Almost There

Only 6 days left until Baby Graham makes his appearance and I gotta say, I'm ready! I've done my nesting, the house is as clean as I can expect it to be with 3 other children living here, clothes are washed and ready, and mama is ready to go. There is much going on this week so I'm hoping that means the time will pass by quickly. I have to say I'm ready to be "un-pregnant", but more than that, I'm ready to hold this precious little baby I've only known through kicks and bumps these last several months. My heart is full when I think of the blessings the Lord has given us. What a joy it is to see these girls grow and play together and to hear them laugh with one another. Now, to be realistic, it's not always so "precious" around here; we certainly have our share of whining, crying, back-talking, etc, but I still count it all joy.

Last night I was attempting to help the girls clean their room. This basically amounts to me sitting down there and pointing out what they need to pick up and put where as well as my putting up what they can't reach or refuse to see. I've discovered that it's amazing how blind they become when being directed to pick up a toy. Please pick up that doll and put her in the toy box. Where is she? You're standing right next to her. (Child steps over toy to walk across room.) I don't see her. This baby doll? No, the one you tripped over to get across the room. Where? I don't see her. (Mom's frustration growing by the moment.) Right there, you're now standing on her face; don't you feel the life squeezing out of her? OH! THIS baby doll? I didn't know what you were talking about. Right! Me thinks we have too much stuff. At any rate, it got clean enough. As Sarah Grace was coming downstairs to go to bed, she found her toy school bus and had also found the driver of said bus. Only when she told us she'd found him, she sounded like she might have had a little something "special" in her sippy cup. As she came down, she said, "I found the drus biver." I tell you, these are funny little people we live with.

In other Graham family news, the number of teeth in our family has now decreased by one. Lainey lost her second tooth on Sunday evening. It was literally just hanging on so Lon wrapped a piece of thread around it and gave a quick tug. Lainey was very excited and we celebrated with bowls of ice cream. She put the tooth under her pillow on Sunday night and woke up to find $2.00 in its place yesterday morning. When she came up to our room yesterday morning to show off her find, Sarah Grace (who'd already crawled in bed with us) said, "You got $50 Laine!" to which Lon said, "Well, it looks like the tooth fairy won't be eating as much this month!" and I said, "Looks like the tooth fairy won't be paying her utility bill this month!" Let's hope that when it comes time for Sarah Grace to start getting tooth fairy money, she still believes that $2.00 is worth so much!