holy cow batman...

it has been forever since I blogged. I knew I was keeping busy but wow when I look back at the past 11 days I have really done a lot. AJ finished up swim lessons so I took her and Supermom's oldest dd Avery, plus my other kiddoes and the dogs and Bro K all to the beach last Saturday. It was nice Marge even met up with us, I am going to miss her so much when she leaves in a few weeks! The ocean was really rough but AJ and Avery showed off there swimming skills battling those waves and currents. The dogs had a blast going to the beach again they were so tired that we forgot to throw away the chicken bones from dinner and they didn't even get into 'em. Sunday was a recoop day and we started draining the pool since Bro K and I were lazy/dumb and were not trying to get the rain out of the cover so the cover caved in, then the winds from Alberto left tons of pine needles/ parts of pine trees in the pool so it was sap. The pool was already murky before the storm so that just left it unsalvagable. Well the pool draining took 28 hours!! It only took 6 hours to fill so that surprised us. So now we have been working on it slowly all week we had to take it completly apart now we need to get all the stuff out from under the pool and put in some leveling sand and hopefully that will make it so the pool is a little more even and doesn't have a few random spots that hurt your feet.
We have also met up at three playdates this week, plus the big girls had dentist appointments and we went to AJ's friend from preschool's house for a playdate there. So I actually got out of the house every day this week. Next week I will be pretty home bound I have to make my 3/4 tank of gas last until Friday! But Monkey is off to sleep away camp on Sunday and will be home on Friday. I was excited now the closer it comes it is kinda scary she has never been away from home that long before. At least it is only in Middleburg so I can rescue her, but I am sure she will do fine! Then Flyboy will be home for a week so I will go from one less person in the house to an extra. Yeah I know he lives here but this is the weirdest deployment I am used to him being gone gone for six months not stopping in here every few months for a couple of days. Plus I am kinda upset he is coming home next week since it is pretty much guarenteeing he will not be here for the birth. I will be 37 weeks when he leaves again, I am going to beg my midwife to induce me but since there is no medical reason I cannot see them agreeing to it, Chubs was born at 38w1d and weighed 8lb 5 oz so I know he would be more than okay but 37 weeks is still early if it was one week later and I was 38 weeks then I am sure I could sell it. It was hard enough saying goodbye a few weeks ago but to have him home again and to leave probably within a week of delievering seems like cruel and unusual punishment. I am okay with delievering when he isn't here but he is so sad to miss it, he just keeps telling me I haven't missed a birth yet and I really don't want to. I still am not ready to not be preggo, not that I am loving toting around the 25 lbs in my tummy, but I know it is easier right now than being sleep deprived and having to take care of a newborn and case Chubs who has become quite the brute these days. I will have to face the music soon enough. Well I am off to help AJ look for one of her thousands of toys...