Bittersweet

I am a little sad, but also excited to say that we are moving! Eric took a job with a different company and we will be moving to a new city. Same state, just a new city! We will be sad to leave our home and especially our ward and friends, but we are also looking forward to the adventure of a new city, new ward and new friends! We are also excited to be close to old friends too. We seem to be following Chris and Rainie and Eric's brother and his family live there as well! The only other thing that I am not looking forward to is selling our house. We already have it listed. I feel that it is not in the shape I would like it to be in. There are closets to be organized, furniture to be moved and always lots of cleaning that could be done. But we will survive. To my pleasant suprise we already had one showing! I only had about 20 minutes notice and had an extra kiddo over playing, but we made it! I got the house together and the kids out the door just as they were pulling in. Chances are slim, but wouldn't it be nice if the first people who saw it, bought it? Only in my dreams right. Anyways, so let the stress begin, let the mean clean freak mommy come out, and hope for the best. If anyone out there has been through the fun of selling your house, let me know any secrets or tips you may have. I am going to need all the help I can get.

The Excitement of a New Baby!

Lately Ethan has been really excited about the new baby. It is fun this time around because he is older and understands a little more than he did when I was pregnant with Emily. He makes sure to include the baby in his prayers every night. He has said and done quite a few funny little things that I thought I would share.

A few weeks ago he got new sandals. As he was taking off his old ones he put them aside and said "mom lets put these in a special place for the baby. Since they don't fit me anymore we can save them until I can share them with my baby brother." I thought that was really cute, but quickly reminded him that it might be a baby sister.

A few days ago Ethan told Eric that we should name the baby Ethan because he wants to share his name with someone. That wouldn't be at all confusing would it? Yelling Ethan and having them both answer.

The funniest was last night when we were just hanging out. Emily was patting my tummy saying baby, when she decided to kiss it. Ethan then said he wanted to kiss the baby too. I told him to go ahead. He did and then got this look on his face like he had a great idea. I was slightly worried and then he said, "I know what the baby would like. The baby would love to hear knock knock jokes!" So he got really close to my stomach and went on to tell the baby knock knock jokes. He has really been into knock knock jokes lately. One of these days I will have to post some of them. He makes up his own and they make absolutely no sense. I guess that is what makes them funny.

It makes me really excited for this baby to come. I think the kids will have so much fun with their new little sibling. I am sure Emily will have a little bit of a hard time. She still tells me all the time that she is my baby. Hopefully that won't change once another one comes. I tell her and Ethan all the time that they will always be my babies.

Just as an update, I went to the Dr. this week and all is well. It took a while to get the baby to hold still enough, but we were able to hear the heartbeat again. Right as the nurse would find the heartbeat the baby would squirm and she would have to move the thing around again and try to find it again. I still don't really feel much movement, but it was fun to know that the baby really is moving around in there. I also scheduled another ultrasound in 4 weeks. That will be the magic appointment when we find out what's cookin' in there. Boy or girl? What is you vote?

Camping!

This last weekend we decided to join some friends of ours and go camping. It was a lot of preparation, but lots and lots of fun. The park where we camped had a great lake and we were able to borrow a canoe to take out! The kids loved getting out on the water. So the days were spent canoeing and running around getting dirty with friends and the nights were spent around the camp fire, roasting marshmallows and drinking hot chocolate. Emily didn't sleep to well which made for long nights, but we still had a great time. I didn't take as many pictures as I should have, but here are a few that I thought you all might enjoy!

Setting up the tent! Our tent is pretty old school so it took a little longer than we expected to get it set up! We decided a new tent might be nice for the next time we go!

There was a little park not too far from out sight. The kids had lots of fun on the slide!

At the nature center they had a cool little alligator show. Here is Ethan petting the baby alligator!

Sitting on the dock.

Out on the lake. This is the only picture I have of us on the canoe. The kids loved it!

This is the view from our camp site. It looked right over the lake. You can see from the smiles that everyone had lots and lots of fun!

The Last Few Weeks

Some of you may already be up to date on the last few weeks but those of you who haven't heard, we have had a lot of excitement. It started 2 weeks ago with pink eye. I took both Ethan and Emily to the Dr. and Ethan had pink eye and Emily had pink eye and an ear infection. So we came home with eye drops and medicine for the ear. After about a week of medicine, the pink eye was gone but Emily had come down with a fever. I was slightly worried when Wednesday night it went up to 103 and she was complaining about the other ear hurting. Luckily we had an appointment scheduled the next day. Thursday morning she woke up and I about fell over when I looked at her. This is what we saw:

Spots everywhere. She was covered head to toe in pink spots. We took her in to find out that she was allergic to penicillin and this was the reaction. She also now had an infection in the other ear. The last thing the Dr. said was that it would get worse before it got better. And guess what? It did! This was what she looked like that night and the next morning:

I am glad to report that it is getting better. I feel like we can venture out into public without people thinking she has some terrible disease. Now we just all have runny noses and yucky coughs. One of these days everyone will be healthy enough to resume normal activity. Ethan missed school today and Emily missed the first day of her gymnastics class. I guess we'll start next week with gymnastics and I think Ethan's cough is well enough that he can do school tomorrow. So I think the above stories and pictures explains why I have been slow at posting anything. Hopefully we be up to full speed again soon.