Old News, New Baby

I wish it wasn't so, but this is not really "new" news because I have waited so long to blog about our newest addition coming in June.

 We are having baby #3 in June (and yes, I am due on my birthday) and it's going to be another girl! I am very excited because I don't have a sister and I always REALLY wanted one. And now Macy will have one! I don't think any of us thought we would have a girl. With all those Warden genes I was worried Macy might be our one and only.

  So we are very excited. While trying to get that perfect shot for my new Facebook cover photo I also captured several others of these two goons. 

They are adorable as always. Even if I had to take a fillion pictures to get the one I needed. 

It should also be said that Davie is not disappointed, he only knows what it's like to have a sister and I'd like to think he's still a little young to really care/know, I was trying to get him to make silly faces. 

I did my best to coax them both to stick their tongues out and it didn't really work. 

Davie is the only one who can follow directions. 

Close up

Aren't their little blue and pink outfits cute??

What did I say? Two goons.

Cheer guys!

They got a little distracted

Wow the cheesiness

Both cheering, but not in the picture frame....

both cheering, but Davie's face is covered...

and both cheering but Davie isn't smiling. Oh well they are still cute.

How's the Weather?

So how is Florida I feel like that's one of the first questions everybody asks me, especially since we moved here in the middle of the summer, and basically what I have to say is that it really isn't that bad. Of course I moved from Toledo to Columbus to Florida and there were plenty of days in Toledo where it would be 90° and 90 percent humidity. I guess what I'm really trying to say is I don't really feel that big of a difference if anything I really truly love the fact that it can rain and literally still be sunny out or that it's NOT dark and cloudy very often or for very long. All of these observations are general since we've only lived here for a couple of months but they seem to be true, which is great.

Just a balmy 80 degree day on November 5th.

The only thing thus far that I can honestly say has been disappointing is how long it has been hot! I guess there is a bunch of weather fluctuations this year because of El Niño. Of course there is! Haha I just lived through two polar vortexes so now Mother Nature is trying to fry my brains. Knowing that it's been unseasonably warm does make me feel better though. I'm sad we didn't get a more gradual cool down. Instead it's been hot, hot, hot then coooool then hot again. Back and forth- no in between. The first day of December I overhead that it was the hottest it's ever been since like 1930! Wow. Like I said as long as it isn't like this all 4-5 years we are here. The temperate days though are so amazing! It's so nice to just put on average clothes and go be outside while the kids play. Davie has already acclimated to the warmth here in Florida. The other day he needed to wear pants instead of shorts. He asked why and when I told because it was chilly outside (not really 60/70ish degrees) he said "I don't like it when it's cold!".

This was December 23rd. Still HOT.

The other thing I have been quite pleasantly surprised about is bugs. There really aren't as many bugs as I thought there were. (Insert me imagining bugs of all kinds and sizes swarming... everywhere... all the time and me freaking out a little) More than other places sure but not all the nasty swarms I was imagining. I feel like we get a lot of little fruit fly type bugs in the house. More than I have ever had before and it's weird because I'm pretty sure they aren't coming from fruits we have brought in. Another topic I was nervous about was spiders. I seriously haven't hardly seen any spiders. Maybe I'll get my chance (please no!) but there aren't a lot of those either. To be fair the bugs in the house came in through our sliding glass door that (whoops) the builder didn't put a brush guard on. So they were just walkin' in! Yeaaaa, as soon as we figured that out we called the builder ASAP. Thankfully it was an easy fix and it immediately stopped the bugs.

Lizard in my bug trap! 

There are however a TON of little lizards. And I like these lizards, I know they eat our bugs and they are pretty much harmless (not to mention kind of cute). The lizards still startle me every now and then when I walk to or from the house and they run in front of me but they never run towards you... or at least not yet! Either way they are welcome in my book.

Because of the warm weather I have gotten rid of more of my clothes than I had originally planned. I've been trying to get rid of my excess stuff for over a year now. And you know what is both amazing AND really sad? I have literally driven large garbage bags of "stuff" to the second hand stores and I haven't missed a SINGLE thing. I know getting rid of my warmer clothing might sound rash, but I figure most of it is already 6+ years old, we won't be visiting Idaho as much once Miss Macy turns 2, and by the time we do move somewhere that might be colder David will be making more money. So in the meantime it just didn't make sense to me to keep all my warm "stuff". A lot of it I didn't really even use in Ohio when it did snow so it's really not a big deal. 

Christmas Day
For those of you who know David he has adjusted really well to the heat. In fact the other day he basically said that he never thought he could ever live in a place that didn't have an actual winter, but after this winter he has completely changed his mind. He NEVER has to wake up earlier to scrape ice off his windows or shovel snow or so that he will have more time to drive if the snow is on the road. He's been super surprised with this conclusion of his and when he told me I think it blew my mind a little. I knew that while we lived here he would be a good sport because his job it great and so is our house and our ward and lots of other things. However him admitting to not caring if we ever move back to a place that gets cold and snows was completely shocking. I'm ok with that! So for now it is definitely-   Good-bye winter!

Are They ALL Yours?!

This is the bucket of beans, the kids LOVE it.

That's what I get asked all the time lately. A couple of months ago I started watching two little sisters who are 2 and 7 months older than Davie and Macy. I always laugh when people ask me that question because my first thoughts in response to that question is 1)The kids would have to basically be two sets of twins and 2) The two sets of siblings couldn't look more different! My kids are blonde and blue eyed and the sisters I watch are brown and blue eyed with pretty brown hair.

It's also been fun to hear the comments I get in public or while getting the kids out of the car. One lady said "when you started unloading those kids I was just so surprised I kept thinking you were done and then someone else would get out of the car!" It always makes me laugh, because I've always said (and I'm more iron clad on this then I've ever been) I want to have 4 kids and it just doesn't seem like that many to me. It's a pain to be sure loading and unloading and helping with ALL the buckles (seriously who came up with that idea?) but it's not that hard. 

We've braved Publix, McDonald's, Wal*Mart, Target, Hobby Lobby, Joann's Fabric and the Pizza Hut buffet together and none of those experiences have even come close to our worst experiences. In fact for the most part the kids do great and the compliments we get definitely bring out my Mama bear side. After all who doesn't want to hear how great their kids and the kids in their care are AND how well behaved? 

Also because the girls go to school we don't pick them up until a little before lunch, which is nice because then we get to sleep in, run errands or just hangout alone in the morning. Many of you know I used to nanny so this might not come as a surprise to you now that I'm done with school and we have space in our house to have extra kids over. It's been a great job, with no weekends I might add, and an even bigger blessing in terms of our finances. Moving out of state and house buying is expensive! 

A trip to Publix 

Things would get patchy here and there at first because Davie has a bit of an "I love you so much I might suffocate you" way of showing he likes his new friend which lead to lots of crying, but I think for the most part we are over that. Also it FINALLY (depending on the day) has started to cool down so we have been making our way around to lots of parks in the area. Not only that but when David's parents visited they gave us pretty much the BEST gift ever. A swing set. That has given many an hour of pure childhood enjoyment in our backyard. We still don't have a TV so it's been nice to have the kids go outside and actually have something to do. I mean I'm all about them using their imaginations but our yard was just grass before that beloved swing set. 

Sharing a box 

Sitting on our friends 

Coloring 

The masks we made 

4 kiddos in a Joann's fabric cart 

They insisted on this set up, I just laughed. It didn't last long. 

Carseats galore 

I bought and framed a beautiful picture of Christ recently and it was wrapped in this paper, which worked great for a large coloring activity 

Hugs 

Sidewalk chalk 

A double stroller that became a triple :) 

Everybody riding the bus at the park 

A meal on the veranda, We spare no expense. 

This day we had an extra friend with us so I just had to take a picture of all those car seats, There was only one spot that was carseat free that day. So on top of the fact that I have two kids, am still not fully organized from our move, I am lazy and I don't always want to blog I've been watching more kiddos :) I'm hoping to have some more updates soon, but I hope this was good enough for now.