nail polish nightmare

Yes, there's an interesting story to go along with the title of this entry. Sunday afternoon was spent at my in-laws house celebrating my sister-in-law's 13th birthday. We had cake and sang, then she went outside with her friends and we mainly hung out inside. Matt had to go to work and it was just me and my mother in law, along with Landon, Mady ( 2 1/2) and Zeke (3 yr old brother in law). Sharleen (my mother in law) and I were talking while I rocked Landon to sleep and we noticed the two other kids were awfully quite upstairs. Since Sharleen was holding Landon now, I went upstairs to look for them. They weren't in Zeke's room or the bathroom, or the office or master bedroom. I then went in Sarah's room and didn't see them so I left and shut the door. That's when my brain registered the overwhelming smell of nail polish. I went back in the room and called for the kids and noticed a small door on the side of the room open and Zeke and Madelyn emerged, COVERED!! Zeke's face was completely covered in pink, purple, red and teal nailpolish, covering every speck of natural skin color. Madelyn had a large amount on her cheek, hands, arms and legs. Plus lots of spots in her hair! We didn't know where to start so of course, we took pictures! We needed to get this off the kids and polish remover wasn't working so we threw them in the bath tub, added some olive oil and let them soak for awhile. After about an hour, most of the nail polish was off Madelyn, with the exception of the bit in her hair. We went home, got pj's on and went to bed..... at 9:30pm!!! (only 2 hours after her bed time!) I'm still trying to get it out of her hair but the rest of her is pretty clean now!

Landon Jay has arrived

Landon Jay Douglass has arrived. He weighed in at 9 pounds 13 oz and 21.5 inches long. Born Wednesday, Feb 22, 2012 at 12:03 am. We are so blessed! More to come later!

no news yet.....

still waiting on baby boy to arrive.... he apparently is stubborn like his sister. At least the dr said I would be induced by next weekend if he doesn't come sooner.

So much in so little time!

It's been quite the month in January here in our house.
The first weekend in January, Matt's cousin Alysha, moved in with us to complete an internship. She'll be here for 8-10 weeks and living in our guest room. We love having her here! Mady loves her too and Alysha is already her new best friend. She's been so nice and helpful, watching Madelyn for us if we want to go out or helping with dinner or dishes. It's nice to have someone else here too when Matt works in the evenings with his second job.
Which brings me to that. Matt now works for Delta during the day, as always. But now he also works for an inventory company, going to different stores in the evening and doing inventory for them. It's nice to have the extra money coming in to pay off some debt sooner, but gets kind of lonely when he's gone at night. Another reason I am glad to have Alysha here.... I hate going to bed without Matt in the house and feel better knowing she's here too. Hopefully we can get the debt paid off soon, or at least some of it, and then go back to just one job for him :)
We are getting so close to having baby #2. I will officially be 37 weeks tomorrow and next Saturday, one week from now, when I go to the dr again, they will hopefully strip my membranes and maybe get things started. Baby boy is measuring right on track, not too big or too small. Weight gain has been really good, 25 pounds so far in 37 weeks. Hopefully he will make his appearance soon, since he already has a little personality and I can't wait to meet him!

update - finally!

I am awful at remembering to update this, not that I think many people read it, but it sometimes acts as an outlet for me and I much appreciate it at times.

We've had a lot going on here lately. My parents flew in from Michigan for Christmas. They got here on Monday, the 19th and mom just left this morning (dad left earlier to do some electrical work for a big project). We had a pretty good Christmas with them. We spent the morning opening presents with Madelyn who LOVED to tear the wrapping paper (much to Papa's demise, as he likes to un-wrap it neatly). We had breakfast, played with our new "toys" and then started making Christmas dinner. Dad wanted a turkey so mom and I made a big dinner, with turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, corn and rolls. It was yummy!!!! We did all of this while still in our p.j.'s and it was wonderful :) The rest of the week has been just relaxing for the most part. Matt and I both had to go back to work on the 27th and Madelyn got to spend the week at home with Grandma, both enjoyed that I am sure. Other than that, Christmas was pretty low key. I will admit, some things have made me a little frustrated this year involving Christmas, but I will leave those details out as I am trying to get past it and move on :)
We're almost ready for baby boy Douglass to arrive - 7 more weeks until my due date! The crib is all set up, comeplete with cute jungle animal bedding, thanks to Rebekah :) His clothes (all of which have been donated to us - thanks, Rebekah and Joannie!) are all washed and sorted, some hung up and just waiting for him to arrive. We have the dresser and now just waiting for that to be put together. Hopefully this weekend, that will get done and then I can finish organizing the room and making sure everything is ready for him. I was in panic mode, thinking of all the stuff we still needed and didn't have, but we have been blessed with clothes and great deals on nursery furniture and our cloth diaper stash (see my other blog for those details) that I now feel more prepared and ready to meet this little one.
Next weekend, Matt's cousin, Alysha, moves in with us for 2 months! She's doing an internship down here and since we have the room at our house, we offered for her to stay here with us. I know she's excited and we are too. It will be nice to have her around as we haven't spent a lot of time with her and I know Madelyn will love having someone else around to play with and read books with since Mommy can't quite do all of it any more :)
My parents are planning to come back down to our house in February for a couple weeks, once the baby is born. Then in March, I just learned my best friend (a.k.a. Rebekah- if you haven't figured that out already!) is coming to visit!!!! Her husband said she needs a little vacation and her options are Florida and Georgia. I'm glad she's picking Georgia! I can't wait for her to see our house and of course, meet the baby. The last time she was here, was summer 2010 and we've lived in 2 places since then! So excited!
I suppose that's all for now. Time to get back to work :) Or maybe time for lunch.... hmmm

Our crazy life!

It's been one crazy ride around here. We found out we're having a baby boy and that's exciting! However, it's been down hill since then. My transmission went out on the trailblazer so we were down to one car for a couple days. God provided for us and we were able to rebuild it and get it fixed sooner than we thought. A few days later, it still wasn't driving right so we left it again and the guy fixed the filter. On our way to pick up the trailblazer, Matt's car was acting up and come to find out, his transmission went out too!!! His car is too old and not worth replacing so it was sold to Carmax. We are now down to one car again (have been for a couple weeks now) and its pretty tough. We have to get up earlier than usual, which means Mady does too. We drop Madelyn off at daycare, drive to Smyrna, where Matt's co-workers live and let him car pool with them, then I drive back to Marietta for work, pick up Mady and go back to Smyrna to pick up Matt. We usually leave the house around 6:35 am and get back home around 6:30-7:00pm. Then we need to eat dinner, play with Madelyn and get her to bed. It's been crazy like I said!

We were able to go to Stone Mountain a couple weekends ago with Matt's mom. It was pumpkin festival so Madelyn enjoying looking and touching and trying to carry all the different pumpkins. We played frizbee in the park and finished off the day at the Marietta Diner for dinner.

This weekend is going to be a great one! I have Friday off work, so I am flying to Indianapolis on Thursday to see one of my best friends! We have a whole weekend of fun stuff planned! She is being so gracious and giving us all her baby boy clothes that she isn't using any more. What a blessing!!!! Our little boy will be set! Saturday we are going to the outlet mall for some shopping and then dinner later that night. I can't wait! I need some fun "girl time" and that's just the place to get it. Plus, she has the three cutest boys ever! :)

big week!

This is going to be a big week for our family! Tomorrow is our big ultrasound and hopefully we can find out if we are having a boy or girl. We really don't care, as long as baby is healthy and doing well. I honestly have no idea what it is this time. I felt girl the whole time with Madelyn but I have no feeling like that this time. So I'm not sure what tomorrow will bring but I can't wait for 4 pm to get here! What's your guess?

The rest of us are doing well. Madelyn spent the weekend with daddy so I could go to Michigan and spend the weekend with my mom at a Creative Memories Retreat. I haven't worked on Madelyn's scrapbook in a year and I need to get this done! It was a blast! We had so much fun and I got a lot accomplished so it felt great. I unfortunately had to fly back early this morning which meant I didn't get much sleep. Thankfully, my wonderful hubby let me take a nap while Madelyn was sleeping and I felt much better.

Our house is slowly starting to get back to normal. We had aleak in a pipe which caused water damage and mold. The drywall was ripped out, the pipe replaced, and now the drywall is back and painted, along with new trim and a check under the carpet to make sure there wasn't water underneath. Now we have to schedule the company to come back in to replace the pantry shelves and then HOPEFULLY things will be done! 3 of the 4 shelves in the pantry were screwed into a pipe that drains from the master bathroom. Anytime water in that bathroom is used, it drained down this pipe and leaked. Thankfully it wasn't too bad and we get it fixed for free since the house is all under warranty. Once the shelves are replaced, I can put all the contence from the pantry back in, instead of it being all over my counters and dining table. I will know where things are instead of checking the three places I have food sitting and having to look all over to find what I need.
I suppose that's all for now..... I can't wait for tomorrow!