Bit Early For A Mothers Day Background I Know But This Was Cute ...

Well I don't have too much to report on but thought I best do a quick update before too much time passes altogether ...

Firstly and most importantly, it looks like this little girl is going to hang in there for the duration, for her sake I am happy since I know every day she is in there she grows stronger but on that note, golly I think I have another gymnast on my hands, she is making me very uncomfortable right now. She is well into 5 pounds in size and apparently about 17 inches in length, that's like a ruler and a half, gosh now wonder I feel so gosh darn uncomfortable, anyway it won't be long, another three and a bit weeks and she will hopefully make her appearance, I am scheduled to be induced on the 21st of May so I shouldn't say hopefully but that's when she will make her appearance at the latest !!!

On the 18th, I took Jade for a sibling tour at the hospital the baby is going to be born at, this is the same hospital Jade was born at, anyway there were a bunch of other parents with their kids there too and it was all very cute to watch. They didn't give as much information as I thought they would and covered more on jealousy of a sibling than the safety of the baby which I thought was weird but anyway, it was well done and the kids got to make their new brothers or sisters welcome to the world cards which was nice. They also got big brother or sister t-shirts which you will see below in their group picture. Jade was a pro at putting on a diaper, she has been practising a while now already :-) I definitely think she is going to be a good second mother and not just a big sister.





What was funny though, is how outspoken she is, when they were getting the talk about how much time mommy and daddy will be spending holding and loving the baby and how little sleep mommy and daddy might get and how tired they might be, Jade said ... yeah and if my mommy doesn't get enough sleep she gets cranky (hehehe) she is not wrong there, that is for sure but I have a dream child in Jade, she is so good and has been so wonderful during this pregnancy, if I needed to take a rest, she would give me the time to rest, she really has been amazing and so loving and caring, thank God coz her dad is so not that kinda guy so getting it in huge doses from Jade made things easier.

Another thing she said in the class that was funny is that they were talking about the baby moving in mommy's tummy and Jade said, yeah and my mom thinks that is gross, she does not like it !!! She's right of course but it was embarrassing for her to blurt out like she did, at least she didn't say that mommy said it's coz she has watched too many alien movies (hehehe). Anyway it was a nice mommy and daughter experience since daddy didn't want to go.

Ok well, I think we are finally into the warm weather now, well into the 80's, I wonder if it is here to stay though, the mornings are still fresh and cool but the afternoons especially this weekend have been really hot, I have definitely taken big time strain. The kids have had a ball though, playing out in the sprinkler and on slip and slides, the water is still frozen as far as I know but they still have had fun :-) Our pool opens on the 23rd of May and well I will most probably if all goes well, be in hospital, so will miss the big pool opening and of course the big party with entertainment and free food and drinks, I will have to send my folks with Jade so they can have fun, Jade cannot wait for the pool to open and for Oupa to go down the slide with her (hehehe), hoping you are ready for that Oupa !!!

On Saturday morning we had a yard sale, our neighborhood had one so we joined in, I made some good money on the stuff I was getting rid of and the rest I just dropped off at Goodwill since I didn't want it back in the house again. I let Jade sell her soft toys and told her that whatever money she made was hers to spend on whatever well ... she was so excited to be in business as she said but she didn't make too many sales, mostly coz anyone that was interested in buying a soft toy eventually got it for free, she is such a giving child, I was so proud of her !!! The funny thing is she gave stuff she was suppose to sell away free but then the little boy across the street was playing with an empty box in Daves garage and Jade sold it to him for a dollar (hehehe), totally impressed her dad of course (hehehe).

After that we quickly had lunch and then went off to a local radio stations little fair they were having at a local shopping area, there was a lot for Jade to do there but she was only interested in one thing, in the middle of this shopping area there is a big water fountain and there were so many kids playing in the fountain, which of course is not allowed but they were still doing it all the same. Initially I told Jade she could roll up her pants and wade around but that didn't last long and eventually she was swimming and having a ball. I told Dave she was having an out of Africa experience, swimming in the fountain fully clothed waiting for the cops to come chase her out ... which eventually did happen but anyway, she had lots of fun before she had to get out. We obviously had to go home after that as she was cold and sopping wet but it made for a fun afternoon.

Yesterday was hot again, I went and did my monthly grocery shopping which really took it's toll on me, pushing that heavy cart was no fun but at least the job is now done. I then sat outside chatting with a neighbor until it was time to come in and make dinner. Jade was so exhausted from playing outside all day that she went off to sleep quickly but still took strain getting up this morning.

Well I am sitting her now waiting for the electrician to arrive, he has to come and install our ceiling fan on the roof of our two story great room, which is like 24 feet up, gosh I am glad that Daves ladder doesn't get up that high as I would have hated to see him do that ... Then its off shopping and probably another afternoon outdoors.

Not long till my parents come, 3 weeks maybe, we are all getting excited now !!! Take care till next time.

Happy Easter Everyone ...

Happy Easter Everyone ... it is still only just after 12 here so midday and I don't think Jade has stopped eating candy from after breakfast. She is actually outside playing with your two neighbors, two little boys, Vincent which is 5 and Gabriel that is 3 I think, the have become her new BFF's :-) even though there are tons of kids around here, we moved in around the same time and they seem to be outside playing similar times to us so Jade is really enjoying her time with them. She is also sharing all her candy with them so I am not complaining the quicker she gets through it all the better.

It is a great day, not hot, it's only 13 degrees outside but he sun is shining and it is very warm, a typical Spring day I guess. Dave is outside painting the deck which seems to be a never ending job, poor guy. My mom keeps on saying he should have left it for when my dad comes but in all honesty I think as much as he would have loved that, he had to paint the outside of the deck which is like 14 feet up in the air so climbing up the ladder that high and hanging on for dear life while he paints, well let's just say that I think it was best he did that ... sorry dad !!! Anyway he is almost done although the deck part that you walk on looks like it might need a second coat but I think that is the easy part, well I hope so.

I am inside just tidying up which also seems to be a never ending story really but I guess that is what happens when you move into a nice big house. I am not complaining, I totally love my house but there is still lots to do, much to unpack, sort out and of course decorating will happen in time but we are going so which is so not my thing but I haven't really had an option being so far pregnant at this point.

On the subject of my pregnancy, at this point we are praying that this little baby girl hangs in there and comes more later than sooner. I had my regular trip to the OB last week, I am now going once every two weeks and soon I am sure I will be doing the rounds with all the doctors in the practice to meet them all, that is standard practice here. Anyway you know that we had decided that my date of induction would be the 21st of May well that already would be a week and a half early due date wise, my due date was May 29th well ... and this scares me half to death !!! They were not going to do another ultrasound for the remainder of my pregnancy, because everything was measuring right and all seemed well, there was apparently no need but it was starting to worry me, it was just such a long time since my last scan which was at 19 weeks, what if something was wrong and they didn't pick it up ... not that we even wanted to go there but being pregnant you can't help and think these things, also I was having weird dreams that I was having a boy and my gosh I have so much pink stuff, way more than I had with Jade it was just freaking me out that if I had a boy, oh my gosh I would have to change everything and start from scratch so, at my last check up I asked my OB if I was allowed to having another scan which she agreed on but at my next check up which was last week.

So the good news is that we are definitely having a girl !!! Thank God for that !!! But the bad news is that the fluid around the baby is borderline low, it needs to be at least 5cm and I was 7.5 which is ok if it stays there but if it goes lower it would not only make delivery very difficult but it could be dangerous for the baby. Of course my OB told me not to worry but what did she think I would do. She said on my next visit to her office we would scan again and if the fluid stayed at 7.5cm we were ok but if it decreased or went below 5cm she might have to induce me then, that would be the 22nd of April and 5 weeks early, did I say I was scared to death.

Anyway I did the wrong thing when I came home, I researched it online and of course there you hear all the nightmare stuff all the things that can go wrong with baby and mom ... developmental problems and OMG just so much I wish I had not looked, but I have to keep telling myself that the OB said, not to worry so I am trying very hard to stay calm and not to worry. She said that if I had to deliver at 35 weeks the baby would be fine, and that I believe because I have spoken to many people that have said that or even experienced that but still, the longer she stays in there the better so we are hoping and praying what is meant to be will be and we will just wait and see what happens on the 22nd. We are pretty much ready for her if she came now but I really would want my parents to be here but I know we have good Friend here that would help us out with Jade so I am not too concerned with all that. I would need to run out and buy one or two things last minute but we will be ok, I just pray the baby is ok. So that's the latest on the pregnancy.

Back onto a lighter note ... Easter :-) Jade has been on Spring Break this past week, she and I didn't do anything too fun unfortunately but at least she had yesterday to look forward to, it was our yearly trip to the big Easter Eggstravaganza that is always held at the park close to our old house. It had rained big time on Friday so we figured it was going to be a mess but it wasn't too bad, Jade still got to do her big hunt which I normally video while Dave helps her collect candy but this time, he has not locked the car properly so went back to lock it ... that sounds weird I know but we take a bus from a near location that drops us right at the Eggstravaganza, it's part of the fun and he had seen from the bus so needed to take the trip back and then meet us later, so sad but anyway. Here is a pick of all the candy she and I picked up :-)




Then we stopped to get her face painted which would have been really pretty had she not had a fringe but anyway ... she was happy and that is all that mattered right :-)



She went on a bunch of rides but the lines were really long this year which was terrible as it was warm and standing long periods of time in the sun was not something that I enjoyed but anyway it was all part of the fun I guess, here she is on a surf board that moves that you have to balance on, she did pretty well actually, I am surprised that she didn't ask for a surf board afterwards she had so much fun on it. I guess if we lived close to the ocean she would be more inclined to want one right :-)



We took two video's as well, one is of her on this elastic thingi, it looked like a lot of fun but was totally exhausting I am sure :-) The other is on this trampoline thing which I knew she would be good on since she had done it before, only I think she was so caught up in doing the back flips that she forgot she needed to use her feet to push herself up so the guy helping had to do it the entire time, poor guy. She did a front flip too but I did not get that on video, oh well.

Afterwards we went out for a quick lunch then we came home, Dave continued on the deck while Jade played outside with the neighbors, I was lucky enough to take a quick nap and then joined her outside, so we had a nice day :-)

Well it looks like we might go out this afternoon after all, Dave just came in quickly and I said it would be nice to go out and enjoy the sunshine, even though he really needs to finish the deck, it's Easter, we should get out and enjoy it, so I have no idea where we are going but maybe a trip to the lake or something, we will see, maybe we can get some pics while we are out too. I actually didn't take any pics this morning while Jade did her hunt around the house and we need to do some Easter pics since we missed out on the bunny yesterday the line was just too long. So we will see, she has some Summer dresses I would love to do some pics in but it really isn't weather for that yet and with her two front teeth being out well ... mom isn't excited to do pics either (hehehe) but I will see what I can do but don't hold your breath !!!

Added a couple of hours later ...

Ok ... just to add in here we did go to the Lake so I thought I would add these quick pics, we had a good time watching all the boats go in and out, and Jade enjoyed skipping rocks with Dave and attempting to fish with a fishing pole Dave put together for her, it was really cute, she said she can't wait for Oupa to come and fish with her :-) Anyway here you go ... big fat tummy and all !!!









Anyway hope y'all had a great day or are enjoying what is left of it :-) Until next time :-)

Run Up To Easter ... Welcome Spring !!!

It feels like forever since I updated my blog but I don't think it's been too long anyway here I am, I am going to try and keep this as short as possible ... TD says I write way too much but I keep telling him it's not for him but for family but maybe I do write too much.

I think when I last updated we were having a rough time with Jade health wise, I am happy to report that thank God she is doing much better now. I was starting to think that the good man upstairs was just getting me in training for a difficult baby, oh golly, Heaven forbid !!!

Friday was Jades last day of school before Spring Break which is really only a week long here, it's not long at all but we are all looking forward to sleeping in a little in the mornings, most of the sessions at the Church follow the school calendar but I am still working Wednesday night and Friday morning but still it will give me a bit of a break which I so need at this stage, I feel like time is running out before this little girl arrives and of course my parents too and the house is far from ready, livable of course but far from ready.

There isn't too much that needs to be done but the baby room still needs some work, I am almost done with washing all her clothing and oh my gosh, I go for a scan on Wednesday but if this turns out to be a little boy, it is going to be so scary because everything and I mean everything is pink and purple, he would be so in tune to his feminine side, I don't know what we will do. I actually wasn't going to have another scan before the birth but really was starting to worry that it would be half of the pregnancy that I would not have had a scan in so asked my doctor if she would scan on my next visit. It will be Spring Break too so Jade will get to tag along and see the baby too which will be a treat for her :-) Hold thumbs it remains a girl !!!

So yeah that's the baby room, Jades room is almost done, still a few touches I need to do in there, the media room remains a mess and well the spare room is ok for now. Our room has a few boxes in it that I have to sort out this coming week and then hopefully I will feel more ready for visitors, hold thumbs I can pull that off.

Anyway so as I was saying, it was Jade last day of school so she got her school report and thankfully everything looks good, she seems to be progressing as she should :-)

Me, I am plodding along feeling like I am getting bigger and more uncomfortable by the day but thankfully that is not really true, uncomfortable yes but according to the doctors records I am in way better shape this time around than I was with Jade which is hard to believe given all the years since being pregnant with her but I guess all the work is keeping me on my toes. I am 32 weeks pregnant now but will be induced either the 20th or 21st of May so not too long here at all, about 5 - 6 weeks, gosh !!! I am starting to get a little nervous now but I guess that is normal.

Dave is Dave ... same old same old, you know how it goes. He is dealing with a lot of stress at work which doesn't make him a happy chappy at all but what can one do right. He said he might take Monday off and make it a long weekend and then Friday he is off too, so hopefully the break does him good. He is actually painting our deck right now which is a huge job so I probably won't see him most of the weekend.

Jade had her first Easter Egg Hunt at school yesterday but today we had one in the neighborhood too. This pic was taken before we left the house, as you can see for those that don't see Jade much, yep, she has lost her two front teeth, it looks terrible and yep, you won't be getting too many pics over the next while until they grow in ...



Anyway the kids did a little bit of a parade from a block away from the clubhouse to the clubhouse, considering there are so many kids in this neighborhood the turn out was really bad, shame their organizing was pretty good but the turnout must have been disappointing for them. Here is a pic of some of the kids before they started their parade.



Once they got to the clubhouse, the kids had to find 3 eggs what were hidden in the forest and then go to the table and turn them in, in exchange they got to chose 5 treats which were either candy, or pencils and erasers, stickers or tattoos and they got a ticket for the drawing of 6 Easter Baskets. They then had to guess how many jelly beans were in a jar for another basket. Then they got snow cones and popcorn and got to play on the playground. Oh and they got their face kinda painted ...



Jade won the guess to the jelly bean jar so she won a basket which she is thoroughly enjoying as you can well imagine, oh golly ... Spring Break with way too much sugar, maybe it's not going to be so much fun !!!



Next week she has the 107.9 The Link big Easter Eggstravaganza that we always go to so we are looking forward to that, the weather is getting warmer now, it was great this morning but hopefully it doesn't get hot too quickly.

Then the following week the 18th, Jade is going to CMC Pineville where she was delivered and where the baby will be delivered and there she will be given a sibling tour and lesson, I am looking forward to that as I believe it is very cute, hope Dave will go with us :-)

That's all from me for now, Happy Easter everyone.