Recuperating from a day at the Amusement Park

Man! Busch Gardens is a nice place to visit, but it sure is nice to be home!!! Jesse and I went there yesterday for Regent Alumni Day with our good friends Laurie and Topher. We had a GREAT time! Although I could not convince Laurie to ride a roller coaster, I did ride a few. Yes, I know, I'm pregnant. I made the informed choice to go ahead a ride a few this time since I'm so early on in my pregnancy and it's not likely that anything would happen. It was a BLAST!! I rode the Griffon for the first time and for those of you who don't know anything about that ride, it takes you almost straight up, and then it hangs you over the 90 degree drop for about 5 seconds before allowing you to plummet down. It was so awesome!! It was like the best 3-4 seconds of free falling I've experience on a roller coaster EVER. The Griffon is definitely my favorite roller coaster of all time now.

We rode a lot of non-roller coaster rides because of Laurie's coaster phobia. Ever rode the teacups?? Those innocent looking teacups? Well, they are not as innocent as they look especially when your husband and friend's husband are spinning it at the speed of light as you are already spinning in what seems like two different directions at once. Yeah, sounds like a regular vomit comet. You would think that I would've had enough after that, but NO. I rode Apollo's Chariot right after the teacups. I should have listened to my body as we were waiting in line, but no, I wanted to ride the stupid thing so bad that I was willing to upchuck as a result. Well, luckily, no ralphing occurred and I was able to ride the train all the way around the park to get back to the entrance (because the train station was just slightly closer than the exit to the parking lot). Ugh....then I was having a craving for McDonald's french fries and a Dr. Pepper. So I made Jesse stop and get me some. That probably didn't help, but it temporarily satiated me.

When I woke up this morning I felt like POOP!! I still felt like hurling, my feet felt like someone had been cracking them with a baseball bat, and I was SOOOOOOO tired. So, needless to say we attended "couchside baptist" this morning and just sort of relaxed. I still feel a little sick, but then again that goes with the territory of being in the first trimester of pregnancy. I still can't believe I'm pregnant. Crazy. I'll try to post some pictures of Busch Gardens later. My camera battery is dead right now and I'm too sick feeling to get up and take care of it.

Ugh. Plop. (That's me crashing on the couch)

Potty update!!

Eve just went wee wee on the potty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was like she was as amazed as I was to see it running into the toilet. I'm so proud of her!!!!

Eve is such a big girl!

I can't believe how much she has developed by leaps and bounds in the last several months alone. I mean, aside from the setbacks of pottytraining, she has really become more a little girl lately than a baby anymore. It's kind of sad, but I'm so exited to see her get things. I can almost see the lightbulb moments she has. Like for example, she went from saying "Cheese!!" to "Want more Mac N Cheese Pees!" I mean, that's an entire almost grammatically correct sentence! And she is able to communicate to us almost everything that she wants/needs now pretty directly. I still think she's confused as to what "Poo poo" really is. She looks at me like I have two heads when I tell her to go poo poo in the potty because I'm pretty sure she thinks her poo poo is her little butt. haha. Why would anyone want to put their rear in the potty and flush it? That's crazy talk. So, I think we have some explaining to do before we proceed any further with potty training. I don't want the poor girl to think we are going to flush part of her down the john.

Little David is getting HUGE. I'm pretty sure he's getting ever closer to 15 lbs. I mean, he has to be close to it and he's so LONG. I look at other babies that are 6 months and David seems just as big to me. He's much more entertained these days in his play mat. You can see him looking at the hanging toys and reaching in a deliberate manner at what he wants. It's so neat to witness those neurons firing.

And while it hasn't quite set in that I'm expecting another one, he or she is probably about the size of a grain of rice right now. No morning sickness yet. That'll probably kick in on Saturday when I'm at Busch Gardens. It always happens that way, right? How awesome would it be to not get any morning sickness? It would be pretty dang awesome!!

I am watching the Wiggles right now...well Eve is, but you know how it is. Rather than watch the View like normal people would during this hour, I'm watching four guys dancing around like lunatics and loving it!! Sad. I know almost every lyric and dance move and I think I'd actually like to go see them in concert. I might just start a mosh pit.

I git Elmo ar-cut!!

That's Evenese for I'm giving Elmo a haircut. That girl loves giving and recieving haircuts...lol. Another favorite phrase of hers these days is "I gitta pink assie!!!" That's Eve for "Give me my pink pacifier!!" She's not so nice when it comes to little oral fixation.

In other news, I'm pregnant again.

So, I guess I won't be getting my body back for a long while yet.... Honestly that's the least of my worries. I'm worried about a lot right now. But most of all, I want to prove people wrong who seem to have no faith in me right now.

Oh yeah, and even though I'm not very happy about being pregnant again, doesn't mean you have the right to give your opinion other than that standard "congrats." I really don't know what to think right now, so please... be a little considerate of my feelings right now. At least if you're going to talk about me, do so behind my back. I don't want to hear hear it. Well, I'm off to get ready to go to the gym.

All done!!

That is what Eve says after we have to put the antibiotic ointment in her eye every time. Poor thing. Just to update, her eye is going to be just fine!! No putting her to sleep to remove rust. Praise God!! Now I must go to bed....

Life with kids is UNpredictable!

So today was one of those days. I went to the WIC office as previously planned, but when I got back, Jesse informed me that Eve had something in her eye. The first thing I thought was, "Oh, whatever it is will work itself out on its own...let's just go." So just to be safe, I called the pediatrician to ask about the best way to flush it out. Jesse tried, but the "speck" didn't move off her iris. We packed the kids in the car anyway to go to the YMCA.

On our way there, Eve started rubbing her eye, refusing to open it, and was just generally whining and uncomfortable. I called the doc again and they were able to get us in right then. It's a good thing b/c we already had the kids in the car and were already halfway in that direction. Once in the exam room, the doc wanted to put these eye drops in her eye that turned yellow and glowed in a black light. They were supposed to show if there was any sort of scratch on her cornea or something was imbedded. The doc didn't see an indication of either, but was nonetheless perplexed as to why the darn thing wasn't budging.

So........we ended up at the opthamologist less than an hour after that appt ended per the pediatrician's referral. Poor Eve. More torture awaited. The eye doc wanted to make sure he was able to get the speck out, but before he did he had to put more torturous numbing drops in her poor little eye. She was screaming the whole time, saying "All done!! All done!! Buh bye!! Buh bye!!" That is Eve for "Ok, enough of that, I'm outta here!!" Then to make the situation even worse...they had to use this evil looking device for keeping her eyes open. I couldn't watch this part. Then the doc was able to get the speck out with a cotton swab.

I thought it was over...

Then the doc informs us that it was a piece of iron. So what does iron do when it gets wet? That's right....rusts. So now she has rust left in her eye that likely needs to be removed. There is a chance that in a day or two, the body's natural immune response will "push" the rust to the surface and naturally expell it, but it's likely going to have to be removed and Eve will have to be put to sleep.

ALL BECAUSE OF A SPECK???? WHAT???!!!!!!

And now of course Eve doesn't want anyone going near her eyes and I not only have to apply antibiotic ointment in her eyes 3x a day, but she has to go back to the eye doc tomorrow morning to determine what to do next....and she's gonna have to get those lovely numbing drops again so the doc can get a good look. Yay!! I can't wait to see my little girl get tortured again.

So after all of this, I'm glad we ended up taking her to the doc, but I HATE everything she had to go through today. Poor girl. She was so brave. After today's appt, the receptionist let her pick out a pair of toddler sunglasses (with UV protection of course). Eve picked "color blue" sunglasses....she says the word "color" before each color she says. Funny. Anyway, I don't know if I would have done as well as Eve did today. She's a trooper.

Inside joke

If you don't know who this guy is...well you're probably not Sterling. Hahahaha. I found this picture today and almost died!! This is a special edition of Cross Dressin' Ken that we originally created when we were 13 and 15 years old respectively (yeah, real mature of us, right??) He started off as plain old Cross Dressin' Ken, then became Floral Fantasy Cross Dressin' Ken, then Ooh la la Cross Dressin' Ken, then "I'm gonna wash that man right out of my hair" Cross Dressin' Ken in honor of Sterling's lead role in South Pacific. He has even traveled to NY and taken a ride on the subway. He's very cultured, but we should keep him in our prayers. I think he's a smidge too liberal, don't you think? Hahahahahahaha!!! Sterling has him right now and I'm afraid of when she might give him back to me. She says she's saving him for a "special occasion."