Monday, May 14, 2012
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
News flash
William is a boy. Boys in particular are known for their sense of humor. Within the last two weeks, William has suddenly found this particular "typical boy" trait. Consider yourself warned: bodily functions are all hilarious. The louder the better. Also, rear ends, backsides, bottoms and butts are roll on the floor funny.
The milestones, some are more enjoyable than others!
Sent from my iPhone
The milestones, some are more enjoyable than others!
Sent from my iPhone
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Update on the Update
So, ultrasound and kindergarten meeting tonight.
Ultrasound highlights: Placenta issues have resolved. No more concerns about this issue. It may be due to the uterus crunches I have been doing in my free time (obvs. kidding). Baby is head down. Our baby has hair! Gender is still a mystery. According to the measurements, baby is roughly 5lbs+. The bigger a baby gets, the harder it is to accurately measure size, but the dr was impressed by the size of our baby. If everything remains as it is, I am on track to deliver a 8-9 lb baby.
Kindergarten meeting highlights: William appears to be well prepared skill wise for kindergarten. However, despite the fact we have lived in the same place for 9 years, we only knew one other child entering kindergarten next year. I have been secretly hoping that there would be a pleasant surprise to find the place full of warm, fuzzy people we are already acquainted with. No such luck. Not surprisingly, I sniffled my way through most of the meeting. Poor John. I finally informed him it might be a good idea to plan on taking at least a partial day off from work for the first day of school.
Tomorrow night is Dad's night at preschool - hopefully John will be here tomorrow night with some exciting details and pictures from his night out with the kids.
Ultrasound highlights: Placenta issues have resolved. No more concerns about this issue. It may be due to the uterus crunches I have been doing in my free time (obvs. kidding). Baby is head down. Our baby has hair! Gender is still a mystery. According to the measurements, baby is roughly 5lbs+. The bigger a baby gets, the harder it is to accurately measure size, but the dr was impressed by the size of our baby. If everything remains as it is, I am on track to deliver a 8-9 lb baby.
Kindergarten meeting highlights: William appears to be well prepared skill wise for kindergarten. However, despite the fact we have lived in the same place for 9 years, we only knew one other child entering kindergarten next year. I have been secretly hoping that there would be a pleasant surprise to find the place full of warm, fuzzy people we are already acquainted with. No such luck. Not surprisingly, I sniffled my way through most of the meeting. Poor John. I finally informed him it might be a good idea to plan on taking at least a partial day off from work for the first day of school.
Tomorrow night is Dad's night at preschool - hopefully John will be here tomorrow night with some exciting details and pictures from his night out with the kids.
Amelia rides !
After a few nights of practice, our girl has made some good progress! So proud!
(she is yelling "super zoom!")
(she is yelling "super zoom!")
Monday, April 23, 2012
Still here
Yes, I'm still here. However, I'm up to my eyeballs in self created, hormonal nesting craziness that doesn't leave much time for anything else. Evidence of the crazy:
1. In the last month, I have driven past my work location several times. Once, I missed my exit off the highway TWICE and then missed a key turn off the highway. Nothing has changed and this is not a difficult location to get to.
2. I meant to change the sheets on my bed last week and set the sheets out on my side of the bed. I got busy and stayed up late sorting through mountains of baby gear. When I crawled into bed in the dark, I fell asleep immediately. I did not notice until I woke up the following morning and the kids pointed it out that I had slept on a mountain of queen sized sheets instead of my pillow.
3. I received a notice in the mail that John and I were overdue for eye appointments. I cried. I cried because I do not know when I am going to squeeze in and eye doctor appointment before June.
follow up: Then, I dried my eyes and made eye appointments for last Friday. Life went on, but it isn't taking much to overwhelm me...
4. I give up on cooking. I don't know what I want to eat and by the time I'm hungry, there isn't time to make anything. We are eating out a lot which isn't what we prefer for both financial reasons and health reasons. Hopefully the overtime in our lives will slow down a little to make time for a little more home cooking.
Quick Updates:
1. John- working obscene amounts of overtime The poor guy has taken only a handful of days away from work (including Saturdays and Sunday) since Christmas. work, work, work, eat, kids, hormonal crazy pregnant wife about sums it up. One Sunday in February at breakfast, William asked what day of the week it was today. When I told him Saturday, he replied "Shouldn't Daddy be here? Does Daddy even live here anymore?" Yes, Daddy would rather be here and yes, he still lives here. The other downside is I have been working more overtime in the Mama job and we have been doing a lot of tag team parenting. On days when I work, we see each other during that crazy hour of making dinner/feeding ourselves and kids. If we are lucky, we communicate about the important things in life such as 1)are the dishes in the dishwasher clean? 2) who needs a bath tonight? 3) what needs to be done before tomorrow and 4) status of laundry in the washer/dryer.
We lead exciting lives.
2. Kelly- roughly 7 weeks until our due date. We have a doctor appointment this week that will include both a weight check I am not looking forward to and a bonus ultrasound to check the location of the placenta. At our last ultrasound, the technician felt my placenta was somewhat low lying and needed to be rechecked down the line. Her explanation was something like "Since you have had previous pregnancies, your uterus has been stretched out and now it is saggy (thanks). When it stretches out, the placenta location will move up with that baggy tissue (again, thanks)." I love any part of my body being referred to as saggy or baggy.
-Still working part time, although the school year is winding down and the responsibilities are slowly shifting off my plate.
-Feeling giant, uncomfortable and crabby
-Crabby due to shorting myself on the sleep department. (see crazy nesting)
-Crazy nesting is taking place when kids are awake, but more when they are asleep. I have made a huge dent, but I feel like there is a lot more work to be done.
-Crazy nesting includes my extremely strong desire to replace all the flooring in our upper level (not happening), redoing our master bathroom (not happening) and shifting around the kids to make room for #3 (happening? maybe?)
Parenting solo much of the time (see: obscene overtime)
3. William is....pushing the limits. Roughly 90% of the time he is a sweet, loving, helpful boy who we adore. The other 10% of the time has been.....challenging and awful. He has a lot of big changes coming up in his life here and I'm just hoping to make our way through....this .....Thing before we make his life more crazy. We also have a big kindergarten parent meeting this week. I'm looking forward to having more information and at the same time....I want to throw up. I.am.not.ready.for.this. William on the other hand, has been ready for at least a year.
4. Amelia. Oh Amelia. Amelia is very three. She is also very opinionated and stubborn (have you met her mother?)
-The potty training is not happening at all and I have decided that we both need a break. We put everything away and haven't talked about it for almost a week. My goal is to wait about the week/ten day mark and see if she is willing to try again. This girl is so stubborn, she will not be pushed into doing something she doesn't want to do. Interestingly, John has had the most success in working with her on learning, but sadly hasn't had the time to really get us anywhere. I strongly feel that it will take less than 24 hours for her to be totally trained, including night time when she is ready.
-She is signed up for two day a week preschool next year which requires she be potty trained. This is somewhat stressing me out (see:above), but I know I can't do anything to work on the situation as it is currently.
5. Baby #3: Wiggly, active and big.
-No, we don't have names finalized
-Official due date is still 6/12/12. Nothing indicates the baby will arrive much earlier than that at this point. I am trying to prepare myself for the 6/18ish range. I don't know that I will go that long, but it is easier to believe you will go over than to be patient when you think you will go early.
-We plan on posting from this website here when things get exciting. We will inform our close family via phone and then post information here when baby arrives. We will have our laptop/phones with us at the hospital and will post photos, details and names as things are decided.
1. In the last month, I have driven past my work location several times. Once, I missed my exit off the highway TWICE and then missed a key turn off the highway. Nothing has changed and this is not a difficult location to get to.
2. I meant to change the sheets on my bed last week and set the sheets out on my side of the bed. I got busy and stayed up late sorting through mountains of baby gear. When I crawled into bed in the dark, I fell asleep immediately. I did not notice until I woke up the following morning and the kids pointed it out that I had slept on a mountain of queen sized sheets instead of my pillow.
3. I received a notice in the mail that John and I were overdue for eye appointments. I cried. I cried because I do not know when I am going to squeeze in and eye doctor appointment before June.
follow up: Then, I dried my eyes and made eye appointments for last Friday. Life went on, but it isn't taking much to overwhelm me...
4. I give up on cooking. I don't know what I want to eat and by the time I'm hungry, there isn't time to make anything. We are eating out a lot which isn't what we prefer for both financial reasons and health reasons. Hopefully the overtime in our lives will slow down a little to make time for a little more home cooking.
Quick Updates:
1. John- working obscene amounts of overtime The poor guy has taken only a handful of days away from work (including Saturdays and Sunday) since Christmas. work, work, work, eat, kids, hormonal crazy pregnant wife about sums it up. One Sunday in February at breakfast, William asked what day of the week it was today. When I told him Saturday, he replied "Shouldn't Daddy be here? Does Daddy even live here anymore?" Yes, Daddy would rather be here and yes, he still lives here. The other downside is I have been working more overtime in the Mama job and we have been doing a lot of tag team parenting. On days when I work, we see each other during that crazy hour of making dinner/feeding ourselves and kids. If we are lucky, we communicate about the important things in life such as 1)are the dishes in the dishwasher clean? 2) who needs a bath tonight? 3) what needs to be done before tomorrow and 4) status of laundry in the washer/dryer.
We lead exciting lives.
2. Kelly- roughly 7 weeks until our due date. We have a doctor appointment this week that will include both a weight check I am not looking forward to and a bonus ultrasound to check the location of the placenta. At our last ultrasound, the technician felt my placenta was somewhat low lying and needed to be rechecked down the line. Her explanation was something like "Since you have had previous pregnancies, your uterus has been stretched out and now it is saggy (thanks). When it stretches out, the placenta location will move up with that baggy tissue (again, thanks)." I love any part of my body being referred to as saggy or baggy.
-Still working part time, although the school year is winding down and the responsibilities are slowly shifting off my plate.
-Feeling giant, uncomfortable and crabby
-Crabby due to shorting myself on the sleep department. (see crazy nesting)
-Crazy nesting is taking place when kids are awake, but more when they are asleep. I have made a huge dent, but I feel like there is a lot more work to be done.
-Crazy nesting includes my extremely strong desire to replace all the flooring in our upper level (not happening), redoing our master bathroom (not happening) and shifting around the kids to make room for #3 (happening? maybe?)
Parenting solo much of the time (see: obscene overtime)
3. William is....pushing the limits. Roughly 90% of the time he is a sweet, loving, helpful boy who we adore. The other 10% of the time has been.....challenging and awful. He has a lot of big changes coming up in his life here and I'm just hoping to make our way through....this .....Thing before we make his life more crazy. We also have a big kindergarten parent meeting this week. I'm looking forward to having more information and at the same time....I want to throw up. I.am.not.ready.for.this. William on the other hand, has been ready for at least a year.
4. Amelia. Oh Amelia. Amelia is very three. She is also very opinionated and stubborn (have you met her mother?)
-The potty training is not happening at all and I have decided that we both need a break. We put everything away and haven't talked about it for almost a week. My goal is to wait about the week/ten day mark and see if she is willing to try again. This girl is so stubborn, she will not be pushed into doing something she doesn't want to do. Interestingly, John has had the most success in working with her on learning, but sadly hasn't had the time to really get us anywhere. I strongly feel that it will take less than 24 hours for her to be totally trained, including night time when she is ready.
-She is signed up for two day a week preschool next year which requires she be potty trained. This is somewhat stressing me out (see:above), but I know I can't do anything to work on the situation as it is currently.
5. Baby #3: Wiggly, active and big.
-No, we don't have names finalized
-Official due date is still 6/12/12. Nothing indicates the baby will arrive much earlier than that at this point. I am trying to prepare myself for the 6/18ish range. I don't know that I will go that long, but it is easier to believe you will go over than to be patient when you think you will go early.
-We plan on posting from this website here when things get exciting. We will inform our close family via phone and then post information here when baby arrives. We will have our laptop/phones with us at the hospital and will post photos, details and names as things are decided.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Amelia turns 3
Happy birthday big girl!
Thursday, March 29, 2012
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