Weeks in counting .......

Yes finally, it's pretty much done. I ahave roughly 5 weeks left and counting. I will be back to update more in a bit, gotta go take caitlyn to dance!

MY word, I don't know where to begin. Between school, taking care of a family and remodeling a baby room, I have been running around like a chicken with my head cut off. It has been a world win here.

School: I am still taking my grad classes for elementary ed. I am still on course and will be taking a 4 week break in aug when I have the baby and then start back up. These classes now are really intense and time consuming. I have all A's and one B so far so I am pretty happy about that. I passed my praxis I and getting ready to take my Praxis II here in the next couple of months.

Family: Everyone is great. Cailtyn and Nicholas doing great in school. Same with madison. Madison can now write all her letters and her name, I am so proud. Caitlyn, Maddie, and I are in our dance classes and getting ready for the big 3 hour performace in 5 weeks. Mike is doing ok, with work ( mortgage business, that says it all)........

Pregnancy: I am now 25 weeks, only 2 weeks away from my 3rd trimester. The baby is doing great so far. I get another ultrasound in 2 weeks and in june  have to start going for NST every week 2x a week because I have a placental lake ( apparently pretty common). I have been gaining the exact amount of weight I am supposed to and no more, so doing good, however I do still feel like dog crap. I know caitlyn and my neighbor are thrwoing a baby shower for me in June ( it is a surprise) but it kind off came out, but I don't know details, so I guess it is still sort off a surprise.

Baby Room: And this is what has taken up every free moment I ahve had the last 5-6 weeks. It was maddie's old room, and I had to strip wallpaper, mike patched and sanded down the 200 holes we found, I primed and painted trim and doors, changed door hardware, and painted walls and stripes. I am butt ass exhausted but I am glad it is all done just in time for our furniture to come in. We are supposed to be picking it up it a week at BRU. Here is a nice buttload of the remodel process.

So there u have it, now I gotta go catch up on my neighborhood.

My other Baby, little miss cutie. Love her so much, she says hi to my baby belly all day long and tells the baby how much she love him/her...it's so darn cute. She is my little monkey, what would I do without her, she always brightens my day!

on valentines day, in the middle of the week. Yes so my valentines day went as follows.......

In the morning, got up like usual to watch daycare. Around lunch time, the doorbell rand and low and behold there is this nice mad holding a huge bouquet of flowers. I was so thrilled cause DH was really acting like nothing yesterday. Now granted he just got over being extremely sick, but anyhow I was thrilled. I closed the door and rush in the kitchen to read the little card and it starts "Happy Valentines Day Honey! We love you, Steve, Hannah, Sarah" UMMMMMMM Yeah OK, anyone that knows my family know they are not my family. So I start getting a really strange felling like who is stalking me...turn the card around and nope not my name. Someone else's name and phone number but my address. OH god, can't anyone gets addresses right around here, I swear if it's not the mailman, it's the fedex man, now the flower guy.

So being the nice person that I am , I go look her name up in the white pages and she lives on some other street, in my town, so I already had it in my head I was going to deliver her flowers myself. They are not mine, and as beautiful as they were, I could not keep them. The day proceeds and tiring as usual. My two girls had to get ready for dance, and off I get in the car, deliver these flowers in person and go take the girls to dance.

I sit in a loud ass room with a bunch a little girls waiting to go into their class, yelling and screaming, and obviously not disciplined in the least. I sit there on valetnines evening thinking woohooo this is how v-day is when you have kids. LOL....my 4 year old gets done with her class, we rush home , I order pizza, mike gets in at the same time, I scarf a piece down, I leave to pick up my older daughter from her class, get back, scarf down another piece of pizza, exchange cards and went to sleep all by 9:30. Yep I am too exhausted to even think about giving him any...LOL....

All in all very productive romantic v-day over pizza and playing mommy's taxi..woohooooo.....but you know what I would not trade it for the world.

here ya go 15 week ultrasound......get another one in 4 weeks yeeppeee.....

here I am yet again, belly pic time, unfortunately for those that really want to see this awful emabarrassment of a ugly stretchmarked belly, but here ya go. It was taken a week ago at 14 week, since  am now starting 15 weeks.....\

14 weeks

oh my this belly is killing me already. Oh yes also rented a heartbeat doppler of babybeat.com for just one month, since I don't have my appt till tomm, and got that a week ago and woohooooo heard the heartbeat at 158-162.....now I know there really is something alive in there LOL!!!!

as to how far into this pregnancy I WILL  be before I actually see a true dr and have a true visit, and hear a heartbeat and know everything is OK? Yeah well I thought that would be today, cause you know I am somewhere around 13 weeks, could be a little farther along.

Well NOT. I go and they take me back to the dr room and they sit me down and do like a million pages of questions and answers, give this huge pregnancy bag full of all that baby stuff, book, supplies, coupons, samples, etc...and said ok I 'll walk you out. I just sat there completely dumbfounded like, " are u f-ing kidding me".

Yeah apparently the first visist is like this at my drs, and the next appt , Feb 11 is the one where you hear the heartbeat and all the other good stuff, and oh yeah still don't know the exact due date since I don't have an LMP, so won't have an ultrasound till sometime after feb 11. Shit by the time I do anything, I'll be far enough along to probably know the sex, dammit.....this is so ridiculous. I was/am fuming still, that I knew no more then I knew yesterday.UGJHHHHHHHHHHH

OK, AGAINST my better judgement, and only cause ms. Kimmie, is demanding these ugly things, here are two belly shots, the first is 9 weeks, and the second is 12 weeks. Assuming these are the right weeks of course. Please please please ignore all lovely stretch marks, I have had 3 children.

Doing my masters online is kicking my royal ass. I started a new class today, action research, which coming from a psychology background shoudn't be too bad, but I hate doing research and since this is online it will all be mock stuff. this is a 6 week class and I just want to get it the hell over with. It is supposed to be the hardest out of all classes. I so far have a A gpa....so ,lt's hope after this class, it doesn't drop, because I am not feeling it one bit. They make teaching so damn hard....ugh

Yes well these aren't mine beautiful images, but they are what my baby should kinda look like by now.......cool.I love looking at baby images, it's so cute.....can never get enough of them.

I also pretty much swear as I was laying in bed last night with my hand on my belly bump that the baby moved, and since this is my 4th and my muscles are quite stretched out, it is totally possible. It was nothing huge but just a little move amongst my belly.

I am counting down the days till Jan 28 and finally have my first gosh darn dr visit.