35 weeks and counting. I like to think that once Sunday comes I am practically a week ahead...so today I start telling people I'm 36 weeks. If that makes any sense. I have a doctor's appointment on Thursday...and then I will have one again on next Monday. Since tomorrow is Memorial Day I had to change the day of the week for my appointment. It will seem needless to go to the doctor twice within 5 days, but my doctor leaves the middle of next week, so I don't really have much of a choice. I think the reality of Charley's impending arrival is finally starting to sink in. I was induced with Matthias at 37 1/2 weeks because I was already almost 5 cm dilated and the doctor was concerned about me going into labor during the day while Jon was at work since he works close to an hour from home. More importantly, my doctor was concerned because labor with Justus was only 8 hours and he didn't want me to be extremely uncomfortable at home by myself. All that to say....we could have our baby girl in 2 weeks!! Of course, it isn't as likely that I will be induced as early this time, but it is a possibility. Anyways, I'm still feeling really great, although it is starting to get pretty warm. I'm in the process of sanding Justus' old crib...a project I thought would be super easy, but has actually been very time consuming. We are going to put a clear coat on it once it is done being sanded, which will hopefully be in the next few days. Once we get that done we are going to transition Matthias back into the same room as Justus...being praying for us on that one! Next will be decorating the nursery. I need to get some sheets for her crib and then we will paint the walls. I'm thinking I'm going to paint the room a light brown with a pink horizontal stripe towards the top. The quilt I will hopefully get finished before Charley arrives is pink and brown polkadots. I just love pink and brown together...it reminds me of Neapolitan ice cream...yum!

Other than that...we are actually spending time in Springfield this weekend, which has been a lot of fun. Everyone is taking a nap right now though, and I'm not much of a nap taker. Jon's sister threw their dad a surprise 60th birthday party yesterday, and all of Jon's family is here, so we decided we would stay up here since we don't get to see everyone all that often. The boys have loved playing with everyone and getting lots of attention, and we have enjoyed visiting with everyone. We are heading back home this afternoon sometime.

Justus and Matthias are doing well. They got to play outside yesterday all afternoon, which they absolutely loved! Sarah's yard is fenced in, so they pretty much could run and play where ever they wanted. No new developments with either of them. Matthias is sleeping much better. Justus has been eating really well also. He even ate an apple yesterday, which was so surprising to me. He loved it!! He must be going through a growth spurt because he's been eating a ton and taking really long naps.

Nothing else is really going on. I really need to post some recent pictures. Maybe I will do that when we get back home.