To Sum It All Up

Where do I begin? My energy is low and responsibilities high these days so I'd better get as much info down as quickly as I can.

Summary:

Me: 9 weeks pregnant. Feeling very tired and intermittently nauseated. I am amazed at the power of amnesia that made me forget just how long 13 weeks of 1rst trimester ickiness feels.

Elise: Reading everything she can get her hands on. Story time is twice as long now because she is constantly interrupting to point out the words that she knows and read things herself. She is also brimming with, "why" questions these days. Some are interesting, some are bizarre, and some are impossible to answer. Telling stories is also an obsession at the moment. We take turns coming up with the next action in a story. She is much more creative than I am. Someday I will video tape one of her stories just for the record. But it could very well be a story that lasts over an hour long.

Zion: Sweet, easy-going little guy . . . until his friend Benson came for a visit. Our friends Ryan and Sharlene Hayton visited us for a few days with their 1.5 year old son Benson. I think that Zion spent the entire visit with his hands full of toys and saying, "mine!" He knows that in our house, you aren't allowed to take things out of other peoples hands. He took full advantage of this rule and loaded himself up with all of the toys he could hold. On the positive side, he is putting two words together now, "my train!", "my chair!", "my ball!" =)

Jeffrey: Working hard as always. On the weekend of April 25/26, he has a paper due, has to make a presentation at a conference, and has his big yearly ophthalmology exam. Oh, and that weekend I'll turn 13 weeks pregnant and finally be feeling better again. While I can hardly wait for the weeks to pass to get us past there, he has way too much to do between now and then.

Our house: Listed on March 14. We've had 4 showings so far. I am very tired of having to leave the house show ready whenever we go on an outing. It is hard enough to find the energy to go anywhere with 2 toddlers, then add pregnancy to that, and then top it off with a thorough house cleaning before getting out the door. I haven't left the house very much.

Oh, and did I mention that a car crashed into our house? While we were gone because someone wanted to see our house? Yep. True story.


The driver lost control coming down the hill next to our home. She lost traction due to the rain, veered off of the road and plowed into our pine tree. The car then spun around the tree and rolled back into our house. The driver and the passenger are both fine, thanks to airbags. And we think the damage is limited to the siding and not the structure of our home. All I can say is thank God for the airbags that protected them, and the pine tree that protected our home.