reformat is pregnant!!

I was hoping that title would get your attention!! haha I really really am pregnant!!
And now to answer all the questions that’ll come in…

Was it planned: Yes. It was specifically planned for this time as I REFUSED to be really pregnant (as in 7, 8, 9 months along) in the summer EVER again!! That was terrible.

How far along: 5 weeks

Do I want more after this: I don’t know. After 2 boys I’ve finally decided I want a girl, if this isn’t a girl well then…… haha I guess we’ll be trying again.

Due Date: The date I have right now is March 27. Which is RIGHT before Papa’s birthday (March 29).

How did we tell everybody: Via flickr. I made a video of little man, he was supposed to be telling everybody there was a baby in Momma’s tummy, but as usual ADD kicked in on that kid and he said Momma’s tummy… tickle tickle tickle… (and I’m back there whispering baby… momma’s tummy)… and he’s all, Uncle Ranny come home… HAHAHA I keep whispering No baby momma’s tummy and I’m pointing and so then he starts whispering baby. OMG. It was SO freakin cute!! Finally at the end he yells BABY(!) and when I asked where, he said baby my bedroom. ACK!! NOBODY was getting it, I think they all just thought I sent them a video of little man eating pasta and talking. haha So I had to give it away in the comments because everybody was lost and confused.

Little man found out last week, but had no idea what that was about so our secret was safe with him. (We didn’t plan on telling until after I’d been to the doctor, but I don’t go until the end of August and well…. I can’t exactly hide this thing any longer.) He found the test in the bathroom and I wish I had our conversation on video. He asked what it was and I said it was a test and he asked why and I said it told us if there was a baby or not and he said baby all cute and then that was that. BUT then after that we kept saying there was a baby in Momma’s tummy and he’d go get HIS  baby doll and shove it up our shirts!! So cute

In other news… I had a major scare this morning. Little man scared me bad. He woke this morning and came out with Daddy who said he thought his leg was asleep maybe because he was limping along. After 2 hours he was still not walking. He was sort of taking really small steps and then dragging his left leg along. He’d scream in pain saying, “help me, my knee hurts”. After I got all my daycare parents out the door and my oldest was sweet enough to take the kids outside to play for a bit I was able to concentrate more on little man and what the heck was going on. Even though I had NO idea what was wrong. For about 45 minutes he stayed in the hallway and screamed bloody murder and wouldn’t let me touch him. I did realize during that time that on top of whatever was wrong with his knee he was constipated. I called Daddy and couldn’t get ahold of him, so then we called Gramma to our rescue. By the time Gramma got here he still didn’t want me to touch him but he was up walking. And by the time Daddy got here he was even better. Which made me look like a big ol’ liar! OMG…. if they only could have seen him earlier. Anyway, he got a couple really good poops outta him and he was off riding his bike around the block and completely back to his old self. I hope there’s not something really wrong with his knee…. HSP back? Arthritis? Who the heck knows….

More other news… We attempted to just cut out a small section of counter top and remove a cabinet in our downstairs little kitchen area (I think our house was set up for an apartment way back when) so we could put a deep freeze into that spot and we found MOLD! YUCK!!! NOT what I needed to deal with right now. I wanted that little kitchen area removed, but I didn’t plan on doing that right now. But it’s now gone and Daddy has cut the sheetrock up and I’ve sprayed the area with some treatment stuff to stop the mold and get rid of all the yuck. Hopefully we’ll have that all cleaned up and back to normal soon. It’s SOOO nice having that crap gone.

And even MORE other news… My birthday is Friday!!! In case you care to come celebrate with me.

I DONE! MY PARK!

Cute, huh! Here’s the story….

Yesterday I told the boys, “I’ve got to get little man’s 2 year pictures! Lets go take some pictures.” So off we went, headed to the river as I planned to use the same spot as last time I tried, but I decided I couldn’t do that myself. It was too close to the river and I was too nervous to leave big brother in charge of little man for fear he’d be naughty and try running from big brother and wiggle away and into the water they’d go. And when we’d pulled in little man saw the park area that’s out there and kept yelling MY PARK! MY PARK! So I picked this spot and said, “Okay, lets get some pictures and then you can play at the park.” Well, I got this ONE picture. I had this ONE chance. Big brother knelt down there and little man went and stood by him and it’s a good thing I was down and ready because I heard… “Cheese!” *camera clicks* “I DONE! MY PARK!!” And he was GONE!! There was no getting him back for more no matter how much I pleaded and no matter what I promised. So I still don’t have 2 year pics and I’ve got to get that done soon. But this is cute anyway and it’s a cute story to remember.

a whole night?!

A whole night of sleep. There’s only one problem here….. his sleep is getting better but I did FOUR things, yes count them…. four things all at once so I can’t exactly say what’s working or helping. It could be the very strict reduced sugar diet I have him on (which is just lovely in itself because it’s just good for him), or maybe it’s because I’m sleeping with him every single night in his bed in his room, or is the warm milk really helping(?!), maybe the new big boy bed (he now has a full size bed in his room so I could sleep with him). Ooops…. When trying to figure out a problem, do one thing at a time. Just a little FYI. But for right now, it just is good for everybody to get some sleep, for longer than 20 minutes at a time.

another completely easy successful nap time

We were playing outside today and little man said he wanted his blanket. He came inside, grabbed his stuff, crawled into his bed, had a drink of apple juice and went to sleep. It HAS to have something to do with the dark. It’s not like he’s just had a nap and isn’t tired yet, because this is a normal nap time for him so it’s a whole 8 hours, plus or minus some minutes, before bed time. I haven’t even been fully turning the lights off in his room at night. The light is on a dimmer switch so I’ve been leaving it half on. It would be annoyingly light in there to me, but knowing he hasn’t liked the dark lately I hoped it would help him.

I’m so lost.

it’s so obvious! he’s part bat!

Gosh, it just hit me last night. Little man is part bat. That’s the best explanation I’ve ever come up with. You see, he sleeps really good when he first goes down, which is around 8:30ish (when we start trying anyway) when it’s light out and also from like 4am on, when it’s light again. So that’s it. He’s part bat!! He just doesn’t like to sleep at night. Which would also explain why he takes such good naps for me too. GAH! It’s so obvious I feel dumb for not thinking of it earlier. So now if we could just change our work schedules and our sleep schedules we are going to be good to go. And now if you’ll excuse me, I need to attempt making myself look as if I’m awake so I can go get coffee.