Poor Neglected Blog

Wow, it's been a while! I've totally let my blog go lately. It seems almost everyone is on FB these days, and it's just easier. I'll try to update this a little more often though. :)

N is 7 weeks old today, time is flying! He's a pretty good baby. Matthew and I both think he's more "high needs" than R was (more like M), but I also think we're not remembering exactly how hard even R was at first. N likes to be held a lot, but he's starting to get the hang of sleeping better, so that's good! He's napping in the bathroom (with the fan on for white noise) in his bouncy seat most days, and sleeps in his pac-n-play in our room at night. He's starting to do a longer stretch at the start of the night, up to 5 hours, that's been great!
Here he is napping...


He's smiling now too, which is great! I just got him a baby gym and he LOVES it! He lays under it and kicks and bats his arms and legs trying to hit the toys, it's so cute!

One month...

the other day...

Oh! He's rolling over too! He started doing it before he was a month old, just like M. Crazy hu?

The big kids are doing well too. M brought home a chapter book from school Monday and had it finished by Tuesday night. She sat and read it in all her free time. I can't believe she's big enough for chapter books! She's reading a book to R right now, so sweet!!

We went to the pumpkin patch with a bunch of our friends last weekend. It's becoming a fun tradition!
group picture...

last year's picture...

My 3 kiddos

our family of 5 :)


They're very excited for Halloween. The kids are going to be the Incredibles, I'll try to get some pictures posted before Christmas. :)

So, anyway... I'll try to be better at updating the blog. We'll see how that goes... lol My week next week is insane, I can't wait for things to slow down a little! Here's what I have going on so far...

Monday- soccer party at 4:30, baby shower at 7 (plus the usual Monday craziness... drop kids off, grocery shop, pick up R, pick up M, all separate trips out of the house)
Tuesday- M has a dentist appointment at 4 (she has to get a cavity filled, should be fun!)
Wednesday- possible appointment for me in the morning (still waiting to talk to the doctor about it), eye doctor for M after school, small group that night
Thursday- Thursday night group (whoohoo!!)
Friday- my mom is taking the kids (I think I'll need the break after all of that!)

I think the week after next shouldn't be so crazy, maybe I'll be able to update the blog then? lol

Couple more pictures

This first one is another one I took when he was 5 days old, just getting around to uploading it...

This one I just took today. The bowl was made by my grandpa (who N is named after), and the blanket was made for R by my great grandma before she passed away.

Our new baby boy

We had N last Thursday. I was induced at 12:30pm and he was born at (or around... Matthew and I think the nurse got the time wrong) 8:50pm. He weighed 8lbs and was 21", our biggest baby, and a week earlier than R! We saw the doctor today and he's already up 6ozs. He's a good little nurser and sleeps pretty well considering he's a newborn. :)
Here's one picture that I've had time to get online, hopefully I'll get a chance to get some more up sometime, but I'm not devoting much time to the computer right now, so it may be a while. :)

Soccer and my crazy week

R started soccer last week. The jamboree was today, he had a lot of fun, even though he really doesn't get it, and he was super cute to watch!! Here are a few pictures...




Here's a funny picture for you too... R built this "comfy cozy play place" and he kept asking if he could sleep in it. I let him nap there one day, can you find him? lol


Things with this pregnancy are getting interesting... I've been having NSTs once a week for a couple months. At last Tuesday's my blood pressure was high. I figured it was from laying on my back, but when I got home that afternoon I checked it again and it was higher (and kept going up). I ended up going back to the hospital that afternoon and staying there for 7 hours before I was told to take a higher dose of my BP meds and rest for at least 4 hours a day. I was pretty mad that they didn't induce me, my doctor had said if things started looking bad after 37 weeks we'd induce, but apparently they weren't bad enough. We've got it under control for now, but we're looking at inducing at 39 weeks now, which I'm quite happy about and I really hope my OB doesn't change his mind on that!
I now have to go for twice weekly NSTs, weekly ultrasounds, and my regular weekly OB appointments. All that with the higher dose of BP meds which make me feel awful for half the day and it's a bit much for me to take.

My week ahead is crazy busy, about half of it is all the pregnancy stuff, but it's getting hard to keep straight. Here's what I have going on so far...

Monday- ultrasound 11:45, soccer practice 4:30
Tuesday- NST 9am
Wednesday- small group 6:30
Thursday- OB 2:45, back to school night 6:30
Friday- MOPS 9 (I think I'm going to skip that), Bday party 5:30
Saturday- NST (still need to call for a time)

Plus taking the kids to school and picking them up each day...

I'm actually thinking things will be easier once this baby is born! Yikes!!

Anyway, that's what's going on here, if I don't post anything next week you'll know why!!

First Day & Monday Menu

The kids went back to school today. I can't believe how fast they're growing up! I have a 1st grader and a preKer now.
It was almost harder to drop them off this year than it was last. This year they both just kind of ran off to do their own thing, they didn't need me hanging around at all. We met M's teachers, and then she grabbed her friend's hand and skipped off to the playground. I thought at least R would want me to hang out for a bit because he's been kind of clingy and saying he wants to stay home with me, but even he just ran right off. I had to make him come back to hug me goodbye, he thought he'd just get away with blowing me a kiss. lol

Here are a few pictures from this morning. For some reason they're not saving very well for the web, they all look bad to me when I upload lately. Oh well...
They're quite the little posers lately, head tilt and all. lol


So, both of them are in school 3 mornings a week and I'm enjoying this last little bit of time to myself before the baby comes.
That time is actually getting filled up pretty quickly with doctors appointments and errands, but oh well.

Now I need to figure out what to make for dinner this week and get to the grocery store before I have to go get R from school...

Monday- soccer practice starts today... nachos
Tuesday- orange pancakes & eggs
Wednesday- meatloaf & mashed potatoes
Thursday- dinner @ Dad's
Friday- pasta??
Saturday- saw this on a RR rerun and thought it sounded good... Spinach & Artichoke Mac & Cheese
Sunday-

Okay, off to make my list and shop, R's not staying for lunch this year, so I have to pick him up earlier than I'm use to!

Things That Make Us Happy

Me?

Getting a crib mattress that fits in our crib, and finally getting it all set up...

The kids?

Getting to play with the box. :)




After the first mattress that I bought at Target didn't work AT ALL I decided to order one online from them. I figured at the very least it would make returning it easier if it didn't work either. It came yesterday, and I was SO HAPPY that it fit well in the crib! I'm finally feeling like things are starting to come together and we will be ready when N comes.
The kids played in the box for a while, and then they took it outside and colored on it. Great entertainment and well worth the cost of shipping!!


Here's one more cute snap from today. We made chocolate chip banana muffins and they had to get their chef's outfits on first.

Monday Menu and other stuff...

Well, I just have to say that I really hate this computer. I just wrote a big long post, and the computer started freaking out when I tried to upload some pictures, so I COPIED my blog post so I wouldn't loose it, but apparently it didn't actually copy when I told it to, so it's gone.
And, what makes me even more mad is that anytime the browser gets closed it logs me out of everything, it's been doing that for about a year now, and I can't figure out why. I was online one day when the power flashed, and then when I turned the computer back on it said I was logged in on another computer and it logged me out. Now it says that every time I open the browser, and I have no clue why (yes, I've checked all the options and settings...). *sigh*


Anyway... here's the menu for the week...

Monday- dinner @ my sisters, binging candy bar cheesecake
Tuesday- Dr appointments all day, spaghetti & salad
Wednesday- twice baked potatoes
Thursday- ?
Friday- Breakfast, something with potatoes (we have a lot of them right now!)
Saturday- Evan's Mechanical night at the races
Sunday- BBQ?? (we didn't get to it last night)

We'll see how much of that we stick to... lol


We (meaning Matthew) got a lot of stuff done yesterday. We finally got some shelves up in R's closet so I could move all his clothes in there and make room for the smaller dresser/chaining table. I don't know why, but this makes me so happy. lol Here's a picture of it when it was mostly done. I moved a few things around after this was taken, and I still need to organize the top shelf, but you get the idea.


I got those plastic bins at Target, 5 for $4, and I love them! They're the prefect size for the shelves. :)

Matthew also set up the smaller dresser, so today I'm going to start doing baby laundry and putting it away, I can't wait!
And to show what a nesting dork I am, we put the bigger dresser in the garage and I'm going to organize all of N's bigger clothes in there so they'll be easier to look through and find when he starts growing into bigger sizes. I'm SO EXCITED to take them all out of the bins and be able to see them!! lol

I also had Matthew hang this stuff in M's room for me... We picked up this little lantern at Ikea months ago and then we brought a few globes home from the wedding last week, I think it looks really cute!


Here's a close-up of the lantern, it's still kind of hard to see, but we put Tink in there. :)
(although Matthew, the Peter Pan expert, tells me that if I really knew the movie I'd know that when she was in that position she was actually in a drawer... lol)


Anyway, I'm feeling much better now that we've made some progress in getting the boys' room organized.

My kids go back to school next week, I can't believe how fast summer has gone by! And N will be here very soon!!