YAY ME!

Today, while talking to my good friend Mishel, I realized that in the last 2 weeks, I have kept up with every chore in my house.....even laundry (which is a HUGE accomplishment for me since I hate laundry with every fiber of my being and growl at the machines when I go in there. I just really hate them that much).

I see something dirty, I have to clean it.

And as some of you know, this is not a common occurrence in my home. If I don't feel like doing something, I won't. If I feel like I want to sit on my trash all day and do nothing, I will, even if my house does need a little TLC. I make sure the kids are dressed, fed, and not dead. As long as they are ok, that is all that matters.

Is it early nesting??

As I pause and look around at my house, I notice my walls. They need to be washed, all of them. (Jana, send over your kids, I will pay them)

Then I realize I haven't touched the basement in a while and that even though everything looks really nice, once you open a closet you quickly realize where it all went.

So nesting??? I think not. If it was, my basement would be clean, my closets organized and I wouldn't be hiring out the wall washing.

Now I don't feel so accomplished. Actually, I lied. Yes I do. The laundry is all clean and folded and put away and it has been for 2 weeks. For me, that is pure awesomeness.

Year 6

Today is our 6 year anniversary. It went by really fast. In 6 years we have lived in 1 city, 1 town and 5 houses. We've had 6 different jobs (between the 2 of us), 5 cars and 3.5 kids. We've had good times and bad, laughter and tears, joys and upsets but overall, it's been great. Here's to many more years of driving each other crazy but there is no one else I would rather want to make me crazy than him.

Ummm....what??

I had my ultrasound on Monday. The verdict is.....

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PINK

So sure I was gonna have another boy.....sometime. Maybe still. It could always be wrong, right? This is the last one so this is the last chance. Jared was sad when I told him, he cried. Poor guy, he wanted a brother. But then we talked about how he will be such a good big brother and take care of all his sisters and that he can be the only boy with daddy and do lots of fun things together. That made him feel better.

Now for the next part.....the name. Good luck to us. I need both names cuz you never know. I'm still on the fence about believing this one is a girl but at the same time have come to accept it. We suck at coming up with names. I guess that's why I just steal all of Jana's that she didn't use (so she says anyway)

I'm sure I'm not the only one.......

If you are the mom of a boy (and probably even girls) but most likely boys, I'm sure you have had the same or similar experience.

Last night James and I are sitting on the couch watching TV. The girls are in bed and Jared is on the computer playing games on Nick Jr. Jared comes up to me and says:

"mom, mom, smell this!!"

So with his hand in my face, I smell. (my first mistake)

"ewww what is that?? It smells like poo, what happened?"

Jared starts laughing hysterically and says:

"from my bum!!!!!"

"Jared did you stick your finger in your bum and make mom smell it?"

"YES!!!!!!" (as he laughing)

After proceeding to tell him that that was disgusting and to keep his hands out of his pants and away from his butt and go wash his hands, WITH SOAP, I looked at James and he looked at me and we laughed. Then I said to James:

"Clearly, this is your fault"

The Baseball

Lorelle had her 3rd surgery on wednesday. We have been told with every one that she has had, that her cheek should get swollen, hard and bruised for at least a week. The last 2, her cheek didn't really get swollen, it got a little bruised and defiantly hard but not really swollen. Well, this time around, holy moly! Her cheek is huge. It looks like she has a baseball shoved in her cheek. It is defiantly swollen, hard and purple all over. This gives me a little hope that finally this will be the one that works. The last 2 as we all know, were not as successful as hoped but her cheek also never really did what he said it would, until now. And thanks to my wonderful friend Mishel for the use of her camera, since mine is still missing (so annoying btw), we were able to get some good shots. Better than the ones I tried on the computer. It'll be exciting to see the results when it finally does heal.

Here's a side view of the bruises. There are lots more under her chin.

and some good face shots.

Boy or Girl?

I spent the last hour avoiding cleaning and taking test upon test to predict the gender of our baby. I am hoping for a boy just so that things will be even and Jared can have a brother and I love little stud muffin boys. They are way adorable. But if we had another girl that would be great too. I don't really care. Anyway, so I took these tests. After the first 5 or 6, only one told me it was a girl, the rest, a boy. Then I took 5 or 6 more (there are surprisingly a lot of these tests on the internet) and all of them told me it was a girl.

So what did I learn from my wasted hour of cleanliness avoiding???

I have a 50-50 chance that it's a boy or girl.

I feel it was time well wasted.

another milestone

I love this milestone. Lorelle finally has pigtails and frankly, they are sooooo cute! I know the pictures aren't that great. I can't find my camera anywhere so they are taken off the computer so of course I couldn't get her to turn around cuz there were too many buttons to play with in front of her. She looks so big, defiantly starting to grow out of the baby look and into the toddler stage. It's kinda sad but fun at the same time. I know they aren't straight (yes Jana, I am aware) but she was less than co-operative and it took me about 10 minutes to get it as good as I did. She's beautiful and I love it (and her of course).