So I had a great birthday…started the day with Ev getting Bub up and them bringing me breakfast in bed(on a special tray)! I think even if I wanted to- I can no longer sleep in…but it was nice to lay there in bed eyes closed listening to normal morning chaos going on with out me. Bub & I spent the rest of the day doing nothing at all productive. We had left over birthday cake for lunch and I made turkey goulash for dinner(my current favorite) and then we got frappuccinos for dessert, starbucks is the devil. I am 29. My last year of being in my twenties. 9 years ago yesterday I started my twenties-time sure does fly. So yeah I’m 29, but I think I will always feel 18. Like I still think it’s cool that I have my own car and live with my husband…I go grocery shopping for my own house. Crazier still is having a son and being pregnant with another one. So times I stop and think “this is my life, I’m an adult” Yet I don’t feel like one-do you ever? I have an amazing life and would have never imagined back at 19 that 10 years later I would be married with almost 2 kids living in California. Life never takes you where you think it will.
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Monday fun…we started out the day at the park playing with a little italian athletic prodigy. 2&1/2 years old and able to hit a wiffle ball with a bat. It was quite a sight to see. Bub had so much fun…it was him, Genoa, and Nickel (indian boy). They ran and ran and played follow the leader. It was hilarious, bub being 18 months-Genoa 2&1/2-and Nickel 4 or 5. He so wants to be a big boy…and with his new hair cut he looks the part! Then we played in the backyard and went for a walk. Then something that started exciting but ended rude happened…we found a play structure thing on craigslist (those plastic things little kids can climb on-usually they have a slide) that we could afford and it was actually still available. We had to hurry hurry to get out to the ladies house(at the beginning of traffic time) to “look at it” which to me means-since she posted a picture-we were going to pay for it and pick it up. So excited we pulled up to see some guy loading our play structure in his car-That’s right OUR PLAY STRUCTURE!!! Apparently the guy who bought it was to supposed to have shown up this morning but never did and didn’t call. Which is why she told us it was still there. So knowing we were on our way she sold it any way and didn’t even call(even though she had my cell number). Pretty rude!!!
The Adventures of Piggley Winks…is possibly the cutest show on TV! It’s a cartoon that comes on Sunday mornings on our public broadcast station. So one morning while getting ready for church I was flipping through the channels and a cute farm animal with an irish accent caught my attention. So I watched-not with bub-the entire cartoon. It is hilarious, probably because I love all their accents so much. The main characters are a pig-Piggley, a bull-Ferny, and a mallord-Dannan. They live on Raloo farm in Ireland…so generally its a town full of talking farm animals where sheep are like dogs and everyone but one animal(a sheep from america) has an irish accent. So now I watch it every Sunday morning(bub likes it too)!
My best friend who is pregnant in Florida gets to find out this week when she will be induced(pre eclampsia) and it may actually be on my birthday! How cool is that?!? What a birthday present and her daughter and I will always have a special connection (other then the fact that I’ve know her mom since the beginning of time). Cross your fingers for me 🙂
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First Hair Cut
Bub got his first hair cut today…isn’t he handsome 🙂 He sat really still and let the nice lady cut away. I think it helped that Ev was getting a hair cut right next to him…so he was getting to be just like his daddy! We went out for a special lunch to celebrate–pulled pork bbq-yum yum!! Please disregard his goose egg and black eyes (he had a disagreement with the front porch step).
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The days seem to be flying by and the weekends move even faster. This weekend was nice we got Ev all to ourselves-no work 🙂 He works so hard and so much and has no idea how much I appreciate it. I feel like I complain too much…I hate the neighbors…the yard’s a mess…we live in the ghetto-truth is the neighbors aren’t that bad and the yard is perfect for the dogs! and we don’t live in the ghetto. We have a really nice place it’s ro0my and in really good shape-beautiful hardwood floors. I have an amazing life because Ev takes such good care of me and the bub. He never tells me no when I want to get something…no matter what our money situation is he says “get whatever you want” It makes me feel like a princess. He is just a really good husband, father and friend. I think I must have done something really good at some point to be so blessed.
Sorry for the mush…but I just felt like letting everyone know how lucky I am.
You know your pregnant….when you pull out all your first childs old clothes, go through them, fold, wash, and organize then fill drawers with them- 2 months before your due date.
I’ve got it all planned out this time (haha) …I’m going to be realistic about what I can accomplish in a day. My goals are to make sure…everyone eats, gets clean, and has clean clothes. Not going go worry about dishes-paper plates all the way baby. Yeah I’ll do laundry but whether or not it makes into closets and drawers is another issue. Toys every where-who cares! The only thing I will do is vacuum-I can’t stand the dog hair building up! Frozen dinners all around…this transition from one to two is going be a breeze…wishful thinking!!
Or lack there of-another new day coming off the pains of another sleepless night. Bub’s sleep problems are starting to wear on Ev and I. It’s very hard to spend the day caring for someone who fights you every step of the way when you’re fully charged-but running on empty makes it darn near impossible. I’ve been thanking God every night that we all made it to the end of the day. Last night Bub woke up screaming at midnight-who knows why. He made it very clear that although he was very tired he was not going back to sleep in his bed. So he came to bed with us again (not a habit Iwant to start-he shared our bed for a year that is long enough) and after a while he stopped screaming and fell asleep. Which was great finally silence…but no sleep for us. Both of us not wanting to move and start the screaming all over again. I’m just at my end, I don’t know what to do. I just keep thinking that Little Bub will be here soon and I need sleep more then ever. If he’s anything like Bub I will spend the first year of his life awake. I feel like I should know what to do-I’m a mom- the knowledge should just be somewhere in my brain, but it’s not. Really why should it be? I’ve never done this before. Every minute with Bub is a new experience, he keeps getting older and the game keeps changing. Is there ever really a time when you do just know what to do? Or is it always luck? Trying different things till something works. The lack of sleep makes me emotional, I cry a lot and have to work very hard not to lose my temper. How many times can you try and teach someone the stove is no place to play before losing your temper?
On a happier note I bought something for Little Bub yesterday! Ev and I decided to give each child an animal- a sorta of theme. Bub’s is a giraffe , so he has lots of random giraffe stuff. Little Bub’s is a zerbra. I haven’t been able to find much until yesterday at Target (gotta love target) They had a few zebra outfits…I bought one that is pants, a oneies, and a hoodie. It’s blue with zebras every where, extremely cute and soft! I want to get the rest of the outfits…they are just so cute!