Friday, November 13, 2015

10 Weeks


It looks like the little lady is slipping into her brother's sleeping habits - fighting sleep till midnight. Hopefully we can break her of that before 4 months when Peanut finally would go to bed properly.

Please oh please oh please!

We've had a lot of excitement, heading down to M-Town to visit family, family coming up to visit us, family leaving us to go visit Peanut's new cousin N. Plus we all caught colds awhile ago. I'm not sure if it was worse to be sick... or now always trying to stifle my cough so I won't startle her awake while I'm getting her down. She's napping right now and he's playing trains. She could use a real good first nap after her many wake-ups last night, let's all cross her fingers.

She's developed a new thing though. She'll smile if you play peek-a-boo with her :) Which is great fun and gives us something to do. I glanced at Peanut's activities at this age, in the next two weeks he started grabbing toys and playing with his feet. Hopefully we see some of those soon!

She's getting so strong, she sits up quite well in the bumbo now. I've been distracted lately with the cold and getting the house cleaned up, I've been neglecting her tummy time. I'll have to make up for that today. Peanut wants to play Zumba too, I'll have to make time for that. My plan for tonight is to leave the lights off to see if we can't get her to sleep earlier. Peanut won't mind, he loves playing in the dark.  Lights on his trains and trucks, candles, playing hide and go moo. Lot's of fun.

--------------- Sudden realization after getting Peanut a snack -------------

I have gluten problems, I always read the labels on everything I eat. I'm used to eating dairy free - Peanut had a milk protein issue till 9 months. Doing it again for Almond shouldn't be a big issue.

So why in the world did I spend the last two days eating my son's zesty ranch veggie straws???

She went from sleeping sometimes 8 hours (after finally consenting to go to bed), to being up every couple hours, napping like crap, needing to poop is pissing her off again and her diapers are a slimey mess. Sighs - I'm not sure what I'm more upset about at this point, confirming the milk protein issue in my second child or the fact that I now have to wait for it to exit our systems again. Poor little girl.

I'm going to play a little game, where I only eat a few things, like I'm stranded on a deserted island. That'll make it a game! I'm stranded, I don't have much food, and I can't eat exotic things like... veggie straws.

Well, I'll have to think about that later because go figure, she's awake.

Thursday, October 8, 2015

5 Weeks Old

I was reading through the blog on Peanut from 1-6 weeks. It was worse than I remembered. I really can't complain, though I feel bad about him now, with her taking so much of our time. I often only would get 1-2 hour stretches of sleep out of him at night and he napped poorly too.

Thank goodness for our knowing about probiotics this time! Knock on wood, but Almond has improved since we started 2 days ago. She's still fussy and hates napping, but the angry sleep thrashing and sounds have decreased a ton. She's smiling and cooing (which is supposed to happen now anyways). Of course right now she's squawking up a storm, but she's been trying to poop all morning without success, so I can't really blame her. Swing is keeping her out for now.

I also could start getting him into cloth during the day at this point, she may have a harder time being a bit smaller, but it's worth a try. Plus he could sit in the bumbo. Both of their neck prowess seems the same, so she should be able to too, I'll give it a try.

I'm excited to have things to try tonight! I want to keep her moving, keep her head up. The stronger she gets, the more she moves, the easier time she'll have with the gas. And keep that head round and any future bald spots minimal too, as a nice bonus. She's got such pretty dark hair :D

Sunday, September 20, 2015

Almond and Peanut

2 kids! One that just sleeps, eats and poops (and already is protesting sleep) and the other that doesn't understand that Mommy is a lot more fun when the little one is sleeping and always wants to wake her up so she'll be "looking at me!!!" I love you little man but you have to stop trying to wake up your sister!
He loves her though, oh so much. He's still a little confused about why my belly is so squishy and small though, pretty sure he thinks there's another baby in there again? Well, over time that will fade.

They like tag teaming me on sleep. In general our rule is - Peanut wakes up and the hubby deals with him, Almond wakes up and I do. But regardless, even when I get to stay in bed while Peanut is tended, it still wakes me up. We got an awesome 4 hour stretch of sleep out of Almond two nights ago, and instead of enjoying it, Peanut was up almost the whole stretch. Then last night he slept like a champ, and she fussed all night. Luckily tonight Peanut is spending the night at Gma's and Gpa's... so hopefully she sleeps like a champ tonight!

There's something about that 1 o'clock nap... AM and PM that she just fights. Fortunately just tried her in the swing and it worked like a champ. We might make this our standard way to put her to sleep at 1PM :D She's starting to go through her clothes, I'll have to check to see if she's grown any more as some of the smaller 0-3 pjs are snug on her now. Peanut grew, he clocked in at 40.5" if my measurements are correct. So that'll mean purging even more clothes out of his closet, I'll bet he likes that game, hehe.

He's enjoying the movies Totoro and Ponyo lately, liking anime and going after his parents hearts <3 Atta boy! I suppose... I ought to nap right now, but if she's napping down here and he's watching Ponyo... seems like a good oppurtunity to clean the kitchen. I never was a good napper anyways. Sigh.

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Almond Joy is here!

She's here she's here she's here!!! Our Almond is here! Our sweet little dark haired, dark eyed little girl decided to come out and play!

After 2 weeks of craptastic prodromal labor, and 11 hours of active labor, she arrived at 5:41AM on 9/3/15. 7.0lbs and 18.5" of pure hand sucking joy. I got my VBAC, no cesarean required. The hubby hung on all night in his work shirt, as I summoned him from there... and I guess I kept complaining about being warm so the room was cool. Or something. I definitely remember the temp of the room never seemed right.

I was at my mom's when my belly started to feel funny. Felt like I was having a 20 minute contraction - not painful but so so so very tight. After that the "real" contractions started, the ones that sent me to the hospital, the ones that got me admitted.

(Watching her on the monitor and listening to Peanut play trains while typing this, good fun!)

The shaking, puking, constant back labor... I soon decided to get some pain meds. Epidural worked this time, more so in my left side, which we all agreed was great considering it didn't take at all in my left side with Peanut. Alas the medicine works by gravity and Almond wasn't liking me laying on my right side, so by the time it was time to push, which was just an hour or so after my water broke? I had been on my left side for quite a while and I couldn't move that leg at all. So that was fun! Took hours for it to wear off too on that side, later on I made a little white lie and said I was fiiiiiiiine so I could get my shower, hehe.

When I summoned the nurse to let her know I suspected I was ready to push, at the same time the doctor on call (nice old man) was getting the other patient in active labor ready for a c-section after her body reacted poorly to the pitocin. We weren't sure who was going to get to go first, but I guess she ended up being fairly comfortable after they took her off the drugs, so they decided to take care of me first, or at least to let me give pushing a shot? I kind of got my hopes up that it'd be like 3 pushes when they immediately decided that I got to go first after giving it a go, it still took 40 minutes of pushing to get her out. But we did it!

(She's whimpering a bit in the crib, but A) she's got to learn to like it sometime and B) if she doesn't take the best nap ever that's fine, she likes to be up at night)

She came and I got her on my chest and I got to coo at her and stroke her face. Pretty emotional stuff, especially reflecting at the time how I didn't get anything like that with Peanut, they pretty much took him away after a brief look.

I guessed like 6lbs 13oz for her weight, Hubby guessed the same as me so I decided his guess was 7lbs.... which ended up being right. So I decided I got credit for the right guess ;) She hung out in our room for most of the day without getting a bath. The nurses kept smiling and saying how nice it was to see how much we just wanted to hold her and didn't care that she wasn't squeaky clean.

She had jaundice in the intermediate to high range, making her very very sleepy but we didn't need to keep her for bili lights or anything. Today she's 12 days old, and she's at 7lbs and 5oz, so above birth weight. Aside from the middle of the night party sessions things are going well. Peanut loves her, I'm healing, Hubby is surviving her and work and helping out tons. Though I suppose I should go give Peanut a little more attention while she's napping. I wanted to jot down the memories before I forget though, and my usual computer time is after he goes to bed... and I've been crashing about the same time lately. Heh... heh... *yawn*

Saturday, August 22, 2015

Eventful Days!!!


Lot's have been going on this last month. The boys went to a baseball game, and we all headed down to visit with Peanut's new cousin two days later. We all had a blast, but required a number of recovery days. I had my birthday, and hubby is going to have his soon. We had a really enjoyable quiet day on mine, weather was cool and I could bundle up happily under blankets. We've got a few days here where we're warmed up and then back to cool weather! Sucks for getting in some last of the summer pool runs but let's face it, I'm just getting slower and crabbier at the end here ;)

Peanut went to a nearby zoo and train with Gpa the other day too, it was a good day out with just him and Gpa I think. But then that night I started getting contractions. We were watching Wheel and I was feeling super uncomfortable at first and then I realized that they were somewhat timeable, which was a first for me. I've had plenty here with Almond, but never that 'third' to make a pattern. They were  around ~15 minutes apart for the first few hours, then after Peanut went to bed they were closer to 10. I was able to nap on and off for a bit of the night in-between contractions, but then I was up early and couldn't rest any more.

They were more intense, but still not ... consistently consistent? I'd go good for awhile, then they'd slip up for a bit and jump up back to that 10-15 range. But then speed up and get consistent again. At one point, I was trying to rest while Peanut was watching a Curious George movie that morning and they were bopping around between 3-5 minutes. I figured at that point at the very least I needed to get our stuff in the car and get Peanut to Gma's and decide if the inconsistencies were no longer a big enough deal to stay out of L&D. But alas by the time the car was packed it had slowed back down. And by the time we were at Gma's they had basically stopped (1 or 2 an hour).

15ish hours of labor... hopefully not completely for naught. Time will tell though. Hopefully it means she'll actually come sooner than later, but we were in the mindset that she was coming and it's been a little bit of a difficult transition back into the real world. And so far not a single one today. As my brother says, in a year we'll look back on this and laaaaaaaaugh (well, maybe on the outside, pretty sure I'm still not laughing about Peanut's ;) )

Thursday, July 30, 2015

Day 3

Hubby's is on day 3 of his 8 straight days of work. Not too bad yet, not looking forward to the back half. And then when he gets his day off, he's taking Peanut down to visit his dad and take in a work paid for baseball game. For two days. Then he comes back and goes back to working! I'll be missing him.

Cousin E and C visited, we all had a grand weekend. The boys played together in their own ways, and it was good to see my sister. Now it'll be forever likely till we see each other again, both being due soon. I'll miss that little zipper loving dude, he was such a good communicator for not speaking much yet. It was so nice to see, and it's always so nice when they can let you know what they want (Usually mom and dad!)

Starting this Monday we're on weekly appointments. Which is early for my new due date, but whatever, we all know she's coming on the first anyways. She's gotta be just like her big brother, amirite? And in two days it's my Birthday Month! A month of joy and laughter, of fun and games, of continuing to work on Peanut picking things I drop off the ground for me :D


Today's been a good day, yesterday was pretty not so cool. But we made do, still got out and watered, since we're now entering drought-like weather. No rain forever, none forever in the forecast. Gave his bike a wash and got him soaked too. Today we played in the water too, went down to the farmers market for beets and carrots and let him get good and soaked for an hour.

Gma and Gpa visited while we were down there and he enjoyed seeing them in-between going crazy in the water. He wasn't too keen on leaving, but Gma promised him tons of fun tomorrow, yaaaaaaaay!! I love Fridays!!!

Urgh, he's been asking since yesterday to watch "VGer" or Star Trek. This morning since 9am. He got halfway through it and came down here to tell me it was scary and didn't want to watch it? This is new. He's instead asked for Pikmin.... yes the video game. When I'm having painful or sick days, we watch video games on YouTube and it's got a spaceship in it. So I've queued up a few videos for him to watch. So I've got a little time here to take a nap, if little miss Almond will let me rest. Fortunately she hasn't been kicking much lately in bed (these fetuses love to attack the bed), which either means she's running out of room... or she's head up and her legs aren't able to do their job. I guess we'll find out eventually, we're kind of getting to that point where she might not turn much more though. Sigh.

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Sideways Day

Oy vey, yesterday was just downright horrible. Dear little Almond spent pretty much the whole day lodged sideways in my belly. My stomach was sore all day, I'd wince if Peanut even touched it, never mind a good elbowing as he tried to snuggle up with me. If I tried to walk farther then just one other room she'd start beating up on me, the walking must have tightened up her space. But it took till after dinner till she finally readjusted herself. Let's not have a repeat of that. But we just had another perfectly healthy appointment so we'll stick to thinking about the good and not the bad.

In under 2 months she'll be in my arms, and in 27 days I'll be 31. Feels older than 30, and more then the obvious +1 reason. But it's cool, I don't care much about ages. Just... just feels older. But I'll have these two young'uns to keep me young for quite some time!

Two days till Aunt K comes with the E's! So excited to see them, bummed that it will likely be forever till we see them again. With us both having babies in the next few months, travel will get hard. Le sighs.

Peanut has had another rough week. Zero bladder control, all we can figure was that the milk we bought went bad (like 2-3 days after opening it?!) and that caused it. But for 3 days it was constant accidents. Poor kiddo. He seems to be over it now though, no problems last night and holding it fine this morning. Phew!

We need more Peanut-isms. This morning, after our morning pleasantries, the first thing he said was "Wanna come to my room and see my globe????"

Yesterday after I told him he could have PBJ for lunch, he ran down to the play kitchen to make me some too. Came up with bread and a hamburger covered in glitter. He was very proud. I quickly put the glitter in a harder to reach place ;)

Got to get some energy up this morning to head out, need an eggplant if I'm going to make ratatouille tonight. Ugh, at least I still have time to head out, it's not THHHHHHHAAAAAT LATE :)

Saturday, July 11, 2015

HICCUPS!

I don't really remember hiccups with Peanut, but Almond has had them in spades. She even had them at her appointment the other day when they checked her heartbeat (still in the 150-155 range). They're nice for reliable movement feeling, assuming she's suffering from them in a convenient place to feel them. I couldn't really feel the ones at the appointment very much at all.

My PGP pain has been improving slowly, so of course then I went and got my TDaP shot. The T part of it is the bitch while the P part of it was for the baby. I just figured I'd go ahead and get it, forgot a little bit about the sleeping part. You know like how I already am not allowed to sleep on my back? And now I can't sleep on my left side as my arm hurts too much? So I'm stuck on my right.... sleeping sucks.

We're having another recurrence of middle of the night accidents. He agreed to wear a superman diaper last night, I hoped that might do it, but then he was up twice just to pee. So wearing a diaper makes him more aware of his bladder in his sleep? I might just put on an empty shell of the diaper on him at night, it'll keep him a little drier if he does have an accident then, maybe less changing will be necessary and maybe he'll get up on his own more until we're over this hump again. I'm guessing it's just stress, his mommy has had a week of having to tell him that she can't hold him/pick him up/etc etc. That can't be easy.

Though maybe I'd heal faster if I was sleeping through the night better ;)

PS from the future - the diaper shell so far is working great. That should jinx it!


Thursday, July 9, 2015

Another week, another appointment

We went in again to check on Almond, no big news is good news. HB still 154, still kicking me, all that fun jazz. Took Peanut out to see Thomas, it was super duper fun, and Uncle A has flown out. This is also enjoyable. I enjoy the fact that I likely weigh the same in both this years and last year's photo, however this time I was rather pregnant. He enjoyed himself a lot, despite the fact that his father was recovering from almost dying to a cashew and his mother couldn't walk around without incurring the wrath of the braxton hicks.

He enjoyed the train ride, exploring the train sheds, seeing all to be seen. It was beautiful weather and wasn't too busy on the weekday. He really did great all day, we were really proud of him.

We then managed to enjoy Uncle A's visit by visiting every day. Despite the fact that dear K decided to come out the same week to work on Almond's room. Which is coming along very nicely. I'm not seeing the photo I'm looking for right now so you'll just have to wait your sweet time, as I'm not walking all the way up there just for a picture right now.

Father's Day has come and gone and also Uncle A has since flown back. And two weeks have passed and all that jazz. Never quite finished this post. We have another appointment tomorrow, so really the title still works! Peanut has been in a new rhythm where he hasn't been napping. It's been working out ok, he hasn't been unbearably cranky in the evening and he doesn't fight sleep. We'll roll like this until it becomes an issue.

We're also struggling with pain, I seem to have developed new pains the last 4 days or so, it may not go away until the end at this point. Though I'm still hopeful!!! And Peanut can only sit on my lap certain ways to prevent the pain. And other stuff too. I guess it's great that nothing came up earlier in the pregnancy. 2 months to go?


Sunday, June 14, 2015

Third Trimester... Again!

 
At our last appointment, my OB informed me that she bumped back our due date 11 days based on the u/s measurements. Which doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, my fundal measurements have been right on or above, I first felt her kick at 15 weeks ( 13 weeks seems like a stretch) and Peanut was small in his too and he arrived just fine on his due date.

But whatever, as long as I don't end up going late, there's no issue, right? She'll choose her due date then. She knows what's right.

We passed our glucose test so it seems I do not have gestational diabetes. Always a plus! We had an awful time with that blood draw though, they weren't able to get the blood in my right arm, but he kept trying and trying and trying and eventually my firm hold gave way and I had to focus on not passing out. Sighs. I had hoped that had stopped since my first pregnancy. Can't always get what you want I guess, and maybe I will have a hard time if I want to start donating plasma with the hubby.

He stole my asparagus soup
Peanut's been... at least acting like he is going to grow. I'll have to check him here soon. He had his stereotypical growth week at the beginning of the month, but we didn't notice any extra height. But he's been waking up early and still eating plenty the week after so who knows what's going on. Maybe his toes are growing. Maybe it's that big fat brain. Every day we hear him getting sharper with his statements/comebacks and attempting at learning some humor. His favorite things to say are "Is that a good idea?" and "Which way I go..." We're still waiting on some nice weather this summer, it's been so super rainy. He has a hard time accepting getting wet so he doesn't like to go out in the rain much.

Peanut just informed me I have one minute to finish this up. We've got a fun week coming up, tomorrow we're celebrating Papa's birthday, Thursday is Thomas and Saturday Uncle A is flying up. We're having a transportation week, I got him a new driving iPad game (he rediscovered the iPad a few days ago actually, he wanted to play on my gameboy and I reminded him he had a tablet full of games). He got to ride the snowmobile in an arcade. Trains and planes coming up. We're talking about monster trucks. Not sure what else we'll do offhand, I'm having an off day today, so... you know... space ships. Enterprise. Standard stuff there. Maybe go to the library and find some new books on the subject.

I think my minute is up, ciao!

Monday, June 1, 2015

Busy Busy June

We've entered our third trimester! It's starting off full of painful kicks, making it harder for me to breath and hurting my back. But everything is managable yet, fortunately. Trying to get a lot done in June so if I have to cut back the rest of the summer I'll feel less guilty.

Peanut saw his Great Grandma and family yesterday in a get together, he behaved as well as one could hope. Then this Thursday we go back in to take another peek at Almond, hopefully she behaves better. And in one week I get to go in for my glucose test. After that appointment there's one more I'm not particularly looking forward to, and also just the 2 week appointments in general. This summer can go by quickly for all I care. I know I'll regret saying that in winter, but I'm glad right now that Almond is going to be my last.

Peanut's upstairs singing Enterprise to his train movie. I'm going to give up soon and have him help me make some blueberry rhubarb sauce, our plant is out of control. Rhubarb that is, it doesn't look like my blueberry bushes survived being transplanted. I don't know, I won't say that yet. Just they look unchanged since early spring, which is troubling. Excited that it looks like both my bulbs and kohlrabi are coming up. My peas still I can't tell if any of the teeny weeds are pea shoots, so likely they didn't do well. But mom gave me some more seeds to try, I think I'll plant those in a different spot and give mine one more week to come up. Tomatoes are still good.... oh shoot I was going to go buy eggplant today. But I don't really want to get in the car again right now... it can likely wait another day.

I wanted to have themed weeks over the summer, I'm not sure what to call this week yet though. We're kind of busy for a lot of the week to go anywhere else, but we did go up Rib Mountain this morning. Maybe rock week, hehe. We can draw pictures of rocks? Make a rock collection? We climbed rocks today. I dunno, I'll think on it.

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

End of May


Peanut dresses himself
I dress Peanut
Peanut got sick last night :( All over the living room. But then has been acting just fine since, other than a low grade fever when I checked him before deciding on school or no school this morning. We have lots of grand plans tomorrow so I figured I'd keep him home today to help ensure he doesn't get worse.

Almond had hiccups last night, I kept all night going "why won't this girl sleep????" only to finally have the aha moment of... I don't think she's actually kicking me! Nothing major going on with her, a friend sent some artwork for the kiddos room, pretty stoked about that, along with some cloth diapers and cloths. Love love love her!

It's the cat's birthday today, 8 years old. Of course they're locked up for being asscats at the moment ;) I suppose I should let them out. They'll get a present tonight and some wet food and forget all about... well their transgressions.

Tomorrow is Peanut's last day of school for the year and afterwards we plan on celebrating with train rides and an afternoon at the splashpad. It's hubby's day off so assuming everyone is healthy it should be a really great day.

AMTRAK!!!!

--- A few weeks ago, neglected to publish ---

Almond Joy Update! Nothing to report. HAH! The Mister felt her kick for the first time, but there hasn't been any major sicknesses or painful periods related to her lately, so behaving good. She continues to make my butt look big and not my belly. I'm feeling her tons now though, she seems to like to kick me while I'm making conversation with someone, and I get to ignore the constant popping.

Peanut Update! We rode on an Amtrak train - very exciting. Our whole trip to Mtown was a success. We had a kind of a weird weekend coming up. MeeMaw was busy and Friday would be my loooooooong day.... but I switched up The Mister's plasma donation to Saturday and we could make a thing out of it. Went to Target and bought more trains, then ate cashews at a park.

I'm planning after this nap to take him out and plant our squash. We have a couple chilly mornings coming up, but it should be before they germinate. It isn't going to make him happy, for some reason he can only play with his Enterprise in the Front Yard. It's Front Yard only. And if he can't play with his Enterprise then he needs to ride his bike, which he also can't do in the Back Yard. It's going to be a lot of drama. But hopefully The Mister is able to get out early today, and if he puts up a stink they can go for a bike ride while I do it. I'd love to include him, but he does plant some spinach seeds occasionally anyways. They were already planted, but he decided to disturb the soil and then cry and cry about planting something, so I said whatever, plant a few more in there.

Monday, May 4, 2015

So many clothes!

Piles of Children Clothes
Friday's garage sale was a success. One tiny bummer, I passed on a toy chest, and it was gone the next day, but I let that one happen, so hey! I can take it! We were even having some problems with finding the clothes we wanted, which shows a little, but at the end of the day we persevered. The main problem we found was that almost all the baby girl clothes seasons were reversed. 3-6 months would be pretty spring dresses and 9-12m would be winterwear. Which is not what we need. So it took a lot of search through stuff (at least it doesn't matter when you're buying footsie pajamas) to find the gems and a lot of "this would be soooo cute! ... if only I'd actually put it on her in January."

By the end of the day I was moving pretty slow, but we decided to stop at a pink garage sale I had seen on my way over. It ended up being an expensive one, and the one next door had squat. There was one more house next door, teeny tiny little one car garage one that we couldn't see inside of. We braved it, and not only found a cute outfit, but Almond's first room decoration, a very pretty vertical sunflower garland. With some cute wooden bugs on it for more room inspiration. Ended up being very much worth it.

Fixing his train
Peanut did really well too. I wasn't sure it was going to be enough, but now that I have things hung up, I think he's sitting rather pretty for the next year. It will need a few more specific pieces (like a hoodie and more socks) but on the whole, it's looking damn good. Of course I won't know for sure until I see how he grows. Usually by the end of winter his arms are mostly grown into the next size, and he's legs are just starting. Which makes things awkward if I don't have enough bought ahead of time, as he has to make it a few months until garage sale season starts up. And to compound the issue, we're in full blown preschool boy mode, which means all the jeans at sales have worn through knees that he'll have ripped through before spring.

Even the Mister is sitting pretty, we have already found one pair of work pants and 2 work shirts for him. With that and our really excellent retail shopping trip, he could rip through 3 tops at this point and he'd still be fine (trust me, he will). I even found a maternity top, in the right season that wasn't garish in my size (again with all the spring baby girls, every sale seemed to only have long sleeved maternity).

So now we move onto the actual doing up of the rooms. I've cleared off the crafting stuff off of the changing table to use as a dresser for now. She's still going to need one but the only dressers I saw at the sales were all part of sets, and the only one of those I liked had been sold. It's going to be a ton of work to get everything moved and organized down here. I underestimated my endurance last night and ended up on the couch late afternoon yesterday for hours unable to do anything - I had wiped myself out. I think it was more the combination of that and the garage sales the day before, two extremely active days just ended up being too much. But at least the washing machine can take a break today (I might go through a few more of Peanut's bags though for gender neutral items.)

Sunday, April 26, 2015

A night of darkness

If it's not one thing, it's another with this boy. Last night night he hid his night light/clock in his drawer.... so of course he woke up every 2 hours scared of the dark. But he doesn't want to leave it out? Hopefully tonight goes easier. This morning he's prancing around singing little bunny foo foo, so that's cute. We headed over to Meemaw and Papa's and he got him a fun gift from the train show. Then we headed past the train yard to try to find the park by it, but the roads seemed closed off. We'll try an alternate route tomorrow. We tried to find some pez (we promised to look) at Mr Veggie's store.... but alas it seems to be a difficult thing to find, replacement pez candy. Might just have to order it.

Things otherwise remain pretty quiet. Few bumps in the road with Peanut, a few little kicks from Almond. Have to order tickets for Thomas this summer, he's coming to a town near us! Lot's to do outside, but it's a pretty bleh day, an off day. Just not feeling great day. The fact that I got him out of the house at all is bonus points, right?? But he's napping now anyways, so no rush anyways. Maybe we'll get to something later. I'm thinking risotto for dinner. I've suffering headaches and took cheese out of the equation, and it worked. But I've been experimenting with different cheeses, might as well take it to the next level and see if I can go back to eating them. Sausage/bacon will be my last test. I don't even really need to try those, since I'm fairly certain it was the culprit. Regardless it's going last.

4 more days left in the month. 4 more months left to go. I need to figure out a list of things to get done before May. I can start doing some major outdoor tasks very soon, with the weather warming up. And there are just a few things left from Trivia to deal with. Went to a garage sale the other day, but the big sale is on the first, hopefully we'll find lot's of good stuff. Because we didn't find a single thing for Almond this last weekend But a few future things for Peanut, like XMas pjs.

Might finally go through the Easter stuff today, so here's a quick little snippet! Thanks K for taking the picture!

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Welcome to the future world, Almond Joy

It's official! We're 21 weeks pregnant with the new Almond Joy. I've already felt a ton of movement with her, and Peanut loves her. He daily hugs and kisses my belly and says hello. Let's hope that love holds up! He's also pretty much always has said he wants a sister, so glad we could oblige!

Comparing fetuses so far:
Peanut's HB was 165 at 16 weeks and this one is 158. Which was down to 151 at the 20 week appointment. I wanted nonstop cheeseburgers with Peanut and this one I like more fruits and sweet things, though no super serious cravings. I never had hair issues with Peanut and this one my hair is falling out. I've been sicker with her than Peanut, but not crazy so. So far I'm still walking ok, where as after my U/S with Peanut began the real pain.

He'll be keeping his room, though we'll likely move him into the full size bed (lucky kid!) since it'll be much more convenient to have out for company vs the trundle/cot bed he has now. We'll be redecorating and looking for some really cool real train type stuff to decorate his room with. I'm planning on letting him choose the wall color, we'll give him a few options, one to keep it the same, one being a more muted color and one being a white-ish color.

AJ is getting sunflowers. Soft and yellow and happy. Have a few ideas so far, but it'll be a ton of work no matter what. Soft yellow walls, new curtains, sunflower wall stickers and/or art... and I'm sure I'll have to try to get some Plants vs Zombies stuff in there as well. C'mon! Sunflowers!!

Have to work on both of their closets, we'll need another dresser, all my crafting stuff needs to get relocated to the play room. Aunt K is coming for a week this summer to help us get focused and working. Dang, it's weird thinking about it only being a little over four months away.

Other then the couple of gifts we've gotten so far, we haven't really bought anything yet. First things first I guess is to clear out all the craft stuff and make room for it down here. I think Peanut will be happy with losing a little bit of his space if it means I'll be doing things closer to him. At least, that's the theory I'm going with! And he's got plenty of space anyways. Just did another purge of toys before Trivia last weekend, there was plenty we could put in the basement without disturbing him. He still loves trains the most, but he's been really happy with his play kitchen stuff as of late. I got hit with some nausea yesterday and he did his best to nurse me back to health by cooking up some play food. Sweet little kid :)


Tuesday, January 27, 2015

A series of Peanutisms

Do you remember what we're doing tomorrow?
"Go to school, then uncle A at Meemaws house!" 
That's right, so you need to rest up. I love you.
"Mama?"
Yes sweetie?
"I have a booger on my finger."



We're roleplaying tonight. Peanut has decided I'm the dog Hundley, Mr Veggie is The Man With The Yellow Hat and he's Curious George.



We put chips on our booboos to make them feel better


Thursday, January 15, 2015

Peanuts getting a job!!!

Wedding Buddies
Or that's what he's told me. On our way to school this morning, he told me he was going to go to work so he could get money and buy trains. What a cutie. He's been having a hard time sleeping lately, however last night I noticed that he seem to have taken another verbal Leap.  He also has not been napping however he has not been acting super crabby in the evenings. Tonight he is going to spend the night with grandma and grandpa. They've offered to take him overnight once a month or so. Mr. veggie and I are thinking of going out for pho tonight.

Monday, January 12, 2015

January

Well, Christmas went well? Yeah? Yeah. Yup. Lot's of family, presents, love, seasonal joy, travel, and all that jazz. But my memory.... uhh.... yeah.

So that wraps that up!

Uncle A came and left. Peanut had a hard time napping while he was here, but who wouldn't, right?! Today though everyone is back in their places, Texans, preschoolers, me in my chair.

It's been news overwhelming style the last few days so we're focusing on all the happies. Yesterday we had squishy smooshy family time, and today I'm making a proper dinner. All sorts of new language is pouring out of Peanut's mouth, it's still scattered and random, much of it I don't understand, but I definitely understood yesterday when he said 'I drink all the ice water' when he didn't want to share MY drink with me. The drink I kindly offered him a sip of. Little snot ;)

Mr Veggie switched locations and is now only 5-10 minutes from home. I greatly approve of this move, in fact I swung by for a few things today and said hello. And it'll be fun when it's not stupid cold outside to go there with Peanut. They did put up a weird stupid red arrow at the main intersection there, so I might do the back way over there to avoid that. Dunno.

Also got our Christmas vacuum today. Hip hip hooray! The living room actually looks clean, it's a little nutso. I missed this. I think I'll save a little bit of vacuuming for Peanut, he likes to do that with me.

I'm good, feeling good. So's really everyone. Hopefully we caught all the bugs already and there's no more illnesses. Just a little hungry, but that's easily remedied.

Taking down the Christmas Tree tomorrow, already took down most of the ornaments. Then we can finish vacuuming in here :)

------ Next Day ------

Well, we're having a cold day I guess. So no preschool. As an added bonus the child fell asleep at 1030, woke up at 6, and snoozed till 7. It's going to be an interesting day. So far we're holding our own (10AM) but I'm sure it won't last.

11AM AND IT DIDN'T We had freakout and freakout, he said he was sooooo sad he needed to go to the doctor. So I told him I'd make him an appointment (for his 4th birthday?) and for now just watch Curious George. He agreed. We'll start up a train video soon and we'll have an early nap time. Gave him some raspberries for now.

1:00 He's napping so hard right now.



WHY DO I NEVER PUBLISH! PUBLISH!

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

18) Last day of School. He was as cute as ever, Papa came with us to pick him up, Peanut said goodbye to everyone and wished them Happy Holidays. He said it so clearly the administrator even teared up she was so proud :)

19) Peanut woke up and stayed in bed, because it was "night time and not sunny time." Super cute, but this new found ability to tell us what time of day it is will soon bite us in the butt.

20) First Christmas, we went to Meemaw's for a yummy dinner and present opening. When we got home and got into bed.... Peanut was suddenly scared of the dark

21) Mr Veggie's split shift, puzzles. Still scared of the dark, but agreed to read a book to the three night lights instead of making me stay in the room.

22) Gym Day, then we saw Santa Claus!!!