Alot has happened.

In the last week. It is weird that it has been a week since Dave passed away. We managed to move my mother in law on Saturday. That was a HUGE task! She still isn't done, but done enough that she doesn't need a moving truck so that it is good. She is pretty much unpacked, and is excited to be in her new place. I just have to get over there again probably this weekend and I promised her I would bring my bissell cleaner machine thing and clean her sofas since they could use it after the move and with everything. It feels nice to be able to go over to her new place and relax and just enjoy it. She has a lovely fireplace and will soon hang all of her pictures and such. It is pretty cool.
His obituary was in Saturday's paper. It was pretty emotional to read it. You know I was more shocked then anything with his age. I thought he was 56 this whole time, when he was really 54. I know it is just 2 years difference, but 2 years is 2 years. Seeing him in the paper was really sad. We all had a good cry over that..Mike and his sister were mentioned and that really touched both of them.
Next Monday is my 15th week appointment. Wow. I cannot get over how fast this pregnancy is going for me right this moment. I am sure it will slow up again for me as it was in the beginning, but it feels good to be progressing, and growing. I love the little updates I get that tell me what the baby is doing now, how big it is..etc..it feels great that I am going to be a mother for a 2nd time!
I am looking forward now to planning Matthew's birthday party in a few weeks. He requested it to be a dinosaur party, and as of this past weekend, he still wants a dinosaur theme. We aren't able to go all out on decos this time around..we will mostly have a dinosaur cake. Mike is making him a volcano cake with lots of cool, or I mean, dangerous looking dinosaurs on the cake. See, I introduced Mike to that Ace of Cakes show, and he is now addicted in a mean way to fondant. He has been having me bake up cakes so that he can practice playing with the fondant for Matthew's cake. I have to admit, he is pretty dang good! I think Matthew will look back later and think it was pretty cool that his dad made him such a neat-o cake. I know I am excited. I did find some inexpensive dino things at the Dollar Tree..but I don't even think we will have a ton of people so it is mostly just for him, and my family. I think we will have a couple of kids from daycare, but that is it..Maybe when he is 5 we will splurge again..but I need to simmer down on some of the costs with everything going on.
It amazes me how much he has changed in the last month. All of the leaps and bounds he has done are incredible! He really has good conversations with us now, vs us asking him yes or now questions..he can tell us what he did today without us prying to get the info out, and he isn't really repeating the same sentences over and over like he used to..you know what I mean. They learn a sentence, so that is what they aim to say all of the time..It feels good to be able to go back and forth in a good convo with him. But it also means that he is growing up and that makes me sad!