Bases Loaded with One on Deck

Taking Her Time

My baby counter on the side bar of my blog is down to zero days, but Catherine seems to be perfectly content to stay where she is.   On Friday night and last night I had contractions keeping me awake all night, they continue into the morning and then wind down throughout the day, so I'm at this point I'm very pregnant and very sleep deprived. 

I'm curious to see what my counter says tomorrow should I go to officially being overdue.  Hopefully I'll be at the hospital and won't have access to my blog.

And a quick "Happy Birthday" to my Aunt Dee, hope you have a wonderful day and that the weather is nice enough for you to get our for a ride!

I'm off to walk up and down stairs and clean bathroom floors!

License to Drive

After 4 years and 8 months of living in Atlanta, I finally got my Georgia drivers license.  I realize you are supposed to do this with in 30 days of moving to a new state, but my South Carolina license didn't expire until my 2008 birthday, which was last Thursday, so I guess I waited as long as a possibly could.   

To be quite honest,  I'm never in a rush to get these things done, I think Michael was almost 2 before I actually had a drivers license with my married name on it, and I lived in San Antonio for 2 years and never had a Texas license.  I think I'm going to have to break this trend of procrastination once I get to Milwaukee though.  I think we all know how unflattering those drivers license photographs are, and being 9 months pregnant certainly didn't help me in this case. 

Olympic Fever

I don't know about the rest of you, but we as a family have very much enjoyed watching the Olympics over these past few weeks.  I can't remember the last time we got to bed before midnight since they began on August 8th.  You'd think the boys would enjoy a break from all the athletic action during afternoon when NBC decides that "Days of Our Lives" and "Dr. Phil" are more television worthy than the Olympics, but they've actually taken matters into their own hands and have brought the Olympic games to a whole new level.  Yesterday afternoon when they were done with school they opened up the "Indiana Jones Diving Arena"  in our basement where Lego Indy took on Lego Star Wars to see who could capture the gold in counter top platform diving. 

A Shower of Pink

On Saturday August 9th, one of my best friends threw me an absolutely beautiful baby shower.   It was a wonderful afternoon surrounded by friends and family, since my mom and Aunt Dee were able to fly in for the weekend. 

Catherine received lots and lots of great stuff, most of it pink and in the form of clothes.  I'm having a very difficult time deciding what outfit to take to the hospital to bring her home in.  I have two laid out right now, I'll probably pack both.  I never had this problem with the boys.  It's funny I FINALLY have a reason to buy lots of cute girls clothes, but now I don't need to, at least for the next year, so some one else needs to have a girl so I can go shopping!

I actually brought my camera, but never got to take pictures, so it's a good thing Shelly got a new camera from Paul and put it to good use at the shower and posted lots of the pictures on her blog.   

This is Your 5:44 Wake Up Call

It's a good thing school is back in session for all non-homeschooled kids in our neighborhood.   Some of them seem to be getting pretty bored, and have nothing better to do than run around during the 5 o'clock morning hour ringing doorbells. 

What a Week!

Not that this will be a surprise to anyone, but life has been rather hectic for us lately, and this past week was no exception. 

Last Wednesday Kent came home from Milwaukee, after his first week at his new job.  So far he is loving it!

Thursday we met with our Realtor to sell our house here, she did not paint a pretty picture of the housing market in Atlanta, so we are not expecting to actually be living in Milwaukee anytime soon.

Thursday night Kent's cousin and his wife came to stay with us for the night.  I can't even remember the last time we saw him.  Michael was very young, and if Matthew was even born yet, he surely wasn't more than two.  This was the first time we got to meet his wife.  We've heard nothing but wonderful things about her, and she surely lived up to all the glowing reports.  She's apparently 7 months pregnant, but you wouldn't know it by looking at her.  She's barely showing.  On the other hand there's me, who has always been asked if I'm having twins at some point in each of my pregnancies, because I look like I'm about to pop at 6 months.  Even if they don't ask, you can see it in their face, when they give you the "Holy cow, you are huge woman!" look, after they've asked you how many more weeks, or days you have and you answer in months. 

Our company left Friday afternoon to head downtown for the weekend.  She was Matron of Honor at a friends wedding and they needed to stay with the rest of the wedding party. 

Kent spent the rest of the weekend working on the house.  He got an amazing amount of work done, and the house is really starting  to look nice.  Unfortunately he had two small interruptions on Saturday.  The first came at 5:30 in the morning when some neighborhood kids decided to ring our doorbell about 30 times in a row to make sure we woke up.  They came back 20 minutes later, this time only ringing it about 5 times.  We decided to call the police.  Apparently we were not the only ones who were awaken so early, since the lady who took the call new exactly which neighborhood we were calling from.   Later that evening we had a quite the storm hit our area.  We lost power for several hours, and our neighbor lost 3 huge trees, thankfully nothing was hit.  We witnessed the fall of one of them, quite the awesome sight, but one I'm hoping I don't see again.    The winds during the storm were clocked up to 70 miles per hour.  We watched in fear as the wind bent massive trees over our house and our neighbors, and we are grateful the damage wasn't greater than a few trees falling in a forest.   

I wish I could say we are all looking forward to some rest and relaxation this coming up weekend, but I think life for us will only be getting busier.  Kent will continue with his "To Do" list, I will enjoy visiting with my mom and Aunt Dee who are coming in for my baby shower while I try to be of some use to my husband as well, and the boys will continue their "home improvement lessons" that they began last week with their dad.  Nothing like having 4 boys around when hard labor needs to be done, unless it's 4 older boys, but we don't want to rush time where that is concerned.