Caleb is 4

Caleb and I had another not-so-fun week. I'm not really sure what to do with him.

On Saturday he turned 4. It's so hard to believe that he's that old already. He had a birthday party with a couple of his cousins. He was very happy with his presents and had a great time. After the party we went to Walmart where he got to spend his gift card from Grandpa M. He was so excited to get to pick his own toys and to give his gift card to the cashier all by himself.

That evening John and I had our date night for the week. We watched Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Since this coming weekend is General Conference, we've decided to do the date on Wednesday. I'm not sure what to do. One of the rules is that you can't do the same thing twice in a month. So far we've eaten a 'special' meal together, played a board game and watched a movie. I guess I'll have to look through the Project 52 blog to get some ideas.

Found out this morning that we're just waiting to hear back on a date from to OB for my first prenatal appointment. That means I'm not mad at my doctor anymore, which feels nice.

The exciting news for the week is that I felt the baby move a couple of different times. That was fun:) Oh, and I officially moved into mat clothes.

Not too much else is new right now though. I hope you all have a wonderful week:)

Cleaning, Caleb and Visiting Teaching

I'm not going to go into details, but Caleb and I had a week where I felt like he'd be lucky to survive until his 4th birthday, which happens to be only 5 days away. It was long and stressful, but I'm glad it's over and we can work on moving forward.

For last week's date night, we got some Chinese food and had a nice dinner with just the 2 of us. Then John gave me a foot rub. It was nice, relaxed and much needed.

We finally got our room nice and clean (just one bookshelf, the computer desk drawers and the closet left to go through and organize. My mum and her husband had bought new bedroom furniture a few months ago, so they gave us their old stuff. We moved that in on Saturday. I love having a bigger dresser. I managed to really downsize my junk drawer, so I'm very happy about that. Now I just have to work on getting everything else nice and organized.

Caleb went to West Ed on Saturday with my mum and her husband. He went to Build-A-Bear and made a wolf named Wileey. He insisted that Wileey needed 2 e's. He also got chicken and fries for lunch, which he was over the moon about AND he got to go on a pirate ship. I've never got to go on the ship in West Ed, so I must admit that I was a tiny bit jealous. But he had a great day and I'm glad. We managed to get the last of his birthday presents plus some other things that we needed for around the house.

Yesterday I got to go visiting teaching for the first time since last December (I think). It was great, I loved it. The message for this month really hit home for me, about our responsibility to nurture the rising generation. This is always a big worry for me, about whether or not I'm doing enough to prepare my kids to live in this kind of a world. It's way scary out there. So here is the part of the message that I want to share:
"We must speak respectfully of marriage and family. And from our example, the rising generation can gain great hope and understanding - not just from the words we speak but from the way we feel and emanate the spirit of the family. "

I hope you have a great week:)

Butter, Larry the Cucumber and Project 52

I see I'm back to just writing for my own benefit. That's okay, though. It's still always nice to know what's happened when I look back.

Well, the most interesting thing that happened last week was the butter incident. Caleb took an entire brick of butter out of the fridge and during the 10 minutes that I was taking a time out from him because we'd been screaming at each other he decided to take chunks of butter, get them a bit squishy and throw them all over my living room ceiling, wall and floor, not to mention smear it all over Ty. I was not a happy mommy.

We did, however, get our new credit cards. That meant that I was finally able to order Caleb's Halloween costume. I'm really excited about it. He picked it out himself.

The other exciting thing is that we decided to do Project 52. For our first date night we played Lord of the Rings Monopoly, which John had bought for me as an early birthday present. I beat John by such a long shot, it was actually rather sad. He made one 'bad for him' trade early on, and it cost him the whole game.

Anyway, that's all for now, I think. I hope everyone's doing well and if you have a second to comment, I'd love it:)

Goings On

So here's what's new at the Bly home.

We think we've figured out the colour schemes for the nursery. The gender will determine what one of the accent colours is. I've started cleaning it out. It's all organized, everything just needs to go where it belongs now and it needs a good vacuuming once everything is out of there. I also cleaned the boys' closet this morning.

My brother and his girlfriend came to visit on Friday and Saturday. We loved having them here. I missed them a lot and miss them again already. They are lots of fun and the boys just love them. My brother took a couple of family photos for us, but Ty REALLY didn't want anything to do with it, so most of them didn't work out too well because of that.

We went to IKEA yesterday. I love IKEA:) We bought some hampers, some yummy smelling candles, a recycling system for our pop cans and a few other miscellaneous items. It was lots of fun.

Not too much else is new. I hope you all enjoyed your long weekend.

PS
John and I got engaged 5 years ago yesterday.