Life has been pretty busy lately. I think maybe the pregnancy is starting to catch up with. I just feel busy all the time and as if I am doing way more than i actually am...if that makes sense. Things are good though...no complaints!!

We have a pretty calm week ahead, and next Saturday the boys are staying with Mimi and PaPa so that Jon and I can re-paint the boys room. Justus has been picking at the wallpaper border and it was looking very rough. Jon and I decided that we had better just take it down...not only because we didn't like the looks of it, but we figured potential buyers would just see it as a task that needed to be done...and the fewer of those we have the better!! So I took the border down this week, which went very quickly and was very easy. We are planning on picking out a paint color and painting it on Saturday while the boys are gone and letting it air out over night. We are planning on cleaning out our shed on Saturday while the boys are gone as well. We are going to have a garage sale in the next few weeks and want to prepare for that, but the shed is also in need of some major organization. It will be a busy Saturday, but we will get lots of things done that we have been putting off.

Anyways...the boys are doing great. Justus is doing pretty good. He is really starting to hit that independent/terrible two stage. He has been pushing his brother a lot, and will throw fits when he doesn't get his way...screams and tears included. He has even gotten put in time out at the YMCA a few times. We know he is probably just testing his boundaries, but it is so frustrating because nothing we do seems to help him not to do those things. Time out has been helping a little bit, but even though we explain to him what he did and that he's not to do it again...he does it again. Oh, well...it will hopefully pass.........eventually. Another new development of Justus'...sleeping with the light on. I don't know if he is scared of the dark or what it is, but we will put him to bed and he will get up and turn the light on and fall asleep. We were going back in and shutting the light off, but he would just get up at some point (in the middle of the night) and turn it back on. I would also shut it off if I got up in the middle of the night and noticed it back on, but Jon said it was usually back on when he got up in the morning. We decided that if he turns it back on to just leave it on. Since we stopped shutting it off he seems to be sleeping better. We want to put some sort of night light in his room, but we fear that he will mess with it since the two outlets in the room are exposed. Other than that...Justus has been doing really well. He is well behaved most of the time and loves being silly.

Matthias is doing well also. He is a little chatter box most of the time, which I just think is adorable. He has a pretty good vocabulary now, and can get his point across with words and pointing. We have discovered that Matthias loves to be outside...and is a little explorer. Justus would usually stick pretty close to us in the yard and not wander away...but Matthias is just the opposite. We have to keep our eyes on him at all times otherwise he will wander off...and usually head straight for the front yard and then out into the road. He really loves the road for some odd reason, which makes me very nervous. Yesterday I was picking up some sticks in the yard when I realized Matthias was in the ditch and heading toward the road. He is completely trusting and fearless all at the same time.

The pregnancy is going well. Charley is getting bigger and stronger every day it seems. She is a mover...that's for sure. She is pretty active all the time. We had our doctor's appointment Thursday...with an ultrasound. She is close to 2 lbs. now and is doing really well. My next appointment is the beginning of April. I have to get my glucose screening done at that appointment, so hopefully that will come back fine. Today Jon and I went to a big garage sale at the high school in Edwardsville. We got a ton of clothes for $8!! We came in about 30 minutes before it ended and cleaned up at one table. They let us fill up two tote bags for $5. I think we are pretty set as far as summer clothes go...now we just have to work on fall/winter clothes. I also need to figure out how to make some bows to go with her new clothes!!

Nothing else is really going on. We are super excited that the weather is getting nicer and that we can get out of the house a little bit!! I'm glad the boys love running around outside...they have no idea how much energy they are burning!!