Black eye

David and I were watching America's funniest home videos were they showed a montage of messing children, when they got into paint, bubbles, or makeup and we both thought, "that will not be our child". Well I spoke too soon. This morning, eliza found a mascara that I threw away and had watched me put it on, so she went right on doing it just like mommy,.... well.....

the bad thing was that this was waterproof mascara so I had to bust out some makeup remover to get it off. We got most of it off before we went to church.

Things that I have learned being a mother of two for a whole 2 weeks.

I feel like I am changing diapers all of the time..... and I feel like Eliza is picking the craziest places to have a poopy diaper. I swear before Fenton I rarely changed her in public or while we were out, but now it is almost every time. And I feel like as soon as I have one child that is clean, the next child is dirty in 30 minutes. I have learned to change both children at the same time, no matter what, or at least check both of them while I am in the changing diaper mode.

I have done so much laundry. I had a clean outfit for Fenton, feeling good about being prepared and having it right by my side, but to no avail. When I changed his diaper, he piddled on his new clean outfit, not so clean anymore and just added to the laundry without even being worn.

Sleep is a luxury. My biggest fear is the as soon as I get Fenton down, Eliza will wake up or start crying.

the house

There has been some progress on the house. We are seeing the vision come together. The roof is on and roofed with shingles and the next step is the plumbing and electrical.

David has worked super hard and we are starting to see results and the vision.

Hurrican/TS Hanna, house, Fenton

With the arrival of Fenton, my parents came and visited for a couple of days. It has been an eventful week for us all. First there was the threat of Hurricane Hanna. We were watching and waiting all week and we watched as people bought tons of plywood to board up their house. We didn't take that extreme, instead we decided to put up our walls and trusses for the storm. We wanted to see if our craftsmanship could withstand a hurricane down here. David, Paul, and my dad worked on the house 12 hours a day to get the walls up, the trusses built and the roof on in time to have the storm hit Friday afternoon.

I purchased more water and filled our tank with gas and just waited. Truly we weren't expecting much but just in case, we were ready.

Well Friday came and the boys hard work paid off and they were finished right when the rain started to come. It was just a stormy day for us with a lot of rain, and not a lot of wind. We went back to the house Saturday morning and everything was still standing and ready to go. We were so grateful that our prayers were answered and it was not a severe storm.

It has been great to have my parents in town. Eliza has taken to Grandma very well. they are best friends, because Grandma is the Treat Queen. She has been a big help for me to be able to run errands or leave the kids with Grandma and get some things done.

Fenton is great. He actually has been sleeping through the night already. I know that it will probably change, but I will enjoy my sleep right now. Eliza has done really well with him. She doesn't smother him as much and is trying to be more soft. There are still times we have to be careful, but she is a great big sister.

Fenton David Hirschi II

He is here!! We are so excited. Tuesday morning I went into the hospital and was induced at 9:30 and baby Fenton came at 2:00 that afternoon. Everything went really smooth. We are both home and healthy. He was 7 lbs 7 oz and nearly 20 inches long. Eliza is a great sister and loves giving kisses, getting the blanket and pacifier.

All is well at home. David has taken a few days off and my parents are coming next week. We are so excited for them to come and visit and see the newest addition to our family.

Thank you for your prayers.

Tropical Storm Fay

We were pretty excited when we got our permits to start on our foundation, and we started digging. There are a few pics of that process.

Though tropical Storm Fay hit Florida, we did feel some effect and outer bands of the storm. We have had some pretty heavy rains the past couple of days.

Well with the storm coming through it has rained on and off for the last 3 days and the last pics are the result of that. Yet again our project is on hold a bit longer... but we do now have a mote for our castle or a water feature...whatever you want to call it.

Eliza update

Eliza still the cutest thing ever. She is really starting to pick up words and trying to communicate. I am pretty sure that she is fluent in Albanian but she is just jabbering away as soon as she wakes up about whatever and in whatever language that we can't understand. She does try singing the "ABC's" and wheels on the bus. She says "I love you" really well.

She is starting to look and act like a little two year old.

We started putting her in nursery at the beginning of June but she didn't do very well with us gone. With in the last couple of weeks she is doing much better. She is still a little scared, and comes out maybe once during church to look for us, but she is doing better. We are working on her staying for the whole 2 hours now.

A couple of weeks ago our friend took us out on the boat and took us for a ride. i was worried about how Eliza was going to handle it. I took off her hat so it wouldn't blow off, and that was the only thing she cried about. I gave her her hat back and she loved the boat ride. She is a Carter after all. And David is super excited because that means that she loves the water and he is more likely to get a boat..... in about 10 years.

baby update

I am officially due on friday the 22 of august but I am feeling way too good to feel like I am going to have the baby in 2 days. I wish and hope that I would start having contractions, but alas. I saw the doctor yesterday and we are planning to induce on Tuesday the 26th, if I don't have it this weekend. So that is very exciting.

One of my friends threw me a shower. It was so great. The theme was sailboats. It was super cute with really great food. I want to thank all of my friends for their thoughtfull gifts and Katie for throwing such a cute party.