31 weeks pregnant...

I have finally hit the 30+ week mark! Thank Goodness. I have to say the first part went by so quickly and now for some reason it is inching by. This pregnancy has been interesting with these two lately... It's funny what pregnancy does to your kids. Belle has turned into a little mother herself. She really tries hard to take care of Cash or her dolls or well anything. When she is suppose to be sleeping I can her talking... her two way talking! She is the Mom and the Baby... I have heard her say, "Okay Paige (talking to her doll Paige) it is time to sleep!" Then in a tiny voice she says, "No I'm not sleepy Mama! I have to play and dance and sing!" Then I hear Belle putting Paige into time out till she is ready for bed. Hahaha it's hilarious! She can't get enough about hearing about baby Paige. SO MANY QUESTIONS like... when she coming...today?, How you going to get her out of that big tummy?, You won't cry?, will she be this big or this big... OR!!! this big!!?, She will be my sister not my brother?" She is such a big helper I am having a bit of trouble bending down as most pregnant ladies do and she runs to help me. Or she will run and grab things for me! I have a feeling Paige and I will be very well taken care of when she comes. Cash is so sweet.... He sees me not feeling to well or having my issue stuff and he has me sit on my cozy chair and puts a soft blanket on me and gets up next to me and sings Paige a song! His favorite one to sing to her is Twinkle Twinkle. He will put his hand on my stomach and say Paige you stop making Mom sick! Cash for some reason will not leave my side! Like he has to be on my lap or "up" constantly... Like even playing with friends he just sits on my lap or he will finally go play but come back crying for me to hold him. Or if I leave for a errand he bawls and cries Mommy over and over. He has never done that before. He wants to cuddle all the time. He wants me to sleep with him every night. I don't sleep with him... so he gets out of his bed 100rds of times it feels like so he can come sit on my lap! It is so weird for him to do this. his normal is quite opposite he usually likes to do his own thing and is happy with whatever. I wonder if he feels there is going to be a new baby soon. It's interesting. I feel crazy saying there is going to be a baby soon because I feel like Belle and Cash are still so little like in the pictures. It's hard for me to believe that Belle will be 4 in November and Cash 3 shortly after. They aren't so little anymore- especially when both of them talk better than I do and eat more too!!! I am excited to see what this little Paige is going to be like! If anything like these two we are going to have a VERY lively house!

Turn Lemons into Lemonade!

So Forest Grove is finally giving up on raining for the past little bit. It has been in the 70's and 80's these past days. So so excitedly Belle, Cash, and I got in our swim suits and headed to the Hillsboro splash park. We found Monkey walking home on the way so he jumped in the car and decided to study for his finals in the shade while we played in the water. We pulled up to the park and NOTHING... no water. We were too early it doesn't come on till like May. We were all so sad! So we drove back home... But we stopped at Sonic and our attitudes changed! We Mullins love us some Sonic! So we got popcorn chicken, slushes, corn dog, onion rings, chicken strip sandwiches,  and me a vanilla sprite! SOOOO healthy right!! Anyways we drove to our favorite little park that was absolutely breathe taking! Spring has done an incredible job on this place! I could not get over the beauty of it! It smelt so good too! We finally sat down and had our picnic and then the kids instead of playing on the play ground explored every flower they saw. I layed in the grass and tanned- the sun felt so good! Belle and Cash played in a field full of those dandelion wish weeds... If you know my little Belle you probably already now what she was doing... She was pretending she was Belle on Beauty and the Beast! She was taking the dandelion wishes and making them float away in the wind just like Belle does and also singing the song Belle does in the movie. Oh I wish I would have recorded it.. Her tiny little chipmunk voice! And if you know Cash you know what he was doing... copying Belle! Trying to sing and everything just like my Belle. Cash is having a problem lately... he thinks he is a girl. We will ask him if he is a boy and he says, "no I am a girl!" Then I will say, "no you are a boy like daddy... You will one day grow into a man and be a daddy to one day." He says, "Noooo I will be a Mommy and I have a boy and girl baby in my tummy!" Hahah he wants to wear dresses and make up and my sun glasses! I guess that is what I get for dressing all my boy cousins and nephews up as a girl when I was little! Monkey isn't too happy about it- He is thinking of taking him to the father and sons camp out so he will man up! It's hilarious! Anyways we loved our day at our park! Even though Monkey was just studying we were so happy he was close by! I love days like this when something doesn't work the way you want and all of a sudden it turns out 100rd times better!!

Oh yes I have to introduce the cat! This cat comes round all the time. I try so hard not to let Belle and Cash play with it cause who knows what disease the thing has. But one day as I had the door open it ran upstairs and all I heard was laughing... The kids found it and named her "Girly"... So I caved and remembered my childhood when I brought stray dogs, cats, wild birds, frogs, etc home and tried to keep them!! So I caved and let them play with Girly. They love her so much....

And I love this... My favorite dessert in the whole world... Fruit Pizza! I love when people have birthdays or babies because I have the excuse to make it and save 4 or 5 pieces for Monk and Me while we snuggle on the couch and the house is quiet! Pure Happiness!!!

And this dessert was extra special because we both snuck a slice before Monkey started his week of finals!!!! I can not believe he has 4 tests left and he is done with his second year of Optometry school. He has a week off and then BOOM he is in clinic with patients! Hahah wow! Where did time go? We got to Forest Grove and Belle was not even 2 and Cash was a big chunky baby and I thought we would never be done with school or ever get out of this rain fest!. Now they are so big... Belle is starting school next fall, Cash could be in preschool also if I wanted but I don't think so, and I am having number 3... and we only have a year left in Forest Grove!!! Wow! I am so excited for Monkey- He loves what he is doing so much! And I just love him so much!

21 Point

The 21 Point!!! Oh mercy is all I have to say.... This is the examination that you get every time you go into the eye doctor! It is a 1 hour and 20 minutes long and it is not easy! This whole semester Monkey has had to learn, practice, and know this and now this last week he had to take the examination proficiency for it. I think I was more nervous for him to take it than he was! If he doesn't pass this he can't work in clinic or.... be a doctor to put it bluntly! Anyways this test was quite the process for Monkey- but it is finally over and he ended up doing great! I have no idea how I got away with cooking a homemade Chicken Tikka Masala and Naan bread without him even knowing. Our celebration night was so fun and we had all his favorites root beer and pie!! Monkey is going to be an amazing doctor!!! I can't believe he is going to be a 3rd year in less than 2 weeks, meaning he will get his white coat and start working in clinics and seeing patients! It's an exciting time in our lives!!

A change of scenery!

This last weekend Monkey had a break from studying and the weather was suppose to be beautiful so we headed to the beach. And man was was it beautiful. We went to a little beach called Arcadia Beach... We never went to this one before... but we will be going to this one a lot more! I think I found my favorite spot on the beautiful coast! We had such a relaxing happy time, and spent all day soaking up the sun. The kids were overjoyed to be there. The wanted to stay forever.... I wouldn't mind that! We have a year left in Forest Grove and I am sure going to miss our hour away from the beach! This is where Monkey and I feel our best!! I love it. I know this is where the kids do as well!!! They love each other all the time but at the beach they magically don't fight or yell or nothing. They have to be together holding hands and showing each other everything the other discovered. It's paradise! The highlights of the day had to be the little puddle Belle and Cash found. They wouldn't get out of it forever! They were army crawling in it, jumping, pretending to swim, running away from the cave trolls!!, etc! While my 3rd child Monkey climbed up the sides of the caves!!! Crazy! I loved watching Cash and Monkey play soccer with the beach ball while Belle and I basked in the sun eating raspberries! These kids are so lucky. They have the most fun loving father! Monkey   is so perfect with them. He is always running around, chasing them, hugging them, dancing with them, laughing, playing air plane... you name it! He loves his kids... and he sure lets them know every second of the day. Another one was the over look of the coast. The kids were falling a asleep in the car (didn't last long) so Monkey and I sat on the edge of the look out and talked about cheesy stuff and looked at the absolute Beauty! But the biggest highlight of all was our dollar store huge black glasses Belle really wanted to get to be twins!! Hahaa no it was having pure time together! I love this little family of mine! I can't wait to take my little Paige to the beach for the first time!

Peacock escape

So trying to pass the 2 1/2 weeks till Monkey is done with his semester we have been trying to figure out fun things to do between rain spurts! So one morning we headed to see the peacocks! I am so fascinated by these birds. Beautiful. We had a great time. I love when we go somewhere and we are all happy. Because lately that has not been the case. Belle has had a hard time lately being happy (besides at Grandmas) or pleasant I should say! Cash is catching on to her attitude and all I hear from his mouth it seems is "NO" or his tongue is sticking out at me! So lets just say when we were all smiles today I had a hard time not feeling overly happy as well even though all I try not to think about is how tired I am! But anyways it was lovely! And a peacock was in love with Cash- it would not leave him alone for some reason! I was in love with the pure white peacock! I have never seen one before!