2 Days Old, 2 Many Pictures

Sitting on 2 pillows

Why am I sitting on 2 pillows you might ask?

Because I'm 39 weeks, 3 days pregnant and my tailbone hurts.

Why am I posting this at 1:44 am?

Because Mirren is teething and woke up crying.

I stayed with her in her bed, trying to give her comfort until her Tylenol kicked in.

After an hour, I gave it up and left her on her own.

That girl has weird waking up in the middle of the night

and not going back to sleep for a while issues.

I think I'm just gonna let that be her problem tonight.

As you might imagine, I'm so done with being pregnant.

This boy is done growing.

He's great, he's fine. He'd thrive outside but to heck with that.

He's staying in, in spite of repeated efforts that my body has tried to eject him.

2 trips to the hospital already.

(1 more than I've had with any other pregnancy and I haven't even had him yet.)

Contractions stop or turn out to not be the real thing and painfully, slowly wither away.

Is he just holding out for September?

He doesn't like August?

Couldn't tell you.

I liked August, but now I'm growing bitter as I've watched the long hours of

the past week slowly drift by with no signs of our boy emerging. 

Did I tell you I had a gut feeling he was going to come early? Around 38 weeks even!?!

Yeah, never trusting my gut again.

This boy will come, but the excitement of an "early" arrival is down the tubes and now

I just want him out. 

Tuesday, August 18th

Aftyn had her orientation for kindergarten this morning.

We walked to her school and back again. It might have been a mile roundtrip.

I'm exhausted. 37 weeks 4-5 days pregnant. Oy.

Since we got back, she is driving me crazy. Or maybe I'm just tired.

Couldn't tell ya.

I'm hating my pregnancy heartburn.

I just want it to go away.

We finally got our van registered yesterday so we're all legal and stuff to drive.

No pictures yet to document it.

Because that requires energy, something I'm lacking at the moment.

Official school pictures will be taken on Thursday on Aftyn's first whole day of school.

You'll get to see what she looks like in new clothes, a clean and shiny face, new glasses,

and just looking her best in general.

Instead of looking like her normal clean-ish self.

Clumsiness

Pregnancy clumsiness is nothing to scoff at. For me, it's a real thing.

This morning it began in epic proportions.

 I accidentally knocked over Aftyn's full bowl
of cereal and milk with the gallon of milk I was attempting to lift up from the table.

She started to cry. I wanted to as well.

After apologizing profusely, I attempted to clean up the table but the floor was equally covered
in cereal and milk.

  I'll get that later. Hopefully. Why don't we have a dog??

 I dropped my spoon while getting my own bowl and spoon for my breakfast.

This is one of those mornings where I just know I better be careful because clearly my reflexes
stink and my reaction time is null.

Probably a good idea to just stay home. Good thing I don't have a vehicle to drive today. 

Imagine the damage I could do!

A Good Pregnancy Post

 Gotta have at least 1 pregnancy post as I approach the end this time around.

Today I am officially 9 months pregnant.

And I am totally feeling it.

Feeling it in the way that I can't drink too much water without feeling like I am WAY too full.

Feeling it in the way that my already dropped baby belly feels like I'm moving a too wide load much like a pallet truck would move a too full pallet.

Feeling it every time I lean down to help Mirren do anything on her level.

I am at the "I'm tired and this baby is zapping ALL my energy" stage.

And my often out of town husband isn't helping things because he's not here to make up for those moments when I am "just too tired".

That excuse has "no place in this dojo does it".  "No sensei."  (Name that movie)

Gotta pick up and carry on with dishes, laundry, dinners, lunches, breakfasts, trips to the
store, school registration, etc. no matter my energy level because I've got 3 kiddos who need me
to be doing my thing so they can do theirs.

*Sigh*.

Hard things make us stronger.

It's true.

And I will come out of this pregnancy with different strengths than I've had to develop in
other pregnancies.

And every pregnancy after this one will continue to help me develop new and awesome strengths
that I will continue to use.

There's your pep talk for the day.

Now go and conquer what feels impossible for you today.

Because you can do it too.

And you're probably doing it without being 9 months pregnant!

See, you got this!!

Ah Pictures

 Mirren loves to help the girls do their dishwasher jobs. She's a great helper, undies on or off. Ha!!

 We had 2 weeks of swim lessons for the girls. This was their last day. I guess the excitement was wearing off. They both did great and have improved so much from last year!

Daddy and the girls took a dip in our backyard pool. They had a blast!  Mirren hates the pool, which is why she's not pictured. Cold water is not her favorite.

 Had to take this picture because sometimes you have to enjoy a good book, clothes on or not. Mirren has been LOVING books lately, especially animal books!

 Bronwyn shares a room with Mirren. This particular night, Mirren was having a hard time going to sleep, as you can see below. So Bronwyn just plugged her ears and fell asleep. :)  Glad she's learning to just sleep through noise!  Ha ha!!

                            The culprit making all the noise, looking very sad.
   (I had just checked on her when I took this photo, which is why she was
              reunited with her binky but still feeling sad for some unknown reason.)

Recent Pictures - Hallelujah!!

Holy eyelashes - new camera

Real smile! - new camera

She wanted her own picture - new camera

Emily

May birthdays! - old camera

Camping! - old camera

She fell right into the water, luckily Dad was there to save her - old camera

Zeke and Emily - new camera

For some reason, my captions under my pictures aren't showing up.  There's a mix here of old camera pictures and new camera pictures. Can you tell the difference because I sure as heck can! The bottom picture is Zeke and Emily. Emily is the orange, Zeke is the black.