Tumbling

Summer is hard for us. Aiden is the most active little boy I've ever known and it's hard for me to do enough to keep him busy. That's why we like preschool so much! It takes some of the pressure off of me for a while! While we did sign Aiden up for two of his school's summer camps, we needed some other activities. Hello parks and rec tumbling class!

Aiden had soooooo much fun his first day and he's looking forward to his 2nd class this afternoon (it's every Wednesday). Just check out these pictures! And you can click on the title to this post for a full album. The pictures didn't quite turn out the way I wanted though - the lighting in the room isn't camera friendly and even with my camera on sports and action, these kids were moving so much they still ended up blurry!

Doesn't he look so happy?

I love this one! They were doing jumping jacks and he got VERY into it.

Look at that air! He really threw himself into bunny hopping.

These were donkey kicks.

And you can't have a tumbling class without somersaults!

This class was interesting. It was mostly boys (only three girls) and the kids seemed to be barely into it - except Aiden. It's 3-5 year olds and for whatever reason, most of the kids had this look like, "Why am I taking this class?". It seemed to be a standard tumbling class and she certainly kept them busy. Maybe they were nervous for their first day or something. It was just a little odd.

The class is held at the aquatic center and the boys watched the swim classes once tumbling was over. They BEGGED to go swimming, but we had no swim stuff and even we had, I can't take them both swimming by myself. So that's a plan for the summer - we will take the boys swimming at least a few times (it's going to be hard with catching open swim times and John's overloaded work schedule).

I'm so glad Aiden enjoys this class. It does coincide with his science camp next week, so we're going to have one very busy Wednesday (he'll be in activities basically from 9am to 4:30pm), but maybe he'll sleep well that night!

It's Summer

Which means Nathan will now start dressing himself in what he believes to be the clothes most likely to keep him cool.

Oh, I can't wait until he gets his first girlfriend. :^)

Leave It To My Four Year Old

A couple of weeks ago, Aiden began showing interest in getting a dog. And for the past few days, he's been practically begging for one. The only problem is that I just don't see us as dog people. Cats are just so low maintenance and it's great! But Aiden sees it a little differently.

This morning he says to me, "Mommy, this house is great, but it's missing one thing."

"Oh yeah, what's that?", I say.

He gets a sad look on his face. "A puppy."

Oh man....if I could have made a puppy appear out of thin air that very moment, I would have.

But then I wondered if he's just reaching the age where he wants a pet that's purely "his". I developed my love of having a pet that was "mine" at a very early age (I think I was about 3-4) and so I could see him doing the same thing. He basically convinced me that this was the case right around lunchtime.

"Mommy, I think this house should be a bunny house!"

I asked him what he meant by that exactly and he responds, "We should buy bunnies and put them in our house."

Alright then. I think John and I might be having a pet discussion later tonight. There may be a follow up post....

ER

What did we get to do on our Saturday night? Take Nathan to the emergency room! Long story short, Aiden fed Nathan one of my hair pins (almost fed him two, but I dug the 2nd one out of his throat) and the advice nurse wanted him to be x-rayed just to make sure it went where it was supposed to.

John didn't feel like we all needed to go and while I wasn't thrilled with the thought of sitting in St Vincent's ER waiting room with my two year old all by myself, I left John and Aiden home and took Nathan. I said a prayer on the way there, asking for a short wait time, no tears, and no complications. Before I tell you the rest, let's just give a big "praise God", shall we?

I walked in and they immediately escorted us back to a room. The doctor saw us within 15 minutes and we were getting x-rays 15 minutes after that. We were on our way home one hour and 15 minutes after we first walked through those ER doors. Thank you Jesus for the short wait time.
Nathan was an angel. Everyone loved him and he didn't make a single sound or show one ounce of being afraid. Even when the kid in the room next to us was screaming like he was losing a limb, Nathan didn't look at all worried. He did everything anyone asked him to and he stayed so still during his x-ray. He was awesome. Thank you Jesus for no tears.
His x-ray showed the pin right where they wanted it to be (picture is below) and Nathan seems perfectly fine. As long as it makes it's way through normally (which they fully expect it to), we have nothing to worry about. Thank you Jesus for no complications.

So that was our fun night. I was impressed beyond belief with the ER staff and with Nathan. Now if we can just make sure it doesn't happen again....

What A Wonderful Place

....to have lunch on a nice day! Nathan wanted to go outside right before lunch, so I decided that we would just eat lunch out on our back patio. I took their little table and chairs out and we had a wonderful lunch outside! It was warm and we enjoyed the fresh air while chowing down on our hot dogs and curly fries. And Aiden really likes that the airplanes for the small airport go right over our house!

While the back patio is in dire need of some pressure washing and we have some minor landscaping to do back there, we thoroughly enjoyed our first lunch outside!

Homeowners

It's absolutely, 100% official. We are homeowners. It's very surreal. We met our agent at the house and we did the honors of unlocking the door ourselves. The agent stayed for just a few minutes and then left us to ourselves in our new home. I held myself together until he left and then the waterfall started. It's ours, finally finally ours! We have a long weekend ahead of us, but it will be a very happy weekend. We are picking my dad up at the train station tomorrow and we'll spend the evening painting a few rooms. Then we move everything on Saturday. I'm still in a bit of shock that we actually did this, but it felt soooo good to walk into that house today.

It's (Almost) Official!

The closing paperwork was signed yesterday and now we just wait for the sellers to sign. Then we'll get a call letting us know when to pick up our keys! Everyone is hoping for Thursday, but of course you have to plan for some delays so we know that there's the possibility that it might be Friday instead.

Our mortgage broker gave us what I like to call the "Congratulations! You just signed your life away!" gift basket. Kettle chips, key lime cookies, habanero sauce, and some other things. We look forward to digging into it! :^)

Whew!

This past week and a half has been insane. I've been working my shifts at work well into the middle of the night and I'm definitely feeling it. I've gotten sick (probably due to the lack of sleep), as have the boys. Packing has suffered because of all of this, although I think we're beginning to catch up again.

I got home from work tonight at 1:45am. I was supposed to be off at 11pm. Yes, way late and I hurt everywhere, but on the other hand, I was able to do the set-up of some display windows. I'd never done that before but had always been interested, so it was a nice change. If you happen to be in Bridgeport Village, be sure to check out the middle window of Coldwater Creek on the Borders side. I did that one. :^)

We plan to move on Saturday. We have few people lined up to help, but I'm sure it will all work out. I got a message from the moving coordinator at church, so hopefully there will be some extra help there. John says he tempted to hire a moving company, but I cringe at the idea of spending hundreds of dollars on that. There's always the panic time before a move and we're in the thick of it. I am getting excited - mostly because the ladies at work seem to be so darn excited for me and it's finally rubbing off on me. I suppose I still just feel fairly guarded until we are actually handed the keys.

I expect to slack a bit on the blog posts while we finish the packing process, but I'm sure I'll give you a nice emotional post once we are officially home owners.

Our Countdown

Isn't it just the way things would go for us to get the notification our closing date on the day we all wake up sick as can be? All I want to do is sleep and take as much benadryl as possible, but now I feel like I need to be up and packing/cleaning. The packing slowed down to a near halt a few days ago because I started not feeling well and I worked four VERY long shifts. I'm pooped. But work needs to be done, so I'm fighting through this massive head cold (which I'm pretty sure has turned into a sinus infection) and attempting to get some things done.

On the other hand, we do finally have a date. Barring any delays, we will sign the final paperwork on Tuesday and get the keys next Thursday. If I wasn't so darn ill, I'd be jumping for joy. :^)