Easter activities

Corbin is old enough this year to enjoy all the Easter activities.   Yesterday we baked cookies and gave them to all of our friends and family.  Corbin had so much fun.  He helped me actually make the dough, then cut it out with the cookie cutters, and then add candy to the top of it.  He would say "one candy for cookie, one for me!".  It was adorable and so much fun.

Then today, we decorated eggs.  I boiled a dozen eggs this morning, then went and got Corbin up and I forgot about them.  So I had 7 that weren't cracked.  So then, I decided to boil 5 more so that we could have a dozen, and guess what?  I forgot about those too!  ugh.  So, 3 of those came out not crack.  I decided I wasn't cut out for any more.  I did go ahead and add 2 broken ones so that we had a whole dozen eggs to decorate.

Corbin got to put the eggs in the dye, and use the egg tatoos and stickers to decorate them.  He had a lot of fun.  But his attention span was only REALLY good for the first half.  Then the others were just dyed and got just one or 2 stickers on it.  But that's okay, it's all about them being for him.  So it was fun.

Here are some pictures. :

I love how every year we get to add something new to each of our holiday traditions.  It's  so much fun how excited Corbin gets about stuff.  I love. 

I am exhausted today.  We got up and did breakfast with my mom, Wal-mart for a couple things we needed, then easter egg decorating, then baking more cookies for daddy and for our friends we're visiting tonight, then I had to order lots of pictures, now working on laundry, and I still have a couple of other things to do.  Whew, I am resting right now though.    Last night I got to go spend time with all our CARE group ladies and get dinner and get our toes done.  It was wonderful.  This week has been great! Im ready for some relaxing now.  

busy, busy, busy!

Wow, Is it just me  or is April a busy month.  I am supposed to be taking it easy but it is not so easy to do with all the birthdays and friends and kids activities going on.  This week, we have something going on every.single.night.  It is crazy!  Im loving our time with family and friends, but man am I tired!

Corbin has been behaving very well also, which is great.  We are finally using to time out thing to our advantage, and he is getting the hang of it and so are we.  He will actually sit the whole time and he goes when he is told.  And the best part is that if he is doing something wrong and I say "do you want to go to time out?", he says "no, I want to listen to mommy!".  Isn't that wonderful?!  Time outs in public are not so easy though, because there is not always a good spot for the time out.  But hey, we make do with what we can.  Corbin is definitely a little aggressive but sweet too.  He pushed a girl at church the other day *gasp*, so he was put in time out and when I was being told about his behavior the volunteer in the toddler room told me that he responded really well to the time out.  So, I was not at all proud of his behavior but I was proud that he listened to the lady and understood that he had done something wrong.  So we are learning and growing and making our way through the 2s, which haven't been oh-so-terrible.   I just remain patient and do what I can to keep him as controlled as a 2 year old should be expected to be.

We are 32 weeks pregnant with our littlest guy now.  Crazy, huh?  That means 8 weeks left till our due date.  Braxton and Hicks is definitely more prevalent this time than with Corbin, and there have been several times that I have had to sit and relax for a while because they are so painful.  My blood pressure has been doing okay, not great, but not horrible either.  So we are chugging along.  My sleep is definitely suffering with darn heartburn and leg cramps.  But my gigantic pregnancy pillow does help me get comfortable pretty easily, which is nice.  Not too much longer, and I will be much more sleep deprived taking care of a newborn, so I can't complain too much.

Okay this was a completely sparatic post, but I thought I would give an update on the boys, and a little on life.  If you haven't already seen it, I did a post on cloth diapering in the cloth diapering tab, and hope to do one on the other topics soon. =)

New Layout!!

My wonderful friend Amanda completely redesigned my blog!  Don't you love it?!  Now I just have to learn how to use it and fill up all the extra space. All the pages represent things that are important to me, so I hope to fill them with information to share why they are important. 

I have been taking a lot of pictures recently and am loving it!  I have captured some wonderful shots of some amazing people.  And I appreciate my friends trusting in me to do so.  I love it.  I plan to blog about the different pictures over the next day or two, so you need to go to our photography blog.  Amanda and I have worked at them a lot and you can check out a lot of the pictures on FB.  And as I said you can check out our blog.  Thanks for keeping up with us. 

Here are just a few of my little guy being a cutie the other day at his playgroup Easter Party.  He actually somewhat participated with the finding eggs thing, which makes me super excited for next weekend!   I hope you enjoy and come back soon for lots of blog updates and picture updates!

Update-age

I was going to post some pictures of Corbin today, but they are on my other computer and I simply don't feel like going to work on that computer right this second.  However, I do have lots of things to update on.

I'm sure you read my complete breakdown post last week.  Well things are so much better now. Corbin is now sleeping in his room! =)  He calls it his "big boy room" and he loves it.  We still have to hang some stuff on the wall, and the bed still has to be made, but other than that it's done.  Those are things that can be done over the next month or 2.

Clynt's truck is RUNNING!  YAH!  As you know, this was my biggest concern, but it is now not a concern any longer.  He is still changing some of the fluids and stuff just to make sure that it is in good condition before driving it much, but it is running!  He got it all put back together on Sunday and then on Monday it turned on!  I would say Sunday, however the batteries were not cooperating, and it took a lot of messing around with to get them to work long enough to turn the truck on.  They are new batteries but had sat for so long that they just didn't have full power. So this is a major praise!

Last night, Clynt started staining the swing set.  Wow... So hopefully this weekend that will be completely done also.

I have organized tons of stuff upstairs and all Corbin's clothes are in his new room and the nursery is now ready for Garrett.  I had to go buy hangers today for hanging up all of Garrett's clothes (well Corbin's old ones), and hopefully will get that done by this weekend.

So, in case you were keeping up with the check list, the only thing left to be done after the couple completions this weekend is Corbin's bed.  That is a huge change from last week, huh?!?!  My husband has been busy, and it so shows!  I love the lack of stress. =)  Praise GOD!

Garrett update-  So, I went to the doctor today and my blood pressure was close to normal (not perfect, but not bad).  Meaning, I don't have to be on a strict bed rest, and I don't have to be on medication yet!  GREAT NEWS!!!  So, now I am supposed to be taking it easy still just to keep it pretty normal, but other than that we are all good.  I was having some cramping and stuff but Garrett looked perfect today, and so we will just keep chugging along until our next appt 2 weeks from now.  All great stuff.  More praises to GOD.

Okay, how's that for updates??  I love it!  Tomorrow, I will try to post some pictures =)

The Grouchy Lady Bug.

I love books written by Eric Carle, the graphics are adorable and they are always just cute.  So, I buy them when I find them for a reasonable price (sometimes, not so reasonable, but hey Corbin likes them too!)... So Corbin's favorite book is now The Grouchy Lady Bug.  For those of you who have never read this book it is about a grouchy lady bug who asks all different animals if they want to fight and when they do he says, never mind, your not big enough (even to an elephant), well at the end, when a whale flipped him all the back to where he started, he decided it was time to be nice.   Here is a picture of the book:

So, since this is Corbin's new book, we read it all the time.  I no longer even have to read it.  Corbin turns the page to each new animal and says "Hey you, wanna fight BIRD (or whatever animal it is)".  It is hilarious when reading the book.  However, sometimes he comes up to me and says "Hey You, Wanna FIGHT!?".. Im thinking no, not at all!  I have to let Corbin know that that is just a book.  The last thing I want to happen is for him to go up to a kid in play group and ask them if they want to fight.   It is funny though.  I really love that he can read the books to himself.  Well, he doesn't actually *read* but he knows what each page says and he says it.  Not just that book, but other books too.  It is adorable.  Every day his vocabulary amazes me.  He is able to carry on a conversation on the phone, and he can let you know anything and everything he wants.   It is adorable.  I can't wait for him to meet Garrett and teach him all of his cute habits.  I just love it.

Tomorrow, I will update on our to do list around here.  It is soooo coming along.  The hubster has been busy.  Love him lots. 

Hormones.... AHHH!!!

So, I am an emotional wreck lately.  Everything makes me cry, and everything makes me stress.... Obviously none of this is good for my BP, but I can't find anything to make me better!

I have a major fear right now that the baby will come and nothing is going to be done around here.  I mean, as of last week, Clynt's truck is yet to be fixed, Corbin's new room needs painting, we have mounds of stuff to go in the attic, Corbin's swingset is half stained/half NOT, all the clothes for Garrett are still in the attic and his closet is still full of Corbin's stuff, and so on.  I wanted all of this done months ago, and so now my stress level is crazy high.

Clynt has been working on his truck for what seems like forever now, and continues to fix and replace things that don't need fixed, he just does it because he's got so much already taken apart.  I  just want the darn thing running!!  Clynt has a JEEP that he is driving, however, I don't want the stress of something not working when the baby gets here.  The kiddos do not ride safely in the JEEP (in my opinion), so his big truck needs to be working in case of emergencies and stuff.  This is the biggest stress in my life right now.  There is just sooooo much money and time into the thing, and it is so close, but seems sooooooo far away from being done.

Then there is Corbin's new room.  I do not want for Corbin to feel like he is getting kicked out of his room for to make room for Garrett, so I really wanted his room to be done months ago.  Yet, it is still not done.  Clynt has to build the bed for it, and I know that is going to take another long while.  But as long as everything gets moved and painted and pretty much decorated, then I can move Corbin in there, while we wait for the bed to be done.  At least this way, he will be in there and not get kicked out of his room just before Garrett gets here.

Since Corbin is getting the new room and Garrett is getting that room, there is a lot of moving and organizing of Clothes and toys and books and so on that has to be done.  Corbin's stuff has to go to his new room and all his baby clothes have to come out of the attic for Garrett.  This is another thing that must be done soon so that we can be ready!

The swing set in the back yard was stained like 5 months ago, but we ran out of stain and Clynt decided that he was going to make a wooden roof for it and then stain it all together when that's done.  I said that was fine, but little did I know that it would be this long later and it not be done!!  The roof was completed about 3 weeks ago, but the staining is yet to happen.  Don't get me wrong the roof looks AMAZING, however, now there are 3 different colors (the stained wood, the old wood, and the new wood), all on the swing set and it looks rediculous.  ugh.

Soooooo.... because of all these things, on Sunday, I had a major break down.  On the way to church, I started crying, and I trying to dry up before church, but the second I got in my mom asked me what was wrong so I started to tell her and I am immediately started bawling.  With in minutes, our campus Pastor, other church staff, friends, and everyone were around asking what was wrong.  I think it is something that only a woman who has had a baby understands.  I have gestational hypertension now, and cannot do any of this stuff on my own (other than wash clothes, clean, put stuff up, but until it's out of the attic and the rooms are ready, I can't do that!), and I am majorly nesting and want thing ready for the baby sooooo bad!!!

Poor Clynt felt like it was all his fault and it is not.  Their is a lot to get done, and he needs to ask for help sometimes.  So my family all came over on Monday night and helped paint.  Now Corbin's new room is painted!  Tonight, I think that Clynt is moving around stuff so that Corbin can be ready to be moved over this weekend.  So, things are now coming along after my complete emotional breakdown.  Clynt didn't realize how worried i was before, but really does now and he SOOOO does not want to be the cause of anything happening to Garrett or I because of my BP problems.  

I love you babe!!!  Thanks for everything that you are doing!

And it starts again.....

I wrote this blog yesterday and the darn thing disappeared and wouldn't save.  So, I will try to re-post as best as I can remember.

At this point in my pregnancy I had Gestational Hypertension with Corbin.  At 28 weeks, it started developing and at 30 weeks I got put in the hospital because of how high it was.  I never developed PreEclampsia but was monitored very closely and was induced at 37 weeks.  This is all generally a first time mom complication, so we thought we would slide by it this time.  Well....... I started having horrible headaches about a week or 2 ago, and went for my check up last Wednesday and SUPRISE, my blood pressure was up!  It was not high enough for an immediate hospital visit (Praise GOD!), but it was enough that now I have to monitor it and not over do it for a while.  I am monitoring it every day, and some days are horrible and other days are okay with it not being too much over a normal  BP.  So we go back next Wednesday and go from there.  For now I was told not to "over do it", which in case your wondering (because I was!) what that means, it means "no vacuuming (YES! ha), no running lots of errands, resting often, and just staying off my feet some", so that's what I've been trying to do.  We didn't leave the house 2 times last week and we didnt leave the house yesterday either.  Corbin gets bored though, so we may go to the library or something today, just to get out for a little while.

When we go back to the doctor, there are a couple of things that could happen.  For starters, there is a medicine that I can get on to help.  I don't like taking medicine while pregnant, and this is not the safest medicine.  With Corbin it was much easier and safer to just be on bed rest instead of medication.  This time though, it is not as easy to be on bed rest, so I may get a low dose of medicine in order to try to avoid a strict bed rest.  Bed Rest plus Toddler do NOT mix well!!  The other thing that could happen is that I go on bed rest any ways.  And the worst possible thing would be that if it is through the roof, being in the hospital.  Or really, having protien in my urine, and having pre-eclampsia, because then it would really be a strict bed rest and delivering much earlier than I would want to probably.  But that last option is probably not the case, because that didn't happen with Corbin (though anything is possible).

So, anyway, we are now sitting and waiting.  Thank you to everyone who has been praying for us, all prayers are so well appreciated.   The main concern is just for a healthy Garrett and being able to take care of Corbin with out it being too much of a disturbance in his life! =)

On a side note, my good friend Amanda came in town this past weekend and was able to take some pictures of me and my pregnant belly and wonderful family.  Here are a few of my favorites...  Enjoy!

Tomorrow, I may be able to post pictures of Corbin's new room (or at least the painted walls).  There are 2 stripe that have to be done and Clynt refuses to let me take a picture before it's done.  But I would like to say THANK YOU to my mom, sister, and Matt for coming over last night to help!!!!  It was soooo awesome to see progress being made.  I will let you know about my break down later =)