The boys are getting VERY excited for the baby too. Every single prayer that they say blesses mommy and the baby :) They vote it's a girl. I think it's a girl...but I thought the three boys were girls, so I really get no vote. Funny story, though: in my ultrasound two weeks ago the u/s tech wasn't talkative at ALL and about half-way through starts a sentence with "Well, she's..." and then she trailed off and didn't say anything else until the end of the ultrasound. I REALLY wanted to ask her if she meant to say girl but I'm trying to be good! It's hard when you see the baby every week to not find out what you're having. I LOVE my new obgyn. He is amazing. He's been great and we just mesh really well. He's agreed to let me deliver before 39 weeks, which makes me happy. The official delivery date is December 27th. I can't wait. I've started picking up a few things here and there for the baby but since the baby doesn't have his/her own room, since we are living with my parents, we just don't need as much stuff. I'm very thankful to family and friends who have loaned us things so we don't have to buy new for the baby.
Starting over is not really fun, especially when you have a new baby about to arrive, but we are making it through. Brian is enjoying Costco still. He'd like to move up to management asap but Costco is all about hierarchy unless we moved to a Costco that was just opening. So we are looking into options. Brian did apply for the police force and he passed the written test with flying colours. Unfortunately, because of the short sale of our house in Florida, they are asking him to wait until next September to apply again. It is ridiculous if you ask me. I'm not happy about it at all. I'm trying to focus on enjoying family, life and a new baby and not how much that sucks.
Harrison LOVES kindergarten and came home with his first report card, which was perfect :) I loved all of the comments his teacher made about him. Things like:
"He has a positive attitude and enjoys the activities of the class always putting forth a very good effort."
"He is also very aware of his own uniqueness as a person and his particular strengths and talents."
"Harrison enjoys the activities in Art using his time very well to add the extra details to his assignments. He also enjoys participating in the musical activities of the class and does so with some enthusiasm."
Love those! During parent/teacher interviews his teacher did let us know that he sometimes has a hard time finishing his assignments on time in class because he is a perfectionist and sometimes doesn't start his assignments right away because he is thinking them through thoroughly. That is so much my Harrison. Hopefully that will change, though, and he'll be able to be more confident that he knows what to do a little quicker. He is excited to go to school and on Thursdays (they only go Monday-Thursday) the FIRST thing he does is his homework. Loves making sure it is all done right away. I'm grateful he enjoys school so much.
Sterling is doing great with preschool and isn't near as clingy as he was when we would drop him off. His teacher says he is doing really well. He's still not Mr. Social, like his brother is, but I doubt that will ever be a characteristic of Sterling. He's very shy and likes to do things on his own. He doesn't mind playing alone. His speech has improved leaps and bounds since he started speech therapy. He has a ton more confidence and is much easier to understand. He seems to have mastered the 'S' and 'L' sounds. He is still struggling with the 'R' sound but we just started that one. He picked up the 'L' sounds all on his own and was SO very proud of himself when he did :)
I really don't know why I don't blog more. I have lots I could/should write and then I never do. Tsk tsk. I never know if I have any followers left any way - lol.
Next blog post will be more about baby.
