Well, we’re off on
another week. In real life, I’m way in the future right now, and trying with
all of my might to catch up on the blog. The baby clock is ticking away, so I
do hope to get caught up before he makes his appearance!
On Monday, we kicked off
a lightly less crazy week than last. Christian agreed to get back to dropping
Eliza off on Monday’s…between that, and the fact that I was actually awake when
I was supposed to be, I actually made it to work on time! Woot! I had a big,
long, important meeting today at work, that I’ve been dreading for weeks, and I’m
so glad it’s behind me now. It did help speed the day up though. After
finishing out the busy day, I picked Eliza up, and met up with the family at
home for dinner. Softball ended up getting canceled, very last minute, because some
threatening rain actually started falling. My mom was already on her way to the
field, so she stopped over for a quick visit before heading back home.
Christian was off to work, about the same time, so the girls and I settled in
for the night. We did some playing, watched a movie, and everybody was off to bed. I hate missing ball, but I’ll rarely turn down a quiet night at home!
Tuesday was another
rainy, gloooooooomy day. Makes it harder to get up and going, that’s for sure. But,
alas, the girls and I were up, packed and ready to go. I actually would’ve been
on time for work, AGAIN, if it weren’t for the rain. I swear – rain driving
seems to be just as difficult as snow driving for way too many people. I had
another super busy day at work. I have two huge programs that I’m working to
get in place by the end of June – or, at least by the time I got on leave in
July. It’s getting less and less likely with each passing day, and it has my
anxiety through the roof. But, today was pretty much devoted to working on
those, while my inbox gets loaded up with new contracts. No way to win there.
After work, I picked Eliza up, picked up the rest of the family at home, and we
were off to Perkins for dinner. It’s “Mother’s Day” in Mexico today, AND, “Kids
Eat Free” day at Perkins, so why not?! YUM!!! Christian left for work as soon
as we returned from dinner, so the girls and I had our usual evening at home.
We settled in to watch “E.T.”, and I kept dozing off on the couch, I was so dang
exhausted. I was off to bed at the same time as the girls tonight, that’s for
sure.
On Wednesday, we were up, ready and
on our way, but running late. I’m just feeling so drained, I was dragging. It
was ANOTHER rainy day, and ANOTHER crazy busy day at work, which doesn’t help
wake me up at all. Now that I’m pretty caught up on the programs I’m working
on, it was time to turn my attention to the HUUUUUUUGE pile of contract
requests I’ve gotten in lately. I ended the day with quite a headache and just
exhausted – too much computer time in one day! Softball was canceled, again,
because of the rain, so we lost a whole week of our already too short season. I
really hope it’s the last of their rain-outs though. So, I picked Eliza up and
we settled in at home for dinner. Christian left early to get his hair cut
before work, and the girls’ little BFF, Bella, stopped over to play for a
while. Amelia had a really crappy, “I Don’t Care” attitude about everything,
and was eventually sent to her room for the night because I just couldn’t take
it. She threw a major fit, for quite a while, in her closet of all places. And,
eventually fell asleep on her closet floor. I mean, seriously!? Meanwhile, I
watched my shows while Bella and the other two played for a while. Eliza
eventually cuddled up next to me on the couch, and fell asleep. Awwwwww, I love
when that happens! Bella left, and everybody was off to bed. At least with two
kids down early, it made for a very easy bedtime tonight! Our internet ended up
going out just as I got them to bed, so I was forced to actually go to bed at a
reasonable hour (we don’t have cable, so I usually watch Hulu or something
online before bed). Probably for the best, LOL.
29 Weeks, 5 Days. This is my all time favorite maternity shirt!
My tired muffin!
Thursday was my Friday…and, with
how crazy things are at work right now, I was more than happy about that! The
girls and I were up, ready and off for the day. I spent the day tackling as
much of my inbox as I could, before leaving a bit early to meet Christian and the
girls at their School Carnival for the night. We decided to get there right
when it started, so we could leave Eliza at daycare and pick her up after.
There isn’t really much for her to do there, so we figured we’d save ourselves
the extra chaos. So, the big girls immediately hit up the “crazy hair”, nail painting,
face painting and tattoo booths. Next up, they did some bounce house jumping,
and we grabbed them some dinner as the school really started to get packed.
Christian ended up leaving after that, to pick Eliza up and grab some dinner
for us, while the big girls did some sand art and played a few carnival games
before we left for the night. The school really does an amazing job on their
carnival, I’m always so impressed, and they make a ton of money for the school,
which is so awesome. Once our tickets were officially used up, we made our way
home, I had some dinner, and Christian was off to work. The girls had some snacks
before bed, and that pretty much ended our day. Tomorrow is wacky hair day at
school, so I let them keep their crazy hair…they were SOOOOOO ecstatic, but I
warned them that much of it would wear off during the night. Whatever makes
them happy though! I tried so hard to stay up a little later tonight…have some
quiet alone time, since I don’t work in the morning, but I just can’t do it
these days. This baby is stealing ALLLLL of my energy!
Carnival Fun!
Friday was my day off, which is
always super exciting. AND, I hit 30 weeks with this little guy. I seriously
cannot believe that I’m ¾ done with this pregnancy already! When we found out that
we were pregnant, it felt like July was a lifetime away (which, with the shock
of everything, was not a bad thing). Now, I have 10 weeks to go. So crazy. I
got the girls up and ready to go, and thankfully, Christian was home early
today, so I didn’t have to drag Eliza to daycare with me for drop off. After
getting the big girls off to daycare, Christian was off to bed, and Eliza and I
spent the day together. We had some breakfast, and started getting ready for the
day. It was freezing outside today. Seriously, FREEZING! I tried to turn the
heat on…and it didn’t work. Just what we needed! We survived the day though.
Eliza and I were eventually off to her 2-year check-up anyway, which was a
super easy appointment. No shots for her and she’s doing everything that she “should”
be, so everything was looking great. She’s about 30lbs (85%) and 34¾” tall
(82%), and has a big ol’ giant head, so she’s nice and proportional. And has
almost the exact same stats that Olivia did around this time. Twinsies! She did
have to get some blood drawn, and thankfully didn’t even make a peep! She’s so
tough. Even the lab tech was so impressed with her. Later in the night, I got her bloodwork results, and they were a bit concerning. The results showed her hemoglobin was on the low side, but her White Blood County was SUPER low, and had me freaking out. Now we just wait and see if they call about it at all. We stopped at Target on our
way home for a few groceries, and I checked out the clothes (somebody in our
house ALWAYS needs clothes!). I grabbed some lunch on the way home, and Eliza just
did not seem to be feeling well. She was pretty warm, and seemed just
exhausted. She ended up taking a nice long nap, so I got plenty of time to
myself this afternoon. As soon as Christian woke up, he got right to working on
the furnace, trying to figure out what the problem was. Once Eliza woke up, she
wandered right downstairs and wouldn’t leave his side. Little daddy’s girl. So,
I was off to pick the big girls up from school and hung out with them for a
while. Eliza started to feel obviously worse, and was just burning up. She
eventually detached from Christian, and attached to me, so we pretty much spent
the rest of the night cuddling on the couch. My poor baby. She didn’t get any
shots, so I couldn’t figure out for the life of me where this was all coming
from. Christian tried replacing a few smaller parts on the furnace, to see if
he could determine what the problem was, but no success. The furnace itself was
turning on, but the fan wasn’t working, so things weren’t circulating
correctly. Unfortunately, we can’t just ignore it until next winter, since the
fan is also needed for the central air to work. Even that wouldn’t be quite as
do or die if I weren’t pregnant, and we weren’t bringing a new baby home in the
dead of summer. He had somebody from work come over to check it out, and they
were still working on it when I got all of the girls settled into bed, and finally
called it a night myself and went to sleep. They thankfully got it up and
running, but currently, we can only have it on if it’s going non-stop (so,
hiking up the electricity bill). Again, not a big deal when we use the air
conditioner, since that’s actually probably ideal, but not great for the heat,
so we have to keep that off and figure it out before fall/winter. They’re
pretty sure it’s the “motherboard” of the unit that needs to be replaced…which
runs around $200 to do yourself. I guess that’s better than getting an entire
new unit, but still frustrating.
Post-Appointment. She's so tough, and she got herself a sucker and a book!
Saturday was a pretty lazy day for
us. We were going to plant the garden and flowers this weekend, but the cold
and rain pretty much nixed that. So, next weekend is the plan now. Everybody
was up pretty early, we had some breakfast, and I was off to gymnastics with
the big girls. While we were gone, Eliza fell asleep (still not feeling too
hot), and ended up taking a MONSTER of a nap, which was amazing. She woke up in
better spirits, but obviously still not 100%. Poor baby. The big girls watched
a few movies, we had some lunch and did a little baking, and I worked on
cleaning up the kitchen. Once Eliza was up, all of the girls played downstairs
for a while, while Christian worked on cleaning up the garage a bit, and put
together Eliza’s new tricycle. I asked my in-laws to get it for her, for her
birthday, and was so excited that they did. However, they bought the version
with pink accents. When we have a little boy on the way. WHY?!? LOL. Eventually,
we had some dinner, Christian finished up his cleaning and went out for some
dinner and a beer with Lorenzo, while I settled in and watched some shows
before bed. Gotta love a lady weekend day at home!
Taking a little snooze on my lap.
Sunday was a much busier day around
the house. Christian made a quick grocery run to start the day, and made
breakfast. Meanwhile, I started working on laundry, did some picking up around
the house and started the task of going through the girls clothes. I pulled out
all of their summer clothes to put out (and, to see what they need), removed
all of Eliza’s 24 month clothes and put out the 2T stuff, and packed up some “too
small” things from all of them. I spent way too long moving things, shifting
their closet around and organizing their dresser, I was seriously exhausted by
the time I was done! Then, I had a TON of folding to do as the laundry just
stacked up all day long. Christian ended up taking the girls over to visit his
parents for a while, which gave me some quiet time along at home to get it all
done, which was wonderful. And, I was able to catch up on a lot of my shows
during my marathon clean-up day. Eliza seemed to be doing much better today,
which was a relief. She slept in, she ate well, she actually played, and was in
a much happier mood all around. Hopefully whatever was bothering her is behind
her now. As soon as Christian arrived home with the girls, I was off with
Olivia and Amelia to swim class. Christian had to fix a broken shelf in our
closet…we have to do some reorganizing in there as well, so we have some room
for the little guy’s stuff until he moves in with Eliza next spring. So much to
do!!! Now we just need to both go through our clothes…especially Christian, the
clothes hoarder. After class, the big girls played outside for a while, and everybody
was off to bed. Another week comes to a close, and I can’t believe we’re
halfway through May already!
Our norm this weekend. Another snooze, this time with her brother. He was NOT happy about it, but she didn't care.
Until Next Week! XOXO
