Wish me luck!

Tomorrow I go for my glucose tolerance test. Everyone one is convinced I have gestational diabetes... just based on the size of my babies... and the fact that time may have run out for my luck in passing the glucose tolerance tests in the past. So tomorrow I will drink the delicious orange drink and go and have my blood drawn. I really hope I don't have it - I'll keep you all posted!

Oh, Baby!

Hey everyone! I had my 18 week level 2 ultrasound yesterday and everything looked wonderful! The baby was so cute and active! I knew the ultrasound technician from previous ultrasounds and she was awesome! We chatted it up and had a great time. The baby kept putting his/her hands around his/her face. The tech was joking that he/she was trying to suck it's thumb. It was all very cute and I loved seeing the baby! In this picture, you can see the hands around the face. And for those who are wondering - yes, I maintained my willpower and did NOT find out if the baby is a boy or a girl! We'll have to wait 22 or so weeks to find that out! In the meantime, I am thoroughly enjoying being pregnant! It was almost surreal to see the baby on the monitor because most of the time I don't even feel pregnant (aside of being tired but I'm tired anyway!) I haven't had a stitch of morning sickness this time around so that is GREAT!! I can't wait to start feeling the baby move - that is the best! The tech said the placenta is right in the front of my belly on top of the baby so that is why I haven't felt anything yet but soon I will! I can't wait... the kids are very excited to feel the baby kicking!! I'll keep you posted!

We love IKEA

Ed's out of town for business tonight so I told the kids we could go somewhere fun since I wouldn't have to rush out to work. Kevin and Ryan automatically said they wanted to go to IKEA. For those who haven't been to IKEA, they have a huge, bright, clean, well attended and oh, yeah - FREE playroom you can leave the kids in while shopping. Depending on how busy the store is, you can shop for between 30 minutes and 1 hour. Today when I dropped the kids off, they asked if it was OK if I left them for 1 and 1/2 hours. Sweet! I went upstairs to the cafeteria and enjoyed a delicious salmon dinner for cheap and then shopped. I did get called early because Ryan hurt his lip but overall, they had fun. Then we got some frozen yogurt and Ryan was all better. While we were eating the frozen yogurt, we heard an announcement that all Christmas decorations were on sale for FIVE CENTS each! There were some decorations, some ribbons, bows, candles, etc... We got $3.00 worth - yes, 60 Christmas items!! We hit the jackpot. I will use a lot of it for crafts and gifts and will donate a bunch to the preschool!!! What a bah-gain!

Seeking Baby Names

We haven't come up with any baby names yet! I keep joking that we'll be bringing home a nameless baby - but they don't let you do that anymore! (They let you leave the hospital with a birth certificate that says "Baby Boy" Last Name or "Baby Girl" Last Name. We still have plenty of time... any good suggestions for boy or girl?

I should mention that Eddie picked out "Josiah" for a boy and "Sophia" for a girl. Kevin is convinced that "Sully" is the perfect name for either girl or boy.. And Ryan changes his mind daily but has all kinds of silly names like "Flower Flower" or "Pink Pink"....

So excited!

I'm 18 weeks along today and I have my ultrasound on Thursday. It's my level 2 so I'll have one hour of looking at baby! It also means one hour of not being able to pee but that's OK!! I can't wait to see the little one! I hope to get some good pictures I can share with you all!!!

Come On Down..

Anyone been watching "The Price is Right" since Drew Carey became the host? I just love this show!! I think Drew is doing a great job. You can really tell that he loves the show! I'm a game show junkie. Maybe I am "old school" because I just don't "get" "Deal or No Deal"... I do love the old shows, though - The Match Game, Family Feud, that show with the Whammies... Name that Tune, there was a cool game called Pitfall - I loved that show... I don't get a chance to watch "The Price is Right" that often but I caught the end of it today... Way to go Drew!

Here's Drew and one of my favorites - the Showcase Showdown:

Can't sleep - got any tips?

I haven't been able to sleep most nights... I just toss and turn... then I end up getting up to pee - it seems like I never get to sleep. Does anyone know of any tricks that work during pregnancy? Is there a tea or something that will help?

Christmas Pics!

I'm finally putting up some Christmas pictures! Enjoy!!

Here are Kevin and Ryan posing with Sponge Bob at the Elks Christmas party:


Kevin and I at his classroom Christmas party:


Ryan at his classroom Christmas party:


Christmas morning:


Kevin is enjoying opening presents!


"Hey look! A Shrek toothbrush!!!"


Eddie opens Don't Spill the Beans...

No School Today!

We are getting lots of snow today - so far probably 3 or 4 inches... we received a call from the school this morning at 5:45 am saying there would be no school. I was psyched! I am so glad I do not have to do my usual drop off / pick up routine; drop off Eddie at 8:35, come home, drop off Kevin and Ryan at 11:30... pick up Kevin and Ryan at 2:00 then sit in front of Eddie's school until 2:50 when it's time to pick him up... However, today Eddie would have had reading group after school so I wouldn't have had to pick him up until 3:30 so we would have had time to come home in between pick ups but I'm very glad we don't have to do all that in the snow! The kids are outside having a grand time in the snow and I'm inside cleaning and doing laundry! I plan to spend the afternoon scrapbooking and then going to work tonight. Who could ask for anything more?? (Well, except for having work called off...) They do say we are getting another storm on Friday! Just when our lawns were all green again; more white stuff!!! At least I don't have to work Friday night! Stay warm everyone!

$4 Prescriptions at Walmart

If you haven't heard yet - Walmart offers over 350 prescriptions for $4.00. I ended up taking Ryan to the walk in clinic yesterday morning at the pediatrician's office. Ryan woke up Tuesday night in A LOT of pain - his said his right ear hurt. When the nurse practitioner looked in his right ear - she said he was 100% correct; he had a HUGE infection in his ear... so she prescribed amoxicillin and sent us on our way. Usually they fax it to my pharmacy but this time she gave me a paper prescription and I remembered that Walmart had $4.00 prescriptions... so off we went to Walmart (we needed to do some shopping anyway) and dropped off the prescription... we did our shopping and 15 minutes later, the pink stuff was ready for pick up and only cost $4.00. I imagine with my insurance, it probably would have been a $10 copay as opposed to the $25 or $45 copays we often to have to pay but it was still a savings of $6.00 and you figure over this year, we'll have at least 10 of those equalling a total savings of at least $60.

For more information, you can see www.walmart.com/pharmacy - and you can see the complete list of covered drugs at: http://i.walmart.com/i/if/hmp/fusion/four_dollar_drug_list.pdf

Found Videos

I found these videos when I was going through my pictures to order some prints for scrapbooking. I realized, though, that I have hardly any video of the kids... TONS of pictures but not that many videos!!! So my goal is to take more videos!!! Enjoy!!!

Here's a video of Kevin and Ryan in the early stages of walking... and yes, that really is a tractor tire hanging around his neck!


Here's a video of Eddie from our trip to Disney in 2005: