This has been one of the most busiest, exhausting weeks of my life! I'm so glad it's over and I've got a much slower paced week ahead of me.  I was so tired that I didn't get out of bed until almost 9:00 this morning.  I don't remember the last time I stayed in bed that late! Thank goodness for 12:30 church...normally I prefer earlier.  I realized after such a week, I've become quite a home body.  I haven't really gotten out much since Parker's been born.  I realized that when we went to Target and watched Annika as we went up and down the aisles.  "Wow! Look at this Mom!" as we passed by all the toys.  She'd never seen so many neat things.  Quite entertaining watching her.  I don't really remember the last time we'd gone shopping before that.  Normally, I'll just have Adam pick up what we need when he's out.  We've been barely able to make ends meet, so to keep myself from spending money, I just stay home.  It works! So, maybe it wasn't that it was such a busy week, but I'm just out of practice.

On Tuesday, Nolan had his Limo ride.  I dropped Annika and Parker off at Gymnastics with Grandma and raced over to the school.  I had 5 minutes to spare, or so I thought.  I saw the Limo, but didn't realize Nolan was already in it! It drove off! I STILL didn't realize Nolan was in it.  After a couple of minutes, I asked someone if that was the one Nolan was in.  It was.  I raced over to Round Table Pizza! The kids were already inside getting started on Pizza.  Oh well, at least Nolan had seen me show up at the school.  That's all that mattered.  I left after asking him how he liked his limo ride.  The highlights: No seatbelts and got to stand up in it.  Alrighty then!  

 

Parker is getting better and better at sitting up, although he still prefers flat on his back so he can do his exercises.  He had his echo cardiogram on Tuesday afternoon.  I showed up to where I thought it was supposed to be, arriving 5 minutes early (I am never early these days) only to find out they had moved.  Traveled across town and ended up being 20-30 minutes late! Similar thing happened later in the week at another Dr. appointment.  I was proud of myself for getting out the door early, only to get stuck in traffic and arriving 15 minutes late.  Ugh! I'll never get it right! Anyways, back to the echo cardiogram...no worries, Parker's heart is just fine.  We were supposed to do this right after finding out about the VLCAD and we just kept forgetting about it.  Well, even though he got released from the study, they still wanted us to check his heart.  

Love these 3!

Still prefers that left thumb!

Thursday we got to visit Nolan's classroom for open house. So many fun things they've done this year. Last day of school will be Thursday this week. Nolan is very much ready for summer break! Last Friday he went on his last field trip to the MRPH (?), to learn about recycling and trash. He said he plugged his nose the whole time. Afterward they went ice-skating. He had fun once he got to use a bucket to keep him from falling down. Annika got to visit Primary today. She is the oldest in Nursery, I believe and seems to be getting bored. They had her and another of the older boys go take a field trip during sharing and singing time. I think they'll go ahead and keep that up since there will be a whole new group of babies entering Nursery soon. It was cute listening to Nolan and Annika talk about it on the way home from church, comparing notes. :)