Dont know what to call this post

When i know i am just going to ramble and catch up it is hard to find a catchy title, so i kept it simple this time. We had a relaxing, yet germy christmas, the kids had a cold. It was a good t hing our plans were to stay home all day anyways, cause they needed too. They love all there gifts and they got 4 big boxes from the in-laws in South Carolina filled with lots of goodies. They got some great games and educational stuff that antonio and I were excited about and they were too of course. We had our fried chicken and mashed potatos and gravy, it was soooooo yummy. Antonio was laughing at me cause i was in heaven with the gravy.

On Friday I started to get sick so ever since then we have been taking it really easy. I have been sleeping in, i figured that I better take advantage of this while I can, the kids are old enough to not get into anything, with the help of TV, and soon i will have curious little one. I am feeling better, all that sleep must be helping LOL, and know everyone is just on the last stages of getting the yuckies cleaned out. Hope all of you have a great new year.

12 Weeks to Go

Tomorrow I will officially be in my 3rd trimester and today i found myself saying (to myself) i cant believe i am going to have a baby. I think that knowing about all the work, physical and emotional and spirital, that is required to raise children, frankly is freaking me out a little bit if i think to hard about it. I feel though in the last few days God has settled down some of my anxieties and i am feeling a little more at peace. It always gets figured out, there will be an adjustment period, but i will look back and not even be able to remember life with out 3 kids (not that i would ever want to). I never really thought i would have these fears, i wouldnt trade my life for the world. I love being home and raising them, i think i've just had the preshow jitters.

At my appointment last week we discussed the procedures if i do end up having placenta previa. If the scan at 33 weeks shows that the placenta is attached on top of the OS (opening of the cervix) then i will have to have a C-section at 36-37 weeks. They dont want you to dialate at all or there could be large amounts of blood loss, i guess it can be pretty serious. So that was a little bit of a shocker, her possibly being here in February. If the placenta is less than 2 cm from the OS then i get a C-section at 39 weeks, and if it has completely move out of the way then we are home free for natural birth. I've been trying to wrap my brain around the logistics of recovering from a C-section, nursing a baby after one, and the pain really is the biggest of my concerns. so we have about 4 weeks till we get the news and then we will see.

Kids are super excited for Christmas and me too. Ashlyn suggested decorating sugar cookies on christmas day, so that is going to be our fun. Other than that we are staying home and relaxing and enjoying antonio being home for the holidays this year. I've had a cut up whole chicken in my freezer that i've been avoiding frying, so i will do it for our dinner. i've also had this potatoe obsession this pregnancy and gravy too. I love gravy made from fried chicken so im gonna whip some up, yummy.

Oh and that snow storm we had ended up dumping 7.5 inches on us. It was really fun, the kids went out a couple times each day for about 30 minutes, cause we didnt have gloves or snow pants. We went through lots of clothes for about 3 days, but they had a blast. It's all gone now, sniffle sniffle, would have been great for Christmas day.

Desert Snow

Yes, it snows in the desert. These pictures are from earlier today when if first started, the kids were so excited. Ashlyn said she woke up this morning and prayed for snow, she was very happy that God answered her prayer.

These last few were taken about and hour after the aboves ones were. it was really starting to stick.

It is now 7:00 pm and antonio and I guess there is about 5- 8 inches out there. The roads were terrible, antonio almost didnt make it home at about 12:00 pm, we live in the mountains as you know and getting up the hill wasnt easy. Church was cancelled and we are snug at home. I will take more tomorrow of the finished product. I think this is the first time we have ever had this much snow, in North Carolina we got maybe an inch once or twice so this is definatly exciting for us. Antonio also said that this is a little on the rare side, to get this much at least. It even snowed on base.

Sarah's New Toy

Sarah is our cat by the way and she loves the christmas tree. She has always loved it every christmas and always climbs it. The kids think it is totally hillarious.

She also loves to hide under it and attack your feet as you walk by, i think it brings out her inner kitten or something. I love my cat!!!

here are some pics of the kids putting on ornaments. I am a little anal retentive about the lights and tinsel so i wouldnt let them help and the only way to hold them at bay was the promise of them putting on the ornaments by themselves and me not touching them. At the end when they were almost done i slipped and tried to tell one of them where i thought one should go and they promptly reminded me of my promise. Ashlyn, i believe, inherited my anal retentiveness ie controling nature and was trying to get Devin to put the ornaments where she thought they should go, he didnt like that so much so we had to put a stop to it. It was a little comical to listen to her.

and below is the finishe product pictures compliments of Ashlyn and her little posing man. Sor some reason the pictures would not move over to line up with the rest of them so i decided to just leave them alone.

Baby Projects

I've had these pictures for awhile, as i have mentioned in previous posts, and since i dont seem to be tired at 1130 at night, despite the extreme exhaustion i felt all day, i thought this might be a good time to play catch up.


This is the first official "girly" hat i made for baby kailyn. The other two were gender nuetral, so when we found out she was gonna be a she i made this one. It is super tiny so it will be her hospital hat, unless i do something else in the mean time. I love it and cant wait to see it on her.



About a year ago i had contimplated making baby stuff and sellling it. So along with my serger I got a bunch of patterns. Low and behold the whole buisness idea didnt really turn out to be logical and i never did it, but i have some great patterns so i thought i would start whipping up some of the things that i need for our little bundle on the way. I love these gown things, i dont know the technical term for them, and my kids all lived in them for the first days and then wore them at night until they outgrew them. So this was my first one and i was really excited cause it turned out so cute, i think i only made about 5 mistakes that i had to fix and the project only took a coupe hours. Hopefully the more i do the faster it will go.

We Are Alive and Well

I just havent felt like blogging, I think its the 81 pictures i have looming on my camera to be downloaded, yes i am avoiding putting those. Well I guess i dont have to, oh ya theres that huh. We had a nice Thanksgiving, we went over to a friends house from church, we had fun and played a cool bible game, cant remember the name but it was challenging and fun. Kids had a great time with their friends and everyone was ready for bed when we got home. Mommy is doing well, trying to manage life with GD. On those days when you just want to wolf down a chocolate cake it can get tough, or on thanksgiving when you wnat to eat the whole pumkin pie, but instead I gorged on the protien items so my sugars wouldnt go too crazy. I actually avoided checking my sugars that day, denial!!! Baby is doing well, jumping around a lot more. We have about 15 weeks to go, i was officially 6 months last week. Kids are good, Devin is still mad about counting and is showing some reading intrest. I have been trying to read books to him that are on his level, I had neglected this for awile due to all the other reading i do for Ashlyn. But he is really liking short books with lots of pictures, the chapter books bore him to tears. Him and Ashlyn sat down to play "school", it didnt really go very well, a certain 7 year old was quite bossy and didnt make learning so fun. But on the plus side she taught him how to write the big letter A. So he was really excited about that and him and Daddy sat down that night after dinner and practiced. Ashlyn has always and will always love drama, she love to act things out, give you the full story and spend a lot of time in imagination land. Its really cute the things they come up with when they pretent together. So thats our life in a nut shell for now. Until next month......LOL just kidding, i hope.

Math, Taranchulas, and Ultrasounds

My son has all the sudden started counting. He can actually point to things and make it up to 11. He can count randomly up to about 17 then he starts to skip a few numbers. I am excited for a couple reasons, first that he is interested in something besides TV and Video games an the fact that he did it all by himself. I didnt teach him thing about numbers and actually i havent been teaching him anything "academic" lately. So I am believing more and more that they will learn it when they are ready, oh and he can also whistle which amazes me cause ashlyn has been trying for years and cant seem to get the tounge movement down. She asked me how did he learn before me and i just said that we all learn things at different times and to keep trying.

Now in reference to the taranchula, yes we had one at our house. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, i couldnt type enough ahhhs to fully express the creepyness of it. Luckily it was outside, although eversince i have been quite perinoind of finding one inside. The kids were playing by the garage and Devin stopped dead in his tracks and gave a littel scream when he saw the huge thing. It was easily the size of ashlyns palm. Thank goodness Antonio was home to kill it, I am not sure how i would have handled that one. Of all the wildlife i exp[ected to see in the desert, that large black furry thing was not one of them. I am tainted for life now,yuck!!!!!!!!!

Oh and about the ultrasound, in case any of you are interested we are some what sure the it is a..................................................................................................................................................................
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ok i will stop with the periods and stop being silly and just tell you all already, are you sure you want to know LOL sorry i will stop. The radiology tech said to her it looks like a girl, but that she would give us a definate. I asked her if it was safe to go buy some pink flowery stuff and she said just save the receipts. But then on the way out she said good luck with that girl. I thought it was girl and it looked to me like it was , not that i can distinguish much on those things. BUt antonio says he is still 50/50. i will have to go back at 30 or 32 weeks for another one cause my placenta was low lying, she wasnt sure if this was cause i was having a contraction the whole time i was in there or if it was actually low. I didnt feel like i was the whole time, but i was out of breath a lot. But Antonio made a good point that i was laying flat on my back and had to pee really bad. I have an appt on thursday and i am sure we will discuss it. I talked with a friend who also had this early on and hers corrected itself. So this is what i will be praying for, i really want natural childbirth. So i guess i am convinced that it is a girl, but am keeping it in the back on my mind that i could be wrong.

Fun in Prego Land

I couldnt think of a title so i thought i would just be silly and put the above one. Partially due to the fact that I got the results of my Gestational diabetes test back and low and behold I am once again for the 3rd time out of my 5 pregnancies officially diagnosed with it. So on Monday i go to get all my supplies, glucometer, testing strips and all that fun stuff. I also get an appointment with the nutritionist at some point in the week. Like I said in my last post, its a good thing i eat or at least have the knowledge to eat better. Funny thing is (i may have mentioned this before) that i prayed before we found out we were prego that i would be able to be self controled and not gain a ton of weight especially since i had extrea "fluff" already. Well amen, here's to answered prayes, casue with this diet i shouldnt gain much. In my last trimester with Ashlyn i think i gained 5 pounds.

Today Ashlyn and I went on a date. Antonio took Devin and a preteen boy from church out bowling. We went shopping, she desperatly needed winter stuff and last weekend whent he high was 55 we were lacking some essentials. So i figured before we get our next cold spell , its 90 today, we better get some clothes. We had a really good time, she is really growing up. We went and had lunch at applebees and it was super yummy. Not a whole lot of resteraunts close by around here, you mostly have to go down the hill to Palm Springs for the good stuff. For some reason we hadnt went to applebees yet, not sure why, but it was good.

Not much else going on around here, i did take some pictures the other day but havent got around to downloading them yet and i really need to go sit in front of the TV and veg so i absolutly cannot do it right now. maybe Monday, we'll see LOL.

No Title

Well, we have had an interesting week. Mommy and kids have all been a mess, not sure whats going on but I know it will work itself out. On Tuesday my belly kept getting really crampy at about 3:30 it really started to make me not feel so good, so i spent the night at home while the family went to bible talk. I was getting concerned that i was having real contractions, it was so hard to tell. Cause it wasn't anything timeable and it seemed to never go away. So I just layed on my left side drank some water and Gatorade and prayed God would make it obvious to me is i needed to go in. I ended up going to bed and woke up fine, but I noticed yesterday that i need to listen to my body and sit down often. I also noticed that my belly seemed to have grown over night so i am thinking that baby might be having a growth spurt. This being the third child you would think i would feel like a pro and nothing minor would concern me, but that is not the case, I actually feel more concerned this time around. And everything is more intense this time. My midwife told me that i need to make sure i get enough rest or when i get to the end i am going to feel like i have been hit by a truck (too bad i already feel like that some days). Seeing my belly grow is very exciting and I am feeling baby a little bit. They are very soft kicks at this point and they are very sporadic(sp?) it is exciting to feel it. I have been letting the kids feel my belly when i lay on my back, you can really feel the hardness of my uterus then, and they are really amazed. Ashlyn is really into the baby, she is at that age i guess. I told her that the baby can hear now so she loves to talk to my belly and kiss it, so cute. On Monday we had to go to the lab so i could do my glucose test, which i was supposed to do a long time ago but being sick and busy i put it off oooppps, i have to get it done early cause i had gestational diabetes with ashlyn and one of the pregnancies we miscarried. So the midwife called and i failed it, my levels were elevated so now i get to go back for a 3 hour test to see if i have GD this time around. I was telling Antonio that its a good thing i eat a lot better now then i did when i prego with ashlyn cause it wont be such a shock to the system when i have to eat the special way. I pretty much eat that way now with a few exceptions everyday so it wont be to big of a deal, but with the first pregnancy i ate a lot of carbs (and had the extra weight gain to prove it) so it was like being tortured eating the special diet. It was defiantly the start to learning how to eat better, so an amen is order i guess. Today we all seem to be doing better so hopefully today will be a turning point in our crazy week. Hope all of yours has went a little better than ours!!!

OB Appointment

We had our 16 week appointment today. The kids joined me and did pretty well over all. Devin was very funny and silly, of course. When she was trying to find the heartbeat Ashlyn, I think, asked me to tell her the names we have, so I did and then Devin piped in with his choices on names. He said if its a boy it will be Doo Doo and when it gets older he''ll call it Captain Bones. and then he decided if its a boy it will be Stinky and if its a girl it will be Pinky. It was very funny, I told him when we got home (after he repeated the names to me for the 3rd time) that we are gonna stick with Dillin if its a boy and Kailyn if its a girl. He said ok i like Dillin. I guess he thinks he gets a say in all this, I will let him think that it's fine.

So as she was trying to find the heart beat she had troubles, she would start to get it and then baby would move. So she diecided to just get the ultrasound machine. The funny/ironic thing about this was that in the car right as we were pulling into a parking spot at the hospitol Ashlyn was trying to explain to Devin that we might find out what sex the baby is next time but that they wouldnt be able to go. Devin was a little sad and said he wanted to see the baby and i was like i know bud i am sorry but the room is little and only daddy can come. So fast forward to the room and getting ultrasound, God really gave us a little blessing cause the kids got to see the baby. It was moving around lots and even looked like it waved at us. Ashlyn was so excited she was right up next to the screen just a talking to the midwife, Devin instisted on sitting with me on the table. It's amazing how much baby has grown since the 8 week ultrasound. I definatly want to get as little procedures and ultra sounds as possible done and try to go about things as naturally as I can, but this was super exciting.

A Bunch of Nothing

There hasn't been anything really out of the ordinary going on around here, so I thought i would just update on the norm. I think I felt the baby kick today, not totally certain but it really felt like a kick and not gas bubble. I was laying on the couch on my side and Ashlyn came and sat by me and was right up against my belly and there was a little pressure from her leaning and when she moved I felt this little thump right by my belly button. I don't know if it was wishful thinking or really a kick, but the time is getting about right for me to feel stuff. I will be 16 weeks Wednesday and i believe with Devin i started feeling stuff around 4 1/2 months so i guess in my mind i should feel it a little earlier this time. We have decided on a full girl name and part of a boy name, Kailyn Danielle (girl, obviously) and Dillin (boy). We have come to the tradition of "D" middle names, not on purpose it just kinda happened with the other two so we are keeping up the trend, so i am still on the hunt for a boy middle name. I was at candle party this weekend, yeah mommy time, and was flipping through my friends baby name book and saw a few that i like but my pregnancy brain took over and i cant remember them. So i guess I need to get that book from her. I have, for certain, come to the conclusion that i must stay away from wheat and tomatoes especially together. We had pizza the other night and i had 2 bread stick with sauce and only ate the topping off my pizza and i got super sick. But yesterday i had goat cheese on water crackers, which are made with wheat flour, and i was fine, I don't think i even got heartburn. So i guess tomatoes, which recently in last few years i also discovered i am sensitive to, are the kicker. So i am trying to listen to my body which is hard cause i love tomatoes although they don't like me.

Antonio had duty tonight so we have had a pretty lazy day. We did a partial day with school, kinda easing into it cause last week was our week off and this morning we were all a little groggy and grumpy. We started a new book, Homer Price, it is interesting so far. Ashlyn was dying to see what happens next but i was mean mommy and said we have to wait till tomorrow. Devin has gotten sick of his worksheets so I think i am going to start pulling out the 100's board and we are gonna do stuff with that together, and the ABC poster. I currently have it in the hallway by there rooms, but i think it just gets passed by there so i am going to move it somewhere more central so i can remember to talk about it more.

We did decide to use cloth diapers so i went on an ordering spree at diaperswappers, an online community where moms sell or trade there diapers they have been using, and got some great deals. I may still need a few more covers and another dozen prefolds but i am going to try and wait for awhile unless i get a deal that i cannot pass up (hint hint if anyone has anything they don't want or need LOL). A friend from one of our homeschool groups is going to come over tomorrow and we are going to serge some cloth wipes, i finally got it rethreaded (threading it is a pain), and whipped one wipe up yesterday in about 30 seconds. Flannel seems to be the fabric of choice at all the place you can buy them and the friend is done having babies so she is going to bring over a bunch of flannel blankets that we will make into wipes. I hadn't really had the sewing bug until we planned this and i got my serger threaded and now i cant wait. I also and knitting my first bootie/sock, it has really exercised my brain, i had to give up trying to use logic when reading the pattern and just do it cause it was frustrating me. But it all worked, proves that i guess you don't always need to know why your doing something. Well that's all the nothings i have for now. Ta ta

Theme Day

One of homeschool groups that we are apart of started doing theme days. Yesterday, Thursday, we got to go to a goat farm. It is a family owned farm that was small and personal, it was so fun. One of the ladies from the group is good firends with them and set it all up for us. When we first got there they gave us some information on what a family farm is and talked about several different types of goats and which ones they had. Devin didnt have so much fun on this part, so he spent his time running aroing playing oh and lots of whining. Ashlyn really enjoyed just sitting and listening, she always wanted to be right next the owners, she was really cute. After the information we got to go milk the goats. The man did it first and showed them how to hold and squeeze, ashlyn and devin both tried, devin couldnt get it but ashlyn did on her second try. It got pretty stuffy in the little building so me and devin stepped out and he explored their garden and petted several goats. They were so friendly, if you walk up to them they flock to you to get some lovins. Then they got to watch that same goat be sheared and each child got to keep a little handful of hair, later they also got a little bar of lavender goat soap it smells so good. Then the group got to give the goats little treats, they would slurp them out of the kids hands with their tounges hanging out, it was cute and a little gross for Ashlyn cause one really lapped up her hand. Ashlyn was is heaven on that farm, I barely saw her all morning, she was exploring and hanging out with the owners. She seemed in her element, we have talked about one day getting a little farm, and i mean little, i think she would love it. After all that we got to go inside and get a class on making goat cheese and of course she already had some prepared so we got to taste it. Oh my it put the goat cheese in the stored to shame, it was sooooo good. I think i may try it with some store bought goat milk for fun one time. After we were done with that the kids just romped around and played for awhile and then we headed to Pioneertown.

I am so glad we followed poeple who knew where they were going cause i would have driven right by this town. It was a one road old western style town, all the buildings, except one, had wood siding like they did back in the day. It was so cute, the bowling alley had its oringinal paintings on the walls from the 40's done by a artist who worked for Hollywood. The owner whom is also apart of the group was so generous. She was giving us all money for the pinball machines, which were also older and very neat and only a quarter. All the kids also got free popsicles and she gave me two sodas. It was so great we had a ton of fun. Antonio and I and the kids are going to go back to one of the resteraunts, well it may be the only resteraunt besides the bowling alley, they have a bluegrass band on Saturdays, and its supposed to be kids friendly as long as its early. As you can see i have no pictures, uuurrg, i thought about the camera in the shower but spaced it off and forgot it. Hopefully someone got some pictures and maybe i can get a few and post them later. It was a great day.

Blogging Game

I got this idea from my friend and thought it would be fun to play.

Blogging game:1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I (or any of my family members) had together. It doesn't matter if you knew us a little or a lot, anything you remember!
2. Next, re-post these instructions (if you haven't done this already) on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you. If you don't want to play on your blog, or if you don't have a blog, I'll leave my memory of you in my comments.

Pictures

I have been taking pictures randomly the last couple weeks and it is know time to post them. I have been forgetting that I had them until I would take another picture and then think oh i need to post these. So this morning the kids wanted a bath and knowing that could take awhile I am using my time wisely.


Devin being cute, he was cold after a shower I believe so he wrapped himself up. Notice his tounge is not sticking out, maybe that is the secret, get him when he is cold.

The kids pulled out the train tracks after not playing with them for awhile and they built this awesome track. It went under the trampoline and around, it was great.

Kitty wanted in the picture i guess



I cant remember why i took these, but here they are. Ooops devin wasnt fully dressed yet.



And we cant finish a picture blog without seeing devins tounge, goofy boy.

Ashlyn and I picked this puzzle from dollar tree (love that store) and put it together. We had a lot of fun.


This was our attempt to make clay whales for our ocean box that is apart of our science. Well they didnt put baking directions on the box and i tought i had remembered the temperature being about 180, but i guess i was wrong, obviously they melted. We were bummed.

another train picture the was out of order.

Pregnancy update, baby still makes me sick every no and then. I definatly feel like I am growing, the ligament pain has been pretty intense and yesterday I was just plain tired all day. I got a great deal on 20 maternity shirts and 2 pairs of pants only 70.00 with shipping. I also ordered some more pants from motherhood. I am still in that stage of just looking chubby and not really pregnant yet but soon my belly will be screaming Im pregnant. We will be 14 weeks tomorrow, 3 1/2 months . Well children are calling, till next time...

My Impact on Planet Earth

I got this idea from another blogger, I cant figure out how to get the picture up here but you can just click the link. and you can also see what your global footprint is by doing the quiz. It didnt take too long and I thought it was kinda fun. If the world lived like me we would 4 and 1/2 planet earths. Intersting stuff.

http://www.footprintnetwork.org/gfn_sub.php?content=calculator

Rock Climbing Adventures

Antonio and I decided we have been watching way to much TV so on Monday night we made the short drive up to Indian Cove. For those of you not familiar with it, it is where we live at and up the road is campsites and mountains. So Monday we went up and the kids and Antonio climbed so small rocks, all with in my comfort zone. I, of course, stood patiently at the bottom watching. After about an hour we left and went and got ice cream from this little market also in our neighborhood, its a cute little place with a little of everything. Since everyone had so much fun Daddy said we would go again the next night. The kids talked about it all day and we prepared when daddy got home. So off we went again. This time daddy was a little more bold and adventurous and kept my heart rate and blood pressure up. And as he was at the top of his highest climb he calls down to me "where is the pictures for your blog now?!?!" so yes I forgot the camera, I was bummed about that cause they had a blast. No ice cream last night, although it was highly requested. They were tuckered out and fell asleep pretty fast.

Since it is cooling down around here, usually tops of in the mid 90's and by almost sundown its actually in the 80's, we will probably be having more out door adventures. This morning a little before 7:00 am i was outside with Antonio and it was 66, it felt so nice and cool, love it. Till next time......

Ashlyn's Turn

She decided to be funny today, well at least I thought it was. If you haven't noticed I changed to appearance of my blog (not sure if I like it yet) and I also added some icons from Lillypie that track the kids ages and my pregnancy. Well I was looking at them and telling Devin about them and Ashlyn heard me and came in and I told her exactly how old she was and how pregnant I am, and she says where is yours mommy, and I said my what, and she said something like your age tracker. And I said why in the world would I do that. She looked at me kinda weird and I said I don't want to track how old I am that's no fun, its fun to know how old you are. Silly girl, not that I have a complex about my age cause I don't, could care less but I don't think I want it on display so I can see it everyday, we will just stick with the pregnancy.

The kids have been having such a good time playing today, it was hard for me to tear them away to take showers, and know I have to do it again so we can read. I am trying to stick to a morning schedule and have been for 3 weeks, yippee, I just function better if its written down for me and then I don't have that nagging guilt of am I missing something that they need to be learning. I also am getting back to daily cleaning schedule, like Mondays are bathrooms Tuesdays are kitchen, the poor house has not been getting much love since we moved here. And since this stresses the hubby out and I am feeling better these days (I guess baby got the message) I figured I better get on it before baby gets here and then we have a whole other set of things to deal with. Well that's my ramblings for today.... till next time.

Devin's Words of Wisdom

The boy cracks me up. We were sitting at the table doing some school work and I was going to write Devin's name on his bat paper he was coloring. So I asked him"Devin how do you spell your name?" He said C and I said du du du (thats me sounding out d) D-e-v-i-n," and then he says to me"If you know how to spell it then dont ask me" It was so funny I couldnt help but laugh and he says" I'm serious I'm not joking" He is too smart for his own good.

I let the kids go on http://members.enchantedlearning.com/ and print out some stuff (thanks for the idea Jackie). Ashlyn chose a camping book, an armadillo, and a parrott coloring page (check the box for fine arts!!!). Great website with lots of stuff, it cost 20.00 a year but I think its worth it. We will post pics later on. Better get back to the kidos, I had to come post this before I forgot my sons witty comment.

Pregnancy Update

This is my third new post today and they are long so make sure you dont miss them!!

I am home from my appointment with good news, we heard babies heartbeat it was 160 beats per minute. It's a relief. I am 12 weeks and one day and as soon as baby gets that message maybe I can start feeling better LOL. With the other two kids the nausea just seemed to dissapear at 12 weeks, whats going on here!!! I can tell my belly is growing and am looking forward to looking pregnant and not just overweight. So far bland foods are the best for me, i usually do ok with the basic seasonings like garlic onion and salt and pepper, but sometimes on the wrong day it just turns my stomach. Friut hasnt been so appealing to me lately, I think I am sick of eating it, but I will trudge on and eat it anyways. Well thats all the prego stuff I can think of right now. Toodaloo

This is Going to be a long one....continued

more sunset







ok I know for sure this is Devin going down the hill. They had a blast.







Here's Antonio trying to ge the dog to jump in the back of the truck, she tried once but couldnt make it. After this they all went on a walk, I stayed home cause I was tired.







My first project for the baby. Super easy knitted cotton hat, I cant wait to put it on baby.






Picture #2 of hat





Ashlyn lost her third tooth, bottom left.





Her tooth in the jar, kinda hard to see.





kids washing Sally (evidently this is the name they chose for the van, the truck is Jack)

Antonio had to change the spark plugs on the van. Not his favorite things in the world to do especially on this van. It seems to be a conspiracy, they place everything in the weirdest places, almost like they didnt want you to be able to do the work youself. Notice he is under the van in order to get to three of the spark plugs. He literally had to force his hand up into the engine to get to them.



Here is Devin helping. After some persuasion Daddy allowed him to help. he was so cute, he told me "this engine is broken, but the other one is ok" so I asked how many engines are there and he said "forty eight". He is just to cute.








here they are together under the van. devin kept going to the tool box and getting new tools and pretending he was fixing stuff. He's say things like too much gas last night.




Ashlyn didnt seem to interested in being under the van, not that she is against getting dirty but I guess it want her thing. She did find a injured dragon fly that kept her busy for awhile.

Ok I am finally done, yeah. I will try to post later on today after we go to my 12 week OB appt. If we can here the heart beat with the doppler thing then I wont get the ultrasound, since the only reason for the ultrasound is to make sure everything is ok. So only a few more hours to wait, I am excited.

This is Going to be a long one....

I guess I have to play catch up a little. I also took about 30 pictures this weekend and am going to try to get them all in this post, so here goes. Antonio had a nice long weekend due to Labor day, we didnt do anything out of the ordinary just hung out. I still cant travel far from home cause I get car sick and I also never know when I wont feel good. I have to say this has been the roughest pregnancy yet, but I will continue to remind myself how greatful I am and how much I am looking forward to having this child.

Devin working on his letter sheets.

Ashlyn doing Math. NOt sure if she really likes math or not. She likes it when she does it with Daddy, but I think some of the concepts are tricky for her.

Devin (notice the tounge and spiderman hand also the I love you sign)

"C" is for clouds. I am very pleased that he is enjoying these. I started hanging them all on the wall so he can see the whole alphabet. this is an old picture, today we did letter "F".

Ashlyn's favorite coloring book, it has really cute pictures of kitties in it.

These are some of the masterpieces out of the kitty coloring book

Devin's notebook, he saw one in walmart that had Spiderman on it and it was triple the price of this one, so I told him he could decorate it with spiderman himself. Whew he liked that idea.

here is the inside cover and first page (can you tell he likes spiderman). I have been pleasantly suprised how much he is enjoying stuff like this. I thought it wasnt his thing but now I am thinking it may have just been his age and he needed some gentle persausion. Coloring is not something he naturally gravitates too, but he's had fun with it so far and he says the cutest things while coloring his pictures.

There was a beautiful sunset the other night and I thought I would try and get pictures. They did not turn out very well, but if you can try to imagine it a lot prettier that this you may understand why I took the pictures.

Ashlyn pointed out the first star to me so I thought I'd take a picture of it.

more sunset

You cant see it well, but there is alittle hill going down to the neighbors house. The kids discovered that it would be really fun to ride there bikes down it. I think the black blur in this picture is devin, not totally sure though.

Ashlyn on her bike.

Ok I am going to start a new post cause it is getting irritaing to drag all the pictures to the bottom of this post.