School Picture

We just got Maggie's school pictures back.

7 years old

1st grade

My Daily Routine

Get up - Unfortunately for my girls (Maggie in particular) I am not a morning person. I get highly irritated very quickly by disobedience and being ignored. Maggie is a master at both! This morning was particularly fun. I was literally pushing both girls out the door so we wouldn't be late to school. Wonderful way to start the day!

Get to school - I try to get to school a few minutes early so Maggie can have some play time with friends before school and decompress from the stress of the morning. She has had a rough start to this school year and has had issues on the playground. It started to get to the bully stage, but I think it may be resolved now. I hope!

Visit Glenn - Zoe and I have gotten to drive to Glenn's work almost every morning to say hello. Some days he is out at sites and we don't get to see him, but we have enjoyed our quick hello's and kisses.

Drive home - On our way home I usually get a request to go to the castle. I posted about this already, but the other morning it was covered in snow and the bear that "guards" the castle was so covered we couldn't see his face. It made me even colder. I'm glad I'm not an animal that has to live in the cold and snow. I like my heater!

After that the days just don't have much routine. We do whatever. I'm pretty much healed and recovered from the surgery and I am so glad that the glucose testing is over as well. I do still spend A LOT of time in my rocking chair. I get so tired so quickly. I am really hoping that passes soon after having the baby. However, I am able to climb all of our stairs with less effort. I'm still out of breath, but I recover faster. I am grateful for my Doctors that were able to find the problem and then get it resolved. I'm still paranoid that something is going to go wrong with the pregnancy. My OB keeps telling me that our angel baby is doing just fine, but something tells me otherwise. I did have that feeling with the other two as well and I was wrong so my fingers are crossed that I'm wrong this time also.

Well, that wasn't were this post was headed in my mind, but whatever.

As Glenn was walking away from the van this morning Zoe said, "that's so cute that Dad". That turned the morning around for me. It was too cute. I turned to look at her and Glenn had really bundled her up with her blankets. She could barely see over the top. Very cute, but sad at the same time. We spent most of our summer with out AC and now we get to spend the winter without heat. We tried the good old fashioned beat-the-heck-out-of-the-dash remedy in an effort to save some money, but it didn't work. So we'll just be cold...VERY cold! We have a large supply of blankets in the van to wrap up in. We'll be good!

3 Hour Test Results

No gestational diabetes! YEAH!!

Masculine Bows?

I made a more boyish car seat cover, but I went ahead and put ribbon ties on it instead of the button tabs. I'm not sure I like the ribbon. Does it make it look girly? Should I take them off and put tabs on? I really do like how the ribbons look, but I can't decide if I like them for a boy.

Another question is what to do with the two girly covers I have. I most likely will donate one to the YM/YW auction, but I don't think I will do both. Is someone having a girl that would like a cover? Let me know soon so I can get you the one you want.

Apparently I did not take any picture of the finished argyle cover. I used the green and blue buttons.

Names

Any suggestions?

Something You Should Know

Since we have shared our news about our newest arrival being a boy we have gotten a lot of people asking if Glenn is excited to have a boy.

So what is it you should know?

Glenn does not show much emotion!

Yes, he is excited, but you would never know it by the way he acts. We got a more excited response from our friend Russell than we did from Glenn. I could hear the excitement from Russell over the phone. He is very happy that Glenn will get his little boy that will be able to carry on his name, and in a few years apparently go to Houston and work with Russell. Another friend was also excited that Glenn will now have someone to walk around the house naked with when the girls are gone. That worried me a bit. Does that actually happen? Is that what goes on here while the girls and I are at Mom and Dad's? I don't think I want to know the answer to that!

(OK, Russell...are you happy now or do we still have to name our kid after you?)

The Latest

I had my 26 week appointment this morning and all is well! Well...almost all is well. I didn't pass the glucose test so now I get the pleasure of hanging out at the hospital for three hours on Tuesday. They will do a fasting test then an hour later do the sugar water test then an hour later do another test. Fun times ahead.

In better news the baby is doing well. The Doctor did an ultrasound and we got to see the spine, hands, feet, face, etc. Do you know what else we got to see?

Zoe and are crossing our fingers that we will be able to find out if it's a boy or girl...

What did we find?...

This baby has something that our other two did not!

We're having a BOY!!

The Awe of the First Snow

WHAT?

Look what we woke up to...

Actually when we first woke up it was just raining, but before we were ready to leave for school it had turned to snow. I think that would qualify as the shortest fall ever. We only had a couple of weeks of really nice cool weather and now it is down to the bitter cold snow weather.

Zoe was the first to discover that it was snowing and for quite a while afterward I repeated heard, "Mom, is snowing!" Then after dropping Maggie off at school we took a little drive and she kept saying "is snowing" over and over. At one point she said "Mom, is snowing. It's Christmas!" I laughed a little and said "Oh it is?" and she replied, "Yes, Mom I know. It's Christmas!" I love the idea that to Zoe all we need to have Christmas is cold weather and snow. At this point no gifts and craziness are necessary!

14 TO GO

my lovely belly at 26 weeks

we ONLY have 14 weeks to go

that seems like forever