Yes, it has been a while since I've posted here - I am just really lazy so that's my excuse. I have some exciting news - I am pregnant! I am due January 3rd so I still have a ways to go. We are really excited for baby #3. We don't know what we are having yet and won't find out for a while. I am not looking forward to being prenant all summer long!! Natalie is so excited for me to have a baby and can't wait until he/she gets big enough to start kicking so she can feel them. So far things have been ok - I have been unusually nauseous with this prenancy so far. I never got morning sickness with any of my others but I seem to be sick all the time with this one. Hopefully it won't last much longer!
We are also working on buying our first house! We have been looking with our realtor for over a month now and it is starting to get really frustrating! The good thing is that there are a lot of houses out there for GREAT prices - but all the ones we are looking at are foreclosures or bank owned so the buying process is a little more stressful. So far we have put offers on 3 different houses - the first two we didn't get. There have been multiple offers on all the houses we have been interested in so that makes things really difficult. But we just put in a very strong offer on a house we love so we are keeping our fingers crossed! Hopefully by the end of the summer we will be moved into a new house!
Natalie starts school (kindergarten) this upcoming year. I am very excited for her! I haven't enrolled her yet because we are going to be moving most likely before school starts - so I don't know which school she will be going to yet! Ever since she turned 5 she has been asking when she gets to go to school. She is also very excited and I know she is going to do great. She is very social and friendly and VERY smart. She knows all of her numbers, letters, colors, shapes, can write her name and lots of other words, can count past 100 and even knows how to add and subtract!! I am so proud of her and know she is going to do great.
Tyler also can't wait until he turns 5 so he can go to school too. I think I may put him in preschool when Natalie goes to school. I'm sure he'll be bored at home all by himself. He is such a great kid and loves his sister. They get a long so well. He is still obsessed with trains and loves to play on the computer. He and Natalie play on the computer all the time and they are getting really good at it! He is growing so fast and it won't be long before he passes up Natalie - they are already the same size! Every time we go out I have at least one person ask if they are twins. I can't believe how fast they've grown.
Natalie and Tyler are at such a great age - they are developing the cutest personalities and pick up on the weirdest stuff. I could tell dozens of stories where they mention something to me and I have NO idea where they got it from. A few weeks ago my sister Diana came to town to visit for a while. When we first got to my moms house to see her Natalie asked, "Mom, where is Diana's car?" I told her that Diana didn't drive, she took an airplane. There was a few minutes of silence then she asked, "Mom, do airplane drivers say 'Next stop Grandma's house'?" I laughed so hard! Apparently, because they watch movies with train conductors saying, "Next stop, (wherever)", she things people who fly planes must say the same thing. It was really cute. Then a few nights ago I was on the computer and Tyler came walking in my room. I was trying to get him to go to bed and he says, "Mom, if you aren't in the hallway you need to turn the light off so we don't waste money." Wow. Good for him, I guess! Andrew had told him a while ago about keeping lights and water turned off to save money or whatever and he just hasn't let that go. All the time now things need to be shut off! But I'm not complaining!
We took Natalie and Tyler to the swimming pool a few days ago (first time for the summer) and they had such a good time! We had to BEG Natalie to finally get out of the water. She asks me every day if we can go swimming - it's going to be a long summer!
Andrew recently got promoted at work to the Manager of Loss Prevention. He had been just a supervisor for the last few years and when the previous manager left, he applied for the position. I am so proud of him - he works so hard and is so good at his job.
I think that's about all for now. I will try to be better about posting so they aren't so long and I don't miss "important" stuff (not that anyone probably reads this junk anyway). With me being prenant and all I have an excuse to do regular updates - lets see how long that lasts!
