DD2 toddling around yesterday

DD1 showing me what pure happiness is

And here's DD2, who decided to show some love for her little brother (sorry for the grainy cell phone pic)

For those who don't want to go back.  I asked about jnk's DH's siblings and brothers children in her gender guess post.   This is because I believe that when a male has all male sons, and a couple of his sons has only sons,  it is likely his other sons will have mostly/only sons. (not 100% IMO just better than 50%).  Well since Wash wanted to know why I was asking about siblings and nieces/nephews, I decided to google my thoughts to see if any reseach had been done on it.

 Here is what I found. I think it has some cool thinkings/theorys on baby gender trends.

https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press.office/press.release/item/boy-or-girl-it-s-in-the-father-s-genes

Disclaimer:  As I wrote this is just a theory and I don't believe it to be 100%

What started out as an online collaboration finding seat covers and all-weather floor mats for the new truck is now nearly the entire script of Anchorman.

In case you were wondering, we're currently assembling the Channel 4 news team in hopes of catching the first glimpse of Ling Ling's cub.  

Jay's takin' it easy on his guys today because they just pulled AWESOME numbers (and achieved max performance bonus) for April.  In turn, he's takin' a little while to get started this morning. 

 Native -- If you want me to delete the link let me know.

V10 4x4 Excursion.  I am in love...    

25 days 'til we find out...  Guesses? 

https://www.expectnet.com/games/JandK3point0

We were at the grocery store tonight, and I came across a friend of mine and her two boys.  I've never met her boys, so I introduced myself and my boys to them.  O just kept saying, "NO!" and then air punching them.  

This afternoon, I agreed to watch a friend of mine's little girl who will be 3 next month.  O walked up to her and started pulling on her shirt until she fell to the ground.  She has two older brothers, so this didn't phase her in the slightest, but all the same, it's frustrating for me.  I asked him to be gentle and to apologize.  He said sorry, and then went for a fist full of her shirt again...  GEEZ!!

He's a brute.  He's ornery.  He's downright mean sometimes.  

Oh, and did I mention he's a screamer?  

If you're trying to talk to him and you say something he doesn't like, he just screams at you.  This kid has been sent to his room more times that I can count this week.  

Jayson says he's just like me...  ::insert eyeroll::  

Just found out from an acquaintance's blog that my college boyfriend got married last weekend.  The one who I dated for 4 years.  Who randomly said he didn't love me one day and essentially left me for a waitress from Garfields with a lazy eye.  The one who lied to me and ended up dating my (former) best friend.  The one who I'm actually glad I didn't marry.

I guess I was hoping he'd be unhappy for longer than 12 years.  Haha.  I'm a jerk.  He's just my first serious ex to get married. Well.....technically another ex got married first but I was at that wedding and that's just a weird story anyways.

I love her and she's an amazing woman, but I've mentioned on here before that I feel like our relationship has been somewhat strained since DD was born.  

Well, her and FIL are the primary people we have lined up to take care of DD when I go to the hospital to have this baby.  Mostly because they babysit her the most, plus my family has a ridiculous amount of commitments the week she is due.  And my mom will want to be at the hospital with me, if possible. 

I've been really worried that she's going to be pushy about having DD at their place, instead of coming here, as she regularly mentions having her spend the night at their place "some day."  We have not yet left DD overnight there (or anywhere), and I don't want this to be the first time. I feel like it will be so much more stress on DH, DD and I, for a lot of reasons.

Anyway, we had a huge talk about contingency planning last night, and MIL was amazing.  She immediately (without my asking, before I really got a chance to say anything at all) let me know that she will have a bag all packed and ready to come stay at our place with DD, and she doesn't want me to have any worries.  She did say that while she'd love to have her at their place, she knows that I will be more comfortable with DD at home. 

I'm just so relieved.  I've been really, really upset about having to leave DD when it comes time.  I know it's silly, but I can't help myself.  Anyway, MIL has made me feel a million times more relaxed.  I'm so grateful!

Big sisters

Maybe not a real smile, but still heart-melting

A personal favourite from this weekend - my brother and my niece with Baby Boy. Gah I just love those "fart faces"

The weather was nice enough yesterday that we finally ventured outside the house:

(can you tell my milk came in? lol)

Yesterday, he took a three hour nap (1-4), and then had a really hard time waking up at 4 when I decided he'd slept long enough. I didn't want him to sleep too late in hopes of getting his sleep back on track. I thought that he went to bed okay last night - I didn't notice him moving on the video monitor. He was also super perky when I woke him up.

Today, I put him down for his nap at 9:45 because he was soooooo cranky. I never put him down before 10:15-10:30. It's now 1:45 and he's still asleep. I decided to just leave him until he woke up to see how long he would go.

What is going on? I was able to get a good nap in, so I'm grateful, but I'm also kind of freaked out.

Does this sound like a teething issue? He has a couple trying to come in, so I'm wondering if that's keeping him awake. He doesn't act like he's in pain, so I'm hesitant to give him Tylenol/Advil.

Or is this super-long nap just his way of catching up on a few nights of bad sleep?

Or is he just pretending to be asleep while he is actually lying awake plotting how to get into mischief later? (j/k on that one.)

Thoughts?

I am so excited/nervous for you! 

Guy write about terrible twos and threes

Before you think I am all "woe is me," I have worked with several other people in and out of my classroom and have never had anything other than glowing reviews.  Prior to Christmas this year, he told me that now I need to work on creating better relationships with my students.  Fast forward to the day I return from maternity leave.  He has a 4 page written "improvement plan" which is a second level intervention detailing all of the extra work I need to do to create a friendlier and safer classroom.  WTF??!  Then he comes into my room the next two days in a row and proceeds to take notes on everything I am doing wrong.  Mind you, I am JUST returning from maternity leave and attempting to ease myself back into my classroom.  Needless to say things were not as organized as they could have been which led to a heated meeting the following week. (this week)

I was seconds away from telling him to take this job and shove it up his asss, but realized that I needed to stay at work a little longer for traffic to ease up.  Yeah, that thought actually went through my head.  I finally cooled off and told him that this just wasn't working for me anymore.  I had finally had enough.  Oddly enough, I wasn't asked to leave.  Rather I was given 3 options, one of which was to finish the school year outside of the classroom with the understanding that I will not be returning.   So, now I go to work and do whatever the other members of my grade level need help with.  It's kind of awesome.

While it sucks I won't have a job next year, it is such a weight off of my shoulders to not have to deal with the same nonsense I have been dealing with for almost 4 years.  This job has been weighing on me very heavily and it was just never going to get better.  What sucks is that I LOVE my coworkers and my kids.  It's just one person who has made it awful - and other people saw it as well.

So now in July we are going to move closer to my husband's job, be done with the ridiculous commutes we were both dealing with, and buy a house!  I have even found a few open positions in that area and my d-bag boss is in the middle of writing me a letter of recc. (which makes me laugh since he and do NOT see eye to eye)

I guess all is well....

Chase has bitting and tantrums issues. Terrible 2's four months early..HELP ME!

Spring on our garage door breaks. Have to come up with $300 to fix it.

Someone ran over our mailbox so it has to be replaced.

Left work early Friday to go pick up Chase to take him to the park since it was supposed to rain all weekend here and my transmission died in my car. Had it 11 years and bought brand new. Had less than 90,000 miles and was a good car. It was having troubles but was hoping it wasn't that.

Needless to say no park which ended up being good because after we finally got home Chase began vomiting. Ruined our sheets and comforter on our bed. Bug lasted 24 hours so this mommy never went to sleep until 6 am Saturday morning. At that point I felt like a walking zombie because I had been up for 40 hours straight.  

My parents have an extra vehicle that they are going to let us pay them as we can(which we are thankful for but nervous about not being able to pay them every month) but it needs new tires. $600 to replace tires, unknown amount to parents a month for car(never had a car note before because my grandmother bought me my car for high school graduation before she passed away)

DH car didn't want to crank today and the air conditioner has gone out.

DH's mom has been giving DH the money to pay his student loans every month and now says she is not going to do it anymore. This is $26,000 worth that DH didn't know they took out to pay for his education. We found it on his credit report one month before the first payments started. When we asked his mom about them, she said oh yeah I forgot about those!!! I know they are in DH name and he is ultimately responsible but ugh. She knew everything that happen this week. Could she just not wait a few days to tell us. This also coming from the woman who just now after 3 years paid off DH's university bill. Literally, DH just got his diploma 3 years to the day after graduating and only a week before his younger brother graduates from college. Did I mention that they paid for younger brothers schooling outright so that he wouldn't have to worry about bills since he is trying to get into medical school. Needless to say DH is not the favorite son.

UGH!!!!! Ever seen the saying that God doesn't give you more than you can handle. Well, at this moment I wish God didn't trust me so much. I have cried so much this weekend because money is really tight around our house(we are still paying tons of medical bills) and so all of this happening at once has beenoverwhelming.

Really sorry for the rant but had to vent somewhere. Here's to hoping this week is much better. Off to continue work and map out a plan to pay for everything.

What's on everyone's menu?  I need some inspiration!

So there. Thank goodness it's Monday! 

I finally have a minute (or more like an hour - lol) to sit at a real compouter and type out Baby Boy Ha's birth story, which really is as uneventful as one could hope for. (Edit: yet I managed to turn this into the longest post I've ever written - oops - Feel free to skip right to the end for stats and pictures )

And so Baby Boy Ha came screaming into this world (he literally let out his first cry before he was even completely out!) at 1:48PM on Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013. He was 7lbs 9oz and 20.5". He was born a Taurus like his Mama, in April like his Daddy, on a Tuesday like DD1, on a 23rd like DD2

Here we are!

My mom arrived to meet her grandson at 3PM. He may have been her 5th grandkid, she still got tears in her eyes when she saw him (awwww). (I am not liking myself in that picture, but I love my little man's face - and my mom is just beaming, so it's still worth AWing to me )

Grandpa tried to not let it show, but I think he was the most smitten of us all

Cute DH anecdote: when I used his phone later on, I noticed DH had a tab open to the "Breathing techniques during labour" page of babycenter.ca . I must have been doing a good job though (or he just knew better than to tell a labouring woman what to do. lol) because he never said a thing about it.

Speaking of DH, here he is, as proud a Papa as there ever was!

Cue epic meltdown from DD2. "Noooo BABY! NOOOOOO!"

Then we had to change Baby's diaper. We only have the one change table. As soon as we laid him on it, DD2 started on it again "Nooooo! Baby!!!!" all the while pulling down her pants and tugging at her diaper.

Maybe this whole "new baby" business is weighing heavier on her than I expected.

 The house isn't in horrible condition, but we have done almost zero things to prepare for the baby.  And considering I'm 34 weeks today...there's quite a bit to do.  We haven't even bought paint for the nursery, let alone furniture for DD's room, since hers will go into the baby's room.  I think it's just finally hitting me that we really don't have much time left before the baby gets here!

It feels good to have been productive this weekend, I was turning into a total couch potato.  How is everyone else's Sunday going? 

So, uh...hi ladies...it's been a long time...how you been?