TOOOOOOMORRROW, TOMORROW, I LOVE YA, TOMORROW!

Yeah, so I'm sure you all want hear the ramblings that are going on inside of my brain right now. But.... alas, I cannot get my lazy patooty off of this chair until I get these thoughts out. I cannot contain my excitement about this new baby. She is some special little person to be stirring up so much excitement before we even know her :). She reminded me of Charity jumping around in my tummy this morning, I could almost hear her saying, "ONE MORE DAY! ONE MORE DAY!" just like her sister. I woke up early and then couldn't sleep the rest of the morning I just laid there thinking about her..... and all the millions of things I've put off doing until today. Nate let me sit and blab about it while he got ready for work, that was nice too. It's so hard to carry out your normal routine when you know something so exciting is happening tomorrow!!
At church yesterday I had kind of a crazy realization. This is my last day being pregnant!! And if this is my last baby, then it's my last day being pregnant EVER! I am not saying this is the last, in fact after I realized this fact, it was followed by the thoughts that I hope this isn't (if you can believe THAT!). Don't get me wrong. I hate being pregnant. I really do. And especially this time. It's really been awful! I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that I was not in as good of shape as I wanted to be before I got pregnant, and also the fact that I didn't have a whole lot else to do to keep my mind off of the pregnancy. But it really ahs been awful, so to think that I would want to do this again is just INSANITY (which I now specialize in). But I do love feeling them move around. Thinking of the miracle that they are, and the partnership it is with the Lord and Nate to bring them here. It's just so incredible. One of those Divine Nature things I would gues s :). I love letting my kids feel her kick, letting them talk to her, and all the getting excited to welcome a new member of our family. It's been fun in that respect and I will miss that a little. However, I can't help but think of all the things I look forward to. Like walking normal. Not having it feel like my pelvic bones are going to separate at any given moment. The constant feeling of someone's foot jammed up my rib cage might be nice to not have. I will LOVE sleeping on my tummy!! OH, I so look forward to that. And of course there's the obvious- having a sweet little newborn to grace us with her presence. She's going to be SO CUTE!! I can already tell. (well, and Charity and I decided that if she's not cute, we'll just send her back and get a puppy, because puppies are cute :) totally kidding btw.) Charity CONSTANTLY tells me how cute she is going to be. All the babies we see lately are "NOT as cute as our baby!" She is SOOOOOOOOO EXCITED!!! She said to me yesterday, "it's so hard now that you have her bed up in your room because EVERY TIME I go in there I see the bed and then all I can think about is her!" She really is dying :) I can't wait for her to meet her. Kelly is thrilled too. I think Kelly is the type to be more into her once she is here though. Right now Kelly's focus is on getting packed :) Bradley is excited for her to come too. He has been going through the plans for when she comes ALL morning long. Mostly concerned about when Heidi is coming and the fact that he can play computer as much as he wants when she is here (yes, that is what he took from the 15 minute discussion on how things will go for the next 4 days). Luke is SURPRISINGLY more excited than I had excpected. His Nursery teacher informed me that he had explained that "it was Noah's turn to take off the link yesterday and and that Charity would do it today and then it would be the next day taht we have the baby!" I couldn't believe he was SO aware of what is going on here. He even knew the day! Why does he act so oblivious at home then?? And I don't think ANYONE could have expected Noah's level of excitement!! The kid is hilarious!! He has become SO attached to his "beebee" (it's Kelly's doll), and takes SUCH good care of her. Carrying her around, wrapping her up in the blanket, bouncing her and shhshing her.... it's ADORABLE!!!! Then he comes over and pokes my belly saying, "beebee" and then says his cute little "Hi!" to her. It's been really fun to watch him get excited. I can totally tell that they will be close friends. I just know it.
I love to think about what our little baby girl is doing right now to get ready to come. If she's going around saying her farewells to those she's been close to. I can only imagine my Grandmas and Nana are there helping her get ready to go.... giving her last minute instructions, hugging her, and shedding a few tears of excitement for her. It's got to be a special thing. I hope she has a lot of loved ones around her and that she is excited. I know she has been preparing and I know that she has had a lot of help to get ready.... I know that she wants to come to our family. That makes me smile. I love that she is going to be ours. I hope she realizes how much love there is for her here. How many people she will have to turn to for support, and for comfort. I hope she realizes how much we want her here and how much we have looked forward to her coming. It's fun to think about what she might do with her life. I love her so much already.
So anyway. These are my thoughts. I have had so many blessings to reassure me of how things will be and I know that she will be okay, but I still have my worries and concerns about the delivery. I guess that's probably normal. But I want to have faith and know that whatever happens is the Lord's will. I hope she is healthy and can live a normal life with regular trials and regular successes. I hope she really is a girl (simply because I think she is, and would have to readjust :)). I hope that if she is a boy, she is not offended by all the talk about her being a girl :) LOL. Don't ask me why i can't get this out of my head now :) That would just be too funny.
So anyway!!!! I better go clean my house now. Heidi will die if she sees this place so filthy. And I finally feel like I have some energy, so we'll catch ya on the flip side! We will try to post pictures asap. Probably just on facebook until I get home.... I'm taking a MUCH needed break from the internet while I am in the hospital.... maybe do some reading :) who knows. So anyway.... talk at ya later!

Friday's Fabulous Five

1. Saturday we got a whole bunch of Spring cleaning done! It felt so good to clear out this room that has been accumulating too many things, and going through all the kids' clothes.... does anyone need baby boy clothes?? Couldn't have done it without Nate...




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My cute boys are totally playing with each other today. This picture is from last week, but I thought it was cute and appropriate for this fabulous morning (Monday). Monday is my cleaning day and while I've been running around like a crazy person trying to get things done, the boys have been hanging out together. Brad and Noah went through a sheet of stickers and they now have stickers all over themselves, and then a little later after Noah got hurt I saw Luke and Brad hovering over him, laying in his bed, feeding him M&Ms, and getting him blankets and drinks and stuff. He was totally being pampered. Then shortly after that I walked past Noah and said, "Hi" and he pointed to his brothers and said, "Nice!" in his deep, little, baby voice. It was so adorable. Just love these moments.



3. Thursday, I got to take my boys to Discovery again. They loved it, I loved it, and it's fun to have something to take up the time. Noah was adorable with the little fan thingys where you stick the paper in and it floats up.... he kept scraming out "WHOOOOOAAAAAA" the whole time the paper was sailing up and until it landed. It was hilarious. And he had a bucket of water dumped down the front of him by a "baby". He was SOAKED. Brad and Luke were SO GOOD the whole time. I couldn't believe it!



Basically this week has been one big count down for me. I know I'm obsessed, and that you're probably all sick of hearing about how anxious I am for this baby to be here, but seriously, I don't remember ANYTHING taking this long to get to!! It's worse than Christmas when you're a kid. And I know that come Monday I'll be freaking out, thinking of all the things I still haven't done yet and be all worried about not having things perfect when I had all this time to do it, but still. It's lame. I am getting a little nervous with thoughts that it might be a boy, maybe her head is getting damaged in my pelvic bone, what if she comes early and we don't have anyone to watch our kids.... the usual I guess. But anyway. Sorry I couldn't come up with 2 more fabulous things.... give me a week, I'm sure I'll have a million (I'm usually pretty sappy when I'm on those drugs....).

laughter is the best medicine

Me: Hey Lukey, will you please grab my phone for me.

Luke: Ummmmm...... let me think about it......



And as I keep laughing out loud about it, Noah (sitting here on my lap) keeps laughing with me like he knows what I'm laughing at. SO FUNNY!! These boys are hilarious.

But don't tell Luke I'm laughing at him.... he really hates that lately.



On Sunday, Bradley said, "Is it slow Sunday or fast Sunday?? I like slow Sundays better because my teacher brings us treats on slow Sundays."

Bouncing

Our last Tuesday before our baby, we decided to take advantage of the $2 Tuesday at Classic Fun Center. We did a LOT of bouncing. It turned out to be a LOT of fun for the kids. Noah wasn't a big fan of any of it, but everyone else had a really good time.

Happy Halloween

We had an awesome Halloween this year! It started with a fun little carnival at the school on Thursday. The kids all got to dress up and we basically just ran around using up all of our tickets on all of the fun games and food. One of the rooms had Charity's teacher reading "Spooky Stories" so we went in there for a while. It was cute to see Charity in her element and with her teacher. I just LOVE her teacher. She's sweet. They had such a good time!! I did too! It was just a really fun activity for our family.

On Halloween we pretty much sat around for most of the day, minus our little Spring Cleaning bug that we had for a few hours. Nate and I got SO MUCH done, it was awesome. If anyone needs any baby boy clothes... we've got tons!
Once trick-or-treating time hit, we hurried and got everyone in their costumes. It was fun this year to go all out with the face paint... the kids liked it anyway :) I couldn't believe how lucky we got with costumes this year. The girls were way easy and cheap and the boys' we just borrowed, so that was nice. I hate spending a lot on Halloween for some reason. The kids had a good time trick-or-treating with Dad. I stayed home and passed out candy to the few people that came. I don't know that I would have made it through much trick-or-treating anyway though.... this pregnancy has been nuts with the contractions and when you put walking and cold together.... well.... it's not my favorite! They went to the house of our old Bishop (the one we had when we lived here before) and they actually let them in and let them pick out of all of these FABULOUS things that were on a table in their house. Games, toys, huge bottles of Gatorade, you name it.... it was the talk of the evening... they all loved the thing they got from the Milligans. I thought that was really fun of them. I guess Nate ended up carrying Noah the whole way. We probably should have just kept him home since he had been throwing up the night before, but he did alright. And who wants to miss out on the trick-or-treating! Luke was done once his bag was "too heavy" to carry. I think the girls could have gone longer, but they got TONS of candy, so it's all good.
When they got home they dumped out their bags and sorted... the usual. They all brought over Reese's that they had collected for their Mom.... how sweet is taht! I couldn't believe how generous. They're so sweet. Then after they got jammies on they all just bounced off the walls for about an hour. It was really cute, at one point in the burning off the sugar, Noah was showing the kids a trick and much to his surprise they were all VERY fascinated and entertained by his trick. I think he was running down the all and then when he got to the play room he would bend over and put his head down like he was going to do a somersault. It was so fun to watch them all laugh and clap and get all into it for him. And Noah was just on a cloud :) He totally felt like the coolest thing ever.


Kelly was a pink kitty- this costume idea came from the cute ears that Heidi gave her when we were moving Heidi to her new condo. I love how Kelly picks something MONTHS ahead and sticks with it until she does it! Makes it nice fo rme. She loved the fluffy edges on her costume... she felt so pretty.




Luke was a dragon. Thanks for the costume Meg. He was not so sure he wanted to be a dragon until about a week before he finally told someone he was going to be a dragon and not a Pirate (lingered from last year I think), he was very happy with the dragon idea on Halloween. He and Brad kept comparing who was bigger and scarier, a Dragon or a Dinosaur. Cute boys.




Brad was a Dinosaur. He TOTALLY wanted to be one for the last couple of months and lucky for us Meredith had one that she was so willing to share!! He LOVED being the "scariest one".

Cute little Noah was a skunk. He totally hated us for putting his costume on him, but he got used to it and looked SO ADORABLE!! Thanks for this one too, Meg.

And last, but not least, Charity was a vampire! I seriously thought she would change her mind before Halloween. I really didn't want to dress my sweet girl up like this, but look how good it turned out!! She looked AWESOME!! We were all a little freaked out once we got the fake blood on her, but she looked great. At the carnival her friends and teacher kept saying how they hardly recognized her! She loved that. Kylan (this little boy that she is friends with) LOVED her costume and kept hanging around her the whole time.... cute.

I'm not as happy with this year's pictures for some reason.... last year's were better.

I still need to post our pumpkin carving night!! I had lost my camera and used my dad's for those.... those will have to wait I guess. But here's a sneak peek :)

Luke the poser.


These are all the crazy-huge things they got trick-or-treating....

(a WHOLE BOX of fruit snacks!! Holy moses!)

Luke got a mini pool table that everyone played with for quite a while (for something that is what it is)

Noah thought this was great! He looked SO adorable when they walked in the door with his bag of candy and the back of potato chips in the other hand. Saying, "Mine, mine, mine" as he walked. I think he was pretty much in heaven with all the "eets".

I love watching them sort it all out.... brings back memories.

It was a fun Halloween! Today, on the way to school, Brad says to me, "Halloween is only 1 day? That's dumb." So I think he had fun :) Time to get ready for the next holiday.... OUR BABY'S BIRTH-DAY!!!! We are still counting down... tearing off links on our chain.... We're down to the single digits!!! 8 more days!