Rambling again

Today Naomi has used the potty TWICE! Once to pee, the other time to poop. When she is wet, she has a habit of bringing me a new diaper. I guess she is somewhat ready to be potty trained, or is this wishful thinking??? I know that she can't verbalize that she has to go beforehand, but it's kind of like if I put her on the pot at the right time she will go. Cool huh?

Tonight some friends from high school might be coming over to stay the night. I'm looking forward to catching up with them, and hope they really do end up coming over.

Oh, I got excited when I opened the mailbox today. I got the affidavit that I needed for Libby to start pre-school. I had to send a form to Texas Health Services saying that we don't give her all the required vaccines because of a 'reason of conscience'. I was worried that it wouldn't get here in time, but it is! She has most vaccines, the only ones she is missing is the MMR, chicken pox, and Hep A. We will prob go ahead and do the MMR before she goes to kindergarten...not sure yet. Naomi has only ever had that one DTAP shot (that sent her to the hospital for 3 days...105.6 fever at the E.R. being 80 days old). Under her doctor and my agreement, she will not have any vaccinations at all until she is 2 years old...and definitely no more DTAP shots!!! School starts Aug. 24. She is only going to be going on MWF from 8:30-11:30. This will be great once the new baby comes and I go into sequester mode for a month or so, probably less. I will leave the house and go anywhere on Joel's days off with a new baby. But I'm kind of scared about leaving with three little ones. But I guess I will have to get used to it before too long!

Well, I best get off the computer so that I can get ready to go to my mom's house for dinner then be back over here for friends that may be staying with us.

(Listening to Rosa Parks by Outkast)

Tire(d)

So, interesting morning. We go to Wal-Mart to go shopping. (YAY for grocery money!!!) We have our usual borderline no-fun time....Get them some chicken at the deli, Libby stays in the back of the cart until she gets too claustrophobic from food, Naomi eventually brings on the waterworks.

Anyways, oh wait. Naomi is up from her nap. Gtg for a lil bit.

Ok It's been an hour; I'm back now.

So, I go through the checkout line (YAY no wait!), and I give the lady my cloth bags. oh, cashiers seem to hate these. I don't really know why. Maybe because it is something different and they can't bag the groceries in their normal manner. ???? The nice older lady remarks "This is so frustrating", while bagging my stuff. geez, sorry lady. Saving the environment isn't motivation enough for me to not use the plastic stuff. If I'm using cloth bags it means less trips from car to house since they hold more. This is the main reason I use them.

Wow this post is getting boring.

I go outside and what do you know? I have a flat. Joel offers to leave work to help me out. please....that would take 45 minutes since I'm all the way at the denison wal-mart. (speaking of which can we PLEASE get an HEB round here?). So I tell him I'll take care of it. Which doesn't mean necessarily that I will take care of it bc I know jack (pun intended) about cars. I go to the gas station and some nice man helped me put air in it and alas we made it home. Milk still good and everything. It could be flat out there right now. I don't know. don't care. it's too hot outside to go look. Maybe I will peek at it the next time Kip has to go out to pee.

Man I'm tired. Can't nap bc Naomi slept on the way home from the store + an hour so she is playing. I haven't bothered putting Libby down for a nap bc she stays up past midnight when she does nap. If she doesn't nap she will go to sleep at 9. This seems like a no brainer to me. Not napping doesn't effect her behavior that much so we're going with the flow. Of course if she says she needs a nap I'd let her go lay down. (if it was before 3!).

I need to start taking pictures of them again. I'm such a bad mom! They were really cute in Cinderella dress up clothes the other day but I didn't want to leave the room to get the camera. laziness is my middle name I guess.

I know what I'm going to name the baby if she is a girl. (which I think she will be). well, heck I won't know for sure until I see her. But I've got a front runner.

Woah

So a lot has happened and I'm going to try my best to start doing this again. I am pregnant with # 3 and I am 12 weeks along. I've decided to try the VBAC route again (studies still say it's safe even though most doctors in this country are so knife happy anyways). Going to Dr. C. in Denton (THE go-to guy for VBACS after 1,2,3,4,5 c-sections), even if I end up with a repeat c, I had such a good experience last time and hope for the same again in that event. Denton Presby postpartum rules are kind of cruddy. One adult has to be awake the entire time for a baby to be allowed to room in. I called the heads of Women's Services and they are giving me an exception since I complained about my stay last time. Which reminds me...I need to call the lady and get her to fax me the exemption in writing so that I can put it in my birthplan. Oh yeah I'm one of 'those' women who feel the need to express my desires for labor and delivery. I really don't understand why someone WOULDN'T want to. I mean I write lists for my babysitter, for myself, for my husband why wouldn't I make a list of wants for something so important as my child's birth. Speaking of which, we won't be finding out the sex until the baby is born. We found out with our first child what she was going to be, and not with our second. We prefer the surprise! Not that it isn't a surprise at 16wks, 20 wks whatever. It's just different. (better) for us at least. personal preference. All in all I'm excited about the whole pregnancy. I can't wait for that moment when I can see the baby move with my own eyes through my skin. For when I can stop looking in the mirror asking myself if I look pregnant or fat bc soon there will be no mistaking it...Or when it gets down to the nitty gritty and the baby is on his/her way. Then when I get to FINALLY hold my newborn and immediately feed that child. Awww. the whole process is bliss. Memories that last a lifetime.

Just hope everything goes smoothly and safe and that I am growing one healthy baby in my ute--ee and that she (or he???) stays healthy on the outside. Praise God I've been able to have a third baby. My life is blessed. bliss.

Hello, Bye Bye.

My baby is a year old now! She turned a year old on May 14th. I still wonder what her real birthday would have been had a I not consented to another c-section (after being pregnant for 42 weeks and running out of options, and medical care.) But ah well, we can't change the past can we? Just look forward to the future...Naomi has developed into such a sweet, and sassy little girl. She loves to snuggle up to me, Joel or even inanimate objects. She is already loving to play dress up, she wears my headbands on her head, or will put on a hat and crawl around. She is very independent and can play with herself or her sister for fairly long periods of time, like if I need to make supper or walk on the treadmill. I will go and check on her and she will be reading her books with her feet. We have a gazillion of those textured books and she feels of the fabric with her feet, mostly thanks to this book. She is pretty smart, too. She can do a couple of baby signs. She does more, dog, and bird. She can say mama, dada, hello, and a new one today: bye bye. Watching a baby grow into a toddler then a toddler to a little girl (Libby), is truly the most amazing experience of my life. Oh yeah and she is starting to walk now, too. She is so adorable!!! I can not wait for what is to come! I am loving every single minute of my life. Sure, I live in a tiny house but I get to stay at home with my girls. I wouldn't trade this for anything. We've been active in the Texoma Moms group. We do cheap things like playdates at the park, museum, etc. It gives me a chance to get the girls out to play with other kids and to be able to socialize (offline) with other moms. I am a firm believer that it takes a village to raise a child. And the more I mother my children every day, the more I realize that we are not supposed to be doing this alone in our 'nuclear family' way of life. I would love to go live in a commune for a week just to live that life (minus the drugs and open marriages). I want to live off the land, I want there to always be someone there to hand over my children when they frustrate me too much. And I want to be there for another mama who needs to hand over her children they are frustrating her. But for now I have a great group of moms that I've met and some ones that I've really clicked with. I am so happy that the days of never leaving the house during Joel's work week are gone. We leave the house every single morning the days that Joel works, no matter what. I got a gym membership and I have fun going there trying to lose some of this flab that I've retained since my pregnancy with Naomi. How long can you call it extra baby weight anyways???

Naomi is such a special baby girl, and her sister is so special to me as well. I am so lucky to have been blessed with such sweet, and smart healthy girls. Speaking of healthy, Naomi is still breastfeeding a couple of times a day. We are trying to nightwean her for the sake of my sanity. Four to six nightfeeds just seem to take a toll on me no matter how pro-breastfeeding I may be. I cannot fathom weaning her now, or being a mother who has never nursed at all. It is so convenient to have something right here on my body to comfort her when she gets upset, takes a nasty fall, or needs to unwind after a long day of playdates and the gym nursery. I plan on nursing her until she is at least two even if that means nursing through another pregnancy and then doing the tandem thing again. It is her birthright and I'm not going to take it away from her.

I am closing with a link to her birth slide show. I know I have posted it a million gazillion times but, I cannot talk about my baby and her birthday without adding it. Who even reads this anyways? I have not posted in so long I am sure everyone has forgotten about this blog. Anyway, here is the link ...and it is better if you turn the speakers on.

Long Time No Post

I know...I know...I haven't posted in forever and a day. Didn't I say that I would probably do this?!? Well. My writer's block has been partly because I haven't taken any good pictures lately. And I feel kind of silly posting a blog with no pictures. What's the point ya know? The picture above is from today. We met some other moms and kids there from our meetup.com group.

Today we went to the Texoma Children's Museum and Libby had a lot of fun. She did not really play with anyone but, she had a lot of fun on the slide. I've read that two year olds "parallel" play with other children, and that is exactly what she does for the most part, unless she is very comfortable with the other child. And even then it's not like real playing...it's more of a "gimme whatcha got" type of deal that sometimes ends in tears. Naomi had fun cheesing and showing off her (still) toothless grin. I took her to the doctor yesterday because, she has a small rash on her face and it turns out that she has eczema like Libby. I started giving her yogurt and wheat products last week so one of those might be the culprit. I'm going to eliminate dairy from her diet first (breastmilk is not dairy), to see if that helps it out. If that isn't it then she's gonna have to say bye bye to these wheat teething biscuits that she is loving for awhile. I had a lot of fun at the playgroup as well. It's fun talking to other moms about mom stuff. I won't go into detail here to avoid boring any of you. Unless you of course, are a mom. ;). I've better go...I'm sure that these girls are going to be getting up from a nap any minute now. It's already four! They are worn out!!! If I had the money, I'd go to the museum more often!!!

Shipoopi

This afternoon Libby pooped in the potty! She normally saves all deuces for her pull-up, so we were all thrilled when she exclaimed that she went poopy in the potty all by herself! We were all surprised since she did this on her own, we usually take her to the potty in regular intervals so she can pee! She got a candy cane (her new fav), and some markers from her birthday that I had put up. She is in heaven now coloring with her new markers. Let's hope that she has seen the light and wants to poop in the potty from now on! Only time will tell!

We're Back!

We have been gone since December 27th. We are finally back at home! We had a lot of fun in Zapata. Libby and Naomi had muy fun playing with their cousins. We ate well; I don't think I have ever eaten so many avacados in such a short period of time! The girls both had a cold while we were down there which stunk, but they are getting better now. We made many great memories with everyone and we are looking forward to going back as soon as we can.