"I don't like this little village at all." – E.

Sorry sweetheart it just happens to be your hometown.  Get used to it.

This past Sunday we went to my EQ company picnic out at Paradise Park in Novi.  We ate good food (at least Kelly and I did; the girls ate just about nothing, mostly because they were stunned by the loud music blaring from the DJ), and the girls jumped in bounce houses and on trampolines.  My two biggest girls also rode go-karts around.

Then came the arcade games.

My oldest daughter went off to first grade today. Once again I had the privilege of taking her for the first day. I asked her if I could take a picture of her outside the school, and she said no. She was very excited to get in the door and back to school.

She walked in, and was all business. She unpacked her backpack as fast as she could, put all her supplies inside the desk, and sat down. The girl was ready for school to start. We're excited for her, too.

Life with four children six and under definitely has been interesting. We have seven weeks under our belts now and I have to say, while it gets pretty crazy around our house at times, it hasn't been as crazy as I envisioned it would be. We rarely have a moment to spare but what extra time we need seems to be borrowed from sleeping time. We've been sleep deprived for so long now I don't know that we've even noticed a difference over the past seven weeks.

It's hard to believe that a week ago at this time we were just getting ready to meet our little A. The baby and I had spent some 39 weeks together and now we were finally going to be able to see each other. I was hoping that we would have met sooner but that just wasn't meant to be, as it was it couldn't have worked out more perfectly.

I was scheduled for a dr. appointment at 9:30 that morning, June 18th. The dr. planned on administering a treatment that may or may not start my labor. I had the same treatment the week before and although it made me feel miserable for a while it didn't send me into labor. I wasn't going to get my hopes up this time, but I did have my mother and hospital bag with me just in case! After giving me the treatment and checking everything over the dr. said, "If you feel like anything has changed, come back in and if it has, we'll send you over to labor & delivery and get things going." Upon hearing that I was determined that I would feel something change!