Sunday Funday

Our friend, Grace, has access to this super awesome splash ground in her neighborhood. It was an 85 degree Sunday afternoon and the Augustines saved me from schlepping the kids to the beach. What is a usually fun task is getting more difficult by the week so I'm happy to take a break any time I can. Even though it was warm, the water was quite chilly (for FL standards!).

The kids, cheesin' for me.

Grace is the coolest girl we've ever been able to hang with.

She's so teenytiny but she is NOT afraid to show the boys that she can hang!

Turner loved the slide.

Eli wasn't a fan of being sprayed on the way up to the slide.

He was perfectly fine with jumping.

Grace even tested out the slide and loved it!

The belly at 33 weeks!

Oh, Boy!

...or girl. Yep. I'm pregnant. OMG. WTF?

I'm taking a deep breath and just trying not to have another panic attack, but it's the truth. I'm about 7 weeks now. I'll go and see the midwife December 11th for my first appointment.

Right now I'm nervous, ambivalent, annoyed, hopeful, doubtful, scared and stunned. I mean, obviously, I know HOW it happened but it doesn't lessen the shock value. The reason I am all of the aforementioned feelings: John is leaving for deployment not to return until the week the baby is due in July. After that, we will be moving to our next duty station in August where Turner will start preschool.

I can't believe all of that is going to happen in the summer of 2010. I'm scared the boys will react adversely, Turner will hate all the associations, Eli will become even crazier and a third child will never get much but dragged around. I have two hands and am, at most, a married single mother. I can't believe I'm going to have to explain where daddy is to three little faces.

As much as I want to cry and sleep, I can't. I have a job to do and I intend on doing it well. While John is gone, the boys and I are going to make the most of the time we have together and I'm going to do everything in my power to be so organized (muah hahahaha) that we have a smooth transition from a family of four to a family of FIVE.

A year ago today...

My baby bearing belly looked like this!I can't belive it's been a year. Wait, yes I can. It's been a long, yet rewarding year. I'm really looking forward to celebrating Ollie's Frist Birthday in a few weeks!