A Lovely Ordinary Week

I've been a little lacking in blogging material lately (as you might have noticed). But it's for good reasons - we're busy, but our busyness is of the ordinary kind. To me, that's the best kind.

Here's what we've been up to this week...

The girls finished their first full week of school, and it's been great. We've gotten into a great little routine, which makes me so happy, because it makes everyone else so much more agreeable! We started about a week before school started really enforcing bedtime and making the girls make their beds and get dressed as soon as they get up, which has made for an easier transition.

After school, the girls are so happy to see each other, they play together perfectly.

Sophia finally lost that tooth!

She's so silly - all last year in Kindergarten, she talked about how cool it is to loose a tooth, so you can stick a straw through the gap!

Amelia... I just love her.

Whenever we're home, she's in a princess dress.

We are thinking of succumbing to the minivan, because our giant SUV isn't always as practical. Amelia came up to me as I was looking at Honda Odysseys online, and I asked her whether she wanted a car like that. She said, "no, I want a car that has no roof, and then you push a button and it gets a roof." Like I said, I just love her. And I agree.

A couple of days this week it was even cool enough for the kids to play outside! Oh my goodness, I just cannot wait for fall!!! Every tiny teasing taste we get of temperatures under 90, I get so excited and start thinking of pumpkin recipes.

Davis and I have been organizing, trying to make room for one more little person in our little house. All the kids' clothes have come down from the attic, and I've sorted through them all, bought fall and winter clothes to get all four through the rest of the year, and neatly boxed them up. We've cleared everything off the kitchen shelves, scrubbed, and re-organized the cabinets - it's my first time moving things around since we bought this house eight years ago, and I'm so happy with it now. We've moved some furniture around to make more room. We got all of the baby things out of the attic and put them away, buying just a couple of things here or there that were lacking. And I re-shelved the girls' book by color - I love it, and it's motivated the girls to put books back on the shelf properly.

And speaking of adding a little person to our house, I had another ultrasound this week, and everything checked out PERFECTLY! Really, really perfectly perfect! I feel so lucky, this sweet baby boy has been looked at so closely by so many wonderful doctors, and this week his 9th ultrasound was done by a wonderful radiologist who was able to rule out every possible complication we had worried about and just reassure me in the best way. I have also had very few contractions (compared to Henry, when I was already on bed rest by this point) and so we are hopeful. I haven't been hopeful and pregnant in so long, I forgot how amazing it is!

This morning I made 42 of these pancakes, most of them to freeze for the girls to eat during the week. Amelia ate SIX this morning!