Fabulous February

 Claire

We are starting February with a lot of rain this past week and Claire gets to take her umbrella to school and I'm glad they have rain boots. She even woke up one morning and wanted to go play out in the rain first thing in the morning! Before even getting breakfast, she got her boots on and took her umbrella out to play which I think is crazy, but I'm glad she's having fun. She does keep asking when her baby brother will finally come out and I have to keep saying, "when he's ready." She accepts it, but I can tell she is getting impatient. I asked her if she was going to help me change his dirty diapers when he is here and she said "eww" but she said she wants to help him get dressed and I gave her ideas of others things they can help with. She refused to get out of her dress after church and wanted even more makeup because she wanted to be fancy today. Maybe she likes this dress more than others, and she was the one to choose purple as our color we wore today. Claire drew and asked for donuts this week, specifically pink with sprinkles so I did some of those air fryer biscuit donuts as a desert.

Shay

She loves doing her homework now and I love that she is excited every day for it because I see how smart she is and how she is working out what sounds she hears in words. I officially started sight words and I hope to see some progress with her remembering them soon because I think Claire struggled with them so much because I didn't start before she began Kindergarden. I'm glad I have some of the resourses that I got from Claire's time in school to use with Shay so I know what to expect she might need to know. She is getting better at not asking for new toys when we went to the store this week and liked the owl down the isle of the outdoor stuff we went down this week. It was close to the toys and she asked if we could go look but not buy anything. She did get this weird notion in her head that she is getting a new bike for her birthday...I don't know why she thinks that, but she wants an Elsa bike pretty bad.

Chris

He is getting just as anxious about meeting baby as everyone else and since it could happen any day now he has become more concerned with making sure he can be here with me. He has a lot of built up PTO and has planned some official half days around baby's due date but might make them full days off if there isn't anything going on at the clinic. It is growing pretty fast though and this past week was very busy, luckily there are some nurses who want extra hours right now and can cover when he needs to be here with me. Since we are having a home birth with a midwife I'm more unsure of timing and only fear that I'll be all alone when labor starts. Both Claire and Shay were induced so I don't know how to tell if it is starting and I don't want to be alone, but I think I'm just too worried and things should be pretty normal.