Family Date Night

Another day, another sleepless night. 

I am having the hardest time sleeping these days. I can't ever get comfortable. We actually had all of the kids in bed by 9pm and I laid down to go to bed myself... and 3+ hours later, here we are. I'm just chomping on ice and watching The Great British Baking Show.

Today was a good homeschool day. We started our Dinosaur unit study, and Evelyn has enjoyed it so far. The most difficult thing I am running into with her schooling in general, is that she just always wants to continue on. For instance, I have a week of lessons planned out to cover Dinosaurs, but she wants to just do all of it in one day. We are also reading a book together for her Language Arts - 1 chapter a day - and she wants to just continue reading and gets frustrated when I tell her we have to stop. I love that she loves reading and learning, but I wonder how they do it at school in a way that doesn't frustrate her as much.

I did have my 37 week appointment today, and I have progressed a little bit more. I am dilated to a 2 and 70% effaced. Dr Huish said he would put me on the induction list today for 39 weeks, so that is exciting!

We also went on a family date night tonight to Chick-Fil-A, which we enjoyed. The kids played on the play place for most of our time there, so Heath and I got to eat in peace for a bit. I just love our little family so much. I'm so excited for another sweet baby to be here so soon. :)

Heath asked me the other day if I was nervous about having another baby, the actual labor and delivery, epidural, etc... and I told him no. I truly am just so excited more than anything. And I figure I've pretty much got it down by the 4th time haha

I am still just having a hard time with the fact that Grayson won't be my little baby anymore. And I swear every day he just gets cuter and cuter, and says the sweetest things. I'll tell him that I love him and he says "I love you too mommy." He has been hugging and kissing my belly lately too. He's just the best!

The girls are so excited for the new baby too. They both think it's a girl, and Jossi is always referring to the baby as "she", and I have to constantly remind her that it might be a boy haha. My friend Brittany just had a baby boy, and the girls have seen him twice this week, and just want to hold him and feed him. They are so sweet and loving to these little babies. I know they are going to be the best big sisters and best helpers with the new baby.

Pretty much this entire pregnancy, I have felt like this baby is a boy. I don't really know why, and it's not like my symptoms have been identical to when I was pregnant with Grayson or anything. But I've just always felt like it, and have even referred to the baby as "he" on many occasions. Heath thinks it's a girl. I'm so excited to find out and to meet this baby. I do want a boy, so that Grayson has a brother. And 2 girls and 2 boys just seems "perfect." But I also want a girl because I just love all of the girly outfits and bows and everything that comes along with it. Also, Grayson is so wild compared to the girls, so it makes me nervous to think about 2 little crazy boys! I also kind of want Grayson to be my only boy so that he can be my favorite, special little boy. But we will see. Obviously we will be overjoyed with either gender. We just want a healthy baby.

This past weekend, we planted a vegetable garden, which was fun (and a little bit crazy with 6 little hands involved haha). The kids all loved being involved, but are hoping to see results within a day or 2. I keep telling them it will likely be a couple of months before we see anything spout up. It will be exciting when (if) we see anything sprout. I am not super confident in our planting abilities, and I know the kids put a few too many seeds in each hole, so it will be interesting to see what happens haha. I would love to have a vegetable garden to pick from and use our own vegetables when cooking!