I will get pictures up soon, I promise. Here is a quick update:

Construction: has been pretty much nonexistent this week. Mr. Bill is waiting on the electrician. However, Mark talked with Mr. Bill yesterday, and if the electrician is unable to come out tomorrow, then Mr. Bill will come out and start working on the door to the boys’ bathroom. I’m also supposed to be picking out siding color, but have yet to see any samples. I went yesterday and picked out colors, I think, for the kitchen, boys’ bathroom, and, finally, our bedroom. Last night, we cleaned out our hall closet and took the doors off…now, where to store all this stuff!

Kids: Liam has started waving and saying, “dye dye” anytime anyone leaves. It’s very cute. We’re working on the correct pronunciation of “bye bye” but that’s slow coming. He also says his own form of “thank you.” He’s learned the sign for “please,” too. Zoe’s speech continues to go well. We’re still working on the ‘s’ sound. She wants to say “st” instead of “s.” Ace continues to grow and learn. We’re working on planning his birthday party so that I won’t have to think about it after the baby gets here.

Baby Josiah update: We went to the doctor yesterday. He is doing good. I measured 29 weeks, which is right on target. I was able to talk to Dr. J about a lot of stuff. Since my due date has varied by three dates (6/29, 7/5, and 7/12)…after some discussion, we landed on 7/5 based on ovulation (sorry if you didn’t want to know that). That’s precisely where I thought we might be due to begin with. However, Dr. J is going to be out of town 6/29 through 7/3)! Yikes! He loves to deliver his own babies and suggested we do it early. That led to the discussion of not wanting to be induced and not wanting an epidural (all of you who didn’t know that, I’m not crazy, I’ll post my reasons later). We agreed to wait and see what happens. Dr. J is very laid back and we are too when it comes to labor, so we’re all just going to take it as it goes. He told us about a lady who just delivered…she was at 5-6 dilated and wouldn’t let him use pitocin at all. She stayed at 5-6 for over 16 hours and finally after he broke her water (and nothing happened), she let him use a little bit of pitocin and that baby popped out after an hour and a half. Mark and I laughed and told him if I was walking around at 5-6 dilated to please induce because I’m going to be ready to see a baby by then! Also, it looks like we’ll not be using St. Joseph’s Hospital…that was the hospital we used for Zoe, Ace, and Liam. I was so sad to see they had taken the sign down at St. Joe’s. It was purchased by a company and some area physicians. We talked with Dr. J and he said that St. Joe’s is now going to be Trinity Hospital and much much better than what it was. We decided that’s where we want to go. It’s so much smaller than the other hospital we go to and it doesn’t feel like you’re being run through a “baby factory” which is a feeling I get at the other hospital. I looked up last night to see if they had the new website set up, but it’s not up yet. But we did see that Dr. J was on the board of directors which means he’s got all the good inside info! I’m excited about this new change.

My tooth: I had a root canal on Wednesday. The nerves were pretty much dead but it still hurt a little. The endodontist was good and was able to finish it all in one sitting. I was not very comfortable through it (1 1/2 hours on my back almost lying on my head). Poor Josiah couldn’t get comfortable and moved a whole lot. The pain is much better today. I’ve only had to take regular tylenol for the pain. I took just one today but mostly for a headache from sleeping funny.

Well, it’s not quite 7:30 and all the munchkins are up! Guess we’ll start our day. I hope to post pictures later today or this weekend.