Hello nesting my old friend

That is right. Nesting is in full swing here. I just deep cleaned the bathroom, at 9 in the morning. I am talking everything. I even Liquid Golded the wood. This is me taking a break. I can't decide if I want to primer the hallway next, or start cleaning the "great room". I also need to help Hadley pick up her toys, and clean our bedroom. Ooo, and there are new clocks and other things to hang. I just hope my body can keep up.

And no, I won't come over and help you. I have enough to do.

What's that smell?

No, I am not talking about the MH cookbook. It is our coal/wood heater! We decided to try it out this weekend. We were happy to find that it doesn't get hot on the front or sides, just the back. We have that blocked off so the kids don't touch it and become scared for life. We've been running it since Saturday and it is bloody fantastic. Our electric heat is basically just a back up right now. It hasn't kicked on since we started the fire. Really, I think it is wicked cool..er warm. And the woody smell..mmmm. We have a freaking fire, in our house to use as heat! It is just so fun. I love it. Smoke comes out of our chimney! As you can see, I am beyond excited at this new development.

Mini-baby freak out

Let me start by saying nothing is wrong. I am just having a baby reality check.

I have about 9 weeks left of being pregnant, for the rest of my life. This is it, and I only have 9 weeks left. I'll never feel a baby move inside me again. Never again experience the thrill of POAS. Never feel crotch hiccups. Never play guess the body part. Never groan as I try to get up, well not due to being pregnant anyway. 9 weeks and it is over. I close this chapter. I am sad by this. Not that I want to have more children(I still feel totally sassified with 4). I will just miss it and I am sad to see over. It was a good 5 years.

I had a Farmer appt. yesterday. Everything is going great. I measured ahead a little, and we had no problem finding his heart. It sounded awesome(there is another thing I will miss. That wonderful feeling of hearing that heart the very first time, and any time there after). My BP is fantastic. I have an u/s before my next appt. I can't wait to see how much he has grown. I asked the Farmer if I was allowed to cut the cord since Clint never wants to. He said of course. I am so excited. I never thought to ask with the other 3.

Hadley found the baby books tonight. That is when it hit me. I don't have a baby book for this baby. I feel awful. How could I forget about a baby book? All the other kids have their first footprints in their books. I must get one soon. Hadley was pretty amazed by her tiny feet. She just stared at them and smiled for a little. It was cute. Since I started a list with the baby book I continued it and discovered there were a few things I wanted to get. I just didn't realize how bloody fast things were going. 9 weeks....9 weeks.

Let me tell you about my night

No, there is too much. Let me sum up.

Background info: Lennon spiked a fever of 103 yesterday afternoon. Motrin was given, fever came down to about 101.

Before bed(5 hours after the first dose of Motrin) fever was 104. More Motrin. Checked him an hour later to make sure it was coming down. It wasn't. Decided to wait 30 more minutes and check again. Finally it had come down to around 101 again. Set alarm for 1:30(5 hours later) to check on him.

Check at 1:30. Back up to 103. More Motrin.

Check him again at 6:30 before Clint leaves for work, finally, I hope, it broke. It was only 100.

Can't wait to see how the day goes.

Now, in between that time of when I got into bed(we'll say about 10) and when we got up at 1:30. Hadley(she was having some kind of freak out), Ollie(hiccups), being too hot(will I never learn I can't sleep with the window shut), and my legs bugging the piss out of me I slept maybe 30 min. I think I fell back asleep about 3 and was back up at 6.

Good times.

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Update on the Farm Animal Members.

Dewey-the dog is ginormous. It is easy to forget he is only 10 months old. As the days got colder and we all spent less and less time outside, Dewey decided it was time to explore his surroundings. We would find him almost across the field and call him back and so on. Last week Clint came home from work and asked me where Dewey was. I told him he was just on the porch. Clint went out and called, no Dewey. Clint decided to change out of his work clothes so he could perform a proper search. As he was changing I see a white truck coming up the drive. Who is that in the passenger seat? Dewey. Here he went across the field into the middle of the street. The guy across the street brought him back. Dewey went in the big dog kennel and has been there ever since. We leave him out a few times a day to run but for the most part he is in there. I feel bad but at the same time I can't just leave the kids here and go chasing after him all day.

The Chickens-As they grow into adulthood the pecking order has kicked in big time. This week the larger full sized roosters have decided it was time to do away with the smaller banty roosters. In other words, we have no more banty roosters. Clint found 2 and one has gone missing. On one hand it is sad, on the other, at least we don't have to do it now. I just wish I would've known they were going to do it. I would've held a cockfight and taken bets.

I can do it!

Some pictures of Corby's 4th birthday bash. He decided he wanted a Buzz Lightyear party. He had fun. We had playdoh for the kids to play with(we made it using Shadie's recipe), we also had stickers and Toy Story 2 coloring sheets. Corb, Hads and the Lemon all had Buzz shirts to wear. Corb decorated his own cake. His favorite present, I think, was the Thomas bike my Mom gave to him. We got him a matching Thomas bike helmet and pads. He was very, very frustrated with his bike at first. He hadn't mastered pedaling yet. Clint worked with him for a while last night. Today he decided to try that bike again. He discovered HE CAN DO IT! He has been riding his bike around the house for the past hour. He is so footing proud of himself and I am, too. We called Daddy at work to tell him.

Tagging dootie

I was tagged. Here are my 5 things:

1. I have extreme distrust of strangers, esp. when it comes to people being around my kids. (This would be a contributing factor into our homeschooling decision)

2. I went through a scrapdork stage. Extending from about 1997-2003. I stopped when it went commercial.

3. I never wanted to get married or have kids. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

4. I like to go grocery shopping. I used to beg my Mom to let me stay home from school so I could go with her.

5. I do not like ants. They are disgusting.

Excellent weekend

We had a fantubbalastic weekend.

Corby's party was a great success. I am still in denial that that 8lb 13 oz baby is now 4 years old. How the heck did that happen? I know, I've spent most of his life little life pregnant. He is so smart and so challenging and so funny. He cracks me up daily, he also makes want to pull out my hair daily but that is Corb. I think it might have something to do with the ears. Anyway, I will try to get pictures up of the event later today.

Lennon has been waking up extremely early. Then he started waking in the middle of the night. I decided to check his mouth/teeth status Saturday. Sure enough all 4 of his canines/eye teeth are coming in. I want to give props to the maker of teething tablets. I don't know what we would do without them. He is sleeping much better since we started popping him some of those when he wakes and before bed.

Great news! We scored on the "home improvement" front this weekend. I got birthday money from my parents and Clint's Dad. I decided to use that "mad money" on paint for inside the house. Hadley's room, the hallway to our bedrooms and our bedroom are going to be repainted, trim put up, blinds and curtains put up and if I have enough paint leftover from the hallway the door is getting painted. I will be sure to put up before and afters. Just be warned, I really like bright colors. I went as neutral as I could in the hallway since that will also be the same colors as our living room, kitchen and mudroom someday in the near future. My Dad made the comment that our bedroom is going to look like a hippie room. I told him to bite me. I can't wait to get started on the paint.

We were going to do horses all over Hadley's room but we decided to just repaint and do a horse bedspread(for when she finally decides it is cool to sleep in her own room). I want to find some horse pictures and hang them on the walls. That way if she doesn't like horses anymore at some point she can just take them down and put other pictures up. I found the bedding I want to use. It is on sale so I might just have to order it and save it for that day in the future when she gets a big bed and sleeps in her own room.

The other great home improvement news is that my Grammy got a new dishwasher and asked us if we would like her old one(it still works). We said "Heck yes!" It is one of those portable ones that you have to pull over to your sink but a free dishwasher is a free dishwasher! We are going to pick it up on Friday.

Schedule of events for today

1. Pick-up/Clean house in prep for Corb's party tomorrow.
2. Pick-up Buzz shirts for all of the kids to wear to the party.
3. Look for Cars cars.
4. Make cake for party.
5. Make playdoh for party.
6. Buy sammich fixins for party.
7. Wrap presents for Corb.
8. Set up extra tables and chairs.
9. Print out Buzz coloring sheets for kids to color tomorrow.
10. Make fruit salad for the party.
11. Put together sammich tray.
12. Have a fantabulous time!

The track that pissed off suckage built

Corb informed me it was time for a new Thomas track today. I agreed. To save myself some time I decided to search the web for a layout instead of making up my own. I found one that looked like a ton of fun. Started making it. Guess I should have checked to make sure I have enough pieces first. Who knew you would need 50 small curves and about 20 of the small switch tracks. Footers.

So, I decided to print out a different layout. Same freaking thing. An hour later, I said screw it and came up with this simple, boring track. Please note, no one is even playing with it. They went to Hadley's room to play with the playmobil stuff.