it's been sooooooo long!

it's almost been 2 months since my last post. but not quite, i got in right under the wire, so i don't feel too bad...it's not officially 2 months til tomorrow. whew!

hmmmm...some updates:

1. baby #3 is growing right along. i had an ultrasound a month ago and everything was measuring perfectly and the tech thinks it's a girl. the baby was wiggling its legs too much to be sure. at my ob appt a few days ago, the midwife ordered another u/s in a month to check growth and to get a due date narrowed down (right now it's pretty much the latter 1/2 of august). so hopefully i can get a 100% on the gender. it wasn't until after the first u/s tech said, 'but i wouldn't go out & buy anything yet' that i started 2nd guessing my own mommy intuition. i still really think girl though.

2. cade and reese are doing great. reese is getting mouthy and i think she's venturing into stretching the truth here & there, i can't believe her 4th birthday is about 2 months away! cade is doing good too, he's finally getting taller. he's still chubby and cuddly but i don't have to roll up his 18-24 month pants anymore. he'll be 2 in july, hard to believe 2 years have gone by that quickly. i still see him as the baby, i think b/c he's so cuddly. he's been talking a lot. i've been trying to write down all the words i hear him using and so far i have 17, but i think there's about 5 or 6 i'm forgetting. i think his favorite word is 'money'. is that cute or what?

3. rob is still in holland. sigh. we're 1/2 way done, just about 9 weeks left til he comes back. and boy am i tired. i like to do things MY way, but this is just too much of sarah in charge. especially since now i'm having lawn mower problems. i wish i was the kind of person to beg for help from my neighbors :/ but like i said, i like doing things my way which is sometimes the hard way.

4. we spent almost 3 weeks in iowa and had a great time. the kids didn't sleep much, but they got to play outside every day and we visited the zoo, some buffalo, lots of relatives, and the build a bear workshop. pretty memorable vacation :) it's going to be a while before we go back to iowa. traveling over christmas would mean traveling with a 3 month old and i'm not sure i'm up to it. plus with the friction btwn my mom and her family last christmas, i'm not sure she's interested in going yet...no guilty parties have stepped forward with apologies yet. so maybe grandma & grandpa will come out here for christmas. who knows.

5. rob will be attending prospective executive officer training in september. which means that by june or july we'll know where he's going to be going for sea duty for the next 2 years. eeek. i'm so nervous about this already. i wouldn't mind staying here, now that reese is starting to get into the school system. i wouldn't mind moving, although it would mean selling a house and looking for a new house with 3 kids, a cat, and a dog...and with limited help from rob since he'll have his own training to do. anywhere we move would be long distance, the only exception would be norfolk VA...that's just down the coast. however, it would be a complete household move. :/

so anyway, that's what's been going on the last 2 months. i feel like i only come here to update what's been happening. not exactly what a blog is for, but feel lucky it wasn't a full 2 months since my last entry. waiting that extra day would have been tough for you, i'm sure :)