reality check!

Cal has relayed some things he has been thinking about. He asked yesterday when he could take the babysitting class so he can take care of his baby sister. I believe the age is 11? So only a year away...on top of that, some other things he has made me aware of (and freaking out about!!)...

When this baby starts kindergarten, Cal will be getting his driver's license, and Kaycey will be in 8th grade.

When Maddie is a senior in high school, this "baby" will be in 7th grade. Yikes.

Cal also let me know that he will be 26 and probably have his own house in Baltimore, and he and Kaycey both will have graduated college by the time the "baby" starts driving.

The real crazy part...I am totally freaking out about having a baby on Friday the 13th (yes, the c-section is officially scheduled, and the doctor said things have changed since my last baby and they will not do c-sections before 7 days prior to actual due date. 20-7=13. Boo. It's still possible it'll be earlier, though, if I would go into labor they would do the c/s then. Maddie's c/s was scheduled for the 10th, and I had her on the 7th because I thought I was going into labor on the 6th. With Kaycey, my c/s was scheduled for the 9th of May, but I went into full blown labor with her on the 27th and had her the 28th of April. No, I am really not superstitious. I just think it sounds creepy to give birth on Friday the 13th.) Anyhow, I decided to look up on some calendar if her 13th birthday would happen to fall on a Friday the 13th (if indeed she is born on the 13th of Nov.) No, it falls on a Sunday. The year?? 2022. Double Yikes.

I am starting to feel old.

45 days...

only 45 days till I am a mother of four.
only 45 more days of Maddie being the baby. Maddie and I have been a pair for a while now. For the first time today, I was a little sad about Maddie not being the baby anymore. She's been...I won't use the word clingy exactly, but I guess attached is a better word. Is it because she realizes she's going to lose one-on-one with Mom? I'm really not sure. She's been so cuddly, and we've been playing tons of games together during the day while the other 2 are at school. She has also had a few meltdowns (something Maddie is definitely not known for!!) but I feel they were because she was so tired. Well, that's what I'm going with anyways...
Maddie, my sweet little baby who isn't a baby anymore.
!!

double digits

I was up at 5:30am making brownies for Cal's class. I would've done it last night, but Mike wasn't feeling well and decided to sleep on the couch. So I was nice and didn't turn any unnecessary lights on near that room, which meant no making brownies in the kitchen. So I instead made them while half asleep when it was still dark out with the lights dimmed (Mike moved to bed during the night). And I managed to not only burn my wrist on the oven rack, but also the top of my hand from my reaction to burning my wrist. I just burned my arm two weeks ago making a pizza. And I always use the bottom oven because I can barely reach into the top one, at least not safely! Geez. I should not be allowed to use the ovens, I swear!! Speaking of brain loss, I answered my cell phone on Tuesday with "The Scrapbook Store, this is Elizabeth...uh, I mean, hi." I am a big dork. I'm only there once a week, if that. I don't know what I was thinking. I can't believe I did that. The funnier thing is that it was a parent from the soccer team. He seemed rather confused...

So,from this...
(I didn't make this page ten years ago, but of course all my pictures are hard copies from then, so I thought I would just post this page instead of Cal's "birth" day. Though the page is rather old, too!!)


to this.

Happy TENTH Birthday, Cal!! We let him open one present this morning. Online, I had found an Orioles t-shirt with #8 and "RIPKEN" on the back. He said it was the best present ever!!!

thoughtfulness

Cal brought this note home from school...they have been studying the 4th commandment.

included are 4 coupons he made as well. Two for whatever we want, one for picking up rocks in the yard (I know that sounds funny, but seriously Mike is often out there digging up more and more rocks/pebbles that are scattered across the yard from when we started building), and one for breakfast in bed.
How sweet!! Hard to believe at 10:02am tomorrow, he will be double digits.

special delivery!

Look what came in the mail!
WOW! So many goodies from Fancy Pants drawing for participating in their contest a couple weeks back. I never expected an entire line of product!
I got the entire Halloween release. I better take lots of Halloween photos from here on out to use it all up!!
12 sheets double sided paper (including title strips paper and cards)
2 transparencies
3 yards of 3 different ribbons
the rubons to go with the line
the stickers to go with the line