Randoms

*I am so glad to be moving out of this place before it falls apart! The other day I was scrubbing the bathtub (it seems to attract mold like nothing I've ever seen) and one of the tiles just caved in! I could have put my entire hand in there - but didn't because that would be disgusting! The maintenance guys came to fix it this morning and were in there for over 3 hours! Well, I had had 2 cups of coffee and needed to use the bathroom so I decided to just use the one in the boys' room that never gets used. But the last time it was actually used last month it overflowed and caused a huge mess. So I had the brilliant idea to 'test-flush' it just to be sure it was fixed. Good idea right? Nope. Water started gushing out of the tank. Literally gushing. I screamed for the maintenance man to come, he lifted up the tank's lid and said he'd stopped it, then went back to work on the other bathroom. I went to work cleaning up the mess but within 30 seconds it was gushing out again. Something was wrong with the pipes and the tank was filling after each flush but not stopping once it was full. I screamed again and the maintenance man came running in again, this time he fiddled with something on the floor and shut off the toilet's water supply for good. But by then there was a good 3-4 inches of water on the floor. He ran downstairs to get a wet/dry vac and sucked up all the water for me. Of course, the boys were crowding around and trying to splash in the water the whole time... because what else would they possibly be doing during all that excitement? Well a couple of hours and a load of laundry later, the bathroom was clean and dry. But what a crazy morning!

*Aside from the bathroom, my entire house is a shambles. Between purging our clothes/furniture/junk before the move, organizing and packing, and those twin tornadoes that live here there's no room to even walk across the floor right now. But we're moving 2 weeks from today so I better get it together!

*The boys are saying so many more new words: apple, juice, out, church, book, bus/truck, shoes, feet, uh-oh, and poo-poo ;-) They don't say all of these words by themselves, though, some of them they only repeat when we've already said it. And I even got Jack to 'count' to 5 the other day! I would say the numbers and he repeated most of them after me! He had a lot of trouble with four and never really got it out, but loved the others. His favorites were two (dooooo) and five. By the time he gets to five he's so excited that it's barely discernible!

*We are so excited that Brandon's parents are coming out to help us move and spend some time with us at the end of the month! We can't wait to see you guys again! You won't believe how fun the boys are now! I know I say that all the time, but they actually do get more fun and cute every single day!

*Jack's been giving me the sweetest unsolicited kisses lately. Sometimes I'll be holding him but be busy with something else and he'll just swing his face in front of mine, flash a sweet smile, and plant a kiss on me! Oh be still my heart!

*I have lots of pictures to upload from the past week. We went to a pumpkin patch in Pennsylvania on Saturday and had so much fun! I'll try to get them up soon!