Monday 10.18.10

Greetings this fine Monday evening from your local pumpkin patch!

From Goose, who really knows how to make a tractor look good.

And from Bubs, who I think might be slightly allergic to hay. (He gets that from his momma...) It's ok though, we got a dang cute picture!

Happy Autumn!

Monday 10.11.10

(Yes, I know it's already Tuesday...)

Greetings from 

Princess Goose, who will wear this Halloween costume until the day she dies if I let her.

And from Bubs, who is trying to decide if this "crawling" this is really as cool and awesome as Mom says it is...

Maybe not...

Sitting is pretty awesome though.

Yes kids, it's true.

It's true. We're adding Matern kiddo number 3 to our fam. 

No, it wasn't planned. 

Yes, we were stunned, scared, hesitant, afraid.

Are we crazy?

Yeah, probably. 

How do we feel about it?

We're absolutely thrilled.

I am currently somewhere between 10-12 weeks. I not exactly sure because...

1- Pregnancy really messes with your memory (especially the third time around)

2- According to when I'm pretty sure I got pregnant and when I got my positive test, I should be 12 weeks this week.

3- I had an ultrasound done at what I thought was 9 weeks and they said that the baby was measuring at 7.5 weeks, so they changed my due date.

So therefore, somewhere between 10-12 weeks. I go see my doctor this week so I'm sure I'll find out more then.

All I know is that sometime between 

April 28th (first due date) and May 10th (second due date) 

Matern baby #3 will be making it's way into this world. 

Although this baby decided to take us all by surprise, I really should have know better than to expect anything "planned". Lucy was our "Honeymoon Souvenier" and Porter took us own sweet time to get here. Both of them had their own plans, so how could I honestly expect our 3rd child to be any different? I am a FIRM believer that "they come when they come". It's between them and the Lord. And frankly, the Lord knows us and our strengths a whole lot better than we do. 

And so, in my moments of panic and thinking "I am sooo not ready for this",  I stop and quietly remind myself that this is a child that John and I have created and that has chosen us as his or her parents. How awesome is that? 

Pretty darn cool if you ask me.

10.4.10

Yes, I know. I was a slacker last week. No Monday pictures. I took them, I just decided to sleep instead of blog. It was a tough decision. So... 

Greetings this fine Monday from

Goose, who wanted to help with laundry today.

And from Bubs, who really needs to work on a better nap schedule because doing this for only 15 minutes at a time every 2-3 hours, is getting really old.

But he sure is darn cute when he does sleep.

I have a whole list of things I need/want to blog about but finding the time to do it is getting tricky. So I've decided to leave it up to you. You tell me what you want to hear about...

* I made "A Christmas Carol" at Hale Center Theater.

* Lucy is becoming quite the ballerina.

* Porter is 6 months old and rolling all over the place like a mad man. 

 

* My little brother Reagan gets home from his mission in less then 6 months.

* Lucy is quite the conversationalist.

* The Matern party of 4 will soon be a party of 5...

I think that'll do. 

Monday 9.20.10

Greetings this fine Monday (it may be 10:29 PM, but it's still Monday) from...

My Bubs, who's baby blues I cannot get enough of.

And from the Goose, who spent most of her day here in the "Time Out" chair...

and here in her room with the door closed cause the Mom needed a Time Out.

Cause frankly it was one of those please-go-play-in-your-room-for-a-while-so-I-can-catch-my-breath-and-put-aside-the-temptation-to-throw-you-in-the-dumpster kind of days? You know what I'm talking about. (And if not, then I must be a terrible mother...) Yeah, it was DEFINTELY one of those days.

Monday 9.13.10

My cousin Nike (Knee-kah) has 6 kids and an awesome blog called "The Dirty Half Dozen". I am constantly amazed by how she does it with 6 kids under the age of 8. I couldn't do it. I'm barely surviving with the 2 I have. Every Thursday she does what she calls her "Thursday Pictures". She post pictures of each of her kids from that day with a short caption. I love it so much that I've decided to do it myself...

So greetings this fine Monday from

My Little Crazies...

Goose, who thinks that this is a "pretty, ballerina smile".

And from Bubba, who has survived the morning thus far without too many beatings from the Goose.

(This will also ensure that I update my blog at least once a week...)

Quiet...

The kiddos are sleeping and it's eerily quiet in my house. You would think that I would be loving this right now. But it's too quiet. I have so much that I shold be doing that could easily take my mind off of it, but instead I sit here, blogging. And I'm ok with that.