And then there were four...

here are some more pictures of our happy little family! everything is going well...we're just completely wiped out!!! our church is providing meals for two weeks (what a huuuuuuge blessing!!!) and my parents have been babysitting josiah a lot this week. i don't know what we'd be doing if didn't have so much help. well, probably pulling our hair out...:)

i don't have much time; just thought i'd post some more pictures while i had a minute.

Introducing Benjamin Edward Perry!!!

Born 11/10/07, 1:24 p.m.

9 lbs, 3 oz

22 in

More pictures to come!!!

A flood, but not my water breaking, thank the Lord!

so the past five days have been a little bit too much on the exciting side for us. my nesting energy kicked in last weekend, and logan and i were doing really well getting ready for the baby. saturday night we stayed up late getting our bedroom cleaned and the baby bedding, etc. washed. logan mopped the floor, then dropped the rug in the washer before we crashed in bed at midnight, with logan's last words being: "well, we're ready for the baby now!"

as a pregnant woman, i have to get up out of bed every one to two hours to use the restroom. when i got up at two that night, i stepped in ice cold water outside the bathroom. i wasn't quite awake yet, so it took me a minute to realize the washer machine was still running. somehow, it got plugged up and overflowed for two hours, flooding our bathroom and hallway. logan and i quickly mopped up the water with a pile of dirty clothes, then logan ran and got his shop vac. when he went downstairs to the basement to get it, he saw that water was running down into his shop as well as the apartment that we rent out.

logan called our dear friend paul golden to come over and help, and they stayed up for two hours cleaning up the mess. when logan and i got home from church, our floors were buckled from all of the moisture in the particle board under our laminate. servpro came that afternoon to tear up the laminate flooring (that had taken logan a week to lay down) and install fans and a dehumidifier. it's thursday, and we're still living with the constant hum (and this is not a quite hum) of the equipment.

along with the stress of this event (or probably because of it), i lost my 'plug' and my midwife said i was 3-4 centimeters dialated at my appointment tuesday. she sent me immediatley over to the hospital for an ultrasound and fetal stress monitoring, and i wept in her office, thinking i was going into labor and i just wasn't ready! i'm not even due for two weeks from tomorrow! at the hospital, i started having mild contractions, which grew stronger all that night and the next day. when i put josiah to bed last night and laid down on the couch, they subsided and i've actually not had any contractions today. i'm trying to lay low and hold off on going into labor until my mother returns from WA this saturday.

so pray for us as we cope with a stressful week! in lighter news, josiah went 'pee-pee' in the 'potty' last thursday and friday, and since then he has gone 'pee-pee' on the living room floor once. he keeps bringing me into the bathroom and freezing under the pressure, so i am not too optimistic about him being a potty-training prodigy. there's a pic below of him on his training stool, and in a new 'toy' he found today
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Fall Fun

We're three weeks from Benjamin's due date, and my nesting energy has finally kicked in!!! I'm sleeping very poorly, going to bed too late and then getting up every 1-2 hours to use the 'potty,' then getting up before 7 with Josiah. I've stopped napping, because my to-do list wont allow me any rest. But praise the Lord, I feel great! I'm getting excited. Logan is going to paint Benjamin's dresser this weekend so I can wash all of his little clothes and put them away, and I'm going to set up his bassinet and pack for the hospital tomorrow.

Here are some pictures of Josiah enjoying the fall foliage:

Working hard with cousin Noah

This is why God made me laid back:

Trick-or-Treating with church friends as "Bob the Builder"

Mommy's big belly:

Cutie Petutie