Help yourself to my apple, Bodey

The last night I took an apple to bed to eat while Jeff and I watched a movie. I ended up falling asleep before I could eat it. This is what I woke up to this morning:

Blueberry picking, Babies R Us, newborn prep, grocery shopping

 

Went blueberry picking today! Its official: Bodey loves blueberries. We made sure to write our name on the board. It was sad, we couldn't include Shelbie. :(

Speaking of Shelbie. She's doing well. Too well. We got some texts from her today, basically in a nutshell this is what she said: "I love it here! I love the kids! I love the people! I love the land! I'm never coming home." Grrrrr.

I SAID STOP SENDING PRAYERS OF COMFORT HER WAYYYY!!!!!!!! We want to see some tears again!

This afternoon Jeff and I ran some errands. We went to Babies R Us. I got some girly receiving blankets. (If its not a girl, well we'll be ready whenever we do have a girl!!!) So now tonight I need to pull out a few specific boy blankets as well to wash up and put in bags to be ready for whenever this little one decides to come into the world.

I also got the newborn carseat base. It was soo annoying with Bodey switching the base back and forth between cars, so I'm excited to have gotten that. Sometime this week we need to go out to Turlock to pick up a crib from a friend. Then really, the only last thing we NEED is a bookshelf to store diapers/blankets/ect on. Now that we'll have two babies we definitely need more storage space!

I'm sorting through all my newborn diapers. Trying to decide which I'm keeping, which I'm selling and which I'm trading out. I need to perfect my perfect newborn stash then get them all washed up and stored away.

I can't believe we are down to so little time! I'm due the day before Shelbie comes home. And at this point, I'm irritated enough with her, I'm gonna try to have this baby before she gets home. :-p That's what she gets for going off and breaking our hearts like this.

Sour much? Yessss.

Anyways, we went grocery shopping this afternoon. We got a delicious looking watermelon and for the 1st time ever, I guessed correctly how much it would cost. Did you know when you weigh fruit or veggies you have to watch to see how many times the dial goes around on the scale?? Yea, I didn't know that. So I've always been so frustrated that my speculated .60 cent watermelons actually end up costing $5+. Well today I figured that out. Its not TWO pounds...its TWELVE! Duh right?? :-/

We also got some Lucky Charms type cereal, but get this: Its high fructose and color FREE!!! Yes! Thats right! No corn syrup, no food colors, no GMO's!  And, the best part: its yummy!!!! .

We're winding down our evening. We have a tired baby who's ready for bed. And his parents want to just chill and relax. :)

Shelbie landed safely! Naps, postoffice and errands

Shelbie landed safely in Zambia!! Mama got to text with her a little bit today and she sounds like she is doing great! A little too great in fact. :-/ Call me selfish, but I'd like to see some tears again. Whenever we get to skype with her, I'm gonna tell her how horribly her poor lonely dog is doing. That will get her missing us and ensure us that she won't come home and announce, "Guess what guys?! I'm moving to Zambia." Stupid Shelbie.

*Stop sending "comforting" prayers her way. Keep the safety prayers floating that way, but enough with the comfort/lonely prayers.*

Anyways, Today: My body is still sore and hating me from all the cleaning I did yesterday. I hobbled around and whined all afternoon. I even took a nap. Which was lovely.

After my nap we got ready and ran a few errands. We went to the grocery store and got some stuff and then went to the post office to mail a bajillion and one packages. I hate shipping stuff. :(

This afternoon was hot. So hot I wanted to bring Bodey's kiddie pool in the house for him to splash around in. Jeff suggested the bathtub instead. *me: "Oh duhhh!"*  So I chilled in the bathroom with him while he splashed around for a while.

Tonight we went and ran errands with my parents while my siblings went to VBS. Bodey did good until about 9o'clock, when he completely melted and screamed all the way home. Oiy. He's tucked away in bed now though.

And as always, I need food and my bed :)

Cleaning cleaning cleaning

So. Incredibly. Tired.

I spent the day cleaning like a madwoman. Yet, depressingly enough you can't really tell. :-/ Guess it always gets worse before it gets better... I wonder if I'm nesting? Nah, its probably too early for that.

Anyhoo. I scrubbed my bathroom down like crazy. Did you know I have a white bathroom sink?? I didn't know this! I cleaned the toilet (YUCK) and scrubbed the bathtub down with an old toothbrush. Tomorrow I will finish up by organizing and mopping.

The living room also got mopped. As well as the kitchen...which already needs it again. :-/

I got out all my newborn stuff (Diapers, blankets, ect) and set it aside. I need to get that all washed up soon and packed into a clean box so its ready when the baby is born.

I spent what felt like forever stuffing all of Bodey's diapers and thinking, "I have way too many diapers..." all while I sat on the computer...buying more diapers. *Palm smacking head*

Tonight I drug my sore body over to my parent's house. Bodey swam with his best buddy (which eventually turned into Bodey pulling his hair, shoving him aside and other mean things) and ate a lemon. Yes, he ate the lemon wedge. Crazy kid.

He crashed hard tonight, which is good. Maybe that means he'll sleep through the night??? I am off to scout for some food and then go to bed.

Skyping skyping skyping and tutus

Bodey spent his afternoon wearing a Tutu. His uncles and daddy called him a Fairy all afternoon. His mama needs a little girl to dress up...

We skyped with Shelbie today. She is doing a little bit better but is still very homesick. She is packing her bags tonight as she's leaving early tomorrow morning (4am California time) to head to Zambia. Please continue praying for her.

Bodey and I slept in til 9 today. What a good boy! We went to story time (we drove today!) then went back to his Mimi's house so that the house could be quiet for Jeff to catch up on some sleep. We spent the afternoon skyping off and on with Shelbie. And moping about when we weren't.

I had all these awesome plans to come home this evening and clean like a madman. But alas, its 90o in my house. Way way waaay to hot to work. So instead I took a cold bath and am now getting ready for an early bed.

Hopefully an early bedtime helps me wake up before Mr Busy tomorrow, when the house is still cool and I can work like crazy!

busy weekend. Tired people

Sorry for the lack of updating. We've had a very very busy weekend.

Shelbie is officially gone. Doing what the Lord has called her to do. We dropped her and my mom off at the airport Friday where they flew to Texas to meet with the director and other interns. We picked my mom up today. Shelbie will remain in Texas til Wednesday going through training and fly to Zambia Wednesday morning. Please keep her in your prayers. She is very very very lonely and misses her family deeply.

Its been a crazy weekend. I've basically been living at my parents helping my dad out. Lots of late nights. Lots of tired kids. And lots of big people laughing. For no reason. That's when you know that everyone is really reallllly tired.

That's all for now.

Again, pray for Shelbie. Drop her a love note on Facebook. Email her. Something. Let her know that you all love her and give her a little dose of encouragement!

just a picture tonight

Too tired to write words. Hope the picture will do for now. :)

Rain rain!!!!

It rained today. It was chilly. The air smelled good. It was so much fun! Everything looked beautiful and clean.

Bodey let me sleep til 11 today!!!!!!! Whoa!! (Well actually, the background to the story is he woke at 5:30. I brought to bed the box of cheerios and accidentally fell asleep. I woke up about an hour later to probably 100 cheerios all over my bed and Bodey sitting happily between Jeff and I chowing down. Then I tricked Bodey into going back to sleep for his morning nap...and he slept til 11!!!!!!) Minus the cheerio situation, what a good boy :)

We got up and started house work. I was working away diligently when Shelbie texted and asked us to come for lunch. Of course we are trying to spend every possible moment with her before she leaves, so we dropped what we were doing and headed to my parents house.

We spent the afternoon watching the Duggars with them and laughing at Bodey and Shiro's little cat fights.

Bodey is asleep now and I'm thinking an early bedtime sounds lovely. I'm going to go take a hot bath, eat something and go to bed!

Busy weekend. Partied out. Tired. Grumpy boy.

I just found out that the music playlist that i've been using for my blog for the past 4 years "Updated their site to bigger and better" and made the "hard decision" to no longer allow playlist codes to be posted in blogger. (POOP ON THEM!!!!!!!!) So I'm feeling very irritated right now. Please stand by as I will spend the next few days trying to figure this out and working on getting a new playlist (obviously through a friendlier web host...) uploaded.

We've had a very busy past few days.

I got into a high kicking competition with Jeff on Friday and pulled some muscles. So I've had a very painful and slow moving weekend. ;-) No more high kick contests for me!

Saturday we had a prayer night for Shelbie -- did you know she's leaving on Friday?! THIS Friday?! Um yea...I didn't know that.

Today we had a surprise early birthday for her. (She turns 18 two weeks after she gets to Zambia.) So that was fun. But I think we are all partied out for a while...Lolly will be lucky if she gets a birthday party next month. Teehehee!

Tonight Jeff and Shelbie went to College group. Since it was Shelbie's last week they stayed forever so she could talk and say goodbye to everyone. I was stuck at home with Mr Grumpy himself. Eeek. Its been a long weekend for him and he's done. D.O.N.E.

Thankfully he is in bed asleep right now--whew!

I'm not looking forward to starting a new week.

I want to sleep. And I want to sleep in........ sweeet sweeet sleep. How I miss thee.

"Yes, 5:30am...I hear you calling me. I will see you tomorrow. Bright and early. Uh huh...see you then..."

Busyness...real post soon. I promise.

No words tonight...it's late and I'm tired. I'll post 3 pictures since I skipped yesterday :)