The Final Count Down

35 Weeks!!!!

I am 35 weeks and the 24 of November is getting closer. Honestly the month of October flew by so fast. My last doctors appointment I was actually measuring normal which isn't really normal for me. I always measure 3-4 weeks bigger. It's amazing how each pregnancy is different. Hopefully this delivery will be different from the rest but in a good way.

Pumpkin Carving

Everyone cutting their pumpkins and getting all the mush out of them. You can see how excited Bryson is to be doing it.

Baylee with her Kool-Aid mustache. She looks really funny here.
Riley, Isaac's daughter, with her pumpkin.Bryson and mom.

Bryson having fun.

The end results of the pumpkins.

We carved pumpkins this year with Darin's brother Jayson and his family and some friends Isaac and his girls. We had a lot of fun. Bryson loved taking the inside out of the pumpkin and he would even try to put it back into the pumpkin too. Baylee wanted to take pictures of everyone instead carving any pumpkins. The kids were all pretty young and Nat and I ended up doing pretty much all the pumpkins together and the guys watched UFC fighting. The kids had lots of fun. Yesterday we also did some more carving of pumpkins with my sister JoAnn. Baylee actually helped more and they all enjoyed taking the insides out this time. We did a green pumpkin that time from JoAnn's garden. Unfortunately we don't have any pictures of that pumpkin.

Sweet Dreams

My kids have had some pretty random places that they fall asleep in. This is Bryson on Sunday. I put the kids to bed and went out to help Darin finish up on wrapping some meat and when I came back in this is how I found Bryson. If anyone can not tell this is my back sliding door. Apparently he was waiting for us to come back in. When he is tired he carries this blanket around with him. I thought it was a really cute moment and kinda funny too.

Carver Farm

The sign says "How tall this fall?" Bryson looks a little under 3 feet and Baylee is a little over 3 feet.

Bryson by his pumpkin.
Baylee by her pumpkin.
I had to put this up. He was eating an Arby's sandwich and would not put it down. Half of the pictures I got of him was like this.
Baylee actually took this picture. Not to bad.

The kids and I went to Carver Farm today and picked out pumpkins. Baylee was so excited to do it. She really wanted to go on a tracker ride, but I guess they only do that on the weekend and on the week days they have only the schools over to ride the tracker rides. She wasn't too bummed out by it though. She was more interested in picking pumpkins. Bryson only cared about his sandwich and that was really it. We got to drive out into the pumpkin patch and pick our pumpkin. I am glad we did it today and didn't wait any longer because the pumpkins were getting mushy because of the cold nights we have had the last couple of days. The only dud about the day was that Darin couldn't come because he was hunting and my camera batteries were dead after a few pictures. We had fun, the kids got free popcorn, we got some pumpkins, their wasn't that many people there, and the sun was shining.

31 Weeks and Baylee's first day of preschool!!!

This is Baylee just before we left to school. She was so excited.Bryson always has to have his picture taken when the camera is out, and Baylee for some reason kept smiling weird. She would pull down at the side of her mouth almost into a frown but was totally stretching it out. It was funny. So preschool that Baylee is doing is with my sister and her son and one of our friends. We wanted to keep it small and plus my sister who just finished school to be a preschool teacher is also teaching one day of the week along with each of the moms. My sister that is the teacher is also the one who helped set up a curriculum for us too. So we have school for two hours a day for four days a week, and then on Fridays we go to a reading clinic at the library, and the kids will all get free books each time they go. This was our first week of doing school and so far it is going well. Baylee keeps begging to ride her bike to school, which is just to one of the other moms homes, and she tells me that I can walk while she rides her bike or I can drive by her while she rides. She forgot that she has a broken training wheel and she just wants to ride it so bad. I thought that we could hold out on getting her a new training wheel until next year for the good whether and all, but I think we might have to get one soon now. She is getting so big. Bryson is a magnet to bruising his head. He just was finishing up on a bruise on his head and got another. I can't even keep up with how he gets them anymore because they're so often. I feel like I look like an abusive parent walking around with him and his battle wounds. He is totally accident prone.

Here I am. Sorry it took so long to get a picture up of the tummy. This baby is getting so big and lately at night it likes to stretch out and into my ribs. I get to the point of having a hard time breathing and end up going down stairs to try to lay in the recliner and try to push the baby down and hope that maybe that sitting up a bit more will give the baby more room. That or either gravity will push the baby down one or the other I just pray that it works so I can get some sleep.

New Room!!!

So one day I got sick and tired of putting all my scrap booking stuff away and having my kids get into everything that I've got for it, and into all my sewing stuff and decided to put both of the kids into one room and put all my craft stuff into Bryson's room. Yes, it's a boy and a girl sharing but their still little and I don't think that its a big deal. The baby will still be in my craft room and when the baby no longer fits in the crib then we will split the kids into different rooms at that time. This is how I found the kids when I checked on them. They have separate beds but they choose to go to sleep like this. I thought that it was really cute.

Darin had one of the members of the church come over and help put the wood onto the retaining wall. It looks really nice. Darin sanded it down and stained it. He also put the piping for the wood stove up too. It is pretty much done now. Way to go Darin!!!!Darin traded some stuff for this oven and over the range microwave off of craigs list. I was so excited. It makes the whole kitchen look complete because the appliances actually match each other now. They are used and are about 5 years old but they were super clean and practically look brand. I love them and have been cooking a lot more now. I am still not used to having the microwave up above I occasionally catch myself going to where my old microwave used to be at. Thank you craigs list.

Germs

Bryson started the week off with a double ear infection and then we went back to the doctor and found out that he has the hand foot mouth virus and that he can now stop taking the medicine for the ear infections because they went with the virus. He has been so craby lately. I dread it when he is sick. He is the most unhappy little guy around. Baylee loves her little brother and wants to give him loves and everytime she gets close to him he freaks out and is mad for about 15mins becuase of it. So my days is full of a lot of screaming. Baylee was so loving the first time we went this week to the doctor's. Bryson hates to be poked and prodded at and she was trying to sooth him as I am trying to hold him down and the doctor looks at his ears. She is such a little momma. So with all the ear infections and viruses I will be confined into my home. I also got a new niece this week her name is Katie June Wallace. For those who know my side of the family it was my brother Matt's daughter that was born. Unfortunately with all the sickies I haven't been able to see her. What a bummer of a week to be getting sick. Oh yeah I am sick too now.