29 weeks! and we are at the beach!!

Happy 29 weeks Amber... :) we are almost there and we couldn't be more excited... Today we are at the beach with the Evans' family... all 13 of us! It is a yearly thing that we all look forward to... Next year will be a little more interesting with both babies but it will also even out the family with three each... girls vs boys! I know Haley is happy about that...

We arrived yesterday afternoon... after a long day of flying and driving getting here was such a blessing... Annabelle, Gran and I had one car.... Daddy and O'daddy in the other... Gran had a great time hanging out in the back seat trying to figure out what she was talking about... they had a good time... right now, we we are just getting up and enjoying our coffee.

As you know, today is 29 weeks... I can't believe next week (by the time we are home) we will be 30 weeks! WOW.... with Annabelle, we would be delivering in 8 weeks... I can't wait... Annabelle doesn't really understand but we talk to her about being a big sister and she tells us she is happy about it.. (we'll see) We anticipate an early Dec delivery but who knows...
The birth plan.. (as best as we can guess)

I am heading to Wichita December 1st (already have my ticket) and will stay with Amber and family until John arrives... Annabelle will be with Grammy and Papa... depending on how it takes for Amber to deliver, Gran and O'daddy will come to our house to take over Annabelle's care (and to give Grammy a much needed break) and stay until we come home... As soon as we know Amber is in labor, John will start driving... (not too fast, like last time!) and hopefully make it in time for the delivery... (fingers crossed) we will move to a hotel once John comes and either have baby with us or spend the days in a holding pattern... If Amber hasn't gone into labor by Dec 7th (39 weeks) John is going to come regardless.. Amber has Dec 6th in her head for some reason.. gut intuition I suppose... so we may make it Dec 6th that he comes if no labor has started.. So that is our unofficial game plan... it could change of course but as it stands, this is the plan... for those of you involved.. you might want to jot it down on your calendar. :)

Annabelle is just thriving.. she LOVES preschool.... this week we are missing but last week she had a great time and actually napped for 1 hour!! It has to be hard to nap when there are 11 other children in the room... I am very proud... she ate all her lunch and made a pink pencil and a yellow bus on construction paper... (yep, it is in her folder of school stuff!) We have lost our two teachers aids now, which is sad because they both were great but I am sure the next two will be wonderful too... Ms Mopp will certainly need help as she can't take care of 12 toddlers from a wheelchair.. Her sister is helping out but they are both in their 60-70s so we shall see who replaces the two younger ones... personally I can't imagine being 60-70's and actually wanting to take care of 12 toddlers but I guess there are those that enjoy it.. :)

Kindermusick this weeks was fun.. for Annabelle at least.. it seems that she turns into a wild child and I spend the morning running after her.. It is a workout! and then she took NO NAP! I put her down at her usual time, thinking she would zonk out but no... she starts crying after being down for about 45 minutes.. all the while I thought she was sleeping... she was actually unloading a box of diapers on her bed.. it was covered in diapers.. so I put them all away and put her back in the bed... another 30 minutes or so of quite time and more crying... I go up and she has unloaded her shoe drawer... with a pair on and the rest in her bed! After cleaning up the shoes... I decided to just stay with her and help her nap... 45 minutes later and a million words of baby talk "mommy? want some juice?" "mommy? want some chicken?" " mommy? Mommy? mommy? {hitting me on the arm trying to get my attention} want some milk?" It was very cute and I got it on video but it is 15 long and youtube won't load it... she never did nap... *sigh*

Well.. I should get off line and hit the beach!! Don't worry, we'll take lots of photos and videos!!

Love to you all...
Carolyn (Annabelle, John, Jason, Jeremy, Tina, Ginny, Gran, O'daddy, Sam, Jack, Haley and Daniel!)