Calm Before the Storm

I'm trying to get in one last blog post before the PCS craziness happens.  The movers just called and they are now coming tomorrow instead of Wednesday (as originally planned), which has us freaking out a little but was kind of what I needed to get my rear in gear.  Anyway, here are some things we have been up to...

J and E found sprinkles in the pantry the other day and asked to make cookies, so I found a recipe for soft sugar cookies (which turned out to be amazing... recipe here) and we baked them together.  Here's Reid checking on them (and yes, his pants are all wet from sitting in a toy car outside that had water in it).  :)

YUM!!

The boys are again obsessed with playing with their Thomas trains and tracks.  Especially Emmett.  He loves to have people "play trains" with him, but is very particular about what trains can carry what freight cars and in what order they should go.  I really love to hear they boys playing because they make up the best stories to go along with what the trains are doing.  And I often hear them saying phrases that they've heard on the Thomas TV shows... "and he puffed slowly away," and "Then there was trouble!" and "Edward helped Thomas up the steep hill, " and "Gordon is delivering his freight car of coal to the transfer yard," and "Toby coupled up to James," and "Thomas is shunting yogurt cars and flatbeds," etc.  Just tonight I heard Emmett saying in his cute little 3-year-old lispy voice (as he was pushing his trains along the track), "Sir Topham Hatt said... Ferdinand, I have a special for you.  You must carry flatbeds to the wharf.  Yes, sir!  Ferdinand said."  :)  When we get to Florida I have got to find them some more trains and freight cars.  They just love them.

In preparation for our move I finally got around to organizing the boys' clothes.  Turns out we have 14 plastic bins of clothes from 0-3 months to 5T.  And that's not counting what's in their two big dressers right now.  Yikes!  I guess it's good that we didn't have a girl... can you imagine how many more clothes there would be??

And I also got ruthless with the toys in the playroom.  Of course, as soon as I would set things aside to give away the boys would start playing with them and then I would move them back into the closet!  :) I did make a little progress, though.

*Sigh*... I still have a problem keeping all of our books organized.  I also have a bit of an "ordering from Scholastic book club" problem.  I've had this problem since I taught school.  But what can I say?  I love books!  :)  I finally decided for now to keep the hard cover books in this bookcase and put the soft covered ones in plastic bins under the bunk beds.  And I finally taught Jackson how to put them away correctly on the bookshelves so that they don't look like this anymore...

Then the other day after I got out of the shower I went to check on the boys because it was so quiet.  I found them on the floor of their room just quietly looking at books together and my Scholastic obsession didn't seem so bad anymore.  :)

Jackson, Emmett, and I went to get our teeth cleaned the other morning.  It was Emmett's first time and he did so great!  I was very relieved.  J was really good, too, although he is still terrified of the spit sucker thing!  Maybe next time.  ;)

When I was in Florida a few weeks ago my dad gave me money to take the boys out to McDonald's for breakfast (one of their favorite things).  Since they were so good at the dentist we stopped at McD right afterwards.

Well, that's all for now!  I guess I need to get up and keep working now.  The movers hope to have the truck loaded up by Friday, and we are hoping to pull out of town ourselves on Saturday!  Please pray for us as we make our way across the USA!  :)