Where to begin....just over a week ago my dear sweet first born turned three years old. It's hard to imagine Jack getting so old!! It was a very quiet birthday as we already had his birthday dinner with Oma and Opa over the weekend. Jack had a "quiet" dinner at home, leftover birthday brownie and got his presents from Mommy and Daddy (clothes and a watch). He is also loving his soccer goal he got from Oma and Opa....my future World Cup player??!! Other than that his birthday seems to have gone by quickly...even only got one other card from my aunt and uncle and that's it. Luckily he is too young to notice, and of course he's having his party (sans presents thank goodness) with Ewan in a couple weeks.
Sean is still growing and changing every day. It looks as though we may actually have a blue eyed kiddo. Josh and I both have brown eyes, but we also both have family members with blue eyes so the recessive genes may be coming through!! That would be three boys with three different eye colors....Jack is hazel, Ewan is brown and Sean will likely be blue!
Halloween is right around the corner and the boys are looking forward to it. Jack is going to be a penguin and Ewan a dinosaur. They seem to be learning what trick or treating is even though we've never told them or taken them before. Oh well, the time was going to come sooner or later. We'll hit the neighborhood parade, have dinner at home and then go to a few houses for fun. Hopefully everyone will cooperate!!
This past weekend Jack and Ewan went to the mountains with Oma and Opa. They had fun at the Biltmore, especially the barn animals!! I think they wore out Oma and Opa, especially since they refused to nap on Saturday (NEVER a pretty sight). Josh and I were busy working on the house since we had potential listing realtors coming by Saturday and Sunday. We got one coat of paint on the porch railing (needs a second coat), cleaned the entire house and decluttered a little, put one coat of paint in part of the master bath.... We got much more done that we ever can with the bigger boys home!!! Not sure how we'll get everything else done though...in shifts I guess.
Friday while the boys were gone we also went and looked at two houses. Things are moving along. It would be nice to move soon just to cut down on Josh's commute and get on with life. The best part was enjoying a quiet dinner out after house hunting. We went to Lilfred's, one of our favorite places (luckily we'll be moving closer to it too)! With only Sean there with us it was an extremely quiet and pleasant meal!!! We enjoyed every minute of it too, from appetizer (crab hushpuppies) to dessert (pound cake ala mode).
Other than that it's still the usual. Trying to survive three young boys and a pushy dog!!! Yesterday I managed to clean Jack and Ewan's closet. Just two more closets to go! Somehow everything is happening all at once...new baby, change of seasons, new job, house hunting, cleaning house to list on the market. Right now I just celebrate every day I survive! Some day I dream of being organized again, this "mess" is driving me nuts!! Granted, most people would call my house clean and not too cluttered, but I know exactly what is out of place and wish I had the time to organize it all. I can only hope we move before this house is on the market.....I can't even fathom keeping it clean and decluttered with 3 small children and a dog!!
I promise to post pictures soon. We should take some for Halloween and hopefully we will get to Boo at the Zoo and the Sandhills Fall Festival this week too. Somehow there just hasn't even been time to take pictures!
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