Let's see since July, we have been moving right along. I was extremely hot and sick and miserable till about the end of August. Chris finished up his Imed rotation and started on Surgery. All in all 3rd year has been a piece of cake. Surgery was probably the hardest, but just because 4 O'clock in the morning did not suit my sleeping habits. As usual Chris can keep going on little to no sleep, but I have a harder time with it. I would get woken up with him at 4 and then be just dosing off when I would have to get Benny up. Then just crawling back in bed when the Littles would wake up. Tough Life I know. Ha. Overall though I think we handled it like a pro. Chris did great on both rotations and got really good marks and excellent letters of recommendation lined up. I think it would have been easier if I hadn't been pregnant. The kids did great and all thought they are all going through different adolescent attitude changes, I survived somehow. Chris is in his Physic rotation right now and the 8-5 is awesome. Don't get me wrong I had plenty of crazy days and crying and stress, but nothing compared to what I was expecting. They say Imed and surgery are the hardest. Well in that case, it should be smooth sailing from here on out, LOL, till 4th year. Chris's top choice as of now is Anesthesiology and ER is coming in second. We shall see. At the end, of September we found out that we are having a baby Girl. I had really mixed emotions about this. I mean girls are great and I have always wanted to have both, but I sure do love my boys and would have totally welcomed another little man to our family. It will be a lot of fun to figure out how to raise a girl though, and now I won't get left out of all the fun bow and tutu making parties, my friends have, LOL. She will definitely be spoiled. All my boys seem to think that girls are soft ad delicate. I am not sure how much of a chance she has of that, but hopefully she will be treated as sweetly as they treat me. Benjamin started first grade and is getting much better at his reading and writing. He still hates it and I have to struggle every day to get him to do his homework, but it is much better. He loves math and science and thinks his teacher Mr. G is smarter than daddy and has a better Ho Ho Ho. I am not sure about the smarter part, but he does have a bigger bowl full of jelly for being Santa. He still loves super heroes and is getting into Legos. He still loves to snuggle and give me hugs and loves to talk to the baby and give her hugs too. Caleb started pre-school and made it a whole month and a half before dropping out, LOL. It was a public Pre-k and was half day everyday. The main reason we took him out was finances, but he had started complaining and not wanting to go and since I don't think pre-school is important I didn't care too much when it worked out better. I have loved having him here to play with Joshua. I will miss him next year when he starts Kindergarten. But I still miss Benny everyday, so that is just normal for me. Joshua is growing like a weed and is 3 weeks from turning 3. I will just post a little on him since he will have a birthday post in a little bit. HE IS POTTY TRAINED! My earliest one to get potty trained and y most stubborn one. The only method that worked, was letting him go naked for a couple of weeks. He loves to ask questions, tons and tons of questions. I have to say I am probably not as patient as I could be with his curiosity, but I try to answer as many as possible, before I cut him off. Halloween was fun. Benjamin went as a Ninja, Caleb as Robin, and Joshua as Superman. I tried my hardest to get him to go as batman, but he wouldn't have it. In Benjamin's words, I went as a big fat Jack-O-Lantern, and Chris went as the Most Interesting Man in the World, from the Dos Equis commercials. I did actually get into the Halloween spirit a few ties and we made mummy pizzas, and spider cookies, but other than that I wasn't in my usual Halloween crazed mood. I blame it on the pregnancy, which is what I blame everything on.

We spent a nice peaceful thanksgiving right here and just enjoyed getting Chris all to ourselves for a week. We had steak and baked potato and fried pies and watched lots of movies. We played at the park and road bikes and slept in and went to bed late. I think it was probably my most favorite Thanksgiving ever. Then we decorated for Christmas and have been moving right along. I now have about 9 weeks till baby girl gets here and am getting nervous, due to the lack of pink in our house, but I guess it won't hurt her to wear some blue, LOL. I have been able to work out this whole pregnancy and kept my weight gain down to a minimum, but still have to deal with Gestational diabetes. Oh well its not like the diet isn't good for me. I am glad it is almost over though and can tell that I am not cut out for more than one more pregnancy after this one. I am feeling my age. How the Duggars do it I don't know, but I don't want to find out. Well, I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and remembers the reason we celebrate. Christ should always be the center of our lives, but especially this time of year let's remember to celebrate his life ad everything that we have been blessed with because of his great sacrifice. I have a testimony that he lives and loves each and every one of us. I know that we can return to our Heavenly Father through him. Merry Christmas!