54 days or 7 weeks and 5 days left

Well, here I am. This is the biggest I have ever felt in all of pregnancies. Usually people are always surprised that I'm not bigger when I tell them my due date. While in Arizona I took Cecily to an eye appointment and the receptionist asked me when I was due. I told her "end of May" and she gave me a look and said "really?! You sure not sooner?" Uhhh.... yeah I wish! So that's the first that has EVER happened to me.

I get heartburn with everything I eat. Don't believe me? I can't even eat granola cereal without needing a tum. Here's hoping the old wives tale will work for me one more time and give me a baby with lots of dark hair like Cecily.

After my flight home I was waiting with the kids for the train to take me to the baggage claim and I felt something move in my back. Since then I'm not able to walk or stand for more than 30 minutes without being in excruciating pain, even rolling over in bed causes me to yelp in pain. Hopefully when I go to the chiropractor this weekend I will feel better.

At my last appointment everything looked good. She's moving like CRAZY which is comforting. My iron is REALLY low so I need to start taking supplements asap. And here's the biggest report... I DIDN'T GAIN ANY WEIGHT! Usually they are telling me every appointment to watch my weight and what I eat. I haven't been perfect but I've been trying and it totally paid off.

Name list hasn't changed. We're just waiting for her to arrive so we can have a good look at her and determine the name.

Well, that's about it for this update on baby.

Arizonian vacation

March 9 Chris and I took a nice vacation to Arizona to say goodbye to Chelsea and Mitch (moved to Virgina for Marine stuff). I never thought I would say "I vacationed to Arizona" in my life. Hopefully next time it will be to Italy. It was a lovely trip. Trying to find the cheapest flight home (Colorado home) I accidentally purchased the wrong date. So instead of staying a week the kids and I stayed for two. We had to pay a bit more for Chris's flight home for the original day we were supposed to go home. We stayed a week at Chris's parents house and then I stayed a week at my parents house. The kids ran wild with cousins and cried when it was time to come home.I wasn't awesome at taking pictures of everything. I didn't even get a picture with Chelsea before she left! But here's what I got...The kids were SUPER excited to go on an airplane (despite what Cecily's face is telling you). We talked about it everyday till the actual flying day.

Chris had the genius idea of getting a harness for Asher and it worked out great cause this is what we did for the 2 hour wait till we got to board the plane.

We spent the Saturday day with the Lovells, the best friends anyone could ask for, at the Renaissance Festival. Great company, but we wish we ditched the kids and had an adult playdate instead. I got fried.

Saturday night was Chelsea's goodbye party so we got to see the whole extended family which is always fun. Jocelyn and Cecily used my camera to take pictures. Here are some of my favs that they got.

Monday evening Chris left and it was a sad night. Asher cried most of the way back to my parents house. I loved staying at Chris's parents house because Ash-man always had a guy around he could hit or try to wrestle. He loved playing with Papa and his uncles and boy cousins. He did get out of the front door 3 times. Once a neighbor came and knocked on the door asking if he belonged to this house. I nearly threw up when Chris's mom walked in with him and told me.

The girls loved playing with Jenny and Leyani all week. Emotions ran high 1/2 of the time, the other half I didn't talk to them for hours at a time.

I can't remember what day it was but it was warm enough that my siblings and a couple nieces decided it was time to swim. They didn't let Asher in the swimming area and Asher was literally bummed out that he couldn't go swimming. Probably the most pitiful thing I have ever seen.

Asher got some time to bond with my dad. He went on wheel-barrow rides and since Dillon and my Dad are the only men in the house he made sure he was always around one of them.

That's basically it as far as the pictures go. I spent the time home stressed out about my statistics class and getting to visit with my in-laws and siblings. It's always nice to visit home and feel like I never left. Monday was a stressful day before I left. Thank goodness my dad works for Mesa Air and got to come with me to the gate to help with the kids. I was so grateful for him because the flight ended up being delayed an hour and Asher would NOT go to sleep. The flight was a nightmare because he never went to sleep and I had him screaming at me that he had to be in a seatbelt and Jocelyn crying because she had to sit alone and that she missed Jenny. I made it though, and I cried in the car on the way home. Chris gave me the next day off being a mom and I got to sleep and relax to my hearts content.

Being home almost a week now I miss home all over again but I feel like I've got back into the swing of things again. I got a lot more posts to make. Asher's birthday, pregnancy complaints, huge snow storm, all the good stuff. I'm toying with the idea of going private too so stay tuned.

A blanket

Alright, all of you know how serious I take my blanket. Blankets are serious business. Even my kids know. They each have a favorite blanket and know when they are sad or sick they can use mine (as I've mentioned before they all believe my blanket has special healing powers).

 

 

  

In tribute to the blanket lovers out there I am letting you know about my friend who is having a blanket giveaway to promote her new blog. She has a new post everyday and they are always interesting to read and sometimes a laugh out loud story. Check out her blog HERE and the giveaway HERE. 

ps: Tell her I sent you over.

a note about Cecily

Lately Cecily has been talking everyone's ear off. Sometimes she's not even talking to anyone in particular she talks while coloring, on the toilet, naptime, in the car... you get my point.

What's my favorite is her play by play announcements while she's pooping on the toilet. On Wednesday I heard her say, "Here it comes.... WHOA!!!!" About 20 minutes before this she was telling me "my bums breath is HOT! Yeah, it feels hot like it's breathing on me. I think he wants to make a teddy bear for peaches." Now that I think about it I think she just has an obsession with her bum cause she's the only one who busts up about farts and her bum always has something say.

She's getting pretty sassy too. Like when I tell her to clean up something she'll say, "No, I don't want to do that." Not even bratty just, "nah, not right now." She keeps things interesting.

ps: Watching the Office last night Chris and I made a bet. He said they weren't going to tell us the name of the baby and I said they would. So when Jim came out announcing Cecilia I was pretty proud of my win. It'll be interesting to see if Cecilia will become as popular as Emma did after the show Friends named Rachel's baby Emma. Hopefully if it does become popular no one discovers the name Cecily because I like that it's not even in the top 1000 popular names.

Confession Wednesday

Every Wednesday the radio show John Jay and Rich does Confession Wednesday. Although, I don't have anything nearly as scandalous to confess as some of the stories they get, I do have a confession. My guilty pleasure. I don't usually get into the type of shows like The Bachelor or MTV hook up shows but I love Millionaire Matchmaker that's on Bravo. There's only a handful of episodes on this time of year and I'm loving it. For those who haven't heard of it it's about this Jewish matchmaker in LA who has a "millionaire's club" only men (and some women) who have at least a million dollars can join her club and she hooks them up with ladies. What I love is when she screens the women before they meet the men and she tells them what they need fixed or whatnot. Funny stuff. She's a B#$*@ too, so it's extra funny when she starts chewing someone out. The last thing I love about her is she is a proud brunette and even when the guy requests a blond she'll sneak some brunettes in for flavor. So if it's ever on while you're flipping through channels you can have a good laugh on me.

What's your guilty pleasure?

 I watched it last night with Chris and he can't stand Patty and he just yells at the TV and makes fun of it. I don't mind cause right before we watched this he watched LOST and yelled at the TV then too.

Ash-man is addicted to Blues Clues. I know I mentioned this before but when he comes up to me yelling "blues clues" I can't handle the cuteness of it. The girls have even jumped on board and are blues clues fans. Here is a drawing by Cecily called "Steve's House".

Coming Soon: My movie cast for Little Women since I finished reading it last week. I just have to think of the perfect Jo and Marmee.

Kids will be kids

Before I get to the excitement that was our weekend I wanted to share something that makes me love having kids. Jocelyn had Thursday and Friday off of school which means I got to sleep in! The kids would snack on something and play while I slept in and it was splendid. I just imported my camera and what did I find? Little videos of my kiddos thinking they were taking a picture but it was on video. At first I thought Chris took these videos and then I heard Jocelyn's little voice. I love incriminating evidence.

Our weekend was a little off. Chris's office is wanting to stay open longer on Saturday's so they want someone to take one of the regular work days off and then work 8 hours on Saturday. We thought we'd give it a try. So Chris went in Friday and worked a few hours to get some overtime and then worked 8 - 4pm on Saturday. It felt weird and I couldn't figure out what day it really was. While Chris was at work we got the call that our taxes are done and the amount. Let's just say it was such good news we went out to dinner at... gulp... Hometown Country Buffet. (We really wanted Golden Coral but it went out of business and the nearest one was 30 minutes away.) It turned out to be one of the funnest places to eat with kids cause they can have a choice of whatever they want!

Jocelyn ate potato wedges
Cecily ate Jello
Asher ate Jello
Dessert = ice cream, and A LOT of it!

Food for adults? Not so great but it's affordable and I'll get my sushi soon enough. Going to this place on a Saturday evening is not so much fun either but the balloon guy was there and that was so worth it! Ash got a giant balloon sword but I didn't get a picture of him with it cause he kept hitting me with it and then it popped. And Cecily told me not to take a picture.

We then went to a thrift store looking for a dresser and Asher fell in love with a little convertible. He loves it so much he slept with it all nite.

Back to Friday Chris took the kids for a photo shoot to the park so I could take a nap. (I KNOW!) I'm a little biased but I think my kids are pretty much awesome at posing for pictures.

 

 

ps: Here is my new desktop calendar. I love it. Asher's birthday is in two weeks. You can get yours HERE.

A big boy

Even though I'm pregnant and I'm about to get a new baby to take care of my baby hunger it is still really hard for me to see Asher grow up. Maybe it's because I know he's my only boy but I don't want this kid to grow up! Everyday he causes me so much stress getting into things and beating up Cecily but when he gives me his little hugs and kisses I melt. With the baby coming soon and Asher days away from turning two Chris told me it was time to get rid of the bottles and I fought it until Chris just did it himself. And Ash did surprisingly well! He goes right to sleep now, and cuddles in his blankets a bit more.

{Here he is throwing out his bottles.}

I can't help but thinking because Chris took charge of getting rid of the bottles he did so well. He LOVES Chris. He mimics every move he makes and always wants to be with him when he's home. I don't blame the kid, I want to be just like Chris too. What makes this so much cuter is that Asher is a little mini-me of Chris. Every once in awhile I'll see Rogers in him but he's all Chris. And here's my proof.

Wild, huh?!

Another example of how much Asher wants to be like his cool dad is that he is always stealing Chris's hair-stuff. The other morning he got it and it was all goopey in his hair. I was fixing the girls hair when I noticed it and I did my best to clean it up but without throwing him in a bath it wasn't coming out. I put him in my favorite little khakis and blue polo (he looks like a Heritage Academy boy!) and he looked like a freakin' stud. (for some reason I can't get this picture to save rotated no matter how many times I do it!)

Awww... little boys.