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Got up, made hubby lunch, had some Cream of Wheat for breakfast, got ready, got the boy up, fed him oatmeal, started laundry, had coffee, rolled $90 in change, cleared the dining room table, stuck glow in the dark stars on Qade’s ceiling, put Bubba to bed, did dishes, set up a “nursing station” in our room upstairs (complete with low light lamp, table with drawer for burp rags and such, and a rocking chair and ottoman!) got Qade up, had lunch with him (I love this part of our day!) folded some laundry, cleared the junk off the counter tops, read some in a marriage book, talked to Mom, played with Qade and now I’m vegging while Stu browses his Popular Science. Whew! I think that’s quite a day to be honest. I’m hearing the little lad talking in his room (I don’t think he even took a nap!) so soon it will be time to get him up, and then there’s dinner to make. Chicken teriaki noodles and rice for tonight. Sounds good to me! Tomorrow I’ll pack for our trip to my baby shower, and then try to sweep and vacuum before we go. I like to be able to come home to a clean house. Hope y’all had wonderful Thursdays!

Well, I suppose that title isn’t fair really. It’s certainly not Tuesday’s fault that both me and my little alarm clock, named Qade, slept in, and therefore had to rush around like mad to be ready to leave for his doctor’s appointment today. It’s not Tuesday’s fault that when I was driving out our road, the dippy dog kept bounding in front of the vehicle and I actually ran over him! (He seems to be okay, but we’re not sure yet if he sustained any internal injuries) It’s not Tuesday’s fault that since I couldn’t get a hold of Stuart I was turning around to check the dog and backed into a sage bush. It’s not Tuesday’s fault that I was a blubbering wreck before I even got to the paved road this morning STILL running late. It’s not Tuesday’s fault that I had to take Bubba to the doctor and that he had to get 3 shots. It’s actually his FORMER doctor’s fault because she was so irritated at my last visit because of my questions about the MMR that apparently she forgot he needed other shots. Grrrrrrr! But all those things are not the fault of the day…. mostly it’s my fault, but I feel better blaming it on something else. Since Tuesday is available I thought I’d let it take the heat.
It is looking up however. I was encouraged when Stuart finally found the dog and he was alive still, and didn’t look like he needed to be shot. Qade did very well even though he did have to get poked 3 times. I got to have lunch with BOTH of my men today! Now they are both napping while I vent a little to the cyber world. It helps. So with that in mind, I hope you all are getting along much better with your respective Tuesdays. Watch out for the crazy dogs who think it’s fun to leap in front of vehicles, and make sure you wake up early enough to have your coffee fix.
Here is a blog post that I thought you’d enjoy reading too. I think it’s kind of an interesting take on things.

Happy Monday, friends! I’m so excited that it’s the 15th! That means we’re half way through September!!! Which also means that I’m half a month closer to meeting our newest munchkin!!! Woo-hoo! The faster the better, say I! Right now I’m just feeling rather massive and uncomfy, but it’ll get worse before it get’s better. This morning I woke up and tried to stretch before getting out of bed only to get the WORST leg cramp ever in the history of the universe!!! It’s still not totally relaxed, and it aches! But I’ve been consoling myself with coffee. Some of my good friends gave me some Santa’s White Christmas coffee for my b-day and it is AWESOME!!! I forgot just how much I love that flavor! Wow!
Anyway, today is going to be busy if I ever get around to it. I have a dr. apt in town and then some serious grocery shopping to do. However before I shop I still have to complete our menue for the month. So I do need to go get hoppin’ (as well as a sore leg will let me!) Stuart kindly offered to stay home from work today to keep Qade, and that will be a HUGE help when it comes to the shopping part. Qade does okay for awhile in the cart, but then he gets antsy and it’s difficult for me to concentrate on my list when he’s fussing to get out, or climbing out at every opportunity. So, in a nutshell, sort of, those are my great plans for the day. Hopefully it all goes very smoothly and fast!! Ha, Wal-Mart fast?? Hope you’re having a great Monday yourselves, and if not, get some Santa’s White Christmas, because it really does wonders for your mood!

It’ll be a miracle!  Yes, who would have thought the cat would be in any danger from the threat of a “new” baby.  True she takes her life into her paws each time she plays with Qade, though we are trying to teach him gentleness.  No, the problem she’s having because of the pregnancy is that my belly is now so huge that I can’t see her half the time.  She’s black so that makes it doubly hard to see her!  She has this horrible habit of dashing between my feet for some crazy reason.  My grandma warned me not to trip on her because she does this, but since I plant my feet like an elephant these days, that has not been an issue.   Rather, pity the cat.  She has been kicked and stepped on I don’t know how many times, and the other day when I was putting the vacuum back in the closet she got her tail mashed in the door because I didn’t see her dart in there.  *sigh*  I’m sure she’ll learn her lesson one of these days…. stay out of the way of elephant!

Qade has had a rough couple of days.  He got a little cold this week, and shared it with Mommy, so that wasn’t fun.  And yesterday I figured out that he’s getting his upper eye teeth in too.  I think that must be where MOST of the whiny behavior is coming from.  Today I just felt so sorry for him.  You could tell that he just did NOT feel good, and his poor little sad crying was wrenching my heart!  I rocked him for a long time, and he just snuggled up. (Sure sign that “something” isn’t okay)  I tried to get him to take a nap right after church because he was so fussy and sad, but that didn’t work out, so he’s taking a late afternoon nap now.  Poor little dude.  Teeth are just miserable necessities I suppose.  This will bump his tooth count up to 14!!  I can’t tell yet if his bottom ones are coming in also.

As for me, the big, fat pregnant lady, I’m remembering a few things that I had forgotten after having Qade.  Your life just changes so much once you have that little one that it’s hard to remember some of the things in pregnancy that, at the time, you thought you’d never forget!  One of those, for me, has been how completely drained I am during this last couple months.  I was feelin’ all good about myself all summer, because I felt great, had lots of energy, was walking regularly and then the (dum-de-dum-dum) third trimester hit!  I still have some good energy days, and some partly good energy days.  There are other days or part days though, where it feels like someone flips a switch and all my strength just seeps out.  I turn into a blob with lead arms and legs, and just have NO stamina whatsoever!  Whew!  Lying on the couch just “thinking” about all the things that I’d like to be doing is not my favorite way to spend my time.  However, there are moments where quite honestly I can do nothing else.  I don’t fully understand it, and it’s really difficult to explain, but it’s real, that’s all I know.  I’m looking forward to having this baby, and getting to meet him, hold him, snuggle him, and all of that wonderful stuff, but I’m also looking forward to getting some life back.  I know it’ll be awhile after he’s here for me to feel semi-normal again, but it’s the thought that it will get better that keeps me optimistic!

It’s been really neat to watch Qade learn to talk.  He’s probably up to about 25 or so words, I’ve not been keeping complete track.  But even more amazing to me is what he can understand!  He may not be able to articulate phrases and such yet, but he certainly knows them.  Lately I’ve been giving him small tasks to do to be a “helper” and he really is a good little helper, I’m utterly amazed.  Yesterday he gave himself the task of spreading the clean laundry all over the floor while I was trying to fold.  So then I started asking him to hand me things and I’d point to them.  He gave me each thing I pointed too.  Today he had taken his sippy cup of breakfast milk somewhere, and I wanted to put it back in the fridge.  I asked him where his drink was, to go find his drink.  He toddled off, and sure enough a minute later he was back with his cup.   Then today he found a Barnie book in his room (that I’m actually going to get rid of because I cannot stand Barnie! Ugh!) so I read it to him since he came and asked so nicely, but then when we were done with that one, I told him to go get a different book.  He walked over to the shelf in the living room that holds his precious books, and picked his favorite “Tickle One Baby” and brought it back to me.  Wow!  I’ve always known that kids understand a lot more than we give them credit for, but it still boggles my mind when I see it in action in front of me day by day.  Qade is also learning to “put it back” when he brings me things I don’t want, such as all the contents of the dish cloth drawer.

Today I’m not doing “nuthin” or so I tell myself.  I went to bed with a headache last night, woke up several times with the same headache, and finally got up with a ridiculously scathing headache this morning.  Thankfully it eased up really fast!!  However, I do think that Qade has shared his cold with me, as I also woke up with a sore throat.  Blah!  So while my mental “to do” list had mopping and vacuuming on it, I’ve redated it to Friday.   Besides today is my special Lime Green Thursday and that means I get to relax.

I did work some on Qade’s baby book, ugh, I’m so behind!  I did get most of the blanks filled, so now I just need to decide on the pictures for each page, and it’ll be done!  Now his scrapbook…oh dear, that’s a completely different story, but I’m determined little by little it’ll be done.  Perhaps this weekend I’ll make some headway with that.  One can always hope!