The Remodeling Begins?

Remodeling the guest room/office into a baby room. Three months to do this can it be done?!?! As you can see we have a lot to do. Notice the clothes on the bed. We are currently trying to organize all the clothes that are too small for Marlena and get them organized and ready for our new baby girl. We are going to leave the bed in here but the crib somewhere. We need to clear out the office and make it back into a closet. Where all that will go I do not know. We are thinking of pictures instead of a mural like we did in Marlena's room because Scott just does not have the time to do it. I will keep you updated on the process.

Hunting

In search of the missing library book, ugh. Where or where can it be? I had to do a google search just to remember what the book looked like. Marlena has lead me on several wild goose chases claiming she remembered where it is. I've heard of stories where the library has turned people in for over due books. Here is one example of many that can be Googled.
http://http://www.wisn.com/news/17258567/detail.html
I have renewed this book three times already. I'm a little worried . . .

Friday Cuteness Overload

Just a little cuteness for your Friday pleasure!

My Bright Idea

I was running low on straws. When I went to the store they had some colored straws on sale! I knew Lena would get a kick out of these instead of the plain clear straws that I had been buying. Never, never buy colored straws. Every meal it is "I wanted the pink one", " I wanted the green one". I can never predict the right color for the right meal. This is why plain clear straws are the ones we are buying from now on.

Pretzannabutteraisin bug

Mac and cheese and peanut butter banana caterpillars. I was quite proud of my creation. Marlena kept looking at it. "What is that?" she said pointing to the antennas."Those are the antennas," I told her pointing at the pretzels. "No mama those are pretzels," she looked at me like I lost my mind. She did not buy that the raisins were eyes either. She did like them though and ate them until there was nothing left. Scott decided to name them Pretzannabutteraisin bugs and I think she liked the name so that is what they are!

It's a girl!

We found out we are having a girl! I'm about 19 weeks in this picture. Marlena thinks that we are all pregnant,including her daddy. She keeps wanting me to feel her tummy for the baby in there. I think Marlena is happy that she is having a sister even though the other day she told us that she wanted a boy sister! We explained that boys were brothers and girls were sisters.

3rd Birthday Invites

This is the invitation Scott designed for Marlena's third. She was disappointed that she was not on a horse! I told her maybe next year. It was a great party with hamburgers, family and friends. We got to share our news of our new arrival at this time also. We filled a giant box with balloons and attached was a shirt that said Big Sister. It was nice to finally let everyone know i was getting paranoid that it was a little obvious.