Ellie and Max

This morning I took Ellie to church by herself because it was time to sing, and Max is sick.

As we were leaving church, she says to me I can't wait to get home and play with Max.

Isn't that sweet. They are now playing and laughing together.

Making a beach

Yesterday when Max and I came down after nap, Ellie had created her own beach in the living room. She had blankets laid out. She was collecting things to make toys. And low and behold she hadn't drawn a sunshine and hung it on the wall.

I know it's great when she gets created. It was a little unfortunate that no one was really feeling playing in her beach. She is a cutie pie.

Rules of the game

About once a week I get the pleasure of sitting in the upper room and listening to David play with the kids. I always love listening. They really do enjoy their time with that. And he plays with them, differently then mommy for sure.

One thing that always makes me laugh is when Ellie is explaining the rules about how to do something, which often I have explained to her, and David tries to change them. Ellie freaks out on him and tells him that is not how it works!

She is such a mini me. Maybe David will successfully rub off on her and she can be a bit more flexible than I am. It would probably be a good thing for her.

Poor Max

Max has had a rough week. He's having real trouble with stuttering since he got his tubes. This week it's been even worse. He's starting to avoid talking. It's so sad. He can't really get a sentence out these days. Today, he tried whispering to me all day, in hopes his words would come out.

To top it off, he has a cold with a cough and even and on and off low grade fever.

Today I took him to Sarah's and in less then an hour she text me and told me that max just crawled into her lap and told her he missed mommy. That broke my heart because he's never said that before.

I need to figure out how to help my little boy. He has such a shining personality and relies so much on chattering. Its sad having him lose that capability. I to him today after one of his troubling attempts to talk, not to worry that the words will come back. He just looked at me. Poor thing.

Trapping the leprechaun

Ellie has a book where they try to capture the leprechaun on st paddys day. Last year she built a trap just like the book and attempted to capture the leprechaun by baiting him with fake gold coins we bought. It was a good trap, but the leprechaun made off with about half her gold coins during nap.

This year, come February she was already to make her new trap and try again. This year, She's determined she has a better trap and will capture the leprechaun am keep him for a while. We didn't have any gold coins, so she made some with paper. She says she's sure she'll catch him this year!

The evening adventure checking the trap was so exciting. I videoed it. Ellie was scared to check the trap after having a flashlight tugged on. So David had to help her. It was amazing. Unfortunately, after a couple minutes we saw he made off with most of the coins after ripping a hole in the box. He left a shred of his green clothes behind. How exciting!

When she felt it safe, Ellie walked away telling us se wasn't scared anymore.

Happy bedtime

I love when the kids crawl into our bed. Tonight after they both helped make up the bed with fresh sheets, they insisted on snuggles under the covers. They are so cute!

Exploding

Yesterday evening I wasn't feeling great. David ask what hurt at the moment. I said as I rubbed the top of my stomach, "i feel like I'm exploding." He comes over and hugs me, and says, "well, you kind of are."

32 weeks!

Baby girl Is estimated to be just under fiver pounds.