Hayden's Exciting News

On Hayden's first day back to preschool last week after finding out about the baby, Ms Joy asked him if he had some exciting news. He was so excited to share that yes he did. She thought he would tell everyone I was pregnant. That wasn't the case. He went on to tell about the rubberband gun that his Grandpa had helped him build the night before. Ms. Joy kept asking if there was something else. Each time Hayden would just tell her more about the gun like he was so excited to bring it to show-n-tell. The exciting news about the baby was like two days old I guess. That is old news in a four year olds mind. I hope Grandpa knows how much he liked that gun because it trumped the news of a baby.

Valentine Surprises!

I came home Thursday night to find flowers and homemade chocolate dipped strawberries Heath said the kids had fun making them. It was a a great surprise.On Friday, I helped with Hannah's Kindergarten party. It was fun to play games with them and the kids were so excited about everything we did. I love that age. Then Hannah and Hayden helped me bring Heath a surprise Valentine lunch at school with balloons and a few treats. It was fun to surprise him. We then left for Utah to visit with the Huls and my nephew Sean came home from his mission in Italy. We had a fun weekend shopping, going out to dinner, decorating cookies and of course spending Sunday listening to Sean. He did such a good job. You can tell he really loved his mission.

When we got home we were ready for our last surprise. This one was for the Grandma and Grandpas. They got a poem in a box. The poem said:

Roses are Red, Violets are Blue
A BABY is coming
In September it's Due.

They were all a little surprised as we were a few weeks ago. We are excited all seems to be going well this time with the pregnancy. It was so fun to tell the kids yesterday. They were really happy about it and I know they will be a great help when the time comes. It will definitely be a big change since it has been five years since we have had a baby around here. I will be ready to stop surviving each day because of the sickness and start enjoying being pregnant. Hopefully that will come. We feel very blessed to bring one more child into our home.

Mom Moments

Do you have those moments when your mind takes a snapshot of a certain moment in time? The moment was so cute or special you just want to store it away in your mind so you don't forget what your kids looked like and acted at a certain age. I had a few of those moments this week and the funny thing was they really were just simple things. This morning Hannah was heading out the door to catch the school bus and halfway down the driveway she stopped and turned and waved with a big smile. So simple, but it was so cute and nice to be remembered and to know that everything right then was good in her life. One of those why are tears coming to my eyes moments. Hayden's was just as simple. He has been having me read his journal from when he was two to him this week. I write just a simple paragraph each Sunday about important events, things they said, or what they did. He is really into reading them right now. Anyway, some of the things that he did were kind of funny. It is so great to hear him laugh right out loud when I read those parts. You know the deep belly laugh that just makes you laugh right with him. He has such an infectious laugh. It has been so fun to read them and made all the work of the journals worth it. Moments like that make the laundry, noise, messes, and fits seem to not matter as much and make it all worth it.