Pregnancy Exhaustion and Other Randomness

I was so excited early in my pregnancy that I would be able to blog all about my pregnancy.  Hah!  I had forgotten just how tired pregnancy makes me.  Although I have more energy than I did in my first trimester, it's still work, home, family time, dinner, bed.  I stayed up a week or two ago and watched the newest Star Trek with John and was all proud of my accomplishment.  I was like, high five!  I totally stayed awake the whole movie!  I'm lucky to get an hour of time with John after the boys go to bed before I start nodding off on the couch. 

Caffeine is now sadly my new friend.  I have never been much of a caffeine drinker, but most days now I find myself having some just to feel "normal" during the day.  Well that, and so hopefully I can try and find the energy to stay awake in the evenings and to try and get some extra stuff done on weekends.  

According to my Dr everything is going well, although he does want me on Progesterone.  Since I had a lot of issues with preterm labor with the boys, he thinks it's a really good idea.  I'm not overly thrilled, but if it will keep this baby baking longer, then that's a good thing.  I really don't want to have to deal with the complications, stress, and anxiety I had with the boys again this time.  The big ultrasound is scheduled for the 23 (finally!) I will be 22 weeks, and half-way done.  I'm a little nervous.  We will be finding out if my placenta has moved out of the way, if the baby is healthy so far, and the gender.  I'm really most concerned about the health of the baby.  Honestly I would be ok with waiting to find out the gender until baby is born, but John is anxious to know, and we can plan better this way.       

The boys are doing great, they constantly amaze me with how smart they are.  They seem to always be learning and picking up on stuff, both good and bad.  Potty training is going slowly, but smoothly.  They are much better about knowing when they need to pee in the potty, pooping though not so much.  But we'll get there, I'm very happy with the progress they've made so far.  They really encourage each other too, which I think is adorable.  When one goes in the potty the other gets sooo excited.  Oliver says a lot: "Yay Owy, you peed in da potty!" and starts jumping around.

They are getting excited for Halloween.  They have to point out all the pumpkins to us every time we see one.  I still haven't quite decided what their costumes should be.  I really need to get on that.  It looks like this weekend will finally feel like Fall, and I have some yummy baking planned.  Happy Fall, and here's to hoping I can find the energy to get back to blogging more!

Owynn and Oliver

      

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It's Been A Long Day, and I Have Serious Pregnancy Brain

Today (Sunday) has been one seriously long day, it started out bad and didn't really get a whole lot better.  I woke up in the middle of the night after only a few hours of sleep all hot, sweaty, and feeling like I wanted to be sick.  I HATE that feeling, but I guess I hate actually getting sick even more.  Anyways, apparently I didn't eat enough before bed, because I was having morning sickness.  Seriously?!  I was sound asleep, and I managed to have morning sickness, ugh.  I got up, forced down some food, took my morning sickness med, and then eventually was able to get to sleep.  I crashed on the couch just in case I woke up feeling sick again; I never sleep as well on the couch as I do in my comfy bed.  When the boys woke up I was still exhausted and not feeling very well.  (John works third shift on the weekends, so he hadn't been asleep terribly long when the boys woke up.)  The boys are such sweethearts, they understood Mommy wasn't feeling well.  They were perfect; they spent the morning cuddled with me on the couch watching cartoons.  I love lazy, snuggley mornings.

I had a giant fail with dinner, I totally blame it on my pregnancy brain.  I decided to make BBQ Chicken in the crock-pot....mmmmm.....  My chicken wasn't fully defrosted so I tossed it in the crock-pot with some water to get it cooking before I added the BBQ sauce.  Well when I went to add the sauce I heard a big crack.  I shut it off and un-plugged it,  took everything out and looked it all over and it looked fine, so I put it back together.  I added my sauce, set it to high, and then let it cook.  Awhile later I went back out and turned it to low.  About dinner time I pulled out my meat thermometer to check the chicken, went over to the crock-pot and realized I had never plugged it back in! AH!  So John and I ended up eating dinner very late.  Pregnancy brain strikes again! 

Just before bedtime poor Oliver got sick all over the couch.  It was pretty much out of nowhere, he had been acting ok all day, other than not really eating a whole lot during the day. 
Thankfully it was only once and we have survived the first 24 without anyone else getting sick, here's to hoping we make it the next 24.  On the plus side he used the potty once on Saturday, twice on Sunday, and once on Monday. Yay! 

It's That Random Time of the Week

Last week this awesome shirt came in the mail courtesy of our best friends.  Thanks again you guys, it means so much to me!  This is my new favorite shirt.

In support of all those affected by the bombings in Boston

The boys are definitely boys.  I went in to check on the boys before I went to bed the other night and found that Oliver had a poopy diaper.  Oliver stayed fairly asleep the whole time I changed him, until towards the end.  With his eyes closed and still half asleep he farted, smiled, and said "toot toot!" What a ham.  Owynn was jumping on our bed earlier this week when he farted and said "I poop on the bed!" Uh no, try again.  "How about you poop in the potty?" "No!" *sigh*

We've started potty training, but aren't like really pressing it right now.  We have two potty chairs in the living room and the boys sit on the potty a few times a day, but still haven't used them yet.  The boys know what they're for, they just don't have the attention span to sit still yet.  I'm afraid if we push too hard and they aren't quite ready yet that we will end up completely messing up this whole potty training thing.

John got a new job, he just started last week.  It's still brand new, so I don't want to say too much quite yet.  He is working part time, late at night.  John's first night I was all excited for some alone time.  Ya, the novelty wore off very quickly.  I remembered pretty fast that I'm not a huge fan of being along at night.  Not that I'm complaining, it's just something new I'm going to have to get used to.  I am very thankful for him and everything he does for us.

 Today's randomness is brought to you in part by Stacy 


 

Beginning Potty Training

I've been generally leaving the when of potty training up to John since he will probably end up with the brunt of potty training.  He's home with them every day, and plus they're all boys and Mummy doesn't have those parts.  We have one pretty basic straight forward potty seat.  We pulled it out today in hopes that the boys may be interested in it and to try to get them used to it before we really dive into potty training.  Well interested in it they were.  They fought big time over who got to sit on the potty seat.  They yelled, pushed, shoved, and cried big tears about who was sitting on the potty seat.  I have never seen them fight like that, it was definitely not the reaction we were expecting.  Apparently we are going to have to get a second potty seat sooner rather than later, because sharing one just is not going to work.  At least they are showing interest in it though.