Stiiilllll Gestating

Well, the bun is still in the oven...4 days late so far.  This of course comes as no surprise, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's all peachy.  I was hoping I'd get lucky like my sister Amy, whose girls came on or just after their due dates.  But alas, I am following the more usual pattern of the family and going later and later...

I suppose it's working out for the best though.  Jeremy had his last day of class yesterday and just has 2 finals left to do this week, so it's nice for him to be able to focus just on that.  And my mom was supposed to come yesterday, but Southwest told her on Monday that her flight might not be able to make it because of bad weather in Chicago (where her layover was), so they were offering to let her change her flight at no additional cost for anytime in the next 14 days.  Pretty awesome!  Of course I was super sad because I've been just trying to make it until she got here and then I knew I'd have her around to keep me cheery, but it really is nice that she can just book it for whenever.  (Poor Eli cried and cried because we've been counting down the days until Grandma came. :( I felt his pain).

ANYWAY, so that's the latest.  I was happy to be at church on Sunday for our Ward Conference.  My ward choir really came together and sang awesome!  I was so pleased.  And the boys have been really fun lately.  Jeremy and Eli played hide and seek about 50 times this last weekend.  Jeremy would make him count higher and higher every time and now he can count to 100 and Connor blew us away by all of a sudden busting out numbers 1-14.  I guess he was paying attention!  It was pretty cute.  He's never counted past 2 before. :)  He keeps missing 7, but I still think it's pretty darn good.  I managed to get a video yesterday when we convinced him to do it again:

He's really becoming a great talker.  He picks up on so much, often busting out random things like, "Nice to meet you" and his most recent - calling Eli "Eli George Nowland!" when he's trying to get his attention. Haha.  It's pretty funny.

They've both also been very into books lately.  I guess since it's horrid weather all the time we've been going to the library a lot and reading a LOT of books, which is great!  When my voice gets tired, they both have fun just sitting on the couch or floor "reading" to themselves.  Eli has several of our books memorized too, and loves to read them to Connor.  Here's a cute video of Eli "reading" "The Foot Book":

So there's the news!  I'm starting to run out of ways to distract myself, but I'm working on it...oh, and I forgot to mention that Jeremy and I got to go on a date last weekend!  This seems to only happen quarterly :) so we were very excited.  My friend Mary insisted on babysitting for us so we could go out before the baby came.  We were VERY grateful and had a wonderful time.  We went to dinner at this awesome Lebanese restaurant and then went and got dessert.  It was heaven!