Additions

This is one of the kids' favorite passtime. There's enough unevenness on the cement behind the house that when you water it with the hose, it makes a small puddle. They ran back and forth in the puddle for like 15 minutes and then played happily making "puddle soup" with bits of grass and sticks and dandelions and leaves from the yard. Linus thought it would be a good idea to sit back and relax in the puddle at one point, until he quickly realized before I could stop him that his rear was sopping wet as soon as he did it. That was a sad moment in the life of Linus.

We've also had some additions to our household, which I have yet to get some pictures of yet, but they aren't as cute as my kids so it wouldn't be as exciting anyway. :-)
Last Friday night, as I mentioned, Craig went to pick up our car in Utah and it made it's way back into our garage! It's very nice and super easy to drive (for any of you out there conisdering the Honda Pilot, get a decent used one at a good price and they are totally worth it!! So far anyway...). I've driven it once from the grocery store back home and it was just like driving the Accord, smooth as silk. However, currently there is a large shed in our driveway (that's another story for another time) and I'm not comfortable backing the Pilot back into the garage like Craig can, so I don't plan on using it on my own until I have enough space to get to the street from my driveway without crunching the car or the shed.
Secondly, to preface the thirdly, we have a new room in our house! I would go take a picture of the finished product right now, but the guy from our ward who we hired to build it for us is up there fixing a couple of things, so I don't want to bother him. Basically, our "master" bedroom used to be two smaller bedrooms, but some previous tennant took out the wall between the two rooms and made it one long room. While we liked having the extra space in our room, we hardly use it and with the upcoming baby, we didn't want the baby sleeping in our room nor did we think there was really room for all three of our kids to fit in the other bedroom that is upstairs that Chloe and Linus are currently sharing. So we decided to compromise: we put the wall back up in our room to separate the two spaces again, except instead of adding the door back into the hallway, we just put two pocket doors in the middle of the wall so that it still sorta feels like one big room when it's open, but we're putting the baby "nursery" on the other side and when the baby is sleeping, we just shut the pocket doors. This is also leading us to replace the basboards, closets, and doors in our room, take out the popcorn ceilings, and repaint everything upstairs. I'm having trouble knowing where to stop with what we can afford to do, though: if we replace the basboards, we have to do it in the nursery as well as our room, and then...into the hallway and the kids' room...and then down the stairs....and then the living rooms...and then the entire house, right? And then all the doors and window sills and do we want crown molding anywhere else but the bedrooms and do we need to replace the windows and do we need to remodle the kitchen and the fireplace and recarpet and...well it just doesn't end, really, so I'm going to have to draw the line somwhere. We'll just cross that bridge when we get there I guess. For right now, we have a wall with two pocket doors in it. Yay!
Thirdly, in honor of having a real "nursery", Craig picked up some baby furniture at IKEA while he was in Utah. Sort of. We picked out what we wanted from the catalogue before he even left, but then they didn't have exactly what we wanted in stock, and seeing as there is no IKEA in Denver (yet) and shipping would be over $300 to do it online, we needed to get something there.
What we originally wanted was the changing table (pictured below) with two columns on either side that had shelfs and drawers on them with the connecting peg shelf in between the columns above the changing table. But they didn't sell the columns anymore, so we opted for the slightly more expensive matching wardrobes instead, and considered ourselves lucky because now we have extra badly needed storage space for baby/kid stuff. This is what it will sort of look like, except all right next to each other and the shelf connecting the two wardrobes over the changing table.