this week

So this week my oldest, Elizabeth, has been away enjoying time with my family in Memphis. I heard she's been treated to countless dinners, fishing, singing and building a tree house.

Meanwhile, we are back home in Atlanta missing her. But I think it has been a good thing for Madeleine and Caleb. They really have grown to be better buds this week. Caleb has been really good to play with her and include her in what he is doing. This morning they snuggled in bed together. Too cute.

Madeleine is infatuated with her baby doll currently. She carries her around everywhere she goes and has to have a blanket for her. At first we where using Madie's yellow blanket, that it 2,000 times too big to be wrapped around the baby doll! Boy, did Madeleine throw a fit when that thing didn't stay around the baby. Luckily she found a substitute, a dish towel.

I have spent most of this week moving back into our house. We officially took it off the market since we are about 7 weeks away from baby #4's arrival. Last night I brought our wall calendar back inside. Both David and I were glad because now we will know what's going on! I filled it out (Its one of those dry erase kids with 4 weeks) and I got kinda sad when I filled out the last week and had to put in Ts.....T stands for teaching. Summer is almost over.

We got the crib set back up in our room, David put it back together in record time. Like 5 minutes flat, he's a pro at it now! Caleb's on the top bunk now, he's so excited and Madie is on the bottom bunk. Elizabeth got our, well, my old full size bed. (David never really fit into that bed so I won't burden him with having to claim it) All to herself in one bedroom. That was the only thing she has sad about leaving this week! She does have to share the room with David during the day though, it's where his office is set up. But all in all it feels good to move back home!

Other then trying to get things organized and doing a ton of paper work for Refuge and Project Dance, we haven't been up to too much since Elizabeth has been gone. (Though we told her we would be having tons of parties without her!!) I must say though it has been hard to get things done without Elizabeth here, just another set of eyes is so helpful when you have daredevil Madeleine around. We went to the park last night and Madeleine climbed up the bar stairs at the play ground, you know the kind you were all worried about falling through when you were little? yeah, she scaled it in a minute flat. She wanted to slide down the big slides not the baby one. But only a few more days then Elizabeth will be home again. I hope she is having a great time, we miss her a lot but are so glad she is able to go have a good time with family. Thanks to everyone in Memphis making her week spectacular!