Being Home

It has been so nice these past few week just being home.  The boys are starting to get into a routine and enjoying our new house.  They LOVE that they can just go outside whenever.  Except for these past few days, it has been FREEZING!  

I finally got in to see a midwife and have an ultrasound to find out my exact due date.  I was pretty close with my guess and we will be having a new member in our family sometime around July 18th.  I am not too excited about the way things are done here in Clovis but I am sure it will all go well.  Instead of just seeing one doctor or midwife you rotate through and see them all and then when you go into labor whoever is on call is who you get.  We will find out at my next appointment March 2nd if we are having a boy or a girl.  But the lady doing my ultrasound this last time said she was pretty sure it was a boy, so I am not getting my hopes up for a girl.  

Doug is finally moving into his office on the base.  He and his co-workers have been working out of our garage for the past few weeks, and that has been nice for me.  I can run errands during nap time because Dad is home!  

James is LOVING school.  He is learning a ton too.  His new favorite song is the ABC song (which I don't know why he didn't love it when I sing it) and the other day at dinner he started reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.  Last Saturday he had his first gum in hair experience.  He had some gum during nap time and he was crying, but more like I am tired and whinny crying so we just ignored it for a while.  Finally Doug went to check on him and he had ripped this huge patch of hair out of his head trying to get the gum out!  Poor kid.

He also had some homework sent home which was a family project.  He was supposed to decorate this heart with whatever he wanted.  So we made Mikey his own heart and they had a ton of fun gluing tissue paper on their hearts.  Also we have had to big steps in potty training this week.  Once James was at home playing and he yelled "I go Potty" then he ran in the bathroom and went potty.  Another time at school he asked to go potty.  So maybe he will actually be potty trained before this next baby comes.

Mikey is just as fun and cute as ever.  Although this week I think he is working on getting a few teeth out because he has been pretty grumpy.  He is sad to move back into his own room and misses his big brother.  Soon he will get to move into James' room with him, but he is just a little too small still.  But don't tell him that, he thinks he is a big boy and can do anything.  Every time I take James potty Mikey follows me in and pulls at his clothes saying "pee, pee" or "potty" he really wants to be potty trained like his brother.