I am 3 weeks out from my due date of October 8th. I am ready to bust. But not before I crank out a Genogram project and a Crisis Intervention Paper. I am crazy! I am taking two classes this fall to try and finish up my Master's Degree that I began working on in 2008. Oh, how I wish I would have done this 10 years ago! But, oh well, I can't "should" myself or I'll go psycho!
Eden is beginning to talk so much now. She babbles a ton and I believe we are the only ones that really understand what her 20 month old self is saying. Her favorite word is "stuck". She gets stuck or her blankie gets stuck on everything. She likes to say Mammy! And Evie, and Daddy a lot! She is a screamer and accident prone. Just this afternoon she fell into our bed frame bruising her left cheek. Two weeks ago she fell into the piano bench bruising her right cheek while playing at my mom's house. She is still sucking her left thumb and playing with my hair and everyone else's hair when they will let her. She hugs with every bit of strength in her body. I love to feel her little arms wrap around my neck and hug the heck out of it! She loves food and usually goes for meat and potatoes over ice cream and cookies. But, she loves to say "cookie" in a very animated, foreign kind of way. And what I mean by foreign is that she takes the sound from the back of the throat and enunciates it with a Hebrewish kind of "ch". It's hilarious and I'm not sure I can explain it accurately.
Evie is talks all the time. She is super verbal and expressive. She is a drama queen and likes to let her opinions be known very quickly. Right now she loves to play dress up in her princess outfits, wear her puppy dog hat, and go naked for the most part. It's hard getting clothes on Evie. She calls herself Evs Evs and Evsie. She calls me Momsie and Mums Mums. She likes to give people nicknames. She loves to paint and to dance. She loves singing and every night she asks me to sing her the "Evie" song. She now sleeps in a big girl bed and does very good to stay in it. She has been waking up a dawn lately. This makes us all very tired. Eden on the other hand would sleep until 9 o'clock if Evie wasn't so loud. Evie loves her friends Allie, Ellie Claire and Stockton. They are her favorite friends to play with. Evie loves to rub on my belly and tell the baby that she loves her and that she is the best little sister! It's really funny. She also likes to feel her move in my belly. I am excited to see how she reacts to her little sister entering into this world. I may take that back in a few weeks!
The new baby is sleeping as I type and I am very thankful for that. She is so big and uncomfortable in my belly (well, at least I am and I think she would be too). Her name will be Emmaline. We do not have a middle name and if it's like the last baby that we had, she will be getting a legal middle name as I roll out of the hospital. I just can't decide. Grady can't decide. We are indecisive when it comes to middle names.
I am anxious, tired, weary, excited, and full of joy for what the transitions we are about to go through this fall. I feel more of God's grace everyday for the life change that is happening with our family. Some days are easier than others and I know that will be the case for the next few months having a new one in the house. But, I am excited about being a mama of three little girls and I am so thankful for the gifts God has given me!
