Five Question Friday

1. What do you enjoy doing the most with your spouse? Besides vacations? Just your normal going out, dinner, drinks, talking, playing pool....like the olden days!

2. How do you eat your taco? From the top or from the side?  People eat tacos from the top? Why? The only tacos I eat are the chicken tacos from Tasty Tacos...from the side!

3. Have you ever shut off the basement light and ran like a fool because you knew someone was down there and would get you?  I guess when I was younger I had probably pysched myself out like that, can't say that has happened in a while though. What a weird question!

4. If you could change one thing about you what would it be and why? I would like to have more patience as a mother. And not be afraid to do things I haven't done before.

5. What age do you think is appropriate to have the "bird and the bees" talk with your children? I don't want to think about this yet. I supposed when they start developing or school is talking to them about it or they start hearing things from their friends.

Girls rule!

So the view from the living room now looks like this...can you tell we have two girls? Can you tell we went subtle? :)

 Presleys bright pink room, made her SO happy!

 Baby G's purple

 Our smooth ass fireplace

 Many painting touch ups are needed and flooring gets started tomorrow. They said they are aiming for 3 more weeks, which would be perfect.....so it will be more like four!  The countdown is on!

8 weeks to go.....

 

I had my doctors appt this morning, up about 2 pounds so I'm at a doctors total of 16.3 pounds! Everything looked good, measured right on. They scheduled another ultrasound for 2 weeks to keep track on the size of the baby. If they are trying to convince me to have a csection, they are doing a good job of it! I won't go into details on what the doctor told me could happen to my 'girl parts'! LOL!
The other day Presley asked me why my belly button has 'closed'!  I've been feeling pretty good, just 'heavy'. Baby seems to have stretched out more upward, I feel her alot more in my upper right rib cage, I don't remember feeling P up that high! And I miss sleeping thru the night without having to pee!

Life is good!

Here is my baby girl at the fair....she was so excited that this ice cream cone was as big as her! (and it had PINK ice cream!)

She has been so good about having dry diapers in the morning! (except for the one night we had her in underwear!) She wakes up and says 'I dry my diaper!!'.
She did finally go poop in the potty.....once.....and hasn't since then.

I have read two books in the last 1-2 weeks. Cemetery Girl, a mystery...it was good and a little weird. They gave you a lot of background into the characters and it was difficult to read as the mother since it is about a child who goes missing.
Then I read Confessions of a Scary Mom.....SO FUNNY!!!! and so many true statements! I would recommend this book to any mother who needs a good laugh! There are so many quotes in this book that I want to share with you but I might have to save that for another time!

The house! Coming along, even with our super slow painter, who I won't complain about since he let us pay him on the side for all the different colors we are having him paint...way cheaper than most people and I'm sure much cheaper than going thru our builder!
He said he would have it done by the end of today....I'll be happy with Monday or Tuesday.
Here are the kitchen cabinets! Flooring will be going in this week and countertops were measured last week to hopefully go in soon! I love, love, love the wood!

more to come tomorrow....Steve needs to get to his fantasy football draft!!!

FIve Question Friday

1. If you could have been (could be) any profession you wanted (brains and $$$ no problem) what would it be? What? Are you thinking that underwriting mortgage loans is not what I have dreamed of my whole life? Putting people into the houses of their dreams, when they have shitty credit and have to borrow money from their parents for the downpayment, come on!

2. How often do you clean out your car? Not as often as I need to! I have papers in the back of my car that I need to take into work to be shredded...that have been there since we moved in April! When I had my Sebring convertible I kept that sucker clean (of course, when you have the top down on your car you can't really have trash flying around or items that people can steal sitting in it!)

3. Do you wish there was such a thing as fashion police or are you deeply relieved? Fashion police welcome! I'm sure I have my days that people look at me and think 'What is she trying to pull off? Nothing good!' But there are many people out there that need help from the fashion police. I love watching What Not To Wear b/c of this reason.

4. What's your go to food/drink/activity when stressed? I can only choose one thing? How about whatever is available and convenient? I'm hoping once I have this baby and we have a routine down for our family that I can limit my sugar intake and start running again....This is a much better option than what I have going on right now with the spoonfuls of sugar I take in. (Mary Poppins is all for spoonfuls for sugar, so it shouldn't be that bad!)

5. If you had twins, what would you name them?  This really isn't a fair question for a prego girl b/c we aren't telling our name...oh yeah, that's right, b/c we still don't have one! We have 8 weeks to figure it out! :) About once a week one of us will say "we really need to decide on a name"....and that will be the end of the conversation until the next week.

Wonderful weekend



Saturday I got up and put my 5 hours in at work (obviously not a good employee, since I didn't put in the 8 hours I was supposed to, oops) But I had to get home so we could go to Boston's 2nd birthday party!

Samantha made awesome, little Sesame Street cake pops (way too time consuming and detailed for this girl) but they were really cute and very good! Boston thought it was funny that he was eating Cookie Monsters' face!



Jon got Boston a Radio Flyer tricycle....which Presley loved! LOL.

Boston is just a hair too small for it, but he is only going to get bigger and it will be the perfect size soon enough.

Presley can always find a way to get what she wants. She 'let' Boston sit on the back of his new trike or ride her small ($5 garage sale) trike, just so she could get a turn!  (Notice her Tangled princess dress that she wanted to wear to the party)

After the party we headed to Earlham for the 2nd annual back-to-school party. Jason and Christie basically invite the entire town over for food, drinking, talking and dancing (they get a DJ!). It is always a lot of fun, with a ton of kids running around playing. Cousin Ava went to bed very early, so P didn't really play with anyone and I didn't know that many people this time (and a lack of alcohol minimizes my conversations with strangers) but I ate my way thru the night!

Sunday we did alot of running around and hanging out. It was a nice, family day together. We met Lisa and Jared up at our house and got to show them around. I know they are excited to get into their new house too! We have the upper cabinets in and the painter is done staining all the wood, he is still moving a little slow for my liking...but the stuff he stained does look awesome! Hopefully, (fingers crossed) by the end of this week the painting will be done (as I probably said last week), the cabinets in and possibly the countertops (that might be wishful thinking). I'll have to take more updated pics this weekend!

Another week gone by

Monday Steve was able to make one of his dreams come true. He found a good deal on a riding lawn mower. It's bigger than what he needs but he's in love. I might have to have an intervention. He picked the mower and took it to Holly's to store until we move. Tonight he went and mowed Holly's yard so he could drive it! So cute! Boys and their toys!
I took a risk of taking Presley to gymnastics on Tuesday night while Steve went to the fair with some friends. After last weeks disaster we were both nervous on how it would play out. But she did great! It took some coaxing but eventually she was excited to do everything. The classes are getting so full of kids...I'm calling it the after-Olympics-frenzy! I'm hoping some of these kids will drop out after a while, it is just so hard to keep all the kids focused, listening and good for that long!

Wednesday I decided that we needed to head up the fair. I wanted to eat! We went after work and it wasn't too hot or too busy (and of course half price admission!) So we ate a corn dog, a cup of fruit, steak kabob, mini donuts, cup of cookies, a pickle dog, mac and cheese bites and ice cream! We were only there for about 3 hours but it was worth it and this girl was a hurting unit after all that walking! It hurt my belly, back, feet, hips....I had pushed my limit on walking!

Thursday I was still in pain from the walking...waddling in full effect! Then about 9:30-10 I started to not feel so good. Alot of pain in the belly and back, not able to focus...then it got worse and I felt nauseous and didn't feel like I could sit up at my desk. I started to get hot and sweaty, almost like I was going to pass out. That's when I called the doctors to see what I should do, they wanted me to come in and get monitored. I knew there was no way I was going to drive and Steve insisted on taking me himself so we got to the doctor about 11:30. I was feeling better by now (of course) but still had on and off pain in my belly and back (and not like contractions, different than that).  They did a non-stress test and made sure I wasn't having contractions (and I wasn't!), the stress test really only showed a lot of fetal movement so that was good. Basically, I was told to rest and hydrate! So I took the afternoon off and went home and napped! And even after a 2.5 hour nap, I was still able to go to bed at 8:30! The off and on pain finally stopped about 3 am and today I felt like a new, well-rested woman! I'm bummed that I missed dinner with Holly and our friend April (who I haven't seen since January!) but we have already rescheduled!

Blah, Blah......
- Two weeks until meet the teacher for P's preschool!
- My friend Janelle was due to have her baby last Sunday...she is still waiting for her baby girl to come. Stubborn little thing! :)
- We found out that the lady who bought our old house is having to replace the sewer line to the house! Yikes! This can be costly, I feel bad but on the other hand....we didn't know about it and we are happy that it isn't us having to pay for this!
- The painter on our house is very particular...which is normally good, but not when it is taking him forever! Hurry up!