Happy Birthday!!

Today is Aidan's 4th birthday. Daddy called and asked Aidan where he wanted to go to lunch for his special day. 'Dad, it's not my special day, it's my birffday...I wanna go to Old McDonalds' (That is McDonalds in Aidan language.) So off we went to Old McDonalds...and low and behold the toys in the Happy Meal were from Pirates (he will not see it, but he is in love with everything Pirates). He got a Treasure Chest with a key and Coda got a Telescope with light up red eyes...that must have been what I paid $3 each for, since the food is never anything to speak of.

This is a picture of Aidan when he was about a week old. Oh how they grow. While the boys were playing at McDonalds, Nick and I were reminicing about Aidan's birth. It seems like just yesterday. Sitting in the stands at the Crab's baseball game, rocking during each contraction, eating Nachos, stopping in the middle of the road on the way back to the car and making the ultimate decision, THIS IS IT!!! Spending 8 hours in labor, knowing I was going to have a c-section (he was breech) and LOVING every minute of it, yes I am nuts and no I did not have any pain medication. At one point I kicked Nick out of the room, because he fell asleep, poor guy! Seeing Nick in those purple scrubs, oh the sight. And seeing my baby boy for the first time, so small and so precious. Looking into Nicks eyes and knowing that this was 'our' son, forever. It was that day 4 years ago that we became a family. Our lives changed forever with his birth, Thank you Aidan! 

Lost

Today I lost Coda. He is two and I loose him a lot, especially with this new house...there are so many closets, corners and rooms to hide in. Usually when he is quiet and hiding I will find him with something he is not suspose to have, my lipgloss, a nightlight, Téa's bottle, something from my purse. But today was different. The house was quiet, I looked in the living room and Aidan was watching 'Diego'. "Where is Coda," I asked. "I dunno." So I kept looking, calling his name, checking the doors, they were locked, under the beds, in the closets. OK WHERE ARE YOU CODA?? And then I heard "Momma"..."Momma." It was Coda, his voice was coming from sisters room...I looked in the closet, no, not there..."Momma." I peaked over the side of the crib to find this...

Coda was laying in Téa's crib. Well his crib only decorated for a girl now. It wasn't long ago he was sleeping in it...actually it was less than 2 months ago. He had his 'pappy' (pacifier) and his 'smoochi' (his go-everywhere blanket) and he had himself snuggled in tight.

So he wasn't off destroying something or getting into something he wasn't suspose to. Is today the changing point in the life of Coda...will he no longer be the boy who is into everything? We can only hope!

How could I forget?

The answer is yes! We fit it all. It was an adventure to say the least, but it all fit. And the first 3/4's of the truck was packed in about 1 1/2 hours. Then our "extra" help had to leave, so that left Nick, his dad and his brother. Those boys, I mean men can not make a decison to save their life. The next 3 hours was spent finishing the last 1/4 of the truck! But they got it done, and nobody was hurt, so I guess that is all that matters.

I want to say a special thank you to all that helped with this move...family, friends and new friends. Also a thank you for all the prayers, I know that some of you had to have been praying your head off, because the move when so smooth!!

Our new home.

Almost a week after moving and this new house is starting to feel like home. It is definately quite a job to move with three young ones. Just taking care of them is a days work and then add to that unpacking, unpacking and more unpacking. I'm tired! Our home is absolutely amazing. And this is the first time I have been able to say this, since the day we moved in was the first time I had seen it. Nick had seen it, approved of it and signed the contract all without me seeing it...boy what if I hadn't liked it. We are all settling in well, the boys love their HUGE yard, Téa enjoys listening to the birds, Nick is one his last day of his first week, and I am loving having more space for all of our stuff!

This is our home from one side

My favorite view from the house...
this is from our living room looking into "our forest" as Aidan calls it.

Just had to add a picture of Aidan and Téa.
Aidan is watching TV and Téa loves to lay with him. Hasn't she gotten chubby!!

I am not so sure.

We are packing the moving truck today...starting in about 4 hours. YIKES!!! For the past week I have thought, "I am almost done". Yeah right. We have so much stuff, but as Nick would say, I would rather have so much, then nothing. True statement. I have vowed, that the next time we move (hopefully into a home we own) I am including in the price of the house for professional movers to move us. How nice would that be. Leave for a vacation, come home, to a new house, all your stuff is there and yo ujust had to pay a few thousand dollars! (I am somewhat being sarcastic, I cannot handle spending large amounts of money on something I can do myself.)

So I am not so sure that we are going to fit everything into the moving truck. We have rented the 26' truck, the largest they rent, it says it holds a 4-5 bedroom house, we only have 3, but I am no so sure. Mind you we have already taken a truckload and trailer full of boxes and stuff up there. But last night I packed six boxes of food, yes six! I could open a grocery store. (Just for reference, these boxes are not huge, there are about 12"high, 24"long and 20"wide. They work great. Sergio, Sam's boyfriend works in the meat department at Winco, so each day he brings us "chicken boxes", they hold some 80lbs of chicken and they have handles and they stack so nicely.)

So any guesses, will it all fit? We do have some spillover room...the back of my van, Nick's dads truck, the Saturn and Nick's work truck. But still, will we have enough room? I guess we'll see

TO BE CONTINUED...