Scrapbook Day February 15, 2015

Today is Scrapbook day for this month - it is a Sunday. Yesterday we celebrated Valentine's Day in style...a full busy Saturday. We started with Community group in the morning and a family bike ride, then lunch afterwards at our local mall. While Daddy went out for the afternoon and evening with the guys (I figure it is his last hall pass for awhile since baby #3 is due anytime now) the kids and I went to a local park and play area. We followed up our long day with ice cream cones and warm baths and leftovers for dinner. So, since yesterday was really full being out from 9:30-5, we decided to be lazy today. The kids played nicely together all morning, which is a rare thing, and after lunch and clean up of toys, they are enjoying some TV time while I catch up on the blog. I went to the doctor on Friday and baby #3 is head down and can come anytime now. He is due on 2/23 and we are all hoping he stays in one more week to simply get more things done at work and at home. My next appointment is next Saturday and if he is still in tact then we will probably pick a date to be induced. We have agreed on a few names, finally, so when we meet him we will pick one based on what he looks like. This has been the hardest baby for us to pick a name for. The first two came so naturally and we just "knew" with both the kanji meaning in Japanese and with the phonetic pronunciation in English being easy for Americans to pronounce. This time around, even though we know it is a boy which limits what we have to research in terms of names, has been harder. Nothing has had that "wow" factor yet. We picked out a girls name that we love, but low and behold we cannot use it, so we are kind of waiting for the last minute. He has a diaper bag packed, a bed at the house with blankets and sheets, a drawer for his clothes, a bouncy seat and a play mat that we borrowed from friends. Tonight on the agenda is packing the hospital bag. I guess we are as ready as we will ever be, but if he could just give us one more week of normal activity as a family of four, we would really appreciate that. :) Miss M and the K Man are looking forward to meeting him. I do not think the K Man quite understands, but Miss M assumes she is a pro since she has done this before. :) It will be interesting to see how they respond. I calculated that Miss M and I have finished over 100 days of homeschool and only have about 53 days left to finish our school year, so starting this week we are taking a "break" from formal school. I plan to fill the days with reading out loud together, some math lessons and handwriting practice and lots of game playing and resting for mama. We have both worked really hard with not much of a long break except for two weeks at Christmas knowing that the baby was coming, so it was nice today to have a Sunday where I did not plan any lessons for the week. We signed the K Man up for youchien at our local kindergarten. He starts in April. I figure once he starts up again we can start back to formal school and finish out the year by the end of May. Here are a few recent pics of the kiddos from this month...they may have been posted already on a previous blog, but I wanted to keep track of their growth and change each month.