Almost 25 weeks, and the nesting has begun. I'm a cleaning, organizing, cooking fool! I'm making homemade pickles and chicken soup, and I have lists a mile long of everything I want to get accomplished before this baby arrives.
First stop is IKEA this weekend for some supplies to help reorganize the boys' room. Now that they're officially sharing the room, and the trundle bed is usually pulled out, it's gotten very crowded in there, so we're doing some shuffling of dressers and shelves and toys, and what better place to buy organizational supplies?
Next stop is the Farmer's Market on Saturday, where I will stock up on cucumbers (sadly, the supply from our garden is dwindling) and winter squash and tomatoes (also dwindling in the garden), and spend some time next week making soup and tomato sauce, which will go in the freezer, and pickles, which will probably all be eaten within a week's time, since the boys love them so much.
Today's projects were a garage cleanout, including the tossing out of many old, broken, mismatched toys that have been sitting in baskets not being played with for the past year. I also cleaned the boys' carseats, and as always, was slightly horrified by how filthy they were - it's always especially bad after the end of the beach season.
And another byproduct of today's efforts was the delicious-smelling chicken broth that is now cooling on my counter, which will be made into soup this weekend. The weather today felt more like summer, but I'm fully in fall mode, which means cooking and baking, and more cooking and baking. I'm pretty sure the boys and I are going to go apple picking this weekend, so there is definitely an apple pie in our future, and if I'm feeling ambitious, I might even try my hand at homemade applesauce.
All is well with the boys. They're on a huge coloring/drawing kick again, and we're going through markers and drawing paper like crazy. I don't mind, though. I love to watch them sit and color together. And Gabe's drawings have become so much more real now - he draws people, and houses, and draws the sky, and the sun - and this is all a new development, since school started. It's so cool to see how quickly they develop and learn.
We took them scootering down at the beach Sunday afternoon, and there was a wedding going on, and they were taking photos, so we stopped to watch for a minute, and the boys were saying how they loved to see weddings, and I asked them why, and Gabe said "Because of the princess."
They both want to marry me, and can't seem to understand why that isn't possible. It's so interesting to try to explain these concepts to a 5- and 3-year-old. We've been reading our 'where babies come from' books, which both cover the concept of the egg and the sperm joining to make a baby, but neither of them provide any information on how exactly that happens (which is the way I want it for now), and I'm really dreading the day when the boys think to ask me THAT question!
Another thing we've been talking about a lot lately is how old people are, and when they ask how old I am and I tell them I'm 38, Gabe always says "Wow - that's a LOT!"
He's decided that he wants to be a teenager. And not only does he want to be a teenager, he wants to be a teenager forever.
I bet that once he actually is a teenager, he probably won't feel that way anymore.
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