We're Off

We're up and ready, waiting to be picked up, and we're off to Disneyland. Cason looked so cute when I got him out of bed and got him dressed.
I carried Paige into the living room and as soon as she was awake she said "Are we going to Dizaleeland?" I love her. I got her dressed, and she asked if I would take her on the "Sippy cups". I realized she meant the teacups. I told her I might not be allowed since I'm pregnant, but that she could still go, with Michael or Teetee maybe. Then she looked like this:

Rock Band

Paige, Cason, and Lily put on a short concert for us this morning. Pretty awesome. Especially when Veronica noticed our new fan was giving them the rock video windblown hair.

We're off to Disneyland in the morning. It'll be OH SO CLOSE to perfect, except that Jess can't come. :( But how can we not have fun at Disneyland? We get to go two full days, and we're going with Aunt Mollie, Tyra, Aunt Mindy and Michelle, Michael, and Melissa and her baby Izzy. There's a lot of Ms there, now that I write it down.

The kids are gonna LOVE it! Paige remembers it really well and has a list of things she wants to ride, and things she is not willing to ride again. But it'll be like the first time for Cason, I'm excited!

I'll plan to blog about it Friday, hopefully with lots of awesome pictures.

Belly-Shades And A Show

Paige was in quite a mood tonight. She put on a dress and sunglasses and started doing some wild show. She was just dancing around, spouting off random lines to make us laugh. Mostly she was being some kind of villain and talking about dragons. Then she got REALLY into it, whipped off her shades, and sent them flying across the room.
Pretty soon Cason joined in, marching around and repeating some of the things he heard her saying.
Then he put his sunglasses on his belly and walked around the room sticking his belly out to display his new trick, saying "Look a'ME Mama!", "Look a'ME Daddy!", and "Look a'ME Paige!". Pretty soon he had 3 pairs on his belly.
They had us laughing pretty hard.

Sweltering

I nearly died in our house today. It was SOOOO hot and muggy, and our swamp cooler was not cutting it. I mean it seriously didn't feel any better inside the house than it did out. We were driving earlier and Paige spilled a drink and begged to ride in the car shirtless, because she HATES the feeling of anything wet on her clothes. So I let her. They both fell asleep on the drive, so I parked in the driveway, and sewed until Cason woke up. I brought him in, and left him groggy and screaming on the couch, to go carry Paige in too. She just kept on sleeping while he screamed at me. I'm sure the girls all stayed up late at Grannybob's when she spent the night last night, and then I picked her up early, so she was pretty tired. The nap lasted 2 hours or so. She was probably the most comfortable person in the house, being shirtless, and all, so I gave Caso a cool bath and let him lounge in a pullup. He started to feel happier again, and he and I were really trying to wake Paige up, talking to her and tickling her. It didn't work, so we gave up eventually. Cason tried to cuddle her as if she was awake though.

My hero Jess bought me a nice big fan for the living room to help. We got the kids each their own fan to point at their beds at night too, because their room might be the hottest in the house.

Tonight they're watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, (the cartoon version)...
...and we're eating smores with baked bananas instead of marshmallows. Because as good as smores SOUND, marshmallows are way overrated. Bananas however, were DELICIOUS on them.

While they watched the show, lying on the floor in front of the tv, Paige looked over at us and said "Look mama, I'm cuddling with my little brudder. And my little brudder is cuddling with my little brudder's big sister." So I got the camera and they hammed it up big time.
Especially Cason.

First Sleepover Complete

Paige made it all night, for her first sleepover. I woke up to my alarm at 7:00, and hadn't gotten the call to come get her. So I went to pick her up from my mom's, before she had to leave for work. Alex was outside letting her puppy go potty, but Paige and Faith were still asleep in bed.
She seemed happy to see me when I woke her up, but not in a way that made me think she'd missed me desperately at all. Haha.

So we went home and got ready for my appointment this morning. Dr. Schwartz was finally back to work, so we saw him today. He measured me and looked at my ultrasound, and he DID decide to move my due date to November 1st. He said "AT LEAST November 1st". But I guess after the original due date, October 14th, we'll start coming in twice a week, instead of the usual weekly appointment, and do stress tests to make sure everything is still good. Sounds good to me. Maybe we'll have a Halloween baby. Although I hope we can finish trick'or'treating first. Ha. So I guess that makes me ALMOST 25 weeks now. Monday I'll be 25 weeks officially I guess.

Liars Liars Pants On Fires

In the past two days Paige AND Cason lied to me for the first time. Haha. Paige is spending the night with Grannybob, Alex, and Faith, unless she calls us to come pick her up. So far she seems like she'll make it all night. She already called for us to come bring chocolate milk and chips. So we did, and she kept asking "Are mama, daddy, and Cason gonna leave now?" Ha. Couldn't wait to get rid of us. We got Grannybob to give Cason a haircut so he'll keep nice and cool at Disneyland next week. Woohoo! Then we left Paige to her slumber party.

We got Cason his own little chocolate milk at the store since we knew he'd want some of the carton we left with the girls. He drank most of it on the way home, but when we got here he found a cup and was trying to pour the chocolate milk into it. I heard Jess tell him "No pouring buddy". A minute later I saw him hiding behind the dining table. So I asked him "Caso, what are you doing?" and peeked around at him. He froze, smiled a little, and said "Nofing". Haha. I've never heard him say that before. I started cracking up at his obvious lie, so then he thought he was hilarious, and crawled under the table, with his paraphernalia, cracking up at how funny he is. I wonder if there's a page in the baby book for "First Lie"
Paige did it yesterday, when they were fighting over a toy. When I wasn't looking I heard Cason scream. I looked over and asked what happened. Paige goes "I didn't hit him." I told her to tell me the truth. So she goes "I didn't hit him in the back and belly." Haha. I took her to her room and told her she could come out when she was ready to tell me the truth. I checked on her a minute later and she asked "What IS the truth?" It was kind of sad actually, I'd been assuming she knew the word, but I'd probably never said it to her before. So I told her it means she needs to tell me what really happened, and NOT pretend. She was quiet, so I left. A minute later she came out and said "Okay, I DID hit him." I told her to go apologize. By then he'd forgotten about it, and was playing by himself. She told him "Sorry Cason" and he looked kind of confused, and then made a sad face, like he was still upset over it. Haha. But she hugged him and he started smiling again.

Whale And The Gardener

Megan asked for a picture of the whale painting, so here it is:
Now I can kill two birds with one stone.

Bird # 1: Find out from Skift and Sarah if they approve, and if they want anything added or removed before I send it to them. So? (You won't hurt my feelings if you want something changed.)

Bird # 2: Meet Megan's expectations.

Also, I've successfully channeled Cason's desire to play with the hose so that I no longer have to do the watering.