Well......it was bound to happen.....me and my BIG mouth bragging that Roman had never jumped out of his crib :\
The other day....Friday to be exact......Bob took Roman up to take a nap before Kailey's party. He was being a real crab and I knew it was going to be a LONG night. So Bob takes him up and of course he starts crying that he doesn't need a nap LOL. Bob goes to the bathroom in our room and I then hear, "What the hell?" Roman met him at the bathroom door!
So mean mommy had to go up and yell at Roman to get in his room and put him back in the crib. I then told him to go to sleep and he better not jump out again!
Well, the past 2 nights Roman has made his way to our bed in the middle of the night. He never even made a noise getting into our bed. Like last night I woke up at 5:30am to go potty and there he was in the middle of the bed....lil shit LOL
So I finally did it.....took the dang rail off the crib tonight. It was ROUGH! He has been complaining for weeks that he is scared of his room because there is a ghost in his closet :\ I had to stay up there for a half hour yelling at him to get back in his bed......he was crying for his daddy......he wanted to sleep with Kailey.....he wanted to sleep with me......anything besides in his bed LOL I felt horrible, but stood my ground and finally he fell asleep IN HIS BED.
I am SURE he will end up in our bed in the middle of the night *sigh*
Whhhhhhhhhhhhy couldn't he just be cool in his crib for another couple of months? Whhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhy? LMAO
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
My Baby Is 12!!
Well I officially feel old.....my oldest baby turned 12 years old on Friday. *sniff*
It's part of the reason I haven't blogged all week. I had been gearing up for the little shin dig I hosted here at the house Friday for Kailey. We had family over and Kailey had a couple of her girlfriend's here as well. I ordered out most of the food......fried chicken, veggie tray......and my sweet MIL made her famous potato salad. That just left me to make my yummy bacon baked beans and taco salad. We also had some chips and dip....and of COURSE cake and ice cream!
Kailey chose her cake & theme......no surprise it was Pittsburgh Penguins LOL She asked for a photo cake using a picture we took at her first (and only so far) hockey game back in January. She is standing in front of a poster of her favorite player, Sidney Crosby, at Mellon Arena......they did a good job with the cake I thought:
So the party went off without a hitch and no one left hungry :) Kailey's friends slept over......I use the term 'slept' but in actuality they stayed up til 6am. Bob and I were too exhausted to get out of bed and yell at them to go to sleep LOL Lucky them!
Saturday one of her friends left around 9:30am and I took the other girl home after we went to see a matinee.......which I had to leave 1/2 hour into because Roman wanted to go to the van and watch HIS movie *ugh*. We went to this girls house and stayed for her sister's birthday party.......I am really good friends with her mother, I'm not just a hungry pregnant lady trying to scam some more birthday cake hehehehe. The little girl turned 3, so she is the same age as Roman and they are best buddies. It was nice to relax and let the kids run around and play in my friends giant country yard. They had a blast, and so did I. We didn't get home until after 9pm! Needless to say I was SPENT!! After a hot bath I hit the bed and sacked out big time.....
Today I worked on a few loose ends I had around here, had Kailey write out her Thank You cards and then we worked on her science fair display board that is due Tuesday.
So basically I was just plain busy this weekend LOL It was nice though. Although this does kick off birthday season for our family.....not to mention Mother's Day is in there and OH how can I forget I should be having a baby in a few weeks!
There was my weekend in a nutshell. Hopefully I'll be back to blog again before NEXT Sunday.......So far my week this week doesn't look too busy. Whew. I'm glad cause I need a little break :)
It's part of the reason I haven't blogged all week. I had been gearing up for the little shin dig I hosted here at the house Friday for Kailey. We had family over and Kailey had a couple of her girlfriend's here as well. I ordered out most of the food......fried chicken, veggie tray......and my sweet MIL made her famous potato salad. That just left me to make my yummy bacon baked beans and taco salad. We also had some chips and dip....and of COURSE cake and ice cream!
Kailey chose her cake & theme......no surprise it was Pittsburgh Penguins LOL She asked for a photo cake using a picture we took at her first (and only so far) hockey game back in January. She is standing in front of a poster of her favorite player, Sidney Crosby, at Mellon Arena......they did a good job with the cake I thought:
So the party went off without a hitch and no one left hungry :) Kailey's friends slept over......I use the term 'slept' but in actuality they stayed up til 6am. Bob and I were too exhausted to get out of bed and yell at them to go to sleep LOL Lucky them!
Saturday one of her friends left around 9:30am and I took the other girl home after we went to see a matinee.......which I had to leave 1/2 hour into because Roman wanted to go to the van and watch HIS movie *ugh*. We went to this girls house and stayed for her sister's birthday party.......I am really good friends with her mother, I'm not just a hungry pregnant lady trying to scam some more birthday cake hehehehe. The little girl turned 3, so she is the same age as Roman and they are best buddies. It was nice to relax and let the kids run around and play in my friends giant country yard. They had a blast, and so did I. We didn't get home until after 9pm! Needless to say I was SPENT!! After a hot bath I hit the bed and sacked out big time.....
Today I worked on a few loose ends I had around here, had Kailey write out her Thank You cards and then we worked on her science fair display board that is due Tuesday.
So basically I was just plain busy this weekend LOL It was nice though. Although this does kick off birthday season for our family.....not to mention Mother's Day is in there and OH how can I forget I should be having a baby in a few weeks!
There was my weekend in a nutshell. Hopefully I'll be back to blog again before NEXT Sunday.......So far my week this week doesn't look too busy. Whew. I'm glad cause I need a little break :)
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Laws Concerning Food & Drink......
This was sent to me via email from my friend M.A.
.....it's a really great read and you should end up with a smile on your face at one point or another LOL
Of the beasts of the field, and of the fishes of the sea, and of all foods that are acceptable in my sight you may eat, but not in the living room. Of the hoofed animals, broiled or ground into burgers,you may eat, but not in the living room. Of the cloven-hoofed animal, plain or with cheese, you may eat, but not in the living room. Of the cereal grains, of the corn and of the wheat and of the oats, and of all the cereals that are of bright color and unknown provenance you may eat, but not in the living room. Of the quiescently frozen dessert and of all frozen after-meal treats you may eat, but absolutely not in the living room. Of the juices and other beverages, yes, even of those in sippy-cups, you may drink, but not in the living room, neither may you carry such therein. Indeed, when you reach the place where the living room carpet begins, of any food or beverage there you may not eat, neither may you drink. But if you are sick, and are lying down and watching something, then may you eat in the living room.
Laws When at Table
And if you are seated in your high chair, or in a chair such as a greater person might use, keep your legs and feet below you as they were. Neither raise up your knees, nor place your feet upon the table,for that is an abomination to me. Yes, even when you have an interesting bandage to show, your feet upon the table are an abomination, and worthy of rebuke. Drink your milk as it is given you, neither use on it any utensils, nor fork, nor knife, nor spoon, for that is not what they are for; if you will dip your blocks in the milk, and lick it off, you will be sent away. When you have drunk, let the empty cup then remain upon the table, and do not bite it upon its edge and by your teeth hold it to your face in order to make noises in it sounding like a duck; for you will be sent away. When you chew your food, keep your mouth closed until you have swallowed, and do not open it to show your brother or your sister what is within; I say to you, do not so, even if your brother or your sister has done the same to you. Eat your food only; do not eat that which is not food; neither seize the table between your jaws, nor use the raiment of the table to wipe your lips. I say again to you, do not touch it, but leave it as it is. And though your stick of carrot does indeed resemble a marker, draw not with it upon the table, even in pretend, for we do not do that, that is why. And though the pieces of broccoli are very like small trees, do not stand them upright to make a forest, because we do not do that, that is why. Sit just as I have told you, and do not lean to one side or the other, nor slide down until you are nearly slid away. Heed me; for if you sit like that, your hair will go into the syrup. And now behold, even as I have said, it has come to pass.
Laws Pertaining to Dessert
For we judge between the plate that is unclean and the plate that is clean, saying first, if the plate is clean, then you shall have dessert. But of the unclean plate, the laws are these: If you have eaten most of your meat, and two bites of your peas with each bite consisting of not less than three peas each, or in total six peas, eaten where I can see, and you have also eaten enough of your potatoes to fill two forks, both forkfuls eaten where I can see, then you shall have dessert. But if you eat a lesser number of peas, and yet you eat the potatoes, still you shall not have dessert; and if you eat the peas, yet leave the potatoes uneaten, you shall not have dessert, no, not even a small portion thereof. And if you try to deceive by moving the potatoes or peas around with a fork, that it may appear you have eaten what you have not, you will fall into iniquity. And I will know, and you shall have no dessert.
On Screaming
Do not scream; for it is as if you scream all the time. If you are given a plate on which two foods you do not wish to touch each other are touching each other, your voice rises up even to the ceiling, while you point to the offense with the finger of your right hand; but I say to you, scream not, only remonstrate gently with the server, that the server may correct the fault. Likewise if you receive a portion of fish from which every piece of herbal seasoning has not been scraped off, and the herbal seasoning is loathsome to you, and steeped in vileness, again I say, refrain from screaming. Though the vileness overwhelm you, and cause you a faint unto death, make not that sound from within your throat, neither cover your face, nor press your fingers to your nose. For even now I have made the fish as it should be; behold, I eat of it myself, yet do not die.
Concerning Face and Hands
Cast your countenance upward to the light, and lift your eyes to the hills, that I may more easily wash you off. For the stains are upon you; even to the very back of your head, there is rice thereon. And in the breast pocket of your garment, and upon the tie of your shoe, rice and other fragments are distributed in a manner wonderful to see. Only hold yourself still; hold still, I say. Give each finger in its turn for my examination thereof, and also each thumb. Lo, how iniquitous they appear. What I do is as it must be; and you shall not go hence until I have done.
Various Other Laws, Statutes, and Ordinances
Bite not, lest you be cast into quiet time. Neither drink of your own bath water, nor of bath water of any kind; nor rub your feet on bread, even if it be in the package; nor rub yourself against cars, nor against any building; nor eat sand. Leave the cat alone, for what has the cat done, that you should so afflict it with tape? And hum not that humming in your nose as I read, nor stand between the light and the book. Indeed, you will drive me to madness. Nor forget what I said about the tape.
Complaints and Lamentations
O my children, you are disobedient. For when I tell you what you must do, you argue and dispute hotly even to the littlest detail; and when I do not accede, you cry out, and hit and kick. Yes, and even sometimes do you spit, and shout "stupid-head" and other blasphemies, and hit and kick the wall and the molding thereof when you are sent to the corner. And though the law teaches that no one shall be sent to the corner for more minutes than he has years of age, yet I would leave you there all day, so mighty am I in anger. But upon being sent to the corner you ask straight away, "Can I come out?" and I reply,"No, you may not come out." And again you ask, and again I give the same reply. But when you ask again a third time, then you may come out.
Hear me, O my children, for the bills they kill me. I pay and pay again, even to the twelfth time in a year, and yet again they mount higher than before. For our health, that we may be covered, I give six hundred and twenty talents twelve times in a year; but even this covers not the fifteen hundred deductible for each member of the family within a calendar year. And yet for ordinary visits we still are not covered, nor for many medicines, nor for the teeth within our mouths.
Guess not at what rage is in my mind, for surely you cannot know. For I will come to you at the first of the month and at the fifteenth of the month with the bills and a great whining and moan. And when the month of taxes comes, I will decry the wrong and unfairness of it, and mourn with wine and ashtrays, and rend my receipts. And you shall remember that I am that I am: before, after, and until you are twenty-one. Hear me then, and avoid me in my wrath, O children of me.
.....it's a really great read and you should end up with a smile on your face at one point or another LOL
Laws Concerning Food and Drink;
Household Principles;
Lamentations of the Father
by Ian Frazier
Of the beasts of the field, and of the fishes of the sea, and of all foods that are acceptable in my sight you may eat, but not in the living room. Of the hoofed animals, broiled or ground into burgers,you may eat, but not in the living room. Of the cloven-hoofed animal, plain or with cheese, you may eat, but not in the living room. Of the cereal grains, of the corn and of the wheat and of the oats, and of all the cereals that are of bright color and unknown provenance you may eat, but not in the living room. Of the quiescently frozen dessert and of all frozen after-meal treats you may eat, but absolutely not in the living room. Of the juices and other beverages, yes, even of those in sippy-cups, you may drink, but not in the living room, neither may you carry such therein. Indeed, when you reach the place where the living room carpet begins, of any food or beverage there you may not eat, neither may you drink. But if you are sick, and are lying down and watching something, then may you eat in the living room.
Laws When at Table
And if you are seated in your high chair, or in a chair such as a greater person might use, keep your legs and feet below you as they were. Neither raise up your knees, nor place your feet upon the table,for that is an abomination to me. Yes, even when you have an interesting bandage to show, your feet upon the table are an abomination, and worthy of rebuke. Drink your milk as it is given you, neither use on it any utensils, nor fork, nor knife, nor spoon, for that is not what they are for; if you will dip your blocks in the milk, and lick it off, you will be sent away. When you have drunk, let the empty cup then remain upon the table, and do not bite it upon its edge and by your teeth hold it to your face in order to make noises in it sounding like a duck; for you will be sent away. When you chew your food, keep your mouth closed until you have swallowed, and do not open it to show your brother or your sister what is within; I say to you, do not so, even if your brother or your sister has done the same to you. Eat your food only; do not eat that which is not food; neither seize the table between your jaws, nor use the raiment of the table to wipe your lips. I say again to you, do not touch it, but leave it as it is. And though your stick of carrot does indeed resemble a marker, draw not with it upon the table, even in pretend, for we do not do that, that is why. And though the pieces of broccoli are very like small trees, do not stand them upright to make a forest, because we do not do that, that is why. Sit just as I have told you, and do not lean to one side or the other, nor slide down until you are nearly slid away. Heed me; for if you sit like that, your hair will go into the syrup. And now behold, even as I have said, it has come to pass.
Laws Pertaining to Dessert
For we judge between the plate that is unclean and the plate that is clean, saying first, if the plate is clean, then you shall have dessert. But of the unclean plate, the laws are these: If you have eaten most of your meat, and two bites of your peas with each bite consisting of not less than three peas each, or in total six peas, eaten where I can see, and you have also eaten enough of your potatoes to fill two forks, both forkfuls eaten where I can see, then you shall have dessert. But if you eat a lesser number of peas, and yet you eat the potatoes, still you shall not have dessert; and if you eat the peas, yet leave the potatoes uneaten, you shall not have dessert, no, not even a small portion thereof. And if you try to deceive by moving the potatoes or peas around with a fork, that it may appear you have eaten what you have not, you will fall into iniquity. And I will know, and you shall have no dessert.
On Screaming
Do not scream; for it is as if you scream all the time. If you are given a plate on which two foods you do not wish to touch each other are touching each other, your voice rises up even to the ceiling, while you point to the offense with the finger of your right hand; but I say to you, scream not, only remonstrate gently with the server, that the server may correct the fault. Likewise if you receive a portion of fish from which every piece of herbal seasoning has not been scraped off, and the herbal seasoning is loathsome to you, and steeped in vileness, again I say, refrain from screaming. Though the vileness overwhelm you, and cause you a faint unto death, make not that sound from within your throat, neither cover your face, nor press your fingers to your nose. For even now I have made the fish as it should be; behold, I eat of it myself, yet do not die.
Concerning Face and Hands
Cast your countenance upward to the light, and lift your eyes to the hills, that I may more easily wash you off. For the stains are upon you; even to the very back of your head, there is rice thereon. And in the breast pocket of your garment, and upon the tie of your shoe, rice and other fragments are distributed in a manner wonderful to see. Only hold yourself still; hold still, I say. Give each finger in its turn for my examination thereof, and also each thumb. Lo, how iniquitous they appear. What I do is as it must be; and you shall not go hence until I have done.
Various Other Laws, Statutes, and Ordinances
Bite not, lest you be cast into quiet time. Neither drink of your own bath water, nor of bath water of any kind; nor rub your feet on bread, even if it be in the package; nor rub yourself against cars, nor against any building; nor eat sand. Leave the cat alone, for what has the cat done, that you should so afflict it with tape? And hum not that humming in your nose as I read, nor stand between the light and the book. Indeed, you will drive me to madness. Nor forget what I said about the tape.
Complaints and Lamentations
O my children, you are disobedient. For when I tell you what you must do, you argue and dispute hotly even to the littlest detail; and when I do not accede, you cry out, and hit and kick. Yes, and even sometimes do you spit, and shout "stupid-head" and other blasphemies, and hit and kick the wall and the molding thereof when you are sent to the corner. And though the law teaches that no one shall be sent to the corner for more minutes than he has years of age, yet I would leave you there all day, so mighty am I in anger. But upon being sent to the corner you ask straight away, "Can I come out?" and I reply,"No, you may not come out." And again you ask, and again I give the same reply. But when you ask again a third time, then you may come out.
Hear me, O my children, for the bills they kill me. I pay and pay again, even to the twelfth time in a year, and yet again they mount higher than before. For our health, that we may be covered, I give six hundred and twenty talents twelve times in a year; but even this covers not the fifteen hundred deductible for each member of the family within a calendar year. And yet for ordinary visits we still are not covered, nor for many medicines, nor for the teeth within our mouths.
Guess not at what rage is in my mind, for surely you cannot know. For I will come to you at the first of the month and at the fifteenth of the month with the bills and a great whining and moan. And when the month of taxes comes, I will decry the wrong and unfairness of it, and mourn with wine and ashtrays, and rend my receipts. And you shall remember that I am that I am: before, after, and until you are twenty-one. Hear me then, and avoid me in my wrath, O children of me.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
I Call It Success!
So I am going out on a limb here and sharing with the world that I do believe we have potty training success.........*knocking on wood*
Being a truly brave soul, I decided to try taking Roman out of the house in underpants yesterday. Brave? you are asking yourself......yes BRAVE! Why? Well because we drove almost 2 hours in the van to visit my niece and her lil boy in Pittsburgh! LOL Crazy, I know. But hey, might as well jump with both feet, eh?
He did GREAT! Made the trip and then asked to go when he needed and all that jazz. I would say we are on the path to being done.
I have to admit though, I think he was ready for this earlier than now. I also have to admit that I haven't done it out of pure laziness. It is SO much easier to slap a diaper on the boy when we go out so I'm not worrying about where a bathroom is every place we visit. Add to that the fact that I am officially waddling when I walk and it isn't comfy going at a fast pace to get to the potty on time........not to mention, have you noticed how SMALL those freaking bathroom stalls are now a days? Good grief! I pray everytime he has to go that the handicapped stall is open and not a mess :\
But I bit the bullet yesterday and he did a great job. We ventured out again in underpants today, and once again he did great. Whew!
My goal was to have him at least to this point before the new baby arrives.....looks like I made it! I'm sure Roman will continue to need the diapers or a pull-up of some sort for bedtime, but hey I can deal with that! Dealing with 2 needing diaper changes all day everyday? Not so much LOL
Being a truly brave soul, I decided to try taking Roman out of the house in underpants yesterday. Brave? you are asking yourself......yes BRAVE! Why? Well because we drove almost 2 hours in the van to visit my niece and her lil boy in Pittsburgh! LOL Crazy, I know. But hey, might as well jump with both feet, eh?
He did GREAT! Made the trip and then asked to go when he needed and all that jazz. I would say we are on the path to being done.
I have to admit though, I think he was ready for this earlier than now. I also have to admit that I haven't done it out of pure laziness. It is SO much easier to slap a diaper on the boy when we go out so I'm not worrying about where a bathroom is every place we visit. Add to that the fact that I am officially waddling when I walk and it isn't comfy going at a fast pace to get to the potty on time........not to mention, have you noticed how SMALL those freaking bathroom stalls are now a days? Good grief! I pray everytime he has to go that the handicapped stall is open and not a mess :\
But I bit the bullet yesterday and he did a great job. We ventured out again in underpants today, and once again he did great. Whew!
My goal was to have him at least to this point before the new baby arrives.....looks like I made it! I'm sure Roman will continue to need the diapers or a pull-up of some sort for bedtime, but hey I can deal with that! Dealing with 2 needing diaper changes all day everyday? Not so much LOL
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Sick of the Clinical Look.....
......so I opted to spruce it up a bit around here :) I am an idiot when it comes to doing things like a template for myspace or blogger, so I had to use the stock stuff LOL. Maybe one day I'll get more creative and figure out something more original! HA!
Enjoy my new skin in the meantime!
Enjoy my new skin in the meantime!
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Holy Nesting Batman!!
So I'm in my 8th month of pregnancy. And typically women at this stage begin to get uncontrollable urges to get ready for the impending birth of their baby. I don't really remember having the kind of nesting urge with my previous 2 children that I had today!
I don't know if maybe it is because this time I actually have a REAL nursery to set up. I was still living with my mom when I had Kailey, so she was in the same room as me. When I had Roman, we were in our previous home which only had 2 bedrooms. So AGAIN I was sharing a room with the baby. I mean, it's not *that* bad, but I never got to do the whole cutesy nursery decorating thing. It's almost a rite of passage for women/moms! LOL
Well on Monday, Bob and I went to Babies R Us to purchase the crib and dresser for the new baby. Roman is perfectly content in his crib, so we are not messing with that right now......if it ain't broke, right? We also picked up a few other odds and ends while we were there. It was fun and brought back some memories.......
Monday night I promptly assembled the crib and dresser. I then proceeded to wash the bedding and make the bed. Wow! It now looks like a nursery!
Now the REAL nesting was today LOL.......I had an appointment this morning and decided to take advantage of Bob staying home with Roman and get some things done. Mainly, get to the old house and bring up some baby things. I went to the house and drug down 5 boxes of baby clothes (saved from Roman), the baby bathtub, the pack and play crib, the bouncy seat and the infant car seat. Whew! It was a long process since all that came from the attic. So 2 flights of stairs, oy vey.
I got home and Bob unloaded everything for me and the sorting began. I pretty much had everything sorted in the boxes by age, but there were a few things in the 'wrong' box and several had some staining.....so I weeded those out. Then started up the washer :)
At this point I have my last load of baby clothes in the dryer (I would be done, but I had to do a load of Roman's clothes in the middle LOL). Once those are folded and put away I would consider myself about 80% done with the baby stuff. Bob and his brother will be bringing over the cradle, changing table and swing tomorrow hopefully. Then I can relax a little bit I think LOL
And you want to know how perfect the timing was for this back breaking day? I happen to have a chiropractor appointment tomorrow......coincidence? I think not!!!
Once I have the whole room done and ready to go I will share a picture for sure, so you'll have to check back! But I am having a blast getting this room ready for our new lil bug arriving sometime next month :)
I don't know if maybe it is because this time I actually have a REAL nursery to set up. I was still living with my mom when I had Kailey, so she was in the same room as me. When I had Roman, we were in our previous home which only had 2 bedrooms. So AGAIN I was sharing a room with the baby. I mean, it's not *that* bad, but I never got to do the whole cutesy nursery decorating thing. It's almost a rite of passage for women/moms! LOL
Well on Monday, Bob and I went to Babies R Us to purchase the crib and dresser for the new baby. Roman is perfectly content in his crib, so we are not messing with that right now......if it ain't broke, right? We also picked up a few other odds and ends while we were there. It was fun and brought back some memories.......
Monday night I promptly assembled the crib and dresser. I then proceeded to wash the bedding and make the bed. Wow! It now looks like a nursery!
Now the REAL nesting was today LOL.......I had an appointment this morning and decided to take advantage of Bob staying home with Roman and get some things done. Mainly, get to the old house and bring up some baby things. I went to the house and drug down 5 boxes of baby clothes (saved from Roman), the baby bathtub, the pack and play crib, the bouncy seat and the infant car seat. Whew! It was a long process since all that came from the attic. So 2 flights of stairs, oy vey.
I got home and Bob unloaded everything for me and the sorting began. I pretty much had everything sorted in the boxes by age, but there were a few things in the 'wrong' box and several had some staining.....so I weeded those out. Then started up the washer :)
At this point I have my last load of baby clothes in the dryer (I would be done, but I had to do a load of Roman's clothes in the middle LOL). Once those are folded and put away I would consider myself about 80% done with the baby stuff. Bob and his brother will be bringing over the cradle, changing table and swing tomorrow hopefully. Then I can relax a little bit I think LOL
And you want to know how perfect the timing was for this back breaking day? I happen to have a chiropractor appointment tomorrow......coincidence? I think not!!!
Once I have the whole room done and ready to go I will share a picture for sure, so you'll have to check back! But I am having a blast getting this room ready for our new lil bug arriving sometime next month :)
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
A Fun Day With My Girls!
Well.....I like to think that I'm a pretty sneaky gal. And one that is super savvy and hard to fool......WRONG! My friend Rachel had asked me last month to set aside a day in April for some girl fun in her hood. So I checked my ever busy agenda and set the date for April 5th, this past Saturday.
I'm the good looking one on the right ;D We really did have a good time together. After pictures we headed back to Rachel's so we could let the kids play some more and we grabbed a bite to take with us. Spent the next few hours talking about girl stuff......our kids, houses, husbands/boyfriend......you know, the good stuff!
I had NO clue what we were doing, where we were going, nothing. Actually I really enjoyed not knowing! As a wife and mother, we are usually always at the helm of making and executing plans for ourselves and our family. So it was nice to let someone else take the reigns!
Saturday morning I got myself and my 2 kiddos ready for the 2 hour drive to Rachel's house. Once we got there, Rach asked if I had any idea what we were doing. Nope. I didn't. Not a CLUE. We are in a big city and there are TONS of things we could do.....so I was at a loss.
My first hint (that I didn't catch, by the way):
Me: Hey Rach, why don't I just put Roman's car seat in your van and we can go together since I don't know where we are going, etc.
Rach: No. That won't work. You have to follow me.
Me: Ummm ok
So we load up and head out. I'm following Rachel along. We don't really go too far from her house. Maybe 5-10 minutes. Then she turns into a hotel parking lot. What the heck?! Are we going swimming? I didn't bring a suit for myself or the kids.....why are we coming here?
We park by the conference rooms....ok now I have NO clue what it is up. Is there some mommy conference we are going to with the kids? Maybe a fun kid day with activities and such? Again, why are we here?
Now we get on the elevator....to the top floor. Whose room are we going to? Rachel asks me again, "Kelly do you have an idea?"....Ummmm NO! LOL
Rachel knocks on a door at the end of the long hallway........and who should open it? My friend Angiee!! OMG she came here all the way from Indianapolis!! I had NO idea!! I was so excited :)
Turns out these two birds had been cooking up the scheme for months. They planned on having a spa day, but Rachel didn't have a sitter......so they had to change plans last minute to include the kiddos. Which was NO big deal, we had just as much fun!
After some chit chat in the hotel room, we loaded up again to hit the mall (Angiee had loaded up her son's car seat in Rachel's van the night before......that's why we couldn't car pool, duh! LOL)
The girls had made an appt for us to have pictures taken together! How fun!!
We got to the mall to do a little shopping so we could be matchy matchy :D Everyone was wearing white shirts and denim pants. Next we grabbed a quick bite to eat at the food court. Then we had our pictures made that afternoon. The kids were anything but cooperative LOL and the photographers were deemed Saints by all 3 of us for getting any decent shots!
We all tried to get into one photo for a nice group shot.......and it was nice......but not us. We are some silly gals who love to cut up, giggle and have a good time. So Rachel suggested we do a silly picture! Something we don't do much now that we are "grown-up" LOL
So what do you think?
I'm the good looking one on the right ;D We really did have a good time together. After pictures we headed back to Rachel's so we could let the kids play some more and we grabbed a bite to take with us. Spent the next few hours talking about girl stuff......our kids, houses, husbands/boyfriend......you know, the good stuff!We didn't leave until almost 11:00pm. It was sad to go, but I look forward to seeing them both again in August!
As wives and mothers.....sometimes we get so caught up in doing what we do, that we forget to carve some time out for ourselves. Time to hang with friends and act silly......helps you to stay young! It's hard to find true friends that you can do that with......when you do, you better hold on with both hands. A true friend is there through thick and thin....good times and bad. There to lend an ear, or an eye LOL......someone who knows when to just let you talk out a problem and not try to give you any advice. Someone who will give you advice when you need it. A true friend knows when you need something....a hug, a bitch slap, a visit, a phone call. They aren't your friends for show. They are true blue friends.
So this post is dedicated to my true friends! I love you girls and look forward to many more years of good times and hopefully a few more silly pictures :)
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Ack! I've been tagged!!
It was bound to happen one of these days LOL I was TAGGED by Rachel :D So here goes nothing!
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Just copy paste THIS and everything below up until my Five links:
I thought it would be cool to have a meme where we post links. We can post up to five. Then we tell five more people to share their links. If we all share who tagged us, our links are sure to be seen!They can be business links, favorite sites, affiliate links, whatever you want…
There are Five Rules:
1. MUST be clean. No R rated sites.
2. Only FIVE links.
3. MUST tell 5 people.
4. A link back to the person who tagged you
5. Lara’s Place is the meme originator. (an active link is appreciated)
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Sites that I browse and keep handy!
Homesick Texan - I love this blog! I myself am a homesick Texan who craves the wonderful food I left behind when I moved to Pennsylvania. This woman is really funny and her love of Texan/Mexican food really does rival my own! She posts wonderful recipes as well!
Some E Cards - These e-cards have GOT to be hands down the funniest I've ever seen. If you ever need a good laugh, just head over and read some. There aren't many I'd actually send to anyone, but man I have been tempted! Enjoy!
Dimpled Bottom Designs - So you know I have to plug my own business here, right?! LOL
The Quote Garden - Great place to find quotes for any occasion or need. I use it alot for when I make announcements or cards for people. I'm sure any of you who scrap would really find use for it as well.
Janee's Photoshop Tutorials - This place has a ton of tutorials on doing little tricks in Photoshop. I can always go here when I feel I'm in a creative rut and need to try something new.
OK, so I hope I did this right! It was my first tag :D Here is who I'm tagging.....don't know if they'll do it, but I'm taggin ya anyhow! LOL
Cristy
Tamra
Mary Ann
Becky
That's the only blogs I have left that Rachel didn't take LOL I'm one short of the 5....so sue me!
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Just copy paste THIS and everything below up until my Five links:
I thought it would be cool to have a meme where we post links. We can post up to five. Then we tell five more people to share their links. If we all share who tagged us, our links are sure to be seen!They can be business links, favorite sites, affiliate links, whatever you want…
There are Five Rules:
1. MUST be clean. No R rated sites.
2. Only FIVE links.
3. MUST tell 5 people.
4. A link back to the person who tagged you
5. Lara’s Place is the meme originator. (an active link is appreciated)
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Sites that I browse and keep handy!
Homesick Texan - I love this blog! I myself am a homesick Texan who craves the wonderful food I left behind when I moved to Pennsylvania. This woman is really funny and her love of Texan/Mexican food really does rival my own! She posts wonderful recipes as well!
Some E Cards - These e-cards have GOT to be hands down the funniest I've ever seen. If you ever need a good laugh, just head over and read some. There aren't many I'd actually send to anyone, but man I have been tempted! Enjoy!
Dimpled Bottom Designs - So you know I have to plug my own business here, right?! LOL
The Quote Garden - Great place to find quotes for any occasion or need. I use it alot for when I make announcements or cards for people. I'm sure any of you who scrap would really find use for it as well.
Janee's Photoshop Tutorials - This place has a ton of tutorials on doing little tricks in Photoshop. I can always go here when I feel I'm in a creative rut and need to try something new.
OK, so I hope I did this right! It was my first tag :D Here is who I'm tagging.....don't know if they'll do it, but I'm taggin ya anyhow! LOL
Cristy
Tamra
Mary Ann
Becky
That's the only blogs I have left that Rachel didn't take LOL I'm one short of the 5....so sue me!
I'm Baking a Bruiser!
Well I had my 32 week prenatal appointment yesterday. I meant to blog this last night, but I rounded out my day with picking up Kailey from play practice after school and then whisking off to volunteer at my church bingo. Needless to say I was quite exhausted when I got home!
All is well on the pregnancy front. My blood pressure was good. I gained a pound, so I've officially gained 6lbs with this pregnancy. I'm totally not complaining LOL
I got yet another ultrasound to check the baby's size......."we" have been measuring on the large size for a couple months now. My belly is measuring more along the lines of being 34 weeks pregnant and most of that they say is because I have some extra amniotic fluid. Nothing I have any control of. Just one of those things I guess. The doctor said that women who have some extra amnio fluid and a larger baby are likely to have Gestational Diabetes....which I don't have, thank goodness. If I had taken my test for that earlier, he'd be making me do it again YUCK!
But since it's only been 3 weeks since I tested and passed with flying colors, I am escaping that 3 hour torture!
But alas, according to my ultrasound yesterday, this boy is weighing in at about 5pounds 7ounces. That is great! BUT ummmm I still have 8 WEEKS left to be pregnant?!?!
Let's do a little math kids........at 28 weeks I had my last ultrasound and they guessed the baby weighed 3pounds 8ounces...........so he has put on 2 POUNDS in a MONTH. Now, I have 2 months left of baking this babe.....he could be *GASP* OVER 9 POUNDS?! *grabs crotch in pain*
Now I *know* that a 9 pound baby isn't *that* big.....well it is, considering an average baby is like 7 and a half pounds. But hey women have been known to give birth to babies weighing close to 12 (yes TWELVE) pounds......
NOT THIS WOMAN! Both of my kids were 7lbs 5ozs and 7lbs 6ozs respectively. I had a rough time delivering them! Lots of pushing and then I needed additional medical help with use of a vacuum thing put on their little heads to help pull them out.......so the prospect of having a 9 pound baby scares me to death. Mostly because I don't want to go through hours of labor and pushing only to end up in the operating room having a C-section.....which I would describe as a phobia of mine, the whole being cut on thing *shudder*
Thankfully I have a FANTASTIC doctor. And I point blank asked him if he thought I could handle giving birth to a large baby (figured if anyone would know he would since he has, for lack of better terms, "seen me in action")......he agrees with me, don't think it would/could happen.
So here is our game plan:
1. Keep an eye on the size of the baby with another ultrasound at the end of the month (I'll be 36 weeks)
2. Opt to have an amniocentesis (the whole needle in the belly to draw amniotic fluid from my womb) in order to test the baby's lung maturity.
3. Depending on the baby's estimated size, we will schedule an induction most likely the first or second week of May.......when I'm about 37 1/2 or 38 weeks along.
4. Wait it out and get induced at 39 weeks (when I was induced with Roman).
So as of right now I don't have a CLUE when I'm having this kid! LOL All I know is that it WILL happen in May........
Sorry I haven't blogged in a while, but I've been a little busy and preoccupied. Everyone here is healthy now (thank goodness) and Kailey started soccer. No rest for the weary, eh?
I'll try to do better, and will be back later tonight to check into this tagging thing that my buddy Rachel has so graciously roped me into LOL
I say later for now & hope your having a great day!
All is well on the pregnancy front. My blood pressure was good. I gained a pound, so I've officially gained 6lbs with this pregnancy. I'm totally not complaining LOL
I got yet another ultrasound to check the baby's size......."we" have been measuring on the large size for a couple months now. My belly is measuring more along the lines of being 34 weeks pregnant and most of that they say is because I have some extra amniotic fluid. Nothing I have any control of. Just one of those things I guess. The doctor said that women who have some extra amnio fluid and a larger baby are likely to have Gestational Diabetes....which I don't have, thank goodness. If I had taken my test for that earlier, he'd be making me do it again YUCK!
But since it's only been 3 weeks since I tested and passed with flying colors, I am escaping that 3 hour torture!
But alas, according to my ultrasound yesterday, this boy is weighing in at about 5pounds 7ounces. That is great! BUT ummmm I still have 8 WEEKS left to be pregnant?!?!
Let's do a little math kids........at 28 weeks I had my last ultrasound and they guessed the baby weighed 3pounds 8ounces...........so he has put on 2 POUNDS in a MONTH. Now, I have 2 months left of baking this babe.....he could be *GASP* OVER 9 POUNDS?! *grabs crotch in pain*
Now I *know* that a 9 pound baby isn't *that* big.....well it is, considering an average baby is like 7 and a half pounds. But hey women have been known to give birth to babies weighing close to 12 (yes TWELVE) pounds......
NOT THIS WOMAN! Both of my kids were 7lbs 5ozs and 7lbs 6ozs respectively. I had a rough time delivering them! Lots of pushing and then I needed additional medical help with use of a vacuum thing put on their little heads to help pull them out.......so the prospect of having a 9 pound baby scares me to death. Mostly because I don't want to go through hours of labor and pushing only to end up in the operating room having a C-section.....which I would describe as a phobia of mine, the whole being cut on thing *shudder*
Thankfully I have a FANTASTIC doctor. And I point blank asked him if he thought I could handle giving birth to a large baby (figured if anyone would know he would since he has, for lack of better terms, "seen me in action")......he agrees with me, don't think it would/could happen.
So here is our game plan:
1. Keep an eye on the size of the baby with another ultrasound at the end of the month (I'll be 36 weeks)
2. Opt to have an amniocentesis (the whole needle in the belly to draw amniotic fluid from my womb) in order to test the baby's lung maturity.
3. Depending on the baby's estimated size, we will schedule an induction most likely the first or second week of May.......when I'm about 37 1/2 or 38 weeks along.
4. Wait it out and get induced at 39 weeks (when I was induced with Roman).
So as of right now I don't have a CLUE when I'm having this kid! LOL All I know is that it WILL happen in May........
Sorry I haven't blogged in a while, but I've been a little busy and preoccupied. Everyone here is healthy now (thank goodness) and Kailey started soccer. No rest for the weary, eh?
I'll try to do better, and will be back later tonight to check into this tagging thing that my buddy Rachel has so graciously roped me into LOL
I say later for now & hope your having a great day!
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