then Lilia would've had a place to sit and I would not have been constantly telling her, "No, I can't carry you! You're just going to have to walk."

I WAS NOT that desperate Mother that bribed her children with chocolate milk shakes (and later whole Happy Meals) so that they would let the Dr. and Nurses do all the tests and "look sees" that they needed to do for the well baby check-ups.

And there's NO WAY that I was the one to, literally, wrestle my 6 year old off the arm of the chair at the Dr.'s office so that she could have her flu shot. Or that I then turned around and dragged and peeled my 4 yr. old off the leg of a chair that was up against a wall to subject him to the same torture.

And I positively WAS NOT late picking up my children from their afternoon play date so that I could look for small gourds to decorate my home at Target.

(If you want to read more posts like this click on the "Not Me! Monday" button at the top of this post and read MCKMama's original post. :) )

How do you know your a homeschooler?

How do you know your a homeschooler?

When your 1st grader is reading her book assignment to the 2 yr old - who's on the potty. (To occupy the 2 yr old so she'll STAY on the potty and use it...) While you take the rare moment to teach, with out interruption, the Pre-k student his memory verse for the week. (And, of course, as you walk by the laundry room you're able to switch the loads of laundry...)

Notice the kid size comfy chair for Sofie...

AWANA Wednesday

Finally! Something to post!

Life has been very "routine" here lately. Not boring, but routine. We are completing our school everyday, making sure food is cooked and rooms are "somewhat" picked up after playing.

Of course there is the occasional poopy underwear from the child that shall remain nameless, or the random stubbed toe or the unlikely (yeah, right) fight that breaks out. Just enough to keep everything interesting.

But last night was a note-worthy event! It was the 1st night of AWANA's! John is in Cubbies again and Sofie is in SPARKS. They had a really nice time last night and can't wait to go back again next week!

Working Weekend

This weekend, while Mike embarked on his annual, much deserved, dude vacation with his friends, my Mom came and staid with me so I wouldn't get scared and lonely. :)

It was truly a working weekend and very fun. We interspersed lots of closet cleaning, laundry room cleaning, and clothes sorting, with shopping and picnics in the park. So here is the end result of her visit, lot of clean closets! I WISH I would've taken some before pictures so you could've seen the chaos that was spilling out of the doors. But now I have some well oiled machines (read - closets) that can actually be used as they were intended.

Here's the hallway coat closet, it was, literally, knee deep in un-opened pop cans (completely expired, like 4 years expired!), boots, mittens and hats the kids had grown out of. Now we are ready for winter, let the snow fly! (Oh, please actually, don't let the snow fly!)

Here's the guest room closet. Mom took at least 1/2 of the contents home with her to be put in the Goodwill. (She took it home because I don't do Goodwill. It's not that I don't believe in it, or have the desire to do it. But sometimes you just gotta face facts about your stage of life and realize that you are never going to get that errand done.)
Now the top shelf has some cutely displayed mementos from Mike's and my yester-years. (Doesn't Mike's baby picture look like Lilia!!)

This is the part of the weekend my Mom started to get cranky with me... I didn't find out the sex of the baby. The baby clothes in this house are just insane. And instead of being able just to purge the clothes, only keeping ones for this baby. We had to sort and re-load because we don't know if it's a boy or girl. I truly was starting to question my logic this weekend! This isn't even all the clothes!
Here's more!
And yet more!

The Lone Man Child

It's so fun having a boy.

Ya know, being a girl, I get girls. I get the emotional ups and downs (even at 2 and 6). I get the fascination with little tiny fashion dolls and big baby dolls with clothes and bottles.

But with John it's all different. He BUILDS things. He builds Lego cars that are like campers with doors and windows. He builds big, sturdy square buildings with wooden blocks. Then runs to me and is so excited to show me his square or triangle that he's built. The other day I came across him making that Greek temple in Athens. Complete with the columns down the front.

During our school time in the morning I have a rudimentary preschool activities that I would "like" for him to accomplish each day. Such as practice writing his letters and numbers, and practicing his letter sounds. But I just can't bear to take him away from some massive Lincoln Log creation he has imagined or the intricate Diego tree houses that he has created. I figure it's kinda school anyway, right? Spacial reasoning, problem solving of how much load a wall can take and how to build a sturdy structure. He does always seem to show up when we get into the math part of our day... :)
My John, I love having a boy. He keeps the girliness in check around here. :)