3 Days Out Of School, Only Around 75 More To Go

Last night Dave and I tried using the hot tub, first time in like a month! It was great, we needed some down time together. I have set the water temp low at like 90 degrees (so we don't hard boil the baby) but with this hot Kansas weather, it is staying around 97. I doubt the jets could do any harm but I used the low setting so the water was mainly just bubbling around me. All was great for about 15 minutes till I saw something at the doorway to the garage. It was Alex and she was standing there silent, giving us the evil eyes. If eyes could kill, we'd both been dead. Thank goodness we weren't cuddling in the tub at that moment or she would have been REALLY mad. Does anyone's kids hate their parents PDA'ing infront of them? She hates it! I know when she wakes up this morning she's going to be giving me a bitch session as to why we always use the hot tub at night and she never gets to get in it. So she came over to the water and said her ear was bugging her, again. Great. This child has had just a guess here but I'd say about 25 ear infections in her 6 yrs of life and I'm so sick of it. I even have a low dose antibiotic refillable 'script we were told to give her daily for as long as we want so her ears stay dried out. I'm sure it's just the recent swimming and allergies, hopefully not another ear infection. We promptly jumped out and went in to tuck her back into bed. So much for alone time.

This out of school thing really bites. I tried everything keeping the kids busy so they weren't bored out of their mind. I let them swim, jump in the bounce around, play on Nickjr.com, yet Alex still asked me about 10 times "what can I do?" The child has every toy known to mankind, I'm SURE she could find something to do herself. There's the 20 My Little Ponies, the 25+ Barbies and Accessories, The Dora house and every possible extra set that goes with it, The Vsmiles and the 7 games with that, her Leapster and all those games, or how 'bout the nice computer set up on her desk with all those damn Scholastic CDRoms we bought for the past couple years! She could get out the Power Wheel and ride around in the yard, ride her bike, go play with the dogs, we've even got a fullsize pool table and a foozeball/airhockey table she could play yet she still says she has "nothing to do." It's not even June 1st yet, and she's out of school till August 15th. Dominic on the other hand could play with his Thomas Trains all day without fussing. He comes up with all sorts of senerios with them it's fun listening to his imagination since we can really understand the things he says now. He'll have them falling off cliffs, running into each other on the same track, getting ate by a dinosaur, it's really funny. His vocabulary is crazy now. His sentence length is about 4-5 words now. Anyways, here's some pics from yesterday. Not sure why the date is wrong on the pics. LOL



In the Pool Yesterday


This cracks me up because they were jumping and with the blur Alex looks the same size as Dominic.


Here's Damien chillin in the little kid chair, that's Dave's hairy legs to the right. LOL


A majority of the day the kids played in this box which was the box for Dominic's new big boy booster chair. He's all happy he finally got one. I am too because hopefully I won't have to fight him into the carseat now.

An Attempt

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More Pictures

Well Damien's evening sleep was a bit better last night but Friday evening Dave made me sit on the couch and listen to him scream. I finally went in there and he was wearing down and I just stroked his head till he drifted off.

Here's some recent pics. I have one boy who LOVES TRAINS, remember his Thomas Addiction?

And the other LOVES Trucks and Cars and pushing them all over the house.
But with Alex, you'll find her writing letters, making sentences rather then playing with toys.

And Damien now has 4 big ol' pearly white teeth! All came through in less then a week. Boy was that fun! You should have all stayed the night over to help get up with him!

I tried to take another group shot the other day, and this is the best one I got out of 20. Uh yeah it looks pretty bad and I swear Dominic isn't sedated. Thank God for Digital Cameras.

We had Dominic's Class Recognition went well except he was shy and sat the whole time on his teacher's lap (in the green) so you won't see him in this picture but the rest of the kids were singing. It was cute.

He did let me take a picture of him in the classroom though.

Here is Alex after her Kindergarten Graduation at her desk.

And here is her getting ready to bridge over to Brownies! As of October she'll be a brownie! Ebay I'm coming to you for cheap Brownie attire!

And then for a treat friday since school was out for both of them, I let her take a friend to one of the water sprinkler parks. Plus it's free, can't beat that.

And Dominic had a ball himself. Afterwards he went home and took a LONG nap.

Life is really good right now. I couldn't be happier! I am so excited for January to get here so it can turn a thousand times better.

I Have A Confession To Make

I can not let Damien cry.............ever, and it's really starting to piss Dave off. I felt AWFUL yesterday when I picked him and Dominic up from our old daycare provider (she lets me do a drop in with the kids when I need to) I walked in and heard him hysterically crying so I found him in the hallway bawling and as soon as I picked him up he put his head on my shoulder and stopped. I asked how long he'd been crying and she said the whole time I was gone which was a hour and a half. She tried everything and finally just put him down so he could cry it out. Dominic used to be the same way as a baby when I dropped him off anywhere but outgrew it probably around a 1.5 yrs when he was really mobile and wanted far away from me. The grandparents are even afraid to watch him because he cries the whole time at their houses too. I didn't mention this to Diann yesterday because I was afraid she'd tell me no if she knew of his past seperation anxiety.

But this is not the real problem, the real problem is naps and bedtime. When Damien was a baby, I could leave him in his crib and he'd drift off to sleep but for about 3-4 mths now I actually rock, cuddle, and hold him for about a hour at night till he finally drifts off and it's really making Dave mad. I try for about 5 minutes to get him to go to sleep by just putting him in bed and I keep peeking him in and placing him under his covers with a binkie but as soon as I walk out the door he sounds like he's a rabid monkey screaming and pulling the crap out of the rail of his crib. After a few minutes of that I pull him out of bed, stroke his head and rock him till he drifts off. For the most part I can put him in bed but there's times like last night where he just automatically woke up feeling me pull away from him and he started screaming again. Usually when I put him in bed he pulls my hand to the side of his face and holds it there with his two hands. It looks so sweet but then after standing over the crib, back killing me, I finally sneak my hand away after about 3 minutes and run like hell out of the bedroom. That is our nightly routine. First before scooping him out of bed though it consists of Dave bashing me telling me to let him cry, leave him alone, he'll be fine, yadda yadda.

Naptime is alittle different, not as bad but he does need me still to get to sleep. I'm on the computer at the time he naps. (1 nap usually around 1PM) I never just put him bed for his nap during the day. He'll come over to where I'm sitting in the kitchen on the computer and start rubbing his head on my leg which then I know he's tired so I'll pick him up and he falls asleep on me while I type and then I lay him in bed. There's no crying involved at naptime.

Dave is really tired of this because after I finally get him down, I want to clean the house some before bed. I'm not sure what else to do. We've fallen into a routine with this and I know Damien wouldn't be able to go to sleep any other way or he'll scream forever which I hate to let him do that. I know he's got some real seperation anxiety even at family functions I can be standing right there and he's giving me looks and pulling away from whoevers holding him for me to take him back. I'm hoping with time we can get over this stage but for now it's really putting stress on Dave and I's relationship since we fight over this nightly.

Ugh Ugh Ugh

Last night I started feeling a bit strange. I've been super gassy lately and had to get up twice in the past week to go to the bathroom but last night I felt gassy and just strange. This morning I can tell I'm still feeling blah and that morning sickness is starting to roll in. I figured for sure I was going to puke but haven't so far. The empty light tummy feeling is certainly there though. Last night my left boob was pulsing and I thought "I wonder if this means something." hmmmmmm......

Last night while watching American Idol, Alex asked me about her legs. I feel bad the poor kid does look like she's growing a fur coat but now it's bothering her. I think it was because D was laying there on the couch with shorts on and his hairy legs exposed. She told me that she didn't like the hair and she wanted to get rid of it. I told her she looked fine and her head shrank down and she looked like she was going to start crying. I think 6 is alittle young to be shaving your kids legs. She says no one at school has made fun of her for it but I wonder if she's lying. The thing is she's alittle darker complected and the hair sticks out really bad because it's blonder. I'm not sure what to do, my thought was shave below her knees (where it's so noticable) maybe 1 time a month or every other month. Sounds crazy but if she's that bothered I would. I'm going to wait and see if she brings it back up, if not, we won't worry about it.

I'm going to her Kindergarten graduation today so I'll post pictures tomorrow of both Dominic's and Alex's. I know they are doing some skits. Should be cute! I can't believe summer is here and school is out, well except for Dominic going to school in June! Where did the time go!

Feeling Guilty

I've been feeling so guilty lately about this pregnancy. The fact that I know several girls who are trying month after month and not getting pregnant being one. Hanging out on the BabyCenter boards, I've met alll sorts of people on there who have tried forever and still can't get pregnant or have had multiple losses and can't seem to carry a pregnancy. When I miscarried 2 yrs ago I clung to Babycenter to get me through the day and meeting some awesome gals who miscarried around the same time. Some had been trying quite awhile, some had just started. Most of us got pregnant again, but a few didn't. One gal had another miscarriage and then got pregnant with a little girl only to have her die two weeks later, just last week. My heart aches for her and I can't even imagine what her and her husband are going through right now. The friend of mine Lori who told me last week "wow you get pregnant easy," then told me of her infertile woes and how she'd love another really made me feel pretty crummy . I have been able to get pregnant pretty easy I guess the past few years but it took 18 mths to get pregnant with Dominic and that was a very hard time for me. We'd time it right, something just wasn't working.

Another sort of guilt I've been dealing with is that maybe I'm doing too much or not taking care of this little one to the best of my ability. Last night while Alex was in gymnastics, I went into the cardio center and hopped on a bike and pedaled away. I did it for 1/2 hour and that whole time was wondering if it was ok that I was doing it. I never worked out when pregnant with the others, walked but nothing like a real workout. After I came home I was so sore, tired, and felt like complete crap. I never feel like that so I'm assuming this is my body telling me to lay off. I went to sleep at 10:30 last night I was so worn out.

I guess I'm just paranoid anymore but the whole orgasm thing while pregnant has me feeling pretty guilty too. I've been trying to AVOID sex because of this. This bothered me with Damien as well and I know there is nothing proven that it causes miscarriages but I feel so awful about it! Someone please tell me I'm not alone! LOL I would rather go the next 230 days or whatever it is without sex then feel like I'm harming the poor kid.

I'll be so glad when I finally get to hear the heartbeat. My first appt is June 7th. I hope my OB will give an early sono so we can see that everything is growing like it should be.

Trucker Talk

I have been constantly nagging lately at Dave to watch his mouth around the kids. As soon as Alex had her "I don't give a fuck" phrase popping out of her mouth at 2 yrs old, I started watching the things I said around her but Dave still hasn 't got the point. Sometimes he'll catch himself but most of the time he just lets it fly out when he's mad about something. I wish I could figure a way to curb both of our potty mouths, especially his. The phrase to come out of his mouth the most is "Jesus Christ." Everytime I hear it I give him the "eye" and tell him to watch his mouth. I'd prefer to smack him across the face for saying this as we all know this is very very bad to say, worse than fuck I'd say. LOL I'm so afraid Alex or Dominic are going to start saying this, can you imagine?? (sigh) The other favorite of his is "son of a bitch" which is still bad but not as bad as the other. The other little words fly out too, can't forget them.

Alex is really bad about copying things you say. When something or someone makes me mad, I say dork (watching my mouth) and so she does too. Everything and everyone is a dork. A squirrel runs across the road, it's a dork. The cable goes out on the TV, it's a dork. Back in the day, I didn't care for the word "private" being referred to a certain area so I started saying "taco." Everytime something involved the area she started saying "my taco ......" and D hated it. When she found out there was a food called a taco we switched the name to private because she was confused why it was called a food name, and we weren't explaining to her why. With her age at almost 6 now, I am almost positive that the bad words being said are going in one ear and staying in there. If she does start, I'm sure it'll give him more of a wake up call that she is hearing the words coming out of his mouth although she does do a good job of ignoring them most of the time.

Breaking The News And Then Maybe Not

I've known of this pregnancy for 10 days now but have not felt pregnant at all. Alittle worrisome because of the past but I still believe things are cooking away in there. For reassurance I've been taking my temperature daily and making sure it's staying high. The miscarriage 2 years ago really warped happiness in the beginning of pregnancy for me. I don't feel like I can be completely sure that everything is ok till I really start throwing up, peeing all the time, and feeling kicks. I was paranoid the whole pregnancy with Damien, and this is why I bought a $175 baby doppler and listened to his heartrate all day, every day for as long as I could. The only real thing I have noticed is my increase in appetite which is something I have every pregnancy but maybe I'm just not eating much. Who knows.

I told two Moms that have girls in Alex's Daisy Scout Troop last night. Their basic reaction was "wow! Congrats! This wasn't planned I take it? You're brave 2/1 was enough for me. Well I guess you're a stay at home mom though." I totally expect alot of mixed feelings from people on having 4. I really don't see why anyone cares, it's not as if they are paying for our kids in any way. Another Mom friend who's daughter is friend's with Alex was quite taken back when I told her. Her first response was "congrats! That's great!" but then it changed to "you sure get pregnant easy, I wish I could have been like that. I had to use fertility drugs for Allison." I felt bad for her because she went on to say that her first born a boy was stillborn at 5 mths, then came Jayson and Allison. Now she's upset because her hubby has drawn the line and said no more so she was pretty bittersweet about it. Probably won't bring it up around her unless she asks. LOL The only others I've told are internet friends and friends who live out of the state that I've known forever and they won't be in contact probably ever with my parents which is the next dilemma. How long should I wait to tell them? Any ideas???

I know our parents will be happy overall but they will shocked and we'll hear a lot of doubt that this is a good idea. Again, not sure why. Is the norm of this world only to have 3 kids?? I figured I'd wait as long as possible till I started showing and have the kids tell the news. I don't think they could possibly act upset getting the news from 2 very happy grandkids. Ya think?

Yep, Even I'm Bored Listening to Momma

Damien now has 4 teeth. Unfortunately you can't see them in the picture. The other bottom one popped through so all 4 in about a week and a half. He has been a nightmare, crying, screaming, pulling on my jeans for me to pick him up, and throwing his food in anger because it hurts to eat. Even when I hold him he's mad and tries to pull wads of my hair out. Bedtime has turned real fun with teething, let me tell ya. He goes ape shit in bed pulling on the crib rail throwing binkies across the floor, even giving Baby Tad the boot out of bed sometimes. Now it consists of me holding him for 30-45 minutes till he drifts off with a binkie in his mouth, slowly placing him in bed, and running like hell so he doesn't sense that I've put him down. Luckily for the most part he's only waking every few nights and a sippy cup of milk gets him back to bed.




K and K's mom never gave me the "schedule" for the summer. I will start pressing her to find out exactly how much she's wanting this summer. If it's too much then I'll tell her to take them down the street to her back up (my old sitter) I can't see how she expects me to watch her kids when the past two summers she stayed home with them. I've mentioned in the past how I don't think she puts her kids first. School gets out at like 3:15 and she never comes to get them till 5! She usually goes home and works out, goes shopping at the mall (seriously!), or out to get grocceries. So who knows why she's wanting to bring them here and what for. If it's once or twice a week, whatever but if it's more I'll probably say something to her.

Tomorrow is Dominic's Recognition at school. I'm not sure if he'll be getting any awards or anything but I figured I'd go and watch. His speech is becoming much more easier to understand. Even the mothers I watch for understand him now when he comes up and says hi before they drop off their kids. I am pretty sure he'll be in Early Intervention for his 4 yr preschool as well. Hopefully with all this extra help, when he gets to Kindergarten it'll be less stressful for all of us.

Was anyone else sad to see Elliot go last night on American Idol? I wanted to cry. I'm positive Taylor's going to win but I love his voice too so that's ok with me.

My Summer Off Just Went Out the Window

This morning I decided to ask about when the last day was for the girls I do daycare for since their mom is a teacher she usually stays home with them and brings them back in mid August. Well she told me today that she will be having them come in the summer on occasion. Great. Knowing her it'll be like everyday. I wasn't planning on this. I thought I'd be able to take the kids to the waterparks, zoo, and other things intown to do this summer without hauling around another preschooler and toddler. We'll hope it's not going to be that often. I told her that I enrolled the kids in the storytime program at the library on Wednesday afternoons so hopefully her needed schedule won't involve Wednesdays. I also wasn't planning on her knowing I'm pregnant till August when she came back with them. Hopefully I won't show enough for her to tell till later on. I'm afraid she's going to look for another provider when she finds out I'm due in January since this time it will take her finding a back up, last time in July she was out of school. I will also be watching Lexi the 6 yr old M-W from 9:30-5:30 but that's fine since she's 6 and alittle easier to care for!

T-ball last night was fun. I took Damien with me so we sat on a blanket and played while she practiced. Mrs. BetterthanU got her little girl on the team too. She showed up with her boys and I sat next to us. It's weird that our kids are all born months of each other. Her youngest boy is 2 months older than Damien so they were staring at each other. One of the first things she said was "did you see Nichole's glove?" I answered "yeah, it's pink. How cute!" Whatever. Does that make her daughter more special than the other girls because she has a pink mit? I think I'll stick to universal sports equipment that the boys can use in the future. lol She also blabbed about putting her 3 yr old in T-ball and how her yr old is walking all over now. Last week at the Girlscout Daisy meeting we were putting the kids in the car and she showed me that her sliding door on her minivan locks when pushed open as to where mine I can push it shut, a safety feature that my Windstar doesn't have. Grrrrrrrrrrrr.......

Dave's cousin Tori came over last night to pick up some clothes we had bought for her little girl at a yard sale the other day and brought her 7 week old girl Emma with her. It's so weird holding and seeing a baby that small again when your kids have grown up. I can't even remember what life was like with the kids at that age. I have it all on camcorder but I just can't remember them looking so frail and tiny, their expressions, the movements they made. It feels like it's been forever. I held Emma though and stroked her soft black hair looking at Dave and smiling. I sure hope this one's a girl.

New Pictures

Sorry if these look kinda bad! I had to scan them off.

These are Damien's 9 Month Shots. It only took like 10 minutes to do these because he was so happy and having a great time. Wish it was that way with Dominic. He hates having pictures done.
Here's the cute little pucker face he loves to make.


I figured I'd have the school do his pictures since he always cries and throws a fit for me. They got him to do it but he was looking off to the side so now I really do need to take him back in to Walmart to get a good 3 year shot. This is Alexzandra and her Principal Mr George on his 50th Birthday with her wearing her Over the Hill Shirt we made.

And last here's a pic of me holding another positive pregnancy test. I think I'm finally believing this is real.

I hope everyone had a great Mother's Day Weekend! Mine was pretty boring, lots of housework. Went to some yard sales Saturday morning and got Alex some jeans and shorts and Dominic a few bigger things. I planted flowers with Alex yesterday morning while Dominic shoveled dirt at us. He doesn't quite have the concept of gardening yet. Damien fussed all weekend from teething and was up for abut 3 hours early Sunday morning from like 1-4 and we woke up for the day with him at 6:45AM. We visited my mother, and stepmom, Dave's mom got her gift in the mail since she lives in Phoenix but Alex talked to her on and off all day.

Things are better with Dave, not 100% but we'll get there. His main issue is money and all his negativity right now has to do with paying for another. For example at Walmart the other night I said we needed diapers and he said "I can't believe we're going to have to keep buying diapers after Damien's out of them." See, we've been buying diapers now for 6 years now, ever since Alex was born there's never been a stopping point or gap long enough to stop. He's also said that our hot tub is a complete waste of money, I won't get my new Tahoe with having to pay for another, etc. He's just joking around (smiling when he says these things but I know that he's really thinking another is going to break us, totally untrue until college that is. LOL

I did break down crying on Saturday evening which I think caught him off guard. I told him that I just can't be happy about this pregnancy unless he's happy too. I also said that I didn't want to do this if he was going to hate me and this baby. I would rather adopt him/her out than have a grudge in our house for eternity. Maybe that was a wake up call for him but since then he's taken this alot better. He told me after my sobfest that he's sorry and just stressed by the whole thing. Does he think I'm not stressed?? Everything this weekend that was stresssful with the kids such as meals, bedtime, crying, fighting, Damien's teething we kept looking at each other almost silently asking if we're ready to do this. By January of next year, we'll have ANOTHER in our house, and it's a scary thought. I know we can do it though and everything will be ok.

I have some really neat pictures to post but I have to scan them first. Alex's shirt I made for her principal's 50th birthday was a hit. They took her picture with Mr. George, it's so cute. I hope they put her in the newsletter. I also got Damien's 9 month pictures back which are super cute.

OMG I am seriously pregnant again.

Well I wouldn't say the shock has exactly worn off, but my mind is starting to realize this isn't a dream. I want to thank everyone for their support, it really helps. Yesterday things seemed to get better with Dave. He started joking alittle bit about it yesterday saying I'm stressing him out. He was pretty normal yesterday and told me he had a bad headache the other night and that's why he was quiet and went to bed early. I've been having awful cramps, so bad that I keep running to the bathroom to see if I'm starting and he was a bit concerned with that saying "are you serious??" So I think things with him won't be so bad after all, I hope. I think as long as I just don't talk to him about it and let him process it by himself he'll come around more and won't be so angry.

I think my processing has already happened. I took the test...it says I'm pregnant but I say no way. The past 2 days I've been cramping but after hundreds of trips to the bathroom looking for ol' Flo, nothing. I'm taking my temperature in the morning still, it's 98.1... high. All the sudden my stomach is roaring hungry as if I haven't ate for days, but I eat and snack all day.

More processing:

• Is Dominic going to be totally potty trained by 3 yrs 11 months? If not I'm so screwed!
• My parents and his parents will freak so I'm hiding this till I give birth.
• Damien was 9lbs 13 oz! Will this one be bigger?!?!?!?!?!?!
• What is my OB going to think when she finds out I'm pregnant again and due for a 4th C.
• Someone's going to have to share a bedroom, we only got 4.
• Is my body going to be able to handle doing this again?
• I am scared to death of miscarrying again. I have that in the back of my mind.
• What will my families I watch for do since this time I'd be due mid January?
• What if this is a boy again? I will seriously cry.

In other news I talked to my mom last night about my Grandma and was told she may have bone cancer. They did a Bone MRI and found that along with a pinched nerve in her neck, this may be going on too. I hope to God not. She has more tests today.

For Your Microscopic Viewing Pleasure

Note: These are Equate tests that show a plus sign when pregnant in the circle. Well those are the test and I guess I should have taken pics yesterday because the sign has faded quite a bit. If you can tell anything with these pics you have some super duper vision!
So last night we found out my Great Uncle who had cancer passed away. My mom called me moments after it happened since he wanted to pass at home. His family was with him when it happened. Kinda strange that we find this out the same day. I was up till 11 PM cleaning since he was already asleep. So far this morning when he's called home he's been pretty normal and hasn't mentioned the pregnancy at all. He did say this morning his stomach was bothering him last night so he went to bed early then said "You're stressing me out!" Joking around but that's all he said. I'm not going to speak of it to him and just wait for him to start coming around. He's acting like he did when I was pregnant with Alex which was also an oops.

Anyways before all this craziness started, we had Alexzandra's T-Ball practice Tuesday night. It was so neat! I never expected to go to things like this with my little girl. You I guess think of those sports as "the boy activities." She loved it and she's an awesome hitter. The only problem is the night is the one she has gymnastics on so I'm going to have to see if the YMCA can put in on another day. We have so many activities coming up this summer, I hope I'm not going to have any preggo problems slowing me down. We have 8 or so T-ball games in June and July, Girlscout camp, Swimming lessons, Vacation bible school and the list goes on. I want the kids to stay busy though so they aren't bored. The one thing I hate is "what can we do?" "what are we doing today?"

Damien now has 3 teeth since getting his first on Saturday May 6th. His hands have been constantly in his mouth, I've been rocking him to sleep everynight, and carrying on my hip 24/7 for the past week, now we know why. Hopefully the pain subsides soon so he can get back to his sweet lovable self.

I Feel Tears Coming

Well I told him. He's not pleased at the moment and we haven't talked of it since. He came home and I finally told him about a hour later in the bathroom. His exact words were "every fucking time" in which after that he rolled his eyes and walked off. What he means is everytime I have a serious conversation with him, I'm pregnant. We hardly ever fight, we're always joking around so if I'm serious he knows something's up. I expected this though, it's just sad. He's already in bed at 9:30, I think he's avoiding me on purpose.

Shaking Like A Leaf

Breathe........Just Breathe........Breathe.......Just Breathe.........I can't even type my hands are shaking so bad. I took a pregnancy test this morning and it's positive. Seriously this isn't that April Fool's Day shit. It's fucking Positive and I'm pregnant. I haven't told Dave, he left for work this morning at 6. I took my temperature this morning and it was 98.2 (way high)and I should be starting my period already, so I decided to test. When I looked at my temp I started shaking in bed because I just knew. My temp should have been around 97.5 today. This is possibly why the past few days I've felt like I've had to pee all day and I've been exhausted. Dave's going to crap his pants, this is our 5th pregnancy!! Please if you know my family, Mandi, Amie, Please don't say anything!!! I'll see if I can post a picture later of the test. I hear Damien waking, better go.

Don't Let Us Know It's Your 50th

Went to Alex's PTO meeting last night to end the year. They wanted to elect officers for the board next year and no one was wanting to volunteer, figures. I finally said I could probably be Treasurer, and then 2 other people decided they could too. So we had to have a vote and one lady I haven't ever seen her before there, was voted in as the Treasurer. I had no problem with that since I was scared to assume the position with my crazy schedule as it is. In total I think on average there is 8 people that come to the meetings, no teachers. Pretty pathetic.

When we were leaving we found out that it was Mr. George, the Principal's, 50th Birthday the next day (today)so after the meeting we headed to Walmart because I wanted to let Alex do something nice and funny for his 50th. I bought her a black T-shirt and found some scrapbooking stickers and fixed the shirt really nice. Actually it looked like it was professionally done. I bought Iron-ons just incase these stickers didn't work but I didn't end up using them. I'm thinking of buying Alex a tanktop and doing something with them.
We also bought an Over the Hill card that basically says You make going over the hill look like fun! And there's a dog on a wagon going over a hill. I told her she should go give him his card in the morning and see if he looks at her shirt. I'm sure he's going to love it, he's a very funny laid back kinda guy. All the kids love their principal and I think that says a lot. Alexzandra was so excited last night and this morning to do this for his birthday. She even got out of bed at 6:30AM to get ready.

So far this Monday morning has went pretty smoothly. I guess getting up at 5 AM helps. Perhaps if Dave could have been abit more quieter, maybe I could have slept alittle longer. He left at 5:30 so I hauled my butt out of bed and got in the shower. I got Alex off to school fine but Dominic threw a fit again. The past 3 days he's went, we've had to use force to get him in the bus, he just doesn't want to go. After I put him in the chair he kicks and screams I guess on most of the ride there but then is happy when he sees his school.

Friday night we went to Alex's school carnival. I volunteered to run the Bean Bag Booth for 30 minutes at 6 PM. I picked that time because I wanted to be able to bid on baskets at the silent auction. This year the people actually decided to fork out some money I guess. The baskets were going alot higher so I waited till like 30 seconds till the end and bid on this one called BathTime Fun. I won it for $68! Last year I won 2 and paid $110 for Outdoor Fun and one called Baby Time. If Dave wasn't there I would have bid on another but he always gets pissy when I blow money but this is for a good cause. The money goes back to the school PTO fund. So you can kind of see a few things shoved in the basket but there was tons of Crayola bathtub tints, crayons, about 5 different kinds of bubble bath, foam, lotions, fizzies, squirt guns, soaps, jels, loafa's, 4 huge towels with duckies, 15 washclothes, foam letters, squirty toys, etc. It's awesome and I think I got the best priced basket out of them all. YAY! Bathtime was loads of fun this weekend and probably will be for a few years. LOL

Saturday we had planned to go to Cinco De Mayo festivities but it rained all weekend long. I even tried to go to a few yard sales but the rain was just too much. I picked Dominic up 3 Old Navy shirts, some wood puzzles, and about 20 kids books for $5 at the two sales I went to in the rain. We also spent Saturday at the mall and Target trying to find some gifts for Mother's Day. We found out Saturday that Damien had cut both his top front teeth. I could see the white so I knew it was going to happen soon but I never expected his top teeth to come in before his bottom. There are no signs of bottom teeth. We also transitioned from bottles to sippy cups Friday. Finally bottle free! Saturday evening I went outside to let Bailey do his duty and while he was doing that I wandered over to the BBQ Grill and stared. Would you believe after cleaning that nest out that bird had installed a NEW nest?!?!? Yeah and when I opened the lid because I saw grass hanging out the front, the bird flew out into my face!!!!! OMG I started screaming and ran in the house. I sent Alex out Sunday morning and camcorded her thinking it would happen to her but the bird was gone but there was one blue egg. Guess it's a Robin making our grill her home so I took the nest over to the tree near the grill and stuck the nest in the tree. I have YET to go see if she's came back and tried to build again. I'm too afraid to open the thing in fear she's built a 4th nest.

Last night I bought the Vsmiles- Thomas and Friends video game for the kids. I think I may just bought the best toy on Earth and it was only $16.50. Dominic played for 2 hours last night sorting big rocks and small rocks and driving the Thomas train with the controller looking for letters to complete the names of the trains. I was a bit worried that he wouldn't understand and he does have some trouble with a few of the games on it but I'm sure after playing it hours on end, he'll get it figured out. He was screaming in joy at everything on the game, he's in love and the best part is he's learning.

Happy Cinco De Mayo!

It's supposed to rain here tomorrow so I'm not sure what's going to happen to the festivites here in town. Dave is going to work early morning but hopefully we'll be able to go watch the afternoon things going on. Listen to some Mariachi bands and watch Damien dance. :)

10 Months Old!

I can't even believe that I'm going to have to start planning a 1 year birthday party for Baby D soon. It's insane how quick this past year has went. I'm going to assume that doing 10 hours of daycare a day, plus having 3 kiddos, 2 with constant school activites makes the time just cruise by. Weekends are more like a day off than 2. Everything seems to move by the speed of light now. Laying around and being bored are nonexistant in this household. There's always something going on.

10 months has really brought on no new milestones. Crawling has went from slow casual crawling to NASCAR speed crawling. He's starting to get more brave on eating bigger items like crackers or those Gerber Fruit Puffs but if he had his way, he'd be totally content with some smooth and creamy sweet potatoes or carrots. He's still working on his last can of formula. He has no preference between milk or formula so that's good and it should be easy to wean him totally off. He'll stand now for a few seconds without grabbing anything then fall to his butt. It also looks like he may break a top tooth first before a bottom!?!? This will be a first if it does happen that way. There are no signs of any bottom teeth but there's white on his top gums like his top tooth is about to poke through. Weird!

He is facinated by toys with wheels. He's is going to be all boy like Dominic. He loves trucks and trains and plays with all of Dominic's which makes Dominic alittle upset since he's not good with sharing. He's only taking one big nap in the afternoon which is fine because he sleeps at the same time as the daycare kids and Dominic. The one thing I get asked with him all the time is if he's acting anything like Dominic was at this age. SO far I can say he's not but I didn't start noticing how wild Dominic was till he was about a year old. That's when I saw I was in trouble. Hopefully he continues to be the mellow, sweet, loving little guy that he is.

Choo Choo!

Today was probably the most fun I've had with Dominic in a long time. We have been anticipating the arrival of a historic train of Union Pacific that was making a stop in our city for 30 minutes. We've talked about this for days now that he'll be able to get up close and personal with a steamie!! I went and picked him up from school at 9:30 and we showed up early and watched it come in on the track. I was hoping he would be able to get onboard, but unfortunately they only let the kids come on for the first 5 minutes and stopped for some reason. I don't think he cared too much though, I know he wanted on, he asked me even, but I told him that we would be taking a ride on the Thomas train when it came in June.

Here's a video of the train stopping and going. You'll hear Damien screaming occasionally. He was so upset by the horn.

The size of this thing was unbelievable. One wheel on the engine alone was atleast 6 ft high and the about 4 ft wide. I had decided to make this a daycare fieldtrip which was probably not a good thing because all three babies freaked out as soon as Engine 844 started tooting it's horn approaching the Depot. I had no idea that it would be so extremely loud. The diesel trains that rip through town everyday are no where as loud as these old steamies. Since all three babies were bawling (I mean absolute horror stricken being killed bawling) several people approached to help. N was so upset a woman held him for 10 minutes while he sobbed. Damien stopped as soon as I picked him up and Kayla as soon as the horn went off the first time, she fell to the ground like it was an airstrike with her hands over her head. Kelsey and Dominic were happy and wowed by the size and sounds. After it stopped steam poured from the pipe and from the bottom and hissed. I stood there forever wondering where the heck my help was. My grandmother was supposed to help but there were so many people (I wasn't expecting 100's) it took a good 30 mintues to find her. Finally I found her via cell phone and I put the babies in the car (all were still in a state of shock and bawling) then took Kelsey and Dominic up to see the thing while my grandmother watched the babes for a bit.

In all it was a great morning. A lot of the older men there were almost looking for someone to share their old railroad stories with. I had a few just start talking to me about the 50's and riding engines like this one. When it was time for it to leave, they cleared the tracks and we watched from the van as it started chuggin away. Then the horn went off and the babies started bawling again. Damien was going beserk freaking out. Everytime the horn went off he stopped crying almost as if he was choking from fear. It was funny yet sad! Poor guy! The horn went off about 10 times as it left. Dominic was actually pretty calm as it took off and left. I figured he'd chase it down the tracks but he watched it smiling. I'm glad we were able to do this.