a post about pregnancy and my kids

i had an ob appointment today and, well, i knew the weight loss would end sometime. i'm 7 months pregnant and i've finally gained some pregnancy weight. 1 pound. i don't think it's a record or anything, but i lost more than 20 pounds this pregnancy. sounds crazy, i know, but i've done that with each of my babies. it's so weird to me that i could be losing weight, but the baby gets bigger. bizarre! i've got a little less than 11 weeks to go. if i were was not so vain i would post a pic of my belly - but i don't look nearly as good at ashley or meredith!! also, my glucose test was normal - PRAISE GOD! i don't think i would have been a well woman if i had to do the 3 hour test. i "failed" the 1 hour test when i was carrying ethan, and man, taking the 3 hour just to have it turn out normal was the pits. anyway. asking a pregnant woman to fast for 12 hours, go in and have a blood test, then drink a disgustingly (is that a word?) sweet drink only to have her blood drawn another 3 times stinks. my challenge to dr. stacy is to come up with another procedure for glucose testing. think about it. it could make you a millionaire and would belove you to pregnant women everywhere!

things are looking good with baby "E" christopher. i think we have his first name narrowed down to two, but i'm sure all that will change. dan will never let us name him emory, so it looks like the front runners for names are elliot and everete. both of those names seem so formal to me to be a first name. so dan, let me plead with you via my blog; let's name him emory. he won't grow up to be a fancy pants. i promise.

i'm not a country music fan - at all. but saying that, i do enjoy me some hank williams jr. a couple of years ago i heard a song by martina mcbride called in my daughter's eyes. that song pretty much firms up how i feel about my children. so skip the rest of the post if want, because i'm going post some lyrics. oh, and i've taken the liberty of changing the words - anywhere it said "my daughter's" i've put my children's...you get it. someday they will stop asking me to read books to them, to play with them, and generally to stop being with them! i hope that day is far from now because my children have made me so happy. they make my heart smile, and i could not imagine my life without them. and thanks to dan for making me a mommy.


In my children's eyes I am a hero
I am strong and wise and I know no fear
But the truth is plain to see
They were sent to rescue me
I see who I wanna be
In my children's eyes

In my children's eyes everyone is equal
Darkness turns to light and the world is at peace
This miracle God gave to me gives me strength when I am weak
I find reason to believe
In my children's eyes

And when they wrap their hands around my finger
Oh it puts a smile in my heart
Everything becomes a little clearer
I realize what life is all about
It's hangin' on when your heart
has had enough
It's giving more when you feel like giving up
I've seen the light
It's in my children's eyes

In my children's eyes I can see the future
A reflection of who I am and what will be
Though they'll grow and someday leave
Maybe raise a family
When I'm gone I hope you see how happy they made me
For I'll be there
In my children's eyes

Curious kids

we took the kids to see Curious George last friday. it was CRAZY. emily was scared to go in at first because she said it was too dark and too loud. i had to drag her in while i carried the popcorn. well, i spilled the majority of it - but i guess that's okay because by the end of the movie emily had eaten her weight in the stuff. ethan spent the majority of the time crawling on the floor; the seat intended for him was taken up by a purse. the woman obviously saw our situation, but yet the purse stayed there and enjoyed the movie in peace... anyway, we had a good time overall. emily has found two new friends - george the monkey and the man with the yellow hat. she was thrilled yesterday when the kid's meal at wendy's came in a bag that had george stuff all over it.

oddly enough, these two pictures were not staged - emily has always loved reading books to ethan. she loves to read - and ethan loves to do whatever emily tells him he loves to do!

Married girls need their girlfriends

kiki and tee-kay saved me this week. they did something for me dan could not do - be a girlfriend. i thank God He put these two girls in my life. sometimes we just need someone to come in and take over; that's what they did this week. so girls, thank you - i'm going to be okay. peace has washed over me today.

be a girlfriend to a friend today.

Signs of coming times

dan got up early with the kids this morning, so i did not witness this first hand. i can only assume emily is a little upset with ethan over coming in her room -- this is what i found:


now, the only thing emily can write is her name and dan's. but the message written on the paper that's taped to her door looks sorta threatening to me. after i saw it i asked her what it was. she told me it was a sign for max (she sometimes calls herself ruby and ethan max - she loves the show max and ruby). anyway, i asked her what the sign said and she told me it was a sign that said no max. okay, so she has a "no little brothers allowed" sign on her door - that's not what i'm concerned about. IT'S THE sash and tomahawk looking thing she's hung from the doorknob. WHAT does that mean?? yikes. i hope max stays away! :)

"FIZZ"BO update

notice what i put in quotes...no lookers yet. well, we've had tons of people look at the house online, but we've not shown the house yet. dan found a site called statcounter that will count the number of hits you have on a website - so he set it up to count hits on our webpage about the house. it's very interesting because you get to see what city they are in, their ip address, etc. it's quite neat.

let me tell you a couple of funny stories:

EVERY WEEK we get junk mail from the realtors in our area soliciting our business. well, we decided to turn the tables on them. we spammed most of the realtors in our area with an email soliciting THEIR business. it was funny. we've only had one negative reply; from the nastiest relater in our area. she sorta threatened to turn us in to HAR (houston area realtors) for using the MLS template on our site. i was a little nerved out about it, but dan fixed our site (he just ripped off a california agents format) and emailed her back and told her (basically) to get a life. i guess we can't count on her to show our house! we are pretty satisfied with ourselves for spamming them; now they'll have a taste of their own medicine.

i've done an okay job of keeping the house clean and ready to show. of course, monday i fell short and it was a little messy, so naturally an agent stopped by to talk to me. he looked inside and saw my messy faced kids, laundry baskets everywhere and old lollipops stuck to the carpet and said he'd get back to me. so yesterday while they were at MDO i killed myself cleaning the house - and really, the house was only about 15 minutes from being clean on monday, but you know. i washed windows again, dusted and did all the things to make the house shine - all the while praying someone would call. no calls. so i guess i need to leave the house a little messy and see what happens...

and yes, the new house will have a place for the futon - but bf, you can be upgraded to the guest bedroom no no additional cost. :)

Fizzbo

well, it's done. the for sale sign is in the yard - fsbo. i think we are wasting precious time trying to sell it ourselves, but we'll see. we have not spent a lot of time/money fixing the place up. all we've really done is paint the hallway, our bathroom and touched up some places here and there. we did powerwash the concrete outside; man that was a disgusting job. i highly recommend homeowners to do that more than once every 5 years! you would not believe the yuck that came up - but we do have beautiful white concrete again!! i cleaned the carpets today while the kids were at MDO. we have our own steamer, that helped, but most likely we'll have to knock off something off for a carpet allowance. the summer of popsicles seems to have put a few dark stains in the carpet. we have an entire storage room packed up with a lot of our furniture - we tried hard to make the house look big. hopefully the little we've done will pay off. we do have pinkish colored countertops in the kitchen, and pinkish colored tiles in the master bath...dan always tells me things like color are not deal breakers. i hope the people who are looking remember that! :)

there is a house we looked at last week that i really like - 5 bedrooms with both formals, a great backyard with a wodden play thingy and a huge patio. i could have my own sewing room!!! i want to sell this house in a hurry before another family snags our #1 pick. below are some of the pics on our flyer.

In honor of Shandra - even though I was not tagged.

Four jobs that you have had in your life: Document Control, United Space Alliance - Accounting, Power Cleaning Specialists - Student Worker, LA Tech BSU, Nanny

Four movies that you could watch over and over: Peggy Sue Got Married, The Shawshank Redemption, Shag, Star Wars

Four places that you've lived: League City, TX, Baton Rouge, LA, Ruston, LA, Shreveport, LA

Four TV shows you love to watch: The Amazing Race, Survivor, Lost, Flip this House

Four places you've been on vacation: The Pocono Mts., Cancun, lots of beaches in Florida, Galveston

Four of your favorite foods: too tough of a question for a pregnant chick who has FINALLY stopped vomiting at the sight of food

Four sites I visit daily: blog.com, cnn.com, houstonchronicle.com, pregnancyandbaby.com