Last Doctor's Appointment-- Yippee!!

Well, I had my last doctor's appointment today. It is a relief that it's the last one. Unfortunately, there hasn't been any more progression, but that is okay. I have kind of accepted that Monday is the big day. I have lots of cleaning and grocery shopping to do before then anyway. Plus, we could use to do a little packing this weekend as well.

We are getting pretty excited for our new addition to come in 3 days!! We are getting out all the newborn gear and getting things ready for Owen to come. I have had almost everything for quite awhile now so it has been good to go through everything again and take note of what we have.

Elise Louise has been quite the handful the last week or so. She has kind of been a little nightmare. You can't tell it from the angelic picture that I have included but she really has been a handful. I think she knows that changes are coming because it seems like just a week or so ago a switch came on for her and she has started acting out more. Plus, waking up in the middle of the night and crying for no apparent reason. I guess we can't really blame her. I mean, with the new baby and moving things are going to be very different for her. Plus, she is just getting to that age... pre-terrible twos!!! On the sweet side, she has been quite a helper. She continues to help me with all of the household chores and has become increasingly interested in helping me out with doing the dishes. Right now it is just her standing on her stool and watching me and occasionally reaching out to touch some of the soap bubbles. I imagine it will become more involved over time.

Daniel is glad that his most busy days are past him and that he finished the last day of school before Owen comes. I think he plans on taking all of Thanksgiving week off even though he has some classes scheduled early in the week. I guess we will see if he changes his mind and wants a little peace and quiet at school :). We bought Daniel new glasses last weekend because Ellie broke 2 pairs of old ones. He really needed new ones anyway so we were lucky that he'd already gotten an eye exam. Anyway, hopefully they will be ready by tomorrow.

The new house is just waiting for us to move in!! We keep saying how much better things are going to be with more space and running room. We plan on moving some boxes over to the house over Thanksgiving.