Things are quieting down a little bit. I think the boys are use to everything, except William is still not liking Sunbeams. I am now sitting with him during all of Primary. It is kind of stressful and he may be acting out more because I am there. William has started Preschool and only goes twice a week. However, his two teachers and aid have all had lots of training with Autistic Children. He really likes school and his teachers say he is doing well.

Edward screams a lot. I am reminding him many times each day that if someone is bothering him he says, "Please stop." I also told him he can tell mommy or daddy. It may take awhile to stick. Edward loves William's preschool class. He always wants to stay. I hope when I start Preschool at home next year, that I can make it fun for him. I have a list of what William's preschool does and my Mother-in-law gave me the stuff she had with Joy School. So I think it will be ok.

I made a Cheeseburger cake since I do not know if I will be up to doing any fun cakes as I get closer. The boys loved eating it. I am now 30 weeks a long and hope the rest go by really fast. I am exercising lots, which is nice, but I am craving lots of sugary things, so it is hard to eat healthy sometimes. Cody is loving his job and I just have 2 boxes left to go through.
Almost organized!

A long, long, long, long, very long month

I am quickly trying to fit this in while the boys are eating breakfast. So here we go. Things have gotten better with only having a few boxes left to go through. We had to buy some new bookshelves / bookcases to store stuff in. The kitchen is even smaller than the one we had in our townhome in Colorado if you can believe it. But we have air conditioning and this is only temporary until we buy a house. Though temporary is at least 1 year, maybe 2.

William has had a hard time with the move. He yells and screams at us A LOT. Especially with potty training. He has regressed and it now back at the beginning. Before we moved he could stay dry for a day every once in a while, now he does not stay dry even when I take him to the bathroom every hour. I got mini crunch candy bars for a new incentive to be dry all day, but he is nowhere close to being able to do that. So I have made a Dr. Seuss Potty chart. I am using a cork board and made a sign that says "How many times have I been dry?" I made little number cards, each with a different Dr. Seuss character on it. So when he is dry once, we pin up the number 1 card. The next time if he is dry we will put up the number 2 card and if he is wet, we take the number 1 card off. I have set the goal at 4. When he can be dry 4 times in a row, he gets a mini crunch candy bar. I will still give him little treats, like mini M&M's or marshmallows, when he is dry before he gets to number 4. I talked with my Hubby and we think we can build up to number 4. So he will get one little treat when he is dry once. When he reaches 2 we will give him 2 little treats and so forth. I sure hope this works.

My family was able to come visit the second Saturday after we got here. The boys each got a talking Lightning McQueen and William got a foam floor puzzle and Edward a toy car rug. Both of the last items were Pixar Cars 2 related. I would never want to take William to a movie (I envision a terrible, really, really bad experience) so we will have to wait for November when it comes out.

Cody and I were planning on going to his sister's wedding this Friday, but when we looked up the price of tickets, we found we could not. We could not afford for both of us to go and decided it might be nicer to spend the money we would have spent on Cody's ticket to get Her and her soon to be hubby some nice wedding gifts. So that is what we did. I hate it that we have missed another wedding, I start crying when I think about it.

I have started making Friday Cody's and my date night. My sister watched the boys this past Friday for us and we went out for ice cream and walked around the stores. The week before we rented a redbox movie and had popcorn and candy after the boys went to bed. We will try to get out of the house once or twice a month and then have at home dates the other Friday nights. I am trying to make them as special as I can so it feels like a nice break from life.

So that is our life currently.

We are here

This was a crazy week! Monday, the moving company came and packed us up. I found out as we unpacked that they just wrapped the salt and pepper shakers in paper and put them in. The open cereal boxes were put in upside down. If I knew that was how things were packed, I would have taped things shut and taken care of stuff. Needless to say, there was salt, pepper, cereal, mashed potato flakes all over the boxes that had them. Back to the week, Tuesday, the company came back and moved everything into the truck. Well, it was more like a train, there were about 4 compartments in the trailer of this thing. We were put in one compartment and they were not going to be using this monstrous thing for any other move. I do not know why they did not just bring a truck, maybe they were out. The driver said that he could get our things to us on Thursday instead of Saturday, so that was a plus!! Only 3 days with our pans packed away. Well, it is taking a bit to unpack everything, so I did not have to make dinner for 5 days. Well, the movers got our stuff put in the train later than we thought and we did not get out until 1:00pm. We drove for 4 hours and stopped. William’s diaper was still dry!!! He got a lot of fun treats for that. We got dinner and a drink for the boys and got back on the road. I decided I wanted to drive the whole way since Cody can read to me in the car and I cannot; I get sick. I also found it hard to turn around in my seat to take care of the boys if they needed anything. Being pregnant really makes that hard. So there we were only an hour from our destination, the boys had been SOOOOOO good not needing to watch anything and playing quietly or sleeping during the trip, when it happened. Edward threw up. He had his cupped bib on so it caught some, but it got all over his seat, the car chair underneath, the stuffed toy of Tigger, the strap of a food bag, his clothes and himself. We were going to pull to the side of the road, but an exit appeared. There were no gas stations or anything, so we just stopped and did our best to take care of the situation. We stripped him and his car seat down, cleaned both off as best we could with wipes and put a bath towel in his chair for him to sit in. We put all of the yucky stuff in bags cleaned everything else with only wipes, and got back on the road. So we found our place pretty easily and pulled in after 10:00pm. Both boys had fallen asleep. We got out and found out that William leaked out in his seat. So after getting the boys cleaned up, putting them in pajamas, and creating beds on the floor for them, we put them to bed. Now I could relax…NOPE! I cleaned all the stuff that William and Edward got yucky in the bathtub. It felt like it took forever. So that done, we brought all of our stuff in from the car and cleaned the seat under Edward’s car seat more thoroughly. We created a bed for us using the inflatable mattress that Cody’s mom let us use. THANX!!! And fell asleep. The next day I gave the boys a bath first thing. The things I cleaned in the tub still had a smell on them. That kind of smell does not go away easy. My sister Jessica is in Bountiful right now and came over that day so Cody and I could get to Wal-Mart to pick up stuff we needed. I got Febreze and had to spray Edward’s car seat a few times after cleaning it. When Jessica first came by, Edward was scared of her and kept his distance, but when we got home from the store he had warmed up. We did not get our internet until Friday. I guess Comcast has changed some of the procedures because of being sued. However, we were told different things by different people in the company. We finally got everything worked out and have a way to look at maps of the area so we know what is around us. Edward now asks where something is and then points to it and goes, “Ta-Da!” He also does that when I ask where he or anyone else is. William has had a hard time, but we did manage to get their beds in the same position they were in their old bedroom, but it is not exactly the same. I was told doing this might help him with the transition. When we coming home from somewhere and I say that we are going home, William always corrects me with, “Not home, our new home.” We told him we were going to a new home before we left. So we are here safe, tired, and trying to get use to Utah water.

Moving!

So the boys really like the Larry Boy 3 in 1 pack movie we got for William’s birthday. So much so that when they watch it they get play food and hold one on each ear to “look” like Larry Boy. For those of you who do not know, Larry Boy is a VeggieTales super hero that is a mix between Spiderman and Batman. Well he has suction cup ears; that is how he glides from building to building. The play food the boys put to their ears are supposed to look like his ears. I am almost done with a Jr. Asparagus stuffed toy, so maybe I will make Larry Boy hats. I also want to make some Cat in the Hat hats for them too. The boys have started to pull the vents out, not to put toys down them, but to talk to each other. We know when they have done this, because of the way they are laughing. So, I think I may get them walkie talkies for Christmas. Things are finally getting a bit exciting. No more waiting, we got packed up today and will load the truck tomorrow. It still feels weird having strangers come and pack our things. Well, the next time I post, we will be in our new home!!

Some BIG news!!!

William turned 4 this week. He still insists that he is three, so it may take a while for him to get use to the idea. William got some books, 2 VeggieTales DVD’s (The Big River Rescue and one that has all three Larryboy movies), and some play food. William is having a lot of fun “eating” and “drinking.” We have been pretending with him to help his social skills. I had found a guide for children with special needs at the Toys R Us website. The guide had suggested that things like dress up and play food helped with social skills. Right now he just pretends to pour drinks into cups and eating. We can play games of going shopping, or running a restaurant to help him. I showed William a lot of pictures of cakes I could make him and he had picked a Bob the Tomato cake. So, that is what he had. While the boys were eating it, Edward asked where the Bob cake went, when we asked him where he said, “In my mouth!” It was really cute. Of course the boys get red icing on themselves. William is a neat eater so he is better, but Edward got it all over his face. We all went to the doctor’s office to see the baby in mommy’s tummy on the doctor’s TV. Everything looks good and the baby is healthy. Lori was here for a few days and it was a lot of fun. The boys called her Lori, Diana, and Amy. It seems that the boys are a little confused with all the names of their aunts. We all went to a Pioneer Day BBQ on Saturday and then Lori offered to watch the boys for us if we wanted to go on a date. So we went to a matinee and watched Kung Fu Panda 2. It was a really good movie! It is cute to hear the boys say the baby’s name, they cannot quite say it right. Cody does not have work this week so it will be fun to have a kind of vacation together as a family!

IT'S A BOY!!!!!!
We will be using the name Phillip. We are now just deciding on a middle name.

More News!!!

So, Cody will now start his job on the 8th of August. There is only one moving company we are allowed to use. They are going to pack up our stuff for us and move us on the 2nd of August. We probably not get our stuff until the 6th. So we will need to pack plastic plates, forks, etc. We put a craigslist ad up for our current Apt. on Thursday. I put the Owner's email as the reply email and he got 8 replies by Friday. So we had an open house today. Cody and I found out about it yesterday. We were up past midnight cleaning and organizing. We wanted to go to the temple this morning. So when we got back from the temple, we did some last minute stuff and I took the kids to Toys R Us and Walmart to keep them occupied while people looked around. William got a b-day gift and Eward saw a mini version of his red race car and really wanted it. I had a 3$ off card so I let Edward get it. I have never done that before, getting toys just for fun. We wait for a b-days or Christmas. So, Two different People who saw our townhome wanted it!! So the owner is talking to the first person and if that does not work out there is someone else. We will not have to pay the rent!!! See our lease is not up until February, so we were responsible for rent until then. That would have been $7,200. So we are really glad that that will not happen. So things are coming together. I just feel useless just waiting for others to pack our stuff up. I want to be packing and getting that done, but if anything breaks and they did not pack it, they will not cover it. A plus about moving later is now we can celebrate William's birthday on his birthday! He wants a Bob the tomato cake, so that is what I am going to make. I think he will like his gifts too. Things are well!!!

how time flies!

Wow,
You can tell it has been a long time because this week is William's last week of summer preschool. Well, a lot has happened. The boys are playing more together. However, Edward is getting rough. I do not know if it is getting back at William for all the times William pushed and hit him, but he is pushing and hitting William a lot more. He is also jumping off of everything, running into stuff, and just acts crazy. He is kind of a little bit of a dare devil right now. Cody had a job interview on the 7th and he got the job. He will be working for the LDS church in Family History. Since he does software and computer stuff, that is what he will be doing. We are moving to Utah for this job and be leaving by the 23rd or 25th of THIS month. CRAZY!!! Hopefully everything will go well.