PERMITS!!

So we got our renovation permit today - demolition starts tomorrow! WOO HOO!

As of tomorrow, I'll be at 37 weeks, and the new boyo should be making his debut in a few short weeks. I've promised to the best of my ability to not have him between the 4th and 12th of April as my parents will be out of the country. But then again, I can only control that so much.

Drew and Connor have adjusted well to the rental house, or as we've been calling it, Mr. Victor's House. Drew will tell us if he wants to go to Mr. Victor's house or to Mommy and Daddy's house. Lately, he wants to go to Aunt Kim's house, which is great except I can't travel and Aunt Kim lives too far away for a playdate. Rumor has it that they will be in the area next week, and so hopefully we'll get to spend some good time with them! I'm going to propose a bus tour or DUC tour of DC with some of my nephews since that's something close to my office that we could do together one day next week. Which is also my last week of work for a while!

Connor is getting ready to transition to a new school next year, and Lee and I are sad that he will be leaving Tuckahoe and moving elsewhere. Of course, he has to keep moving because it means he's learning and growing, but we will miss the teachers, therapists and administrators who have been tireless advocates for Connor, and who have just plain loved his crazy little self the whole time, too.

Anyway - demolition in less than 12 hours. Game on. Bigger house - here we come. Now if only I can hold on in my basketball brackets I will feel like nothing can top 2009!

Note to self...

I'm pretty sure I will never again use the term "swimmingly" on this blog. Holy hell, what a week! About 4 hours after I posted my last blog entry about how well things were coming together, it went insane! Drew got the nasty stomach virus that's been going around, and made it known by vomiting unexpectedly and PROFUSELY on my mother. Lee and I, of course, stood there aghast but not actually doing anything. So he was sick, and kept us up half the night, and then I had a dr appointment where the baby was hiding from the doppler mic so I got sent to labor & delivery for an hour's worth of monitoring, to discover that he was, in fact, totally fine but wily. Then Drew gave his virus to both Lee and Connor, and I spent Saturday trying to take care of them all without contracting this awful thing.

The good news is, the baby is fine, the boys are all recovered from the virus, and I never got it. And we got actual snow - that was cool! But I'm glad that things are back to normal. :)