Kiddo Rooms

So forever ago it seems I started redoing these kid rooms. I'm finally going to post a few pics even though the process is not complete yet. Ann Elizabeth's room will not be done until she gets here and I can hang photos of her and I'm still searching for the perfect thing to hang over Lilly's bed.

I must say, I am completely happy with all the bedding and curtains even though it took me months to commit to purchasing them. They came from Pottery Barn for all three rooms and especially the big kid's rooms are versatile enough to grow with them for awhile. The curtains in all three rooms are gingham panels. Lil's are light pink, Annie's are bright pink and Noah's are green. We ended up painting Lil's room yellow because that is her favorite! And the baby's room is green.

When the baby's bedding came in, my sweet friend Lesley stopped by to see it and of course we had to unpack it and put it on the bed to see how it looked. I might add this would seem like an easy job but with Lilly's rear end planted firmly in the baby bed it wasn't so simple! She now shows people her "yellow" room and her "green" room. Apparently all things girly in this house belong to her and new baby Annie will just have to find her own room....oh dear...

With that said I do have to add one funny note about my dear husband. Over the weekend we went ahead and got online and ordered our infant carrier and double stroller (thanks for the recommendation Deanna! we found a good deal on one too!) Anyway, I kind of wanted to go with a pink infant carrier. In the end I decided on green and brown JUST in case in the future we are ever blessed with a fourth Parsley baby. I showed this to Travis online and told him why I was getting the green. He just looked at me VERY seriously and shook his head and said that's out of the question.

"What's out of the question, a 4th baby?" I was a little surprised because he's always had the idea of the 4th.

"Nope, he says, "I now see that I am destined to have only girls no matter how many more there are!"

I might add that Travis is very excited about this new baby and is crazy about Lilly Grace. However, the last few weeks of terrible twos combined with Lilly's, shall we say, girl drama, combined with a hormonal wife who is 8 1/2 months pregnant could perhaps be putting our house on estrogen overload. A lot of times Travis and Noah retreat to the "boys room" with the Wii or the DS! Bless their hearts. We do love our boys though...even if they don't understand us most of the time. Travis has also begun fretting over his little "girls" dating which I think is hilarious, considering one hasn't even made her arrival yet. He has alot of worry time ahead of him I"m afraid.... Also Lil did talk him into playing tea party the other day, she was Belle and he was Prince Phillip from Sleeping Beauty and he had to sit in the little kid chair and drink out of the pink plastic teacup. He was a good sport about the whole thing. It takes a real man to drink from a tea cup!!!

A little "Sprinkle"

Tonight some of my best friends had a little girls night out "sprinkle" (as opposed to a shower!) at Lonestar to celebrate the upcoming arrival of little Annie.

I had SO much fun getting to visit and talk and laugh with my friends and family. It was decorated so sweet and the food was wonderful (especially the cupcakes!) I got so many sweet gifts that i won't even start to name them all because I would leave something out and I truly loved everything. I came home and unpacked it all and went back through them again.

However, more than the food, and the gifts, and the girltalk, I feel so blessed tonight to have the very best friends in the whole world. I know I could call any of them up in the dead hour of midnight and they would be there for me without a doubt. I am so thankful that my children will get to grow up surrounded by all of these friends and family who already love them before they even make their arrival into the world. I love that these friends are people who together we share joys, our embarassing moments, and our troubles. I don't know what I would do without any of them. Again, I won't name everyone who came tonight because no doubt I'd leave someone out, but they are all girls who are dear to my heart and who I couldn't imagine my life without them!

Thanks again my dear friends! I loved the shower and I love all of you!!!!

Slowly but Surely

I am losing my mind. I had a 5 minute argument the other day in Kohl's with Travis about how I would be turning 29 in December. He finally had to point out that I was born in 1980 and would indeed be turning 30 in December...since it is 2010.

Perhaps this baby is shuttling all available blood to itself and away from my brain....

Good times when you lose track of your age and your loved one has to do the math for you.

Dear Readers

I sincerely apologize from my recent absence from the blogging world. However I have a good reason...I have spent the last week in a seemingly endless stream of doctor appointments!!! The good news is that most of these were routine checkups and only two of them consisted of sick children... This picture I took with my phone was at Noah's Vanderbilt appointment. Those aren't play glasses they actually test something and Noah could tell you exactly what but I can't remember. The people there are so great with him and are very thorough in the care we have received there.

In seven calendar days we have spent our time at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital for eye checkups, a half a day with Dr. Gass for a checkup, labs, and tests, two appointments with Dr. Simmons for two strep tests and a nasty rash, Travis with family doctor for tonsillitis, and an allergy checkup and lab work with Dr. Cavanah.

With all of that said, let me say I am NOT complaining about these, as I realize all of this stuff is run of the mill ordinary things and not serious, they just take up lots of time!

Speaking of time...it's running out for the arrival of baby #3. I have about 8 1/2 weeks left to go if I go all the way to my due date. If this baby maker her arrival like Lilly then we may only have 4 or 5 weeks left to go. We shall see...either way it won't be long until we meet our little "kicker". The kids talk about her all the time, but I am really anxious to see how Lilly reacts to this baby. She adores babies...but of course she's never lived with one so I think it will be interesting. Also on a funny note, I saw an acquaintance the other day who I rarely get to talk to, and in passing she asked me when I was due. I told her and she looked at me and said (without smiling or joking), "Really, Three is SO hard." That was all she said and then she walked on. I'm trying not to let this comment give me cold sweats of fear. I realize three will be hard. There are days when two or one is hard....Perhaps she was just having a bad day...I'm choosing to think so.

On a side note...I know some of my customers read this blog. With that said, Dr. Gass is recommending that I only work through the very end of June. On his recommendation I will only be taking appointments until June 29th. At which time I will be off until after the baby arrives. If there is an appointment you would like to schedule PLEASE call now as my remaining appointment days are filling up very fast. Also, we will be in revival the first week or so of July and we have both day and night services so I will not be taking orders, etc. during that time. I hope this isn't an inconvenience to anyone but I feel like it's best for my health and the health of this baby to lighten my load a little bit in the last weeks of this pregnancy.

Goodbye Kindergarten

We made it! Today the whole family attended Noah's kindergarten graduation. Me, Travis, Lilly and Papa cheered him on from the bleachers and of course since Nana was a part of the classroom she had to help with the ceremony. They did several sweet songs and Noah was totally in his element. He was quite the entertainer and I think he was pretty convinced it was the Noah show and everyone else was just his backup singers...

Anyway, I cried through some of it, ok a lot of it. It's just hard for me as a Mom to come to terms with that we're really here already. Next year will be first grade and it's real school...

Anyway, Noah had a great time and we spent the rest of the day celebrating at Chuck E. Cheese with his buddy Jarrett (and Lilly and Eli too!) afterwards Jarrett came home with us so the boys could play and they had a blast. Now we're ready for the summer fun to start!!!

Busy Days

This week has been super science in Kindergarten which Noah has loved...the only problem...every project we came up with to do somebody would do it before him. His group was today (the last day). The old Internet (and Ms. Lesley) pulled through and we managed to find some projects that nobody else had done. I love this picture that Ms. Lesley took. There's nothing like pretending to pour out water on your buddy's head...

Also we had errands to run today in BG so we met up with Stephanie and Maggie for a little lunch date at Pizza Hut. It was fun!

Tomorrow is the big kindergarten graduation. It seemed like it just started and now it's over but I'll save my tears for tomorrow!

Field Trip

A couple of weeks ago Noah's class took their field trip to the Glasgow Fire Department and then to play at Extreme Gymnastics. I went along for the fun and he had a blast. He was very serious about the whole fire house business but then ran around like a little monkey at the play place. He was SO excited to get to ride the bus to and from Glasgow! Here are a couple of pics from the day. For some reason I didn't get any at Extreme Gymnastics. Lil spent the day playing with Maggie!