What's Been Going On...

Well, since my last post things have been extremely busy here in our household...We have had various doctor visits - well visits, specialist follow-ups, dental exams, etc...We attended one of our HS support groups' "Not-Back-To-School-Luncheon" which was so much fun - The weather was so awesome that all of the moms decided to let everyone have the goodies portion of our afternoon outside - At the church where we meet they have a really nice sized playground and all of the kids had fun enjoying the weather and running around with their friends! On our way home from that we dropped Jake off at Dan's mom's house for a sleep over because Becky & Matthew both had some serious dental procedures the next day...Matthew is very brave and only takes a little bit of laughing gas, but Becky is a whole different story...She had to have "conscious sedation". THAT was an experience...She was totally out of it...She was flopping all around asking me if this was real or a dream...but both of them survived their treatments -

Then, the next day was the first MOPS meeting of the year at our church - I used to run this ministry there when Matthew was little, but the group stopped meeting for a few years and this is our first year starting it up again. It went so well. I am not leading it, but am a member of the steering team in the capacity of Creative Activities Director...We have a great team of ladies running this ministry together...Then the next day Becky had her 8 yr old well visit...She's 49 lbs and 48"...All is well...

I had my 34 week OB visit and all is well...EXCEPT that the hospital where we planned to deliver (which by the way has all guaranteed single rooms!) decided to drop our insurance as of 9/16 so we have to deliver at a different hospital (which is a great hospital - I had all three other kids there - just was looking forward to trying the other facility). Now I am scheduled for my C-section on Wednesday 10/18 at 12 noon! I can't wait to meet this little girl!

Here's a sidebar question...I am taking a poll to see what everyone guesses her birth weight to be - I say 9 lbs 1 oz...Keep in mind - Becky was 7lbs 12oz four weeks early, Matthew was 9 lbs 3 oz & Jake was 10 lbs 3oz...

Friday we did school and then went to my friend Jackie's to meet up with two other friends to do some bulk cooking...We each ended up with 9 different meals/entrees to put in our freezers at the whopping cost of approx. $2.75 per meal...Then Friday night I got to have a night out at my friend's house for a Pampered Chef show...Lots of fun...Saturday we did work around the house and then went out to dinner with Dan's parents...Sunday the boys had sniffles so Becky & I went to church alone...Thankfully Jake's sniffles didn't manifest into anything more because this morning I had to leave the house at 5:30am to be at the Children's Hospital for 6:00am...He had a minor surgical procedure which went on as scheduled and he was so brave! He is doing well and taking it easy this evening - I even managed to get a brief nap this afternoon...

So that is a brief recap of our life over the past two weeks...