The Mixons haven’t done a very good job of keeping up with everyone via our blog. we didn’t even send a christmas newsletter this year! Yipes. Sounds like a family with preschoolers that’s about to have another baby to me!?
I’m here at work this slow Saturday and thought I might just throw out a few things that have been going on here in our family.
1)If we’ve done a really bad job of communicating with you…I’m pregnant with baby 3 due in august! No, we don’t know what it is – boy or girl – it’ll be a surprise for us all! The boys are pretty cool with it and Avery, jr has already decided that it is a boy, and he will be named Bob. Good thing he doesn’t have a weighty vote!! 🙂 Pregnancy is going relatively well and I’m feeling good.
2) We did not float away in the Nashville flood of ’10. Praise God for preserving our family that loss. We had some friends who did not fare as well and will soon see their house bulldozed to the ground – what an amazing thing water is! There is a lot of cleanup going on. I drove by the Opryland Hotel on my way to work this morning and there were dozens of Servicemaster vans, dumpsters, masked and gowned workers outside the hotel and mall complex working on the cleanup. What a mess!
3)Av and Parker are 2 and 4 – they’re so much fun but I definitely have a 2 year old in the house – NO! No! No! is all he says! Av has decided to surprise us with the fact that he is able to read…well. that’s been fun to see exactly what he can read and understand. Enter the world of “Is that ‘a’ a long ‘a’ or is it a short ‘a’?? They’re both pretty boisterous. In fact, I was on the phone last week with the car repairman while I was at the grocery store. The boys were in the buggy and I was a few steps away from them so I could hear what this man was trying to say. After a few minutes he said, “Ma’am, do you run a daycare?” Great. No, I said, that’s just my TWO boys here at the grocery store!! God only knows what three Mixons will sound like!
3)Parker likes hiding things, including himself, which he is very good at since he won’t answer me when I call his name. However, last week, the things hiding were the boys’ toothbrushes. He loves going in to the bathroom, but he isn’t supposed to be in there by himself. Somehow he got in. We couldn’t find those little boogers anywhere! I looked in every hiding spot I could think of and for 3-4 days, these toothbrushes were MIA. Thursday is diaper wash day. Yeah, here it comes. I took the dirty cloth diapers that were in 0ur diaper champ to the washing maching downstairs and as i dumped them in, heard two very distinct ‘CHINK’ noises. I look in the washer – 2 toothbrushes. GROSS!!!! Guess he liked the way he could stick them in the diaper champ, turn the handle, and poof! they disappear like magic. What a goof.
4)My husband is the sweetest, most patient man ever. He secretly planned to take the boys, by himself, while I was working this morning, to get their 2 and 4 year-old pictures taken that were horribly overdue. If you haven’t ever taken small children to have their pictures made, you have no idea what a task this is…especially without back-up with you. He bathed them this morning, dressed them all up, and took them solo. the pictures are great and they are so cute! I’ll have to post some pics of them later. Can’t here at the clinic. Love you, baby!
Well, that’s about all I got for now. Hopefully more later, with some pictures to look at, too!
PostScript – had no idea he was posting the photo shoot pics the same time I was writing this!! We should get married! 🙂
Born 2:22am, our firstborn makes his entrance
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