Thanks to everyone who entered a guess for when our baby will arrive! Shame on my brother who guessed I would go LATE! Ugh!!! Let's hope not! I'm feeling well and getting excited to meet this little one! We have all of our baby things ready, washed, etc. and are just waiting for him to arrive. We had to purchase several new things since we sold all of our baby things last summer (we thought we were done - ha!), and we also received several kind donations of baby clothes, etc. from friends and family. Thanks for the adorable clothes, Kristy!

School has been a lot of fun lately and the kids are loving learning about animals! They've gotten to zigzag like aardvarks, learn about tall termite towers, make paper prairies, and practice "echolocation" like bats (well, until blindfolded Quinn fell and bumped his knee!). Riley even decided that it's not fair that after the lionesses kill the food, they let the lions eat the meat first!

They start their weekly co-op tomorrow and are excited for that. Riley had to memorize a poem for the first week (ask to hear her "Rhinoceros" poem sometime!), and Quinn gets to take an item for show and tell. Here's a photo of them working with the Math-U-See blocks last week. It's a great program and Riley is really understanding her math concepts better. We watch a DVD lesson together once a week, then she practices the lesson each day for the rest of the week. At the end of the week, she has a test that covers the week's lesson that she must master before we go on. It's a very hands-on program, which is great for her. Quinn has even been practicing some math with it as well!

Our other big project as of late has been redecorating our kids' bedrooms! Trying to get finished before the little one gets here! Riley has moved into the smaller bedroom, and Quinn is moving into the larger bedroom with the new baby. Here are the before and after pictures of Riley's new room. HUGE thanks to Brad for all of his hard work and to my parents for helping paint as well!   Here's Brad stripping wallpaper before we repaint in Quinn's old room.

Yes - this is the same window - looking at the room from the same direction! We still have some decorating to do, though, now that her room is finished. And that beautiful furniture? It was once my mom's when she was a little girl, and then mine while I was growing up. How awesome that it is now passed on to the third generation!