Potty Training and Baby News...

Well, I am happy to report that yesterday it has been 4 weeks since we took on Potty Training full force and Cassidy has successfully been in BIG GIRL panties since! It was truly amazing how she was ready and excited to take on the change.

Now let's just pray that when baby arrives, she's still happy being the BIG sister and wearing the panties!

She tells everyone that she doesn't wear diapers anymore and that she is saving them for baby!
She even went to our neighbor the other day who is 90 and lifted her dress to tell and show him...he was cracking up!

As for baby arriving, we are anxiously awaiting him/her. Last night at 2, Cassidy woke up happy went to her door and said very clearly, "mommy". Jason jumped up, went to get her and took her back to her bed. He even laid down with her to try to get her to fall back asleep. It was so strange though, she wasn't up set, basically fully awake. She climbed out of her bed, leaving daddy there, crawled, yes, crawled into our room climbed in bed and snuggled as close to me as she could and fell asleep until 7. I couldn't figure out why she did this, then I thought, maybe she in sensing that baby is ALMOST here and she needed some mommy time, which I have NO complaints about! So, the waiting game goes on.....

Update on life...

I am sitting here with Cassidy while she is watching Cinderella. She is happy as can be even with so many things in our lives about to change.

We have recently made the decision to move our family (soon to be of 4) to Enid. We are VERY excited about this opportunity. Jason was offered a position at the Bank where he works that will take us back to Enid and to a community that we are thrilled to raise our family in. As many of you who have been faced with decisions like this know, we weighed many options and thought very hard about what it would mean to move from the "big" city to a "small" town and after much thought, list making and praying we realized that moving to a place where our children can grow up with family around is MUCH more important than activities that may be available somewhere else. So off we go. Oh, wait! Not until after we have a baby...

Yes, we have been having to remind ourselves that we are about to have a baby and that MUST come first. We are 1 week and 4 days from our due date, so we are anxiously waiting and realizing that any day now we could be welcoming #4 into our family. This is such an exciting time and we are so overwhelmed with the joy of it while also preparing to move our family.

The Move...
Well, we have been working on the odds and ends list to get our house in tip top shape to list while also trying to make trips to Enid to look at houses. We had the movers come a week and a half ago and pack and move some things to "thin-out" the house for listing. That was an interesting day considering we filled the truck! They told me they would bring an 18 wheeler to move the rest of the house. Do we really have that much stuff?? YES! Who am I kidding.

Well with the impending baby coming so soon, my trips to house hunt are over for now. We have our eye on one that we are excited to say we could imagine our family in for years to come. Jason is heading over in the morning to meet some contractors, plumbers, painters, etc to see what all it will take to get it up to par for us. It is in a Historic area that we love so we are hopeful that all will fall into place. However, we also know that if this one doesn't work out, it isn't right for us. So the waiting game goes on.

We laugh daily at all of the unknowns in our life right now: When will baby come? When will our house be listed/sell? When will we move? Where will we move? What will the baby be???

Life is fun for the Turnbows right now and we couldn't be happier!

A little FYI: When Cassidy was asked yesterday when baby will come? She replied "Thursday, later this week". We are wondering now if she is onto something, wait for the update on that!

Lot's of catching up to do...

I really can't believe it's been so long since I sat down to blog. I knew I would be slow but jeez!

Well, currently we are preparing for Baby Turnbow #2 to arrive. We have 5 weeks and 3 days till our due date, but I am thinking it will be sooner, only because Cassidy came 9 days early. Am I prepared? NO! :-) Well, yes and no. We have plenty of things, they're just in storage and need to come out and get washed, the bassinet needs to be reassembled, and Cassidy's name should probably be taken off of the nursery walls, but come on we'll get there!

Cassidy is excited to be a BIG sister and working on wearing panties. She has had some great days the past week and a half and some that we, yes, I blame me too, we have not focused and it's been much easier to wear Pull Ups/Diapers than to worry about accidents. However today we have really focused, stayed home, played, drank and ate lots and used the potty all day successfully. Here's to making it to bed time, CHEERS!

Cassidy cracks us up more and more everyday. For example yesterday we came home and a neighbor had people over so there were lots of cars on our cul-de-sac that we didn't know. She wanted to ride her four wheeler in the front yard but we said no since there were so many cars we didn't know, mostly b/c we wouldn't have been able to see her. She was a bit confused and said they were OK. Jason asked her if she knew who's car was the one with out a hubcap, she looked at him so seriously and said "Yes, Daddy, that is Susan's grandpa's", to which Jason and I both had to pick our jaws up and Jason then asked her who taught her to tell whoppers, to which she didn't reply. I am going to go with Aunt Donna on this one, after all, I know she'll be reading this :-)

She is very into talking about mom's growing chest, which is making me a bit nervous to hear what she will say to me when baby is here and hopefully nursing. Oh, the public humiliation!

Her favorite thing these days is Chapstik, a.k.a. Chalspik. She LOVES to be outside! We along with most everyone else are on summer break, or at least 2 week break. She will start back to her music classes in 2 weeks, but I am so glad we are getting this time together, she has grown so quickly and I know things will be changing so much more so soon, so I am embracing these moments!

Last week she had her Music School program where she sang "Be Our Guest" from Beauty and the Beast with 2 other girls. They were the first song and up on stage and a theatre here in town. Jason and I were a bit nervous that she would freeze when she got up there and saw the audience, but to our surprise, she did GREAT!! She sang so loud and well, she even paused a few times to say "Hi Mommy" and "Hi Daddy"! It was adorable!

That is enough of a catch up for now, I will try to get better at this especially with the changes so quickly happening!

Cassidy is on the Left in both of these pictures!