My Babies

Well, since we decided to come home early for Thanksgiving we have to postpone my Doctor's appointment. So we won't know until December 01,2008 if we are having a boy or a girl. We are curious what everyone thinks the baby is going to be. (I'm not sure what Jon thinks, but I think that it is a girl). If it is a boy then hopefully we will have a name picked out by the time the baby comes ;) Jon and I have a hard time agreeing on boys' names. If it is a girl we are going to name her Emmalee. The middle name is still up for decision. We are thinking either Elizabeth or Rae. But if anyone has any good girls' names that go with Emmalee I would love to hear them.

Oh, these boys though. It's so hard watching them grow up and remembering that they are getting older. Trying to decide how rough is too rough for the boys to play...and how high is too high to climb...and deciding if they are playing or fighting (I understand now Mama.)...and trying to decide if they are alright playing where they are or if I need to get them down because they are going to fall...and the list goes on and on and on. Where did my babies go? Christopher will be starting Sunbeams in just over a month and Ethan will be going into nursery in May; the same time I am going to be having the baby...I'm never going to get to listen in Relief Society again. :) Ethan has enough balance to be walking, but he's a little chicken. He'll be standing without holding onto anything for a long time, and he's alright until he realizes that he isn't holding on to anything so he sits down.

I am trying to convince Jon that we will have enough to move before May. I really don't want to be packing right up until my water breaks, then I go to the hospital and Jon will have to leave me after I have the baby so that he can move everything by himself because he will NEVER ask for help moving, and then I have to go to a different house and hope that he set everything up the way I wanted it or I will have to just do it all over again and I would like Chris to be around the kids he will be going to school with. (Josephine would have a heart attack with the size of THAT run on sentance hahaha) We are deciding if we should send Christopher to preschool or not. In general, I'm not a big fan or supporter of preschool, but with his speech the way it is I think it would help for him to be around other kids more and to be around people that can't "read his mind" to know what he wants. I have to keep reminding him to use real words. He will be babbling and not saying any real words and I know what he wants, so I have to remind myself NOT to get it for him until he asks for it in English words. Ethan's speech is coming along nicely. He's doing the sign language pretty well, but he is also starting to use real words. He will put his arms up in the air and say "aaah-gaw" (all gone). He has asked for more food by actually saying "mo". On the other hand, living this close to the high school, I think maybe I should be grateful that Christopher hasn't picked up on words like I was wanting him to. ;) Between noon and 1:30 and between 3:00 and 4:00 they aren't allowed to even be outside...I never knew that the "F-word" could be gramatically used correctly THAT many times in one sentance.

Man, I hope everyone cleared their calander to read this blog. Sorry, it's long. But atleast now everyone knows what's going on in the Egeland's world.