Progress and it's opposite...The battle of wits ends when you decide and we both drink...then we will see who is right, and who is dead.

I mentioned doing some taping and painting on Lucas' old room ...well some has been done and there is more to do. BUT, the wall that is finished is my new favorite. I got lucky enough to find an "oops" can of brown paint at the local paint store for 5 bucks, same with the blue paint. and the green was left here from the previous owner, I bought a quart of white to lighten the dark green for my light green so all in all the project cost 30 bucks, when four paint colors and tape could have cost me 80$ so I was pleased. One more striped wall to go and the baby's room will be done. I love it, love it. The picture of the grass is the sod that I planted last month, it has come to match beautifully, minus a few dry spots that want water. Lucas and I ate the first to strawberries off my plants this morning before church, he was very excited about his "berries."

PREGNANCY UPDATE: My ticker says I'm in the teens... that is really happy cause these feet can't do much more of this. I apologize for the scaryness that I call my feet, I took another picture of my right cankle at another angle but the picture was SBP(scary beyond postability). NO really, embarrassingly ugly. I say cankle just it's just one. They might appear equally ugly but in real life the right ankle no longer recognizable as ever having had joints. No ankle bones, just a puffy block with toes. (Notice the ohhh so pretty gardning tan lines on my feet. :) I am continuing to have contractions and tomorrow I get my first check up for progress. So we shall see if the Doctors are right and I have an entire month to go or if the battle between us is ended when I have made progress and the change of delivery dates is no longer a concern of mine. Hence the title of this entry from Princess bride, "the battle of wits" who is right and who is dead.

JUSTIN has been on call this week and has been called out every single night...SIIGGGHHHHH. Which ultimately means he is getting no sleep because he is working during the night (double time, at least we have that going for us) and trying to get a couple hours of sleep during the day. so 4 hours of sleep here and 2 there is adding up to...not much sleep this week. he got called after church today and worked from 12-7pm and came home put the kids to sleep while I ran some apple pie filling to my visiting teaching gals. he called me at 9 and said he got another call out so I came home only to him having to leave again. Lucas and I walked to church (well he rode in the stroller) while Justin tried to get a couple hours of sleep this morning, he brought Jacey later. Moral of the story goes= didn't see him before church, didn't sit with him at church, didn't see him after church, didn't see him before bed. haven't seen him much this week, which stinks. But come thursday (payday) it will feel a little less annoying. Lord love him for being such a hard worker, he works so hard for us when he's here it's hard to see him go to work twice in one day. He's got a good attitude though, he just says... "Have to pay for those bunkbeds" all with a smile on his face. These are the moments I remember when he says, "can I go golfing today?" even though I would really like him to stay home and hang out with me instead. I sure picked me a good one. Handsome too.

BUNKBEDS: The kids are chatty at night and it takes them an hour and a half to get over their visiting but they are going to sleep in their beds and they aren't sad about it soooo.. I call that a victory. Hopefully the games they play will get old and they go to sleep at a decent time here shortly. Lucas learned how to open doors with knobs today...........need I say more. Nothing and no one is safe any longer.