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What happened to my babies? I swear they were just here, a minute ago...in two little cribs in the same room, taking turns crying and waking each other up. Now they share a bunk bed and fight with light sabers. Wesley plays Monopoly and knows the strategy. Thomas says "Moooooommmmmaaaaa!" in an irritated voice that sounds like he's thirteen and I just tried to kiss him in public. Thank goodness they still let me kiss them in public! I know I am going to be a completely embarassing mom...and I'm going to enjoy every minute of it, because they will always be my babies!

One last getaway

Jason and I made one last trip before baby time this weekend, to Seattle. We spent time with our dear friends James and Angela Johnson


and went to a marriage seminar. It was a terrific time, relaxing and fun, and the weather was even nice for us. We had dinner at my favorite restaurant, the Pink Door....


...and found a great new breakfast place, Etta's. I fell in love with the lights there. I must have them!


All in all it was a great weekend, and now I am done traveling as I am 30 weeks pregnant. Time to settle in and get ready for this baby. He can't arrive soon enough for me!

Visit from Grandma and Grandpa

This past weekend Wendy went to Portland alone to help Tim and Kristi with McKenna. My mom flew down to help me and visit the boys. We had a great time.

Grandma and Thomas playing memory:

Grandpa and Wesley play Star Wars monopoly (wes's favorite):

Grandma happy to help:



The whole crew:

Thoughts from my 2 year old...

I was in the kitchen yesterday and heard Thomas yell, "it's a dinosaur!"

"Where?" I yelled back.

"Over here." He said in that all too cute voice of his.

So I walked over towards our front door and saw this shadow on our wall:


It took me a few minutes but I saw it. Gotta love his imagination.

Conversations with my son...

So we are walking through Target and Wesley says, "Bam!"

I reply, "what?"

"Bam!" He repeats. "You spray it on, wipe it clean and it sparkles."

So I look to my right and sure enough there is a cleaning product that I have never heard of before and my 4 year old is selling it to me. I asked him where he heard that and he said he learned it from a commercial.

Lesson for me? He really listens (and retains) everything. That was actually very funny.

As I was writing this he walked up to me and said, "Dad, how do I talk with the devil?"

with a puzzled look I asked, "what do you mean?"

"Well" he explained, "the devil is a bad guy. And I have to talk with him to tell him about God so that he can be a good guy and learn discipline and then he'll be nice."

I had never thought of this. So we went back and forth and decided that we will think about how to do this. Any ideas?