Nesting

I think I should have a baby more often. This nesting phase is getting a lot of things done around my house. Here is how nesting works.... (and yes, you can laugh at me - especially if you've been through this & can relate) I need to clean my kids' bathroom. I do the standard cleaning, but before I sweep the floor, the spots where the paint has chipped off of the vanity and the door catch my eye. So I decide that it only makes sense to sand those spots down before I sweep. I sand, sweep and mop, but then I realize I can't leave the raw wood because the kids will spill on it & it will be ruined. So I head to the garage for the quart of touch up paint that's been waiting for me to repair the spot with water damage from when Claire flooded the bathroom in November. I paint the vanity, door & water damaged door frame, but figure that while I have the paint out, I should make sure that there's no other trim needing some touch-up paint. I walk around my house with my paint & brush and now, not only do I have a nice clean bathroom - I have paint touched up in both of the kids' bedrooms, the hallway, the front door, the kitchen and the laundry room. Crazy? Yes. Does this painting NEED to be done before I bring my baby home? Not really. But my house is looking really nice. This is why getting my house cleaned up while I'm nesting takes so long. If only I had this psychotic compulsive need to clean and organize my house all of the time.

Childbirth According to Matthew

Well, I'm 3 weeks away from my due date.  Baby Katherine could arrive at any time!  Good thing Matthew explained how to get her out of my tummy to me this morning.  Here's how the conversation went....

Matthew:  Mommy, yours tummy is getting even bigger!
Me:  Yup, it is.  That's because Baby Kate is getting even bigger.
Matthew:  Yours tummy is going to pop.  You need to drink somefing and yours tummy will pop and she will come out.  But you need a barf bowl.
Me:  I need a barf bowl?  Why... to catch Baby Kate in it?
Matthew:  You need a barf bowl to catch all of the blood.
Me:  You think there will be blood.
Matthew:  Baby Kate's blood.

Well alrighty then.  Childbirth explained by a 3 year old.  I'm glad I'm giving birth in a hospital & I won't need a barf bowl to catch the blood.

Spherical

Today while we were shopping - yes, the shopping trip I just wrote about in my previous post - Tyler made a comment that made me smile.  He came up and rubbed my baby belly and said, "Mommy, if I rub your tummy so gently, it almost feels spherical.  That's a real word right, spherical?"  Yes Tyler, that's a real word.  And you are right, my belly does feel spherical - just like I swallowed a basketball!  Gotta love that kids will say exactly what they are thinking.  :)

Beginning and Ending of Shopping Trip - What a Difference!

Walking into Target with all of my kids today, a woman passed us and said, "You have the cutest family!" I thanked her and as we continued into the store, I couldn't help but wonder, "Would that lady ever make that same comment if she saw us coming out of the store instead of going in?" Now that our shopping is done, I know she absolutely would not! After Matthew running away at least 10 times in the store, Matthew knocking things off of the shelves and Matthew knocking Tyler and Claire over like dominoes (which brought a great many tears from Claire since Tyler landed on her leg and knocked her shoe off) - Matthew did not get his own Icee at the end of our shopping trip. He was so upset by this that he began wailing at the top of his lungs. Since I'm not completely heartless, I decided to buy an Icee that he could share with me.  But he wanted his own!  As he saw Tyler & Claire enjoying their Icees, he got so mad that he began in with the "I hate you Mommy!" Then when he hit me, I decided that he wasn't going to have any of the Icee I intended to share with him. I think the man getting into the truck next to me put it perfectly when he said, "Wow, that boy has a healthy set of lungs on him!" We've been home for 45 minutes. Matthew is still in his room screaming and crying saying he doesn't want a nap. But that is one little boy in desperate need of nap! Aaaah, the joys of being a mother! :)

I Don't Feel Good

Claire just tried a new trick in the getting ready for school battle.  Quick & simple....

Claire: I don't feel good.
Me:  Why, what's wrong?
Claire:  It's because I don't want to go to school.  That's why I don't feel good.
Me:  Well too bad, you're going to school.

Gotta love the complete honesty in her answer.

Cute and Awesome

Last night I had a fun conversation with Matthew while I was giving him his bath.

Me:  Who is cute?
Matthew:  You are!
Me:  Aw, thanks!  But who else is cute?
Matthew:  I don't know.
Me:  You are!  You're cute Matthew!
Matthew:  No I not!  I are AWESOME!  I awesome!  Yeah!
Me:  Yes you are Matthew.  You are awesome!

It's good to know Matthew knows the truth!  He is a pretty awesome kid!  :)

Wake Up Time

Tyler came in my room at 8:00 this morning and told me, "Mommy, since you have a baby in your tummy, your wake up time can be 8:30."  Then I heard him go out to the kitchen and tell Claire & Matthew that he was going to make breakfast & asked them if they wanted toast.  What a sweet boy to want me to sleep in on an overcast Saturday morning!  :)