HAPPY BIRTHDAY PJ!!
to the best daddy and husband EVER!!
We love you!!
Jamie, Cole and Anna Reed

baby girl finally has a name..... ANNA REED will be here soon!

update.

We are FINALLY pretty settled in the new house. This has been one of the hardest adjustment periods of my life. I guess it's the combo of being THIS pregnant (nesting), having a toddler that's into everything, and trying to get/stay organized, and well.. it's football season! Coles teachers have told me their concern for his recent "behavior" and blames it on the move. I just think... no, that's Cole. He is just WILD. Anyway, we have most of our belongings in the appropriate rooms(I won't say spots) and as of a few hours ago, we have the internet. We have workers here all day everyday, and it's pretty chaotic. Beyond all the complaining... we absolutely LOVE our new house. We are so thankful we've been blessed with it and are so excited our kids will get to grow up here. (I'm never moving again.) We still haven't came up with a name for this baby girl that should arrive in about 6 weeks or so. I'm getting stressed, but it will come. Right?

soothie not so smoothie

update: ok, we are back on the paci, but ONLY at bedtime. He's adjusting to the new house, but really wanted it to sleep. I'll blog more about the new house later.

Here we are the week before we are moving, and Cole flushes his "blue choo-choo train" down the toilet. We didn't see this happen, he just told us, and know he wasn't kidding when it wouldn't flush again. We hope it will pass, however it doesn't and are not allowed to use it (terrible considering it was in the master, and I'm preggo and getting up every hour!) After many attempts to get it out, PJ decides to take the toilet off and try to put this "snake" (which is a long cord thing that gets stuff out)in it. Well the snake gets stuck and now the toilet is sitting on our back deck with both the train and snake stuck in it. We don't know at this point if the train is stuck in the pipe of the toilet, or in the actual pipe down to the sewer. So, our attempt to "yank" the cord out, hopefully grabbing the train, is to tie it to the golf cart, slam on the gas and hope it works. I think you know where this is going (no, I'm not sending it in to "you might be a redneck" bc I'm sure it would win, and that's just bad. ) PJ attaches the cart to the cord, which is attached to the toilet... and there ya go. Instead of "yanking" it out, the toilet flies across the yard, into rocks and busts into a million peices. We've never laughed so hard. Guess what.. we found the choo choo!

soothie smoothie.

We're officially off the paci aka "uh-oh." I would have never chosen to do it the week we are moving, and rock his world completely... but it just happened. He spent this past weekend at my parents so we could pack. My mom called and said he threw his paci in the pool and before I could get it it went in the skimmer, and I don't have another one. She said he napped fine without it.. that's all I needed to hear! I said DON'T go buy another one, we'll just try this out. (Ok, I have to admit, I was glad he would be away for the trial period.) Anyway, he did great! He still asks for it, but we say "the pool ate it" and he goes about his business. Perfect timing for baby sis to get here and then have another one obsessed with the paci. Bye bye "uh-oh."

The cutest two men in my life. I am so thankful for them!!

The best four letter word.

We're moving!!

We've finally SOLD our house. It only took 7.5 months, that were the longest ones of our lives. We had just decided and really belived that maybe this was God's answer- NOT NOW- and we would take it off the market in about a month. Enough time for me to have this baby, and enjoy the holidays. Wouldn't you know, as soon as we came to that understanding and REALLY felt Gods will was/would be done, we got 2 offers!! As of right now, we have 14 day to be out and find another house. We think we've found one.. but will keep ya updated!!

Cole's 2nd birthday party was perfect. At the park, no cleaning, and very laid back. He had a great time!

Happy B'day Cole!

I can't believe this was two years ago today. I had no idea how much this little fella was going to change my life.

Beach trip

We are back from a week at the beach and Cole LOVED the ocean. Of course he hated it at first, but a couple days into it, we couldn't keep him out! It was so fun getting to play with him. He called it the "pool"- to him any body of water is a pool. I've never had better weather, better (small) waves, and it was so shallow so far out- great for playing! Here are a couple pics from the trip. I only took 497, so it was hard to pick a few.

whoa!

We went to the Homewood park bright and early this morning and I decided to take my camera. We were actually the only ones there. Cole has gotten pretty brave lately, and before I could even get my camera around my neck he had made it to the top of the really big slide - the one that's curly, and from all the dew, WET! I managed to snap this mid-slide... the outcome was not good. He never went down the slide again.

Summer playdates are the best. (It's especially great when it's not at your own house!)You get out of the house and let the kiddos go wild.

Here a cute pic of Cole and Sawyer.

Fam Day

Saturday was an amazing day! We spent the whole day as a family and actually stayed in town. I think we counted we had been out of town the past 9 weekends, that's redic! We woke up around 7:30, went to Tracy's in crestline for breakfast, then went to the zoo! I think PJ enjoyed it more than Cole:) That was his first trip to go with us. Then we came home and napped. We later met up with some friends for a pool side shrimp boil. Cole hung in there till 10:30! Cole is getting really attached to PJ. He's always been a momma's boy, but I can tell things are starting to change. I guess that's a good thing since we'll be having another one soon!

Cole loves to be naked. He has figured out how to unbutton the snaps on the bottom of his outfits, and rip off his diaper. I constantly find him naked and near a big pee spot.

If there is one thing my husband is good at, it's bringing me flowers- randomly! I don't get them for occassions, but for no reason. I love this about him! Here is a picture of the most beautiful long stem callilillies he brought home last week. I didn't have an appropriate vase, so I had to cut over a foot off the stem! They were SO long.

rambling...

Today is the first day you can really tell I'm pregnant. I've been able to tell for months, but to an outsider I think now is about the time they can see that. I am a couple days shy of 20 weeks - HALF WAY!! This one is flying by. I went out and bought 10 dresses over the weekend, 4 of which were miniature polo dresses (cutest things I've ever seen.)

Cole on the other hand is border line bulemic. He thinks it's hilarious to stick his fingers down his throat till he vomits. Seriously, this is a problem. He doesn't eat, and thinks it's fun to throw up? While writing this post, I can hear him in the other room doing it. I called his Dr. yesterday and he wants to see him to make sure he hasn't lost weight. (He also struggles with never eating.)

Raising kids is such an adventure. One minute I want to hide in my room with the door locked, and one minute I'm crying because he's learned something new, and I realize we can never go back to before that moment he knew that.

We will welcome our BABY GIRL in early December! I am dreaming of ribbons and bows...

4th of July

We had a great fourth at the lake with our great friends. Cole especially loved riding on the boat, which lasted 1 minute until it put him out like a light. Here are a couple pics from the weekend.