Craziness

It has been soooo long since I posted. The entire reason for the lack of communication is truly because of the craziness of our lives. I have wanted to post and let you all know what is happening in our lives but I haven't had a moment and when I did get a moment to just sit I have just had no mental energy to formulate my thoughts into words. These pictures are all from Easter weekend. My mom sent us an Easter package and she sent us some peeps. They are little marshmellow sugared ducks. Aidan enjoyed them thoroughly. Then because of the sugar rush he got from it he was hamming it us for the camera.....
For the past two weeks I have been pulling 27 - 30 hours work weeks as well as continuing to take care of Aidan and being in my third trimester. By the end of last week I felt as if I was barely keeping my nose above water. The weekend was busy on the Saturday as Jamie started playing church league slo-pitch and we did yard work all afternoon. Aidan really enjoyed watching the slo-pitch game even if he was up running around chasing his own baseball most of the time. I have decided that as much as we can we will go to the games to get Aidan use to watching sports and because I do enjoy watching Jamie play. It is just now a different kind of watching. It was a busy Saturday but at least we got done what needed to be done in the yard. I only helped a little bit and was sure to stop before I pushed it too hard.

On Sunday our pastor was talking about authentic Christianity HOPES and he talked about the importance of living in between our steps. That we can so easily get caught up in our daily busy lives that we get consumed with life and get dragged through instead of living in EACH moment. Because of my busy hectic weeks I was encouraged / challenged not to allow myself to get dragged through my days but to live in each moment that I am given.

In the last week or so we have been having dealing with Aidan hitting. He usually only does it when he gets frustrated or he is angry and it is not a frequent occurrence. There are days when I am at a loss of what to do for discipline when it comes to him hitting because I don't want to spank his bum because that will only confuse the situation for him. Today I may have figured out one way to deal with it. He came over and hit me today on the leg and I picked him facing me and held his hands. He started to cry and wanted to suck his thumb but I wouldn't let him and I told him hitting was not nice and that he needed to be gentle. I decided I was going to hold him until he didn't fight me. After that episode he didn't hit me again that day. Now, I know this was one instance but at the same time I was encouraged that maybe this is one way that we will have to deal with him in hitting. I just hope this is just a phase and doesn't last too long. If anyone has had the same issues and has any advise I would love to hear from you...

This picture was taken when Jamie was home on spring break and Aidan was thrilled to help Jamie put the wheelbarrow together. Then he wanted to just sit and spin the wheel forever. It was just too cute to watch him climb onto the back and sit, talk and spin the wheel.
As for me, I am almost 34 weeks along. I can't believe that there is really only 6 weeks left. I know that these next weeks are going to fly by and we will be even closer to welcoming this new bundle into our lives. I honestly haven't had lots of time to prepare for having number two but I have been trying to prepare Aidan as much as possible. I suppose that I will have to take some time in the weeks to come to pull the baby things out again and see what, if any, we need to get ahead of time. We are very much looking forward to this little one but with life busy as it is; it is hard to have time to prepare (if that makes sense). My apologies for no picture of the ever growing belly but it just hasn't happened. It's kind of funny how with the second I just haven't been as diligent in taking pictures.