Found the culprit......

Well as you know Monday began the Chinese New Year's.  This means all gov't offices are closed ALL week....ugghhhhh.  The last signing of documents would have been Friday which puts a delivery of this week Monday or Tuesday.  Unfortunately we did not receive our TA so now comes a horrible wait.  Gov't offices don't open until next Monday and then with travel time for the documents our agency said they won't be seeing any TAs for 2 weeks if they get right in and sign away and send out right away, I won't be holding my breath. 

At this point I don't even know what to say.  I know we haven't been waiting forever for our TA.  The average time frame would be this Thursday but honestly I'm just done.  Done with the wait, done with stressing, done with worrying about leaving the kids, done with worrying about Caleb, just done!  I want my baby home.

So to try to make the days go faster and keep my mind off of things I am nesting and packing.  I am hoping that this way the days before we leave I can just spend time with the kids playing.  I would hate to be going crazy right before and then have to leave them.  Can you tell this is going to be hard for me???  I already told Ben he has to change all the fire alarm batteries before we leave.  I ordered enough inhalers for Nathan for about 3 months....lol.  I am planning to go through the fire escape routes again with the kids.  Yep I am in total panic mode in leaving them.

So back to the nesting.....
I have emptied out every room but the kitchen and our bedroom and vacuumed every corner.  Only putting back in what is needed.  Last week when I was laying in bed I remembered we were missing a little toy of Katie's for months.  Can't find it.  Then I started thinking that once Caleb was here what happens if he wakes up in the middle of the night and I don't hear him.  What if he starts going through the room and gets into something he could choke on....like that little toy! 

Ok if you are thinking this crazy lady worries about everything.....you are right!  I wish I didn't but at the same time I'm sure it has saved us in some situations too. 

Well this week  while cleaning and organizing guess what I found.....

The culprit.....yep those darn little squinkies.  They are fun and so cute but so hard for Katie to keep in one place and out of the reach of little hands!  Let me just say when I did find this under some books Katie went crazy with excitement :-)

To try to make sure everything has a place we have started labeling everything.  This way no one can tell me they didn't know where to put it.  Here is some in the playroom.   The kids have baskets in their closet up high so the little toys are out of the reach of the 2 little ones.   I love it!  I'm hoping that the pictures will help the little ones with putting away items in the future and the words help Katie with reading and it was a request from Nathan because he is "to big for pictures since I can read!"

So that is my life lately......worry, clean, stress, organize, worry, wait and in between enjoy the kids as much as possible!!!!!