BBBBLLLECCCHHH!

So much for my wonderful symptom free pregnancy... I knew that there was NO WAY that I was going to go on feeling sooo good! So my theory about having a boy and feeling great are out the window! The weather here this weekend was CRAZY (we even got out of school at noon on Friday) so that was a great excuse for me to stay in! However, by last night I was feeling like a big blob of nothing-ness. No energy to do anything, upset stomach off and on, and woo wee was I CRABBY!!! I know this will all pass so I will keep the complaining to a minimum BUT I have definitely reached the non-good times stage!!! Now I understand why it has taken me 4 1/2 years to do this all again... it takes a LONG time to forget that pregnancy is NOT COOL! Well, some of it anyway... In the back of my mind i KNOW how amazing and worth it the outcome is... I just wish we could ALL share in the GLORIOUS 9 months leading up to it. If the rest of the family could just take a month that would be great!! Okay Heath would get at least 3 months!!!

So... Last night we were in bed pretty early for us (9pm). Heath was sleeping b/c he has to get up on Monday mornings at 4:30am for work-- NO STINKIN WAY could I do that!!! So Heath falls right to sleep (even after drinking a Coke in bed---I don't get it but we don't call him Narcolepsy Man for nothing!!). Crosby is watching Noggin and I am reading. Just like last Sunday she says something ABSOLUTELY hilarious and we can't stop laughing!! You know that deep belly laugh that usually carries on longer at the most inappropriate times!! This happened last Sunday night too... Cros and I got to laughing (I swear she is going to be a comedian!!) and then our little Bruiser starts licking Heath's face!! OMG I am laughing just thinking about it!!! Heath makes some random sleep snorting noise and wakes up which makes us laugh even harder. He says "oh yeah, let's see how you guys would like this at 7am!!" Since we get up at 6am we figured it wouldn't bother us too much but we took the hint. I did feel bad but we were having a hard time keeping from cracking up...

(Reminds me of the time my Kara-girl was trying to sleep and Elo and I couldn't stop laughing about EYELETS)!!!

So fast forward to last night. I am determined to keep Cros quiet but--NOT HAPPENING!!! We hear some funny name on tv like Herlicious and she looks at me and says "We should name the baby Herlicious!!" We DIE laughing!! Heath did the snorty wake up thing again and I tried to quiet her down and I apologized cause you KNOW that if it were the other way around... watch out (but then again I wouldn't have been trying to sleep with to laughing hyenas either!)!! He actually opened his eyes and said "It's okay." what a great guy! Either that or he was still asleep!! This whole giggly thing went on for another 30 minutes and the whole time I was thinking
#1 I have got to keep her quiet
and
#2 I LOVE her so INCREDIBLY... literally overnight it seems she has grown to this little person, no longer my baby and just in time for us to start the next chapter. Maybe my body knows what it is doing after all...

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Bren MacMacGuff: Juno, by any chance did you throw up in my urn? Because there was this funky blue s*** in it.

Juno: No, Bren, I would never barf in your urn.

Hi Little Baby!!

We had our first sonogram today! It was so exciting!! Right away we could see our TINY baby and its heart beating. I almost teared up even though our baby looks like a little peanut right now, it was just so REAL once you could see the little heart beating so quickly.

Adler was the photographer today!! She did a good job! The sono tech was so nice and answered all of my questions. I would think after the 3rd time I wouldn't have soo many questions but nope not me!! Right away she noticed my tilted pelvis (the reason for my c-sections) something she said I was just born with.

We decided to take Adler and Chelo to the appointment. They had wanted to go so badly! When I picked Adler up from school she was at recess and I thought she might not want to go but oh no she came running up with her stuff, excited! Adler HATES to miss school so this was obviously so important to her! Oh and while I was waiting in the school office the secretary said, "I just LOVE your daughter!" Oh, I was just so proud to hear that!!! She claims she is REALLY good at school! Now if we could just get home figured out ;)

I lovelovelove the different dynamic in our family with this new baby coming. Sometimes I think about the large age difference between my children but I am sure they will all still be close. Adler and Chelo will be 10 years old when baby pumpkin is born and I think they will be SUCH a help! Little mommies. Crosby will be 5 (the age Adler was when she was born. Chel was 4) and she will be the great big sister "helper" if you know what I mean!!! :)

The sono tech said the baby's heartbeat is 146 beats per minute. We got online as soon as we got home to check out the gender predictor sites on heart rate. It said that according to ancient chinese beliefs an in-utero heart rate over 140 predicts GIRL!!!! The girls of course took this as "Your baby is a Girl." Adler was upset and we had to remind them that this is something fun to do and DOESN'T at all predict gender. Aparently she really wants that baby brother!!! She must REALLY love Dalton!!!! :)

Juno: Yeah I came as soon as I got that ultrasound goo off my pelvis. It was crazy actually, my step-mom verbally abused the ultrasound tech and we got escorted off the premises.

(this is about what I felt like doing when the receptionist lady was giving me a hard time)... it went something like this:

"Is your bladder full?????" -her (in a not so friendly tone)

"I think so, I just drank about 40 oz."-me

"you were SUPPOSED to drink it 30-45 minutes before your appointment"-her

"She just drank a TON of water!!"-Adler innocently (go Ads!)

me walking away mumbling... "You didn't SAY 30-45 minutes before and do you REALLY talk like that to a pregnant lady?!??!?!?" and my famous line to people in her line of work "aren't you supposed to be friendly in customer service... isn't that like YOUR JOB???" Now I didn't say any of these things to her but I thought them REALLY HARD!!!

Chelo's School Open House

Our girl Chel had an Open House at her school last night so Adler, Chelo, and I went to that (Daddy and Crosby were at her soccer practice). It was fun to see her classrooms and talk to her teacher (they also had pizza and cookies so the girls were STOKED about that!) Chelo goes to Trinity Luthren School here in Winfield (yes I have 4 daughters at 4 different schools!!! good times for their dad who has to get them all around in the mornings!!) RM and I think that you should get a certain number of excused tardies each semester based on the number of kids you have!! Wouldn't that be SWEETNESS?!?!

Here is Cho Rose at her desk on the Front Row!! Way to make a teacher mommy proud!!! ;)

This is Chel with her SUPER sweet teacher Cami Moore. There are over 20 first, second and third graders in Chelo's class.

Last Night Was Kinda Crazy!!

After I came home from school I decided to rest for a little while. That first day back after Spring Break was pretty rough!!! Mimi called and asked if we were watching the weather. I told her that I was not and that Heath aka "Old Man Weather" (this name has been around long before RM! He also has several other "fun" nicknames that Teresa and I have given him over the years!! We'll save those for another day! Love ya honey!!) Anywho, Old Man Weather was off early today (he has to go in at 3:30am for the next 2 weeks---couldn't do it... no way!) so he was at home when I got there. Pulling up more carpet no less! What a great guy! ;) Well, Mimi was worried about us (mostly Adler ;), there was some tornado-type activity in the area. Heath was right on top of it. Weather channel on, remote in hand and texts from KSOK on his cell in the other. He doesn't mess around!! Adler and I went out on the front porch to scope it out. It was downpouring in this picture if you can't tell! As the rain died down we noticed that our street was flooding. The city had spent quite a bit of time bulding up the railroad tracks and making these big drainage hole thingys so we thought that was wierd---it shouldn't be happening. Heath waded down the street to pull the neighbors leaf bags out of the drainage holes!!! The IRONIC thing about this was that these were the very same neighbors that called the city about the flooding problem last Spring and threatened to sue if they didn't do something about it!!! Adler and I got a HUGE laugh out of that!!

Crosby ended up staying the night with Grammy because we didn't want them to be on the road and get caught in anything bad weather. :( More storms were projected to pop up. Mah came home from swimming practice and I guess when the town sirens were going off they took all of the kids down to the basement of the White PE building. Since this was her first tornado experience she was pretty freaked out!! WelComE SPRING!!! It did clear up as Kara girl called to ask if we were having spin class still (i think she was trying to bail on our first night :). Kidding, I guess they were sent in the basement or lower level at Creekstone too, good times!!! We ended up going to spin class. Even though I was feeling pretty sick to my stomach I went. I had way more reasons to go than to skip!! #1 I think I have already gained 10pounds since my last appointment (I am hopeless when it comes to the 'suggested' weight gain during pregnancy!!! #2 I didn't have to TEACH the spin class! I can't remember the last time I have gone to a spin or aerobics class where I wasn't the instructor. That was really nice!! Well my lunch break is coming to an end and pretty soon there will be some glorious high schoolers flooding into my classroom. Better get ready to GET MY TEACH ON!!!!! Have a great day, we start soccer practice tonight so it should be an eventful evening!!!! Peace Chicken Grease!!

OMG I almost forgot.... at one point last night Adler and OMW were out on the front porch analyzing the storm I decided to close the window because the wind was really blowing in. I leaned over the chair and closed the big picture window at the front of the house. THOSE TWO JUMPED three feet!!!! I guess the rumbling sound the window made sounded to them like some catastrophic thunder storm!! I scared them to death they said!!! le whoops! :)

"Scrapping Booking"

So here are pics of the layouts I did the last two times I cropped at the Attic. I am cropping constantly these days and in no particular order and I am LOVING every minute of it. I do have a method to my madness though... I try to scrapbook all of my current pics first (I will print them off this week to have for Crop Camp) When those are finished I glance through my idea books until I find something I LOVE and look for the perfect pictures to go with the idea. I am a total SCRAPLIFTER!!! I use someone else's idea and add my own personality. I am finding that I am really happy with these methods. I don't worry about being behind or caught up. Just thankful to have the time to get done what I can :)

Adler's First Dance Class

Thanksgiving 2004

Dave And Teresa's 10th Anniversary Party April 2008

2002 Ice Storm---Random See, I LOVE it. If I was trying to work my way back in order it would've taken me 5 MORE years to get to these cool pictures of Davin and Adler as preschoolers!!!

Christmas Card 2008 --Still chipping away at this past Christmas!! :)

Kris touching up the color in Heath's Pistol Pete tattoo. This one needs a little more before it is finished...maybe tonight! :)

Oh and Such a FUN ONE of the Family!! With a little help from my friend Kate (I am not afraid to get help)!! I found this layout...fell in LOVE and hunted til I found the perfect pic!!

Newest Addition to the Curtis Crew!

Marley Girl
While I was asleep this morning Heath went out and got a new puppy for us! I was in shock!!! She is a little girl Lhasa Aspo named Marley. Isn't she adorable???

Only KIDDING!! We need NO MORE dogs in this house. Little Marley is none other than our Baby Fruse or Baby Son aka BRUISER MOOSE CURTIS!! Doesn't he look like a millon bucks!?!?! Him got him's first haircut today! It took 3 hours!! Worth EVERY penny of the $25. We had debated buying some nice pet clippers and doing it ourselves. WHEW! Dodged a bullet with that one!! It doesn't always pay to try to be thrifty. You may remember that we tried to give our Persian cat OMAR a trim last summer :) Good times! Sorry Boom Boom Curtis! (everyone has a nickname around here... ESPECIALLY the pets!) So, Fo SHO no plans on a future in dog grooming for either of us!!

Here is Baby Fruse's Before Photo:

Bren MacGuff: When you move out I'm getting two Weimaraners!

Juno: Woah dream big!

Twilight is in the HOUSE!!

and Chelo and Adler are already watching it... I am waiting until tonight, oh the will power!

My Tiniest Artist

All of my kids have been bitten by my 'creative bug' especially little Crosby. She would sit and 'scrapbook' for hours!! She is also very big on writing and drawing pictures. She gave me this picture and i just [LOVE] it! It is hanging on the fridge... oh and I asked her why she wrote "danelle" instead of 'mommy' and she said "cause that is your name." What was i thinking???

Oh What a Day!!

I made my facial lady take a picture of me!! She thought it was fun!

I really do know that I have a great life! Sometimes my hormones get in the way but in the back of my mind I am VERY thankful for all of my blessings. Since "No Project Day" went so well I thought we would try it again today :) YES! I slept in until about 9 and then proceeded to watch Jon and Kate plus 8 and What not to Wear until about 10:30!!! I rarely watch random tv anymore I am soo spoiled by DVR that I can hardly tolerate commercials. Anyone else out there feeling that way??? I ended up pausing every few minutes that Crosby needed something anyway so it worked out fine. I got in a little fast forward time :) **Sometimes I will even pause a show and go do a few things JUST SO I HAVE THE FAST FORWARD built up! Enough about my DVRing. After my a.m. veg fest I accepted a lunch invitation from my Kara Girl. I dropped the girls off at my mom's and met Kara at Mozitti's (an italian place in Ark City). We had sandwiches with bacon, chicken, ranch, and cheese-- a pregnant woman's dream!! It was so nice to have a weekday lunch date even though I HATE to rub it in to all of my NON-teacher friends. Too bad, wrong profession girls! :) It is DEFINITELY the next best job (as far as time off goes) to being a stay at home mom (another thing I am thankful for). After lunch I headed to the little scrapbook store in AC. Kara had gotten me a gift certificate for my birthday and it was just BURNING a hole in my pocket!! I went and picked up some things I "NEEDED!" and the next thing I knew it was 2:30 and I was late!! I rushed to my FACIAL appointment. It has been awhile since I have had a facial and can I say FABULOUS!!! I definitely plan on spoiling myself with them throughut my pregnancy. I feel so refreshed and relaxed (I may not even kill Random Man for having the girl's bat bags in his car after he SWORE like 5 times they were on the back porch--and that is ALL I have to say about that cause you know I would LOVE to go on :) Picking on RM is one of my ALL TIME favorite pasttimes!!!! I know that deep down he LOVES it!

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Oh my!!! I just took a break from blogging to work on supper and I asked RM if he would make the pancakes, cause I always burn them!! As he was getting the stuff together he asked me "Is this a wet or dry measuring cup?" WTH??? Is there even a difference-- don't answer that becuase at this house the answer is NO!! I have been cracking up ever since and giving him crap about it in my best british accent!! :)) hee hee good times!! Is this a wet or dry measuring cup ha ha ha ha ha!!

Adler reminded me of a very fitting Juno quote to go with tonight's pancakes, eggs, bacon and hashbrowns, that I will end with:

Bleeker's Mom: But Puppy, you ran 9 miles today. We're having breakfast for dinner...it's your favorite."

St. Patty's Day---And a Little Green

OUR BEAUTIFUL GREEN DAY!!!! My girls playing ball in the yard today while their momma soaks up some vitamin D

Chel looking for a four leaf clover.

My little one after my own heart... since i was relaxing on the porch with a magazine she wanted to also and she grabbed a scrapbook mag! Good girl!!! Oh yeah and she was sure she saw one of her friends from her afternoon pre-school class!! There is no use in telling her that it was someone else... her mind was MADE UP!!! I lovelovelove that about little kids-anything is possible, i mean why wouldn't the girl at her school be in the magazine?!?!!?!?! :)


Happy Saint Patricks Day! I am blogging while the rest of the crew is watching idol (I am good with just listening...). All of the crew except for Mah. She left last night for Winterpark, CO. They made it safely this morning and she is sooo excited! Could you even imagine... what little snow she has ever seen has been the one maybe two "snows" we had this winter. Now she is on the snow covered mountains learning to snowboard. I hope she is staying warm!! So back at our ranch, I officially declared it "Project Free Day." I hate to say this but I have been going a little too hard since last Thursday. My mind is RUNNING in a million directions (as always) but this time it is a little different. There are so many little things I want to do around here: painting, repairs, updating, ect and since I have felt PHENOMENAL I have been at it non stop. Painting, ripping up carpet, scraping padding, pulling out ancient tack strips.... whatever. Kinda fun stuff but as of yesterday my quickly expanding bod is pulling on the reigns!! It all began last night and I woke up this morning feeling a little green. How fitting! Not too pukey mostly sluggish and sore. It doesn't help that on top of all of this I have taught spin and aerobics the last two nights! I have felt GREAT after my classes though! Whew I am on quite the rambling role today! hee hee hee On another note I am at times feeling sorry for my family then again not... to explain: sorry for them in that my hormones are RAGING out of
CAN-Trol and I am definitely on edge at all times and constantly apologizing for being soooo crabby! I told Heath this morning that my right mind knows I have a great life... after all the weather is absolutely BEAUTIFUL (in the 70s-80s), I am at home with my girls and off work for a week and a half. I hate that I can't control that FRAZZLED feeling... poop. I actually have the urge to cry (and give in several times a day!) Poor Heath... yesterday he "accidentally" took my keys to the golf course with him and I was so frustrated that I CRIED!! All because I wanted to go to Sonic!! Oh man what we do for these babies! I did not start this blog to gripe about pregnancy but record my feelings and emotions every step of the way, the good and the bad. I find myself constantly trying to recall little things about my past pregnancies. It is tough to do even with Crosby's and Adler's ...forget it. I would LOVE to have something like this to go back and read. I am not regretting not starting it sooner but ECSTATIC that I will have it from now on to help me remember... The cool thing for the family about mommy being pregnant... I just took a devils food cake out of the oven. You all know I DON'T BAKE! nor am I a huge chocolate fanatic, but ooh baby watch out.... if I can't have green beer I am going to have chocolate cake, by god!!! YUMMY!

Crosby is Lovin Her Some Snuggie

So Crosby comes bouncing into the kitchen yesterday and says "Mommy can I get a Snuggie AND a book light?" Whatever!! I swear a commercial could sell fake dog poop to kids!! I know my girls would be interested! But what is the deal with kids and the Snuggie anyway?? Steff and I were just talking about her boys wanting them the other day! They are so weird!! I do love the commercial with the parents at the kids soccer games jumping up and down cheering in their snuggies! I always tell Heath that that dad probably got his a$$ kicked in the parking lot after the game by the other dads!! Oh I am bad I know!!!

BeWaRe of the STAIR!!!

Well Spring Break Day 2 is underway. Today we are tackling the stairs and the big girls' room. So of course there is a little story to tell about the goings on, how could there not be? :) So Mr. Crabby Ass aka Heath Curtis (he is ALWAYS cranky at project time!!) decided that while I was prepping the girls room to be painted last night that he would take the carpet off of the bottom stair only. Say it all together ...... "Random Man".... by doing so this act alone led to quite an eventful 12 hours. It all started with me... as I was coming down the stairs my bare foot hit hardwood which in my mind meant I was at the bottom of the stairs but since RM had 'DONE WORK' I in fact still had a step to go!! Since I have mad dexterity I managed to skid a little but stay on my feet... not a few minutes later Mah repeated my act, next came Pete our big boxer and then RM aka heath. I wasn't there to witness but apparently he caught himself but "jammed his knee" in the process hee hee hee. Then my poor niece Addalinn bit it TWICE falling forward she even had a little red mark on her forhead :( Kel I promise she is safe here!! When I got up this morning Heath told me that he had gotten up to take the dogs out at about 6am and completely bit it this time!! He said he was totally sprawled out at the bottom of the stairs!! And as luck would have it Mah happend to be in the downstairs bathroom getting ready to go take the SAT. The bathroom is RIGHT at the bottom of the stairs!! He heard the commotion and stuck her head out to see Heath's fall aftermath!! She said "are you okay?" He was thankfully, because I can't help but laugh picturing the whole thing in my head! He wanted to make sure I blogged about it tonight, secretly he doesn't mind my "laughing with him" ;) online!! Needless to say we got up and took off the rest of the carpet from the stairs!! We worked ALL day and right now I am so exhausted I can hardly type so I am off to bed. Niteynite. d

Spring Break Danelle Curtis Style

So Mah asked me a few weeks ago if we were going anywhere for Spring Break. I told her NO WAY!! My idea of a great Spring Break is alternating between relaxing and getting a ton of STUFF checked of that endless to do list (don't get me wrong... a vacation would be nice too!). Yesterday I cropped so when I rolled out of bed at about 9:30 this morning! I was RARING to go!! Mah did the bathrooms while I used my new Rainbow vacuum to do all of the floors. Wow it feels great to get that out of the way (even though it will probably need it again next weekend!) When Heath got off work at 3 we headed to WalMart to pick out some paint for Adler and Chelo's room. We went with a light green color. We got it finished tonight except for a little touching up (it looks like Mah and Heath are doing all of the work but I promise I did help!). We are going to wait and do that tomorrow and take out their carpet because underneath is a BEAUTIFUL hardwood floor--- so more updates to come!! My husband is not pumped (i think "not enthused" is the exact phrase he used), because he has to CeLeBraTe {wink} Spring Break with me even though he gets No extra time off to do all of my little projects!! hee hee hee Should've been a teacher... oh yeah or a sono tech.. or an OB .... hee hee hee!!

Peace Chicken Grease!! dc

Don't Scare a Mommy Like THAT!!!!

So I got home from school yesterday and I was in SUCH a good mood because I was out of school for 11 days for SPRING BREAK! At 5:15 my phone rang and it was my Doctor's office. The nurse was calling to tell me that my hormone levels were low when they read my blood work and could I come in tomorrow to get more blood drawn. The first words out of my mouth were "Well, can we do it on Friday cause I already have plans tomorrow?" (I had a date with Lindsay to crop at ScrapFunattic and NOTHIN gets in the way of my cropping time with my girlies!!) Then my mind snapped back to the reality of what this chica was saying to me... there might be something WRONG with my pregnancy and that I needed to have it checked out!! DUH! I quickly told her that YES in fact I could come in tomorrow!! So I made an appointment and proceeded to call my pregnant cousin Jodi for advice or something! We talked for a while and I decided to then call my SIL Kelli the nurse. She asked me questions about what the OB nurse had said like what levels were off and what the numbers were and of course I knew NONE of the answers to her questions!!! I wish I had her with me at all of my appointments to ask the questions i dont even KNOW to ask!!! The more I thought about what she was saying the more I worried even though everyone told me not to. Couldn't help it. So I got up bright and early and headed to the doctor's office. They ended up sending me to the hospital to get my blood drawn so we could get the results in a couple of hours instead of days. She also sent me off with some literature about hormone levels in the blood. The paperwork only made me feel worse... low levels (which apparently I seemed to have) had NO seemingly positive outcomes.
HOLY CRAP!!
Well, it was a good thing that i had plans at the Attic because my mind was kept busy by my girlfriends and my obsession "Scrapping Booking" (shout out to my girl ELO!!) anywhooo to make a long story short "TOO LATE!!" the nurse finally called me at 3 something and told me "I have good news" From there on i only heard tiny snippets of what she was saying. I have the WORST tendancy to do that... when people are giving me IMPORTANT info that is 'MUST Know,' my mind wanders---WTH is that??? Like when someone is giving me directions to somewhere i am going, I drift off!!! It is CRAZY i must have that rare form of 'important-info- ADD.' SWEET! So all I know is that everything "looks great" now and my levels are where they should be. WHEW, i have stopped FrEaKinG out since I got the call and I have a sonogram scheduled for the 25th cause of course both the sono tech and my OB are off for Spring Break all next week!! What was I thinking... students, teachers, oh yeah and EVERYONE in my OBs office gets the week off! After making 100 calls to let all of my loved ones know that we are a-okay I was off to teach spin class. Needless to say, I couldn't breathe in class but that is another post ALL IN IT'S STINKIN SELF! One final note (along with another oh so beloved Juno Quote)... thank you to all of you who were there for me in my time of worry. It means soo much to have such an awesome support network (and if I didn't call you histerically-- consider yourself lucky, not out of the loop!) BESOS! d

That ain't no Etch A Sketch. This is one doodle that can't be undid, Homeskillet.

Sacred Vessel

Juno: Excuse me? I am a sacred vessel, alright? All you've got in your stomach is Taco Bell.



So because this is MY BLOG I plan to post as many Juno quotes as my little heart desires and I forsee it to be many!! :) So as far as how I am feeling right now... STILL BlOaTed!! I feel like I am farther along than I really am but since I have already gone to the Doctor I know that is not the case!! I did read that with each baby your stomach muscles snap into pregnancy mode much more quickly. SWEET! Since I was feeling soo full last night I thought I would grab a quick pic of me at 2 months. A little bump!! My clothes are starting to reach the snug phase. Some of my pants are almost uncomfortable but I plan to hold off as long as possible on the materity wear. I laugh now thinking back to when I found out I was pregnant with Adler... I went out and bought materinty clothes right away. I was even wearing them in what would've had to be my second month!! I was just soo excited. Well, I am just as excited this time but IN NO HURRY to don pleated cotten jumpers!! Actually the maternity clothes have gotten a lot cuter in the past 10 years BUT STILL!!! I am not looking forward to how much I am going to have to spend on them either. My friend Heather gave me a couple of bags full from her pregnancy last year so that will help. I am all about the hand-me-downs. I remember too vividly reaching the point of thinking I HaTe My CLoThES!! I WEaR the SAME 5 OuTfIts Over AND Over!!! I don't even know the best places to shop for maternity any more. Any advice... please Leave COMMENTS!!! JODI??? MELISSA??? SHANNON?? Heck half of my family is pregnant or has just had a baby!! So exciting!!
Also exciting is that starting today at 3:30 I have 11 days out of school for Spring Break that I plan to enjoy... YEA!!!!! Perfect timing! More later.. this blog is rockin!!

We're Expecting!!!

So we, okay I, decided to start this blog in honor of our newest addition. Baby #4 is expected to arrive on October 31st! Yep Halloween! We couldn't be more excited! Right now I am in my 7th week... still really early! I plan to do the best I can to record the little day to day happenings around here for two reasons... One because pregnancy and motherhood has SUCKED my memory from me and two to help our family and friends keep up with everything that goes on in our crazy life!

So far this pregnancy can't be going any better! Seriously!! I can't believe how good I feel. I am no more tired than usual and no morning sickness (knocking). I keep thinking that these things are coming but I am in the clear for now! LUCKY! What is up, is that I am a tad more irratable than usual (not good for high schoolers!!!) and I feel BlOaTeD!! I just feel really round already! Now, I am not wearing maternity clothes or anything that extreme but holy COW am I having twins or what?? Not Happening!! I think this is all BOY!! That is my early prediction!! I feel sooo much better than I did with the girls. I hear those little boys can be sooo good to their mamas! (Right Brother??? :)) Seriously, I have no premonitions about the gender and I really don't mind either way. I think we need to take a family poll and see where everyone around here stands. I am hearing both boy and girl. We will be finding out what we are having but will have to wait until about the first of June. So, to end this post (the first of many baby posts!!!!) I will wrap it up with a short litte story of a few Saturday's ago...

...Flashback sequence...

We had just worked all day at a fundraiser for Adler and Chelo's softball team and I was just ExHauSTEd!! When we got home I decided to take a bath (that ALWAYS makes me feel better). Oh by the way for some, this might be TMI!!! Oh well, it is my blog, just know that you continue reading this and every post at your own risk!!! :) Anyway so as I was relaxing in the tub I realized that I needed to pee. Heath had been trying to get me to take a pregnancy test for about a week but I didn't want to test too early. So I dragged my tired body out of the tub and took the test- I might as well, I thought. Meanwhile Crosby had come into the bathroom, stripped, and jumped into my bath!!! Nothing is sacred around our house! But that is fine with me... i let her do it almost every night! I have created the little monst... ANGEL!!!

Fast forward..

I was standing at the counter watching the test percolate while she splashed away. I was expecting to see just that control line but at some point I started squinting at the test because HOLY CRAP i could see a FAINT second line.... no WAY! Now we have been wanting to be preggers for over a year but haven't really pressed the fact. Once it finally happened I was kind of freaking!!! In a good way of course. I yelled for Heath to come upstairs (Cros still splashing away, oblivious!). He came right up--what a good guy!--- I pointed to the counter and said look at that! He of course did not see what I was pointing at!! I had to go over a practically put the test in his hand. He looked at it, then looked at me and said "No Way" I grabbed the directions (even though I know EXACTLY what they say) and read probably 50 times that EVEN IF THE SECOND LINE IS FAINT THE TEST IS POSITIVE in bold and underlined but somehow we were just not buying it! My hands were shaking as I looked at the paper! I was nervous! I looked at Heath and I said "we need another test" he said "okay, I'll go" REALLY??? Cool guy! It took FOREVER for him to get back! (I guess he couldn't find the tests so he called one of his friends--SERIOUSLY???) {Shaking my head!} Eventually he made it back with 2 more tests. We watched tv-kinda-while I drank 2 enormous glasses of water. I decided to go try for another test. I went upstairs and came back down. Heath said"SO?" I told him that could only eek out like 4 drops. He said "Why would you try if you only had to go 4 DROPS???" I told him that CLEARLY I thought I had more than a few drops in me!! Sometimes I wonder about him!! :) I went back to look at the test and there wasn't even enough pee to light up the control line. CRAP. So I decided to marinate for awhile before a 3rd attempt. After all I wouldn't want to just go 4 drops again!! So Heath fixed me a glass of Chocolate milk and I crawled into bed with my book. After about an hour I decided I was ready to go for it again. I sloshed to the bathroom and to my disbelief there on the counter sat TWO pregnancy tests, each with two lines!!! OMG my four drops had produced a POSITIVE test!!!!! I really was PREGNANT!! I called Heath up again and we both stared at the 2nd test (and the directions) in excited shock!! What do we do now??? Heath said "should you take the other test?" I then went over the odds of 2 positive tests in my most scentific voice from Danelle's book of facts. {wink} We went and sat on the bed. It was 9:45 on a Saturday night! Let's call our parents!!! Immediately we got Grammy on the phone and she just was just so happy for us. We called Bob and Vicky next. Vicky was in bed but Bob figured it out pretty quickly so he woke her up. Her response was something like "No Way, really?" Everyone has been saying it is our turn to have another one for quite a while!! Needless to say she was just as giddy about it as grammy was, of course!!! On that note we decided that was all we needed to let in on our new little news for that night. I WAS able to get some sleep, oh yeah my exhaustion started this whole thing!!! WHEW, to make a long story short (hee hee hee)... that is how we found out about our little pumpkin (or nickname for baby).

and to leave you all with a little Juno quote (first and definitely not the last!!)

Juno MacGuff: I'm pregnant.

Leah: What? Honest to blog?

Juno MacGuff: Yeah. Yeah, it's Bleekers.

Leah: It's probably just a food baby. Did you have a big lunch?

Juno MacGuff: No, this is not a food baby all right? I've taken like three pregnancy tests, and I'm forshizz up the spout.

Leah: How did you even generate enough pee for three pregnancy tests? That's amazing...

Juno MacGuff: I don't know, I drank like, ten tons of Sunny D... Anyway dude, I'm telling you I'm pregnant and you're acting shockingly cavalier.

Leah: Is this for real? Like, for real for real?

Juno MacGuff: Unfortunately, yes.

Leah: Oh my GOD. Oh shit! Phuket, Thailand!

Juno MacGuff: There we go. That was kind of the emotion that I was searching for on the first take.