Thats it...No this is it!

Ok, I have had a rough couple of days/months so I am gonna get it all out now! I am just sick of being sick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm sick of puking, being sore, being tired and grouchy and of just being a Monster! I apologize for sounding whiny but that's the point! I am gonna let it all out and then move on from here and I won't complain anymore - (OK, lets be reasonable!) Let me rephrase that - I will try my hardest to keep my complaints minimal and look for more of the positive.

This pregnancy is sooooo hard compared to the last. And that's the magic words "Comparable to the last." Because preggy life was waaaaayyyy to easy when I was prego with McCoy. I remember thinking, "I don't know why pregnancy gets such a bad rap, this is so freaking easy!" Ahhh, I was cursed by every mother I came across! They all said, "Oh, if this one is easy your next one will be miserable!" Damn you all! (I don't mean it, its just my preggy grouch monster talking).

That's right, I have a preggy grouch monster that lives inside me and she frequently comes out and says not nice stuff. She is very irritable, especially when she doesn't eat every two hours and or doesn't get her rest time during the middle of the day. And trust me, you don't want to make her mad. You will not like her when she is angry! She can't stand most smells, the stupid faces people make, and sometimes even the way you breath or blink will annoy her. (She is bad news) But the good news is I can keep her in check most of the time.

I think the main problem is I just had completely different expectations of how this pregnancy was going to go based on my first one. So it has been hard for me to adjust.

An upside thus far is that I think I am finally starting to see an end to the puke portion of all this. Puke days are getting few and further between. The current downfall is a stupid head cold. At first I tried to flush it out with liquid because I didn't want to take any meds but after a couple of days I caved and sent Glade to the pharmacy to get whatever they would give him. Now I am left with the most annoying cough ever. The cough brings out the preggy grouchy monster bad! I can't sleep at night because I'm coughing up crap all night long. I've tried all safe remedies- nothing works. There is just a constant tickle that will not go away. I have stomach pains because I cough so much, and this is gross, but sometimes I "leak" when I cough to hard! It is disgusting I know! There is just so many things with this pregnancy that freak me out and disgust me. Things I never had to deal with the first. I was healthy as a horse with McCoy. I felt so great! I loved being pregnant. I loved the look of my big belly. I felt "Pretty." I wanted to get ready everyday and dress up and look preggy cute! These days throwing on whatever pair of comfy pants is clean is good enough for me.

I'm not looking for sympathy I am just looking to get all this negativity out of my system. I haven't posted much about this pregnancy because whenever I want to write something it sounds to negative in my head to even put out there so I just haven't written anything. So hopefully now I can move on to writing more happy thoughts.

My first happy thought... ... ... ... ...


I felt the baby move today! I have felt him/her move before but it was these tiny faint little fluttery movements. Today I felt with no doubt the baby was punching or kicking. It was AMAZING. Glade even put his hands on my belly and he said he could feel it too. Baby Blood must be really strong because he/she is still so tiny I can't believe we could feel him/her already!

Never to early to Rock!

McCoy woke up the other morning and wanted to put on a concert for me. He put together a make-shift microphone (Had to have a mic because Uncle Jordan always sings and rocks out with a mic), then he grabbed his guitar, had me sit on his bed and then he started going to town. I loved every second of it. He is my personal little entertainer!
He loves music! Always has. One of his favorite games right now is LIPS on XBOX 360. It is a karaoke game. I just wish we had more songs on it. His fav songs to sing are, Rolling - Limp Bizkit, ABC's - Michael Jackson, and Ring of Fire - Johny Cash. I love to listen to his little voice sing Ring of fire. It cracks me up. I will have to try get some video of that on here. I'm not good with the videos though. I have tons and tons of pictures but I am lagging on the video. I guess I will have to work on it.

The Crafty Culprit Strikes Again...

Now that we are back home and settled into our routine a bit more we are back to doing some of our favorite things like "Project Time." I have always tried to a little school time with McCoy since he has always been an eager learner. Last year since he only went to school 2 days a week I home schooled him the other days and we had so much fun together. He goes to school everyday this year (and I love teh break but I miss him soooo much while he is gone) so we don't home school anymore but he still loves doing his projects so I hope we can continue with them. He loves to cut, paste, paint and create! His favorite of course is painting - the messiest of them all!

Last week we tried a new style of painting that we dubbed, "Shake Rattle and ROCK N ROLL" Painting. We took an old shoe box, taped a paper on the bottom of it and dunked bouncy balls in different colors of paint and then threw them in the box, closed the lid and sang a little rock n roll while we shook the boxes up. We tried one ball at a time and then eventually threw them all in. It was a lot of fun and turned out pretty cool.


McCoy's latest infatuation is Robots so we decided to do robot crafts and of course he never ceases to amaze me with his explanations for things. So we made the flat paper version first and he cut and pasted various objects on a piece of paper to create a robot and when he was all finished he stood back and looked at it and said, "Ah, shoot. We forgot to give him a brain. He will be useless without a brain!"


The Recycled Robot project was really fun for me because I got to watch McCoy piece together objects of various size and try to figure out how to glue, tape or tack them together. It was so neat to watch him work. He set aside a Red Lid and when I asked him what it was for he pointed to the robots chest and said, "It goes here. He is going to need a Heart Don't you know!"

My Baby is a BOY!

When McCoy woke up this morning I picked him up and he snuggled into me like he always does and I said good morning and Happy Birthday and then I asked him, "Do you feel like a 4 years old Boy today?" He thought about it, looked himself up and down and replied, "Well, I kinda still fell like a 3 years old boy. I don't look any different or feel any different? And I don't see any presents? That means it must not be my birthday." So we went to our measuring wall and I just prayed that he had grown since the last time we measured him. Sure enough he had grown since last months measurement and he was so shocked! It was proof that he was indeed a Bigger boy now. (Tear! My baby is growing).

After a special birthday breakfast we got dressed and headed out to pick up a few things and get his cupcakes for his classroom party. He loved celebrating with his class today. He started after his birthday last year so this was his first classroom birthday and he was quit pleased.

When he got home from school he got to open his special Birthday package (Thanks Nana & Pops - He loved it all!) and he got to open his birthday cards that came in the mail. He LOVES mail! Thanks to those who sent birthday wished to our big fella!

For his birthday dinner he didn't want to go out, he just wanted some turtle food (pizza) so the birthday boy got a pizza dinner and after dinner he got to open his gifts. He is so easy to buy for because he loves anything and everything and he is so thankful for everything. And daddy gets the present prize. One of McCOy's favorite gifts was the ACDC poster daddy picked out for him. Little stinker loves that band!




Glade and I just feel so lucky to have such a great kid! He makes us laugh everyday and we are so proud just to be his parents. I know he is going to be a great big brother. My heart overflows with so much love for this little man. It makes me tear a bit to think about how much he has lived and how much he has done and grown in just these four short years! I can't believe it. And I look forward to watching grow and achieve so much more in his many years to come.

Happy Birthday Big Fella!!!!

First day(s) of school 2009

He has an A day and B day, (Green Classroom Day and Yellow Classroom day)so he actually got two first day's of school! He loves getting ready for school. Drop off's are another thing but as soon as the doors closes I check in the window and he is laughing it up and having a ball. That little stinker. He always comes home with stories and cute stuff he worked on. Pick up is my favorite part of the day!

Back and hitting the ground running...

We are finally back from our yearly Idaho Trip! We have such a wonderful time while we were there but you know what they say - there is no place like home! We got back midnight Monday night and then McCoy started school Tuesday. Pre K M-F every afternoon. The darn little stinker "Bodders" me constantly when we are home but as soon as he is gone I miss him like crazy. So far the new schedule works great for us though. He is not an early riser so it was hard last year to fight with him every morning to wake up for school so this year he gets to sleep in and have the whole morning to prepare.

We had the second baby appointment for future little brother or sister yesterday. We got to hear the heartbeat and did some blood work. Everything sounds good. I thought we were going to have the ultrasound too but there was a mix up and it didn't get scheduled so next month will be the first ultrasound and we can't wait to see our baby. Glade and McCoy even came to the hospital in hopes to see the baby but I guess they will just have to come with me next month too. Can't wait to post his/her first picture! I am still feeling pretty puky but luckily the all day nausea subsided before my trip. Now I just get a sudden upturned stomach and heave and go. I know it sounds pretty gross but I have become a master of the Puke & Play. I never know where I will be or what I will be doing so I carry a zip lock bag everywhere and have become a HUGE fan of the Colgate Wisps and never leave home with out them. That bitter binge bug has hit me at restaurants, grocery stores, parking lots, parade's (You better send it to me or delete that picture Sarah), even while driving. Luckily it is just second nature now. I take a minute and then I'm back doing whatever I was doing. In a weird way it is like I have never been pregnant before because I never had these symptoms (as unpleasant as they are) with McCoy so it is all new to me. Its like I get to be pregnant for the first time (again LOL).

As things settle down around here I will try to get some pictures posted of our fun trip. We are already missing all the fam like crazy and can't wait to go back next year with baby!