Ready for the weekend!

Wheew, what a long week. Started out with a flood, which turned into a boil order for us all week and we still don't know the end date to that drama, it's NOT fun to have no water, that is FOR sure, makes you realize how much we take for granted. Then Nolan got strep, again, I couldn't figure out why he was such a bear and rude to everyone on fathers day, I definitely wasn't expecting that in summer for some reason, I thought his allergies and teeth were getting the best of him, but sure enough, he had it. He is acting so much better, just in time. The boys and I are escaping in less than an hour to head to Robinson to hang with Nana and Papa and hunt down their kitties! Then it's off to Pappy Stone's Saturday for an all day pool playing event. I'm hoping my mom made me soup, and I'm dying for some Yen Ching, the best Chinese place, yummm! Also, most importantly, I'm so looking forward to a day off and having WATER!! yay! i can clean my boys and do some laundry! And brush my teeth with running water, yippee!! the little joys in life. I just want to say a HUGE thanks to my best girl Dana for letting us come over last night and invade her shower, we were overdue for a good bath/shower, and the boys loved all of Grants toys and especially his new toad friend, 'Little' I guess Grant is the expert toad catcher, the boys thought it was so cool and Nolan kept petting him and poking his eyes, poor toad!!
Hopefully I can get some good pictures of the boys soon and get some recent stuff put up here to remember later!
I'm now 15wks, feeling a little better with the puking thing, i still occasionally do have to, but more than anything I've been having bad headaches, hopefully that will pass quickly also. Looking forward to hearing the heartbeat next week.
Anyway, Im off for my long weekend, wish us luck on the long car ride

12wks

Wow, I'm so close to being out of the first trimester I can taste it! I'm SO ready to feel better again. Yesterday was a big turning point for me, I've just been feeling terrible and starting to feel discouraged, but my 12wk ultrasound seeing baby "Griffin" (the name I want for either sex, which we won't know till the birth!) flipping around in there really did wonders for my spirit. Makes feeling so terrible way more bearable!! I don't care what anyone says, being pregnant with 2 kids is really hard, they don't care about anything but playing and doingthe normal, they don't know mommy is so exhausted she can barely talk or that she needs to constantly throw up and usually does most nights after dinner. They deserve there normal routine with a momma thats happy and fun, hopefully i can get there asap, I'm trying really hard. Seeing the baby's heartbeat flashing, the face and arms next to the face and the spine and chubby belly, it just never gets old! I told Bryson, I saw our baby on a tv today, want to see a picture, and showed him, i said, do you think it's a boy or a girl? "Mommy, it's a girl" and her name is "Jessie" he is obsessed with Toy Story Characters, so i guess it's better than the boy names he picked of Batman and Buzz, right? LOL. I asked him if he wanted to come next time and see the baby too, he smiled big and said "YES!!" so I definately think I will take him in Aug to my 'big' 3D Ultrasound, even if we won't find out the sex, it will be fun to include him. Hopefully he doesn't break anything! LOL.

Nolan is doing great, completely has no clue what is coming.. poor kid, we will start talking about it once my belly is big and it's closer to time...he's trying hard to talk more, i still don't understand much of what he says. He is obsessed with 'melmo' (elmo) right now, and loves quack quacks (anything with wings, mostly birds) he is such a bright eyed little joy, don't get me wrong, that red headed temper shows thru, ALOT, and he definately lets you know how he feels about everything! But he wakes up so sweet, smiley and happy each day, and when you let him outside, he is soo thrilled. Its so fun to watch life thru a child's eyes! Until the NO and tantrums of the day hit. ha ha.