I was so tired all day yesterday. Not sure why. I got a 2 hour nap but still went to bed at 8! 

My OB appt went well. I only gained 2 pounds in the last 2 weeks so that makes 3 pounds total for the last month. That makes 27 pounds total for this pregnancy so far! Yippee!!

Taking Daisy to the vet went ok. She needed a rabies shot. She was so scared she peed and pooped on the floor! Hopefully she's ok at that groomer's this Saturday :/ 

At nap time Jack cried on and off for 15 minutes and then went to sleep! I went in to wake him up at 2 and he had napped on the floor :/ 

After nap time Jack, Brooke and I went on a bike ride with my mom. We were just going to go to Cup 'N Cone but we stopped at a couple of garage sales. One of them was at Lizzie and Charlotte's house. My mom got another buggy for behind the bikes so now we could cart around Jack, Brooke, Keira and Simon! The new one she got is a little smaller so it'd be perfect for the younger two. Jack would fit in the smaller one too but it was too cramped for Brooke. I saw a pretty cool fire truck bed but they wanted $100 for it. There's a neighborhood sale 2 blocks down starting today. We're going there later this morning. We biked by yesterday and saw some of them setting up and I spied a Tonka Truck! :P

Jack ate his whole baby cone this time! He did so good. I think Brooke needs to start having baby cones too. I usually get her a small and I think it's too much for her. I had a Snickers malt and it was GOOD! I also had to swing by City Hall to get tabs for the Vue. We didn't even bike that much but man.....my butt hurts this morning. 

Jack went to bed with pretty much no fuss for Jared last night. He said he cried but only for a minute. I don't recall hearing him wake up at all during the night.

My tulips have bloomed. They're so pretty. I should take a pic of them :P

Jack was randomly saying "I love you Mama" to me all day yesterday. He must have said it a google times. It was pretty cute :o)

 Well the night before last wasn't a fluke. Jack's a champ when it comes to bedtime now. Thank god! Last night we read books for a while in the living room and then at 8:30 he asked to go "ni-ni". We brushed teeth and I put him in his bed and left. He cried on and off for about 15 minutes and there was some ruckus up there but then he went to sleep! I peeked in about an hour later and covered him up with his blanket. He was sleeping way up at the top of the bed on his pillow with his arm around Gary :P I heard him wake up at about 1:30 but he only cried for a minute and then went back to sleep. YIPPEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I went in at 6:20 and he had a bunch of books in his bed too :P Now he's watching Handy Manny and happy as can be. 

Last night I watched Farmer Takes a Wife. Good grief that Josie is outside of her mind! I can't belive she waited around forever for a departing gift. What a wingnut. Those 2 that have been labeled "bible thumpers" are a piece of work too. 

We watched The Hills finale. I kind of figured that Heidi was going to blow that job and come home with Spencer. I think if LC were to watch a few of the episodes...she'd see that Lo has been kind of a snot to Audrina.

I have my OB appt at 8 and then I have to take Daisy to the vet at 10:15. I just have Brooke here today.

Jack went down for his nap lickity split. I put him in his bed with all his snuggle buddies and said g'night and left the room. He didn't even cry! I heard him talking to his buddies for a bit over the monitor then it kind of sounded like he might have gotten out of bed to play with toys. It wasn't long though before I could hear him with his glow worm so I assumed he'd gotten back into bed. He started to sort of whimper/cry on and off for a bit but was definitely asleep within a half hour of me putting him in there. YAY!!!!!

We tried out the double stroller this morning. Jack and Brooke rode in it and we walked down to my mom's to bring her her Mother's Day cards and some cookies since she had been in California up until last night. It worked great! Jack and Brooke had fun riding in it too.

Jack's bed with all of his snuggle buddies:



( 3 more pics of his big boy room )

 I got all my chores done. Vacuumed upstairs, the stairs and the living room. Cleaned the bathroom. Cleaned the kitchen floor. Doing laundry. 

Made appts for Daisy to go to the vet on Wednesday after my OB appt and she's going to the groomers on Saturday to get bathed, trimmed and her nails cut. I seriously can't stand to be around her lately. My super pregnancy nose can smell her across the room and it drives me nuts. That and I swear I clean so damn often because her shaggy ass drags in so much dirt and leaves.

Jack and Brooke are napping and Lizzie just got here a little bit ago. Charlotte will be here later. They're going to have fun with his play kitchen this afternoon. He hasn't even had a chance to play with it yet. 

I made strawberry/blueberry/banana Julius' this morning. Delicious!

This afternoon went smoothly too. Rosemary, Jack, Liv and Leif all napped for 2 1/2 hours. I ended up waking up Liv and Leif so we could all go outside because the rest of the kids were getting restless.

Liisa (4), Jack, Leif, Liv(4) and Rosemary

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It ended up being a really nice day. I knew the forecast from a week ago that said rain was bogus.

Jack and Brooke just finished with dinner as Barb's working late. I'm waiting on Jared to bring me my dinner as I'm done cooking for the day :o)

Today's been going pretty smoothly so far. Jack, Rosemary and I were outside when Brooke and my cousins got here at 10. We played outside for a bit and then came in to get ready for lunch. Lunch went well. Naps started out kind of tricky but are going good now. Jack's in our bed, Rosemary's in Jack's bed, Liv and Leif are in the spare room and Lucia, Liisa and Brooke are having quiet time in the living room. We'll all go back outside once all the kids are up. Lizzie's not coming now but Charlotte will be here at 3:30.

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 Today's the day that I have 8 kids coming over. Lizzie and Charlotte aren't here until the afternoon but I'll have 6 kids in addition to Jack for the better part of the day. So naturally Jack decided last night was a good night to attempt an all night tantrum fest. We took turns dealing with him for like an hour and a half and then Jared fell asleep in there with him and that was the last we heard of him. Booger.

I'm making mac n cheese w/ cut up turkey dogs for lunch. I already cut up a package of turkey dogs and peeled several oranges. Thank you Warren for all the fruit!!!!!!! I even have enough chairs/booster seats/highchairs all set up around the table so they can all eat together. 

The forecast for today still doesn't include rain. Hallelujah!!!! 

We all took nice long naps yesterday afternoon so that was good. Jack and Brooke played with his dumptruck and police car in the driveway for a bit in the afternoon. Rob, Barb and Brooke were all coming/staying for dinner.

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Jack slept all night. We swapped the humidifier in his room with the super noisy air purifier from the spare room. Some nights I know he only wakes up because he hear's me go the bathroom and our house is really creaky.

Tonight Jared is bringing home one of those Little Tikes play house things and a double stroller from a woman he works with! I'm pretty excited.

I have Brooke and Lizzie all day today and Charlotte this afternoon. It's not supposed to rain so we'll be outside for sure. Barb was going to send a teeter-totter thing with Brooke. She's also getting us discount tickets for Underwater World for Sunday! :O)

The forecast for tomorrow no longer says rain. YAY!! I'll be able to have all the kids outside.

Jack's been sleeping on the chaise for an hour and a half now. He didn't even wake up when Daisy was barking when Brooke got here. 

He's big into putting things to bed lately. He takes his little Elmo blanket that my mom made for him and will cover us up, or his Elmo, or his sippy or whatever and say "g'night....seep type!". He was following Jenky around this morning trying to cover him up and saying "g'night....seep type!". 

Yesterday he slammed Jenky's tail in the porch door and Jenky yelped really loud and then took off with his tail all puffed out. I followed him and picked him up and was petting him. He lost a huge chunk of fur from his tail. I told Jack that he hurt Jenky. Then for like the next hour he was following Jenks around saying "I sorry Jenky!". It was really cute. 

We watched The Hills last night. What the hell is Lo's problem? She's being such a snot to Audrina!  Why is Stephanie such a pushover? I'd have kicked Spencer out a long time ago. I can't believe he's going to go to Vegas and crash Heidi's business meeting. What a tool.

We watched Beauty and the Geek too. I'm so glad Joe's gone. Seriously...why did he talk with his eyes closed so much??? Hey Napoleon Dynamite....open yer eyes! Such a weirdo. 

Hell's Kitchen was interesting. Matt is such a doofus. He needs to go. Rosann too. 

Lizzie and Charlotte aren't coming now. They're not feeling well so their mom is going to take them to the doc. 

Jack's up now....and crabby :/

I got the living room dusted and vacuumed and the bathroom cleaned and the laundry started and bathed Jack and showered myself and put clothes away all before Brooke got here at 9:30. I'm awesome :P I got a nap today too while they napped. It was awesome until my brother called and ruined it :P

Jack started singing a new version of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star the other day and it's so funny. I have no idea where he got it. He says "tinko tinko tinko little star....I wonder what you are!" all matter of factly...not in the same tune as the original or anything. He's not even really singing. It's so goofy. I had to encourage him a bit but finally got a video of it while he was wrestling with Brooke.

I didn't even really take any pics at the zoo. My mom wanted one of her and the kids on this turtle so then I decided to get one too. That's it :/

Thursday I'll be watching Lizzie all day now in addition to Brooke and Jack! Busy 2 days for me. I told Jared I want to go to the Mall of America and walk around and go to Underwater World for Mother's Day. I think Jack would LOVE Underwater World. I like to walk around the mall too. Not really shop there. It's too expensive. Jack would prolly really like to see Lego Land too and maybe go to Nickelodeon world. Mother's day and I wanna do all this stuff that's moreso for Jack :P

Jared and his brother Chris were going to do the brakes on the Vue today but now I guess they're going to do it next weekend. So this morning I decided we needed to go to Old Navy =) I really wanted to take advantage of the 2 for $5 sale on flip flops and I'm pleased that they changed their design. Hopefully my feet will like the new model. I got 4 pairs and I was pretty annoyed that they didn't have more pairs in my size (amazon). They had like a google flip flops but I wear a 9 1/2 so I needed 10's and they had 10's in only a few colors :( Oh well, I got white, black, blue and grey. I wanted light blue or pink and I even had to get my black ones in mens! I could have just ordered them online I bet but I wanted em now! We got Jack some sandals on clearance for $4.99 too! He got a $3 shirt and Jared got 2 shirts too. So we got 5 pairs of shoes and 2 shirts for like $37. Awesome!

We didn't realize the mall doesn't open til like damn near noon on Sundays so we got there at 10:30 and only the big department stores were open. We let Jack play in the play area for a bit and then at 11 got an Orange Julius (as is cutom when going to the mall) and then went to Old Navy. 

We got home and Jack went right down for his nap! I laid him down and he didn't even try to get back up. He cried for like a minute and that was it. I even sat much further away while I waited for him to fall asleep. He couldn't even really see me because I was over by the door. Sweet!

We raked the yard while Jack napped. Fun times but now it looks much better. Jack's up now and is eating a late lunch and then he'll have a bath. At 4 we're going to Rosemary's birthday party. Jack and I are going to wear new shoes :o) My mom wants us to squeeze in a quick bike ride before we go. We'll see about that. 

Tomorrow I just have Brooke so my mom and I are going to take the kids to Como Zoo in the morning. I'm pretty excited. I hope it's nice out.

 

Holy crap I'm pooped. We walked up to Yost Park and then from there walked to Cup 'N Cone. The kids didn't even really want to play at Yost that long. It's kind of a park for a little bit bigger kids I guess.
Jack had his very own ice cream cone for the first time. He loved it!

It was a lot of walking for Brooke so on the way home I rigged up a double stroller :P I reclined the seat and scooched Jack back and had Brooke sit in front of him. It worked out pretty slick. It was a lot heavier to push though.

Jack slept awesomely last night. I brought him in bed to snuggle at 6 when he woke up and we slept for another half hour =)
Got 2 loads of laundry done.
Ironed some shirts for Jared.
Vacuumed and dusted.
Jack and Brooke are napping so I'm going to try to as well. I think we'll go to Yost Park this afternoon and possibly Cup 'N Cone. We'll see. 


 

Well I feel somewhat better. My mom brought me some Benadryl this morning which made me VERY drowsy but gave me some relief. I was able to nap while the kids did so that was good. I decided to take them up to the park once Lizzie got here. They had fun. Jack attempted the wobbly bridge thing today and got the hang of it! He fell while crossing it once and got kind of scared. I was saying "I gotchu" while helping him up and then later, whenever he would stumble or almost fall, he would say "I gotchu". It was funny.  

I got 2 loads of laundry done today and just finished cleaning the kitchen floor and have dinner in the oven. I nominated Jared to give Jack his bath tonight though :o) I only have Jack and Brooke tomorrow so I'll save the vacuuming and bathroom cleaning for then. 

Thursday morning I have my 30 week appt! I'm anxious to see my weight gain in the last 2 weeks. I could weigh myself but I haven't been using our scale up to this point so it wouldn't be an accurate account of my weight gain. I had a giant DQ Blizzard that Jared got for me Friday night that was so big that I ate some of it Friday and the rest on Saturday. Other than that....I've had no malts! I haven't totally given up treats....but I cut out the malts. I haven't even really had much ice cream in the last 2 weeks. Some cookies and candy here and there but I can't just give up all my treats! :P 

Someone in my July 2008 community had her baby yesterday!!! That's pretty scary.

 We cut our walk short on Saturday. It was so cold and windy. It snowed yesterday too and it's supposed to snow today. None of it's accumulating but still annoying. How am I supposed to justify flip-flop shopping? :o) It's getting REALLY hard to tie my shoes though so I need it to be warm enough to wear flip flops soon! Fortunately my feet aren't swelling at all yet....I just can't reach them so good.

Yesterday we got some chores done around the house. I got Jack's room looking like an actual room now! He loves it. He's got toys and books up there and I moved his roadway rug and cars up there. He likes to play in there. Now there's plenty of room in the living room for the baby stuff we'll be dragging out in a few weeks.

I went and worked at my mom's for a few hours and finished cutting the last of the ties. Thank god! I wanted to fist fight those ties. They're very frustrating to cut out and have been a VERY stressful job for my mom. Hopefully she finished them all last night as dude was coming to get them today. Jack napped on her bed while we were downstairs working and when he woke up, he got off the bed, opened the door and stood at the top of the steps and said "Mama!". It was funny. I had a feeling he might do that as opposed to sit in her bed and cry. Her doorknob is pretty easy to turn. He really likes being a big boy now. He gets mad when I break up food into little pieces for him!

Starting today I'm watching Brooke every day, all day! Barb got a new job and starts today. Her hours are regular hours now and her mom's starting to work full time too so she'll be spending quite a bit more time here. Jack already asks "Brooke comin?" everyday :o)


We watched the Big Brother finale last night. I really hate the whole juror aspect. I could care less what those people have to say. You lost....just vote. I would have been happy had either of them won so it wasn't too exciting. Kind of interesting though considering Adam had Ryan do all the dirty work. 

We started watching The Alaskan Experiment....I think that's what it's called. It's pretty interesting. 4 different groups of people are dropped in Alaska and have to make their way a few miles to their cabin or tent and then spend the next 3 months there roughing it. The father/2 daughter team is going to fight A LOT! I can't believe those girls sat around eating all the limited rations (sp?) while he was out fishing....and then fought over boot placement!

Jack's new favorite show is Big Big World. I tivo'd it for him a while back and he wasn't interested but now he loves it. He asks for it every morning!

Jack loves being outside! He squeals "'side!" when I suggest it.
I was putting him down for his nap today at my mom's cuz I worked there a bit this morning and he said "g'night, sleep tight" which is weird cuz we don't say "sleep tight" so I don't know where he got that.

wearing daddy's hat

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After Pop's birthday breakfast at my mom's we went home and Jack and I napped while Jared scooped poop and tried to figure out what was wrong with the dryer. Looks like we're going dryer shopping tonight :/
In the afternoon it was really nice out so we hung out in the backyard for a bit.

( chillin in the backyard )

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I dried 2 loads of laundry at my mom's this morning while doing some cutting and pressing for her. Jack, Lizzie and I walked up to Podvin Park this afternoon for a bit. Then when Charlotte got here the kids played outside for a bit more.

( pics from today at Podvin Park )

Some new Jack-isms: "GOD!!" "Oh, jeez!" "Ready? Let's Go!" "Just a minute!" "C'mere!" and he even looks up as if rolling his eyes when he says "God!".

He said "Whoa! That's a big teddy bear!".

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After spending some time at the park we walked around and checked out the shops along with a stop by the river. Jack got a new stuffed Curious George since he's obsessed with him lately. We had lunch out on the patio at the Freighthouse. Jack fell asleep on the way home holding George in the car. We napped together when we got home too since he only got about a 15 minute nap in the car. Thank god! I was wiped out. Stillwater has some very steep streets! We napped for 2 hours.....with George of course :o)




Link to our last trip to Teddy Bear Park in August.

Our computer's fixed!!! YAY!!!!! Jared took it to work yesterday and a dude he works with took it apart and soldered some part that was loose so now the cord plugs in real nice and it charges!! Hooray!!!!! :O) Saved us some caching eh? !!! Now he needs to find out what kind of cookies dude likes so I can make him some. 

We're going to Teddy Bear Park today with Barb and Brooke. I'm excited. We haven't been there since last summer and Jack wasn't walking yet so he could only enjoy a very little part of it. Rob, Barb and Brooke came over last night and we grilled and they stayed over. I musta been really tired. I fell asleep putting Jack to bed at 8:15!  Didn't wake up until like 10:45. 

Jack's been saying "lookit!" a lot. Like if he's flipping through a book he'll say "Mama, lookit!" and if I don't look right away....he says it over and over and the "Mama" comes out more and more annoyed like!

The kids had fun outside today. I took Jack and Brooke out for a bit this morning but it was pretty chilly. We went out again this afternoon with Lizzie.

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 Jack just saw the pic of himself on our desktop and said "oh, cute boy!". 
He's saying "thank you" ALL THE TIME now. Even when he takes something. 
I was in the bathroom this morning and he said "what doin Kiki?" 
Yesterday Rosie strolled into the room and he said "Oh hi Rosie, how's it goin?" He's back to saying "oh hi, how's it goin?" all the time again.
He now even says "bless you" when he sneezes.

We just finished having mango/banana Julius'. The kids (Brooke and Jack) LOVE when I run the blender. They stand in the kitchen and dance and squeal and say "do it again!" or as Jack says "dugan!". 

I'm tired a lot lately. I put Jack to bed last night and then went to bed myself and it was only like 9 o'clock. He woke up at 12:30 and went back to sleep quickly but woke up again at 2:30 and it took an hour for him to fall back to sleep. A couple of times I thought he was out and took my thumb away and he instantly sat up and cried. Oy. 

I've been slacking on my extra chores list. I've been getting all my other cleaning and chores done but nothing extra which is kind of frustrating. I don't know if it's pregnancy or just that fact that I'm doing daycare now but I feel like the house needs to be cleaned every other day. Especially the floor. That's mostly because of Daisy and her damn dirty feet though. We wipe her feet when she comes in from being outside but she still manages to get the floor dirty. Like when she drinks water out of her dish and then drips droplets all over the floor from her yap and then steps in them and the dried dirt on her feet turns to mud. I have to sit down now to wipe her feet. Crouching just aint for me these days. 

I did make a double batch of chocolate chip/butterscotch chip cookies yesterday thanks to my mom bringing me some flour :o) 

Jared gets to stop at Target tonight to pick up the wipes I left there this weekend :/ Doncha love paying for stuff and then leaving without it? He also gets to go to Cub because I didn't do a full trip this weekend. I spaced out a few things and also Jack was READY to come home and nap so I kind of cut the trip short. 

I want to nap today when Jack and Brooke are napping but I doubt that will happen. Brooke only naps for about an hour and it takes me a while to get in the zone to nap. I have Lizzie and Charlotte now for the rest of the week in the afternoons.  

We were going to get Jared's sister's wiener dogs this weekend but now we're not :( They decided to make other arrangements for them. It's probably for the best. They probably would have been tormented by the kids on Friday and with my luck it would be a rainy day and then I'd have 12 muddy paws to wipe over and over! That and I don't know what the barking situation would be like during naps. Still would have been fun to have them though. Maybe next time. 

I was just thinking yesterday how Jack hasn't been sick since I quit the Y. Then today he woke up with a runny  nose. For the love of mike. 

He keeps climbing into the chair and then scooching off of it facing forward (normally he would get out of a chair facing backwards) and landing on his feet and saying "that's funny!" but just now he did it and fell and landed on his head and said "whoa!". 

He was walking around this morning saying "love you, love you, love you!".