Ten on Tuesday

1. The boys have been doing a lot of big brother practice as of late. Rowan is nesting and forcing me to get ready for this baby. Everyday he gently reminds me we should be going through the boxes of baby things or trying to find bottles for brother. Thanks to Rowan's encouragement Thatcher's room is all pulled together, baby clothes are found and in the drawer, bottles are washed and put away, and we have binkies with clips (Friday we made a special trip to the store due to Rowan's concern about our lack of binkies.) He's taking this big brother thing very seriously.

This is what I came home to after the baby shower on Sunday!

 2. Last week both boys ended up with strep. Zane got it first over last weekend, followed closely by Rowan on Tuesday, who swore he was NOT sick, but his Strep B swab said differently. Of course he had to stay home from school the one day this week I worked, somehow my kids always manage to do that. I think Wednesday was Zach's first day home with just Rowan. A day with Rowan is very laid back, especially when Rowan is sick!! Day's later Rowan was still embracing his "illness" so he could watch The Lorax on repeat all day, lazy bones!!

 3. Here is Zane once he was on the mend and headed back to school last Tuesday. For some reason in this picture Zane looks much older, bigger, and more mature. He is so tall, up to my armpit, and just seems like a much more mature kiddo these days. He's doing amazing in school and we got a glowing review this evening at his student led parent teacher conference. This seemed much more impressive after the kid before us walked out in tears. He's excelling in reading and is currently rocking his daily timed math tests (yes that apparently happens in kindergarten now, along with ADJECTIVES, WHAT???)

 4. Friday was open house at Zane's school. I'm still not really sure what the point of this was, but we went and looked around the school, saw all his artwork that was on display, and play Dr. Sues games in his classroom. Art is his favorite special and judging by all the artwork on display she's pretty fantastic at her job. Sadly we couldn't find Mrs. Austin to compliment her in person.

 5. Rowan and I had the pleasure of getting baby Alice her first set of princess bandaids. Alice is getting so big and Rowan still adores her. He was very concerned when she was playing in her gym and making baby noises. He was confident she was sad and needed me to cuddle her ASAP. We also took her a St. Patrick's Day outfit for her first St. Patrick's Day, which Rowan obviously wanted to have her wear as soon as possible.

 Look at this smiley face!!! So cute!!

 6. I am finally done with Thatcher's blanket! It took forever and finishing it was sort of bitter sweet, knowing there would be no more babies of mine to make blanket's for. I love how it turned out and can't wait for baby Thatch to being cuddling it!

7. Sunday was my little Baby Shower Brunch! It was small and just included people who I truly enjoy. I didn't need a lot of things, but it was nice to celebrate little Thatcher and get the few things I still needed. Huge thanks to Kari, Abbey, and Anna for planning everything and showering Thatcher and I with so much love!

These are two of my work friends who made this amazing diaper cake for me, it's almost too cute to use. And the bottom is a hat box which is now full of baby boy hats!

All the Blakley ladies were there, except Grandma B who is still living it up in Hawaii. It was Alice's first shower and she wore the little dress Rowan picked out for her months ago.

8. I have now gotten to every week Dr. appointments for baby. I went today, all is well, things are progressing, and I continue to have tons of extremely painful contractions, everyday. Contractions seem to be much worse with this baby, third time is so much harder and so much more painful. My doctor doesn't seem too worried about it since I'm practically term, but said she could write me a note to work 8hr shifts if I wanted to. I don't know what I'm going to, trying to hold on a few more weeks.

9. Next week is Zane's spring break, starting Friday actually, and per tradition Zach will be going out of town for three days at the beginning of the week. Somehow with every pregnancy a business trip pops up with I'm weeks, possibly days from delivery. I hear mom should be back from Hawaii by then so hopefully someone can get me to the hospital if I have this baby while Zach's gone.

10. Next week is also St. Patrick's Day and Zane has learned all sorts of things about Leprechauns at school. His classroom apparently has a very mischievous Leprechaun in it this week so he came home today and demanded we make a leprechaun trap for our house. Zane said and I quote "I told Mrs. Laurick she had a choice, let a leprechaun mess her classroom or build a trap!!!" Apparently Mrs. Laurick made a bad choice, but Zane wasn't going to let our house be vandalized by an elf. Rowan and Zane spent lots of time working on it this evening, filled the trap with a little bowl of jelly beans, and left a trail of gold coins leading to it. I think it should work smashingly! Funny boys!