Almost 28 Weeks

Mondays are so much better when coupled with great doctors appointments. With Maddy, my prenatal appointments usually went like this:

Doctor: Hmmm.... blood pressure is high....

Nurse: Weight gain is pretty high too. Why is she gaining so much?
Doctor: Let's get her to the hospital.
ME: I went yesterday!
Doctor: Oh good, so you know how to get there.

Lately my appointments with this little one have been wonderful. I almost feel as though I breeze in, doctor checks to find a great blood pressure, baby's heart rate is perfect, and weight gain is on track. I leave feeling ready to conquer.

Now I'll just cross my fingers that everything stays that way. Bedrest with Maddy on the outside might not be as relaxing this time.

Farm Life

Uncle Matt and Auntie Lauren signed on the dotted line!

Emergency!

As I was cooking dinner on Tuesday I noticed a large puddle at my feet in front of the sink. I quickly grabbed a paper towel picked it up and moved onto the salad chopping. As I rinsed the veggies I noticed again, a large puddle pooling at my feet. Hmmm... that probably warrants a little bit of an investigation, so I opened the cabinet and saw this:

Aggh! A leak! I grew up in an apartment, so anytime something "house related" occurs I tend to FREAK. Looks like even though Maddy is growing up in an house, I may have passed some of this along... because as she came barreling around the corner hearing me talk about an EMERGENCY! she started shouting to CALL THE POLICE! CALL THE POLICE! I want to move! Call the police!

Instead of the police, we called Papa... who like magic fixed our sink. (Mind you when he went to move the above leaky piping the ENTIRE THING FELL OUT OF THE WALL.) BUT, I digress... it is fixed. Maddy even had a special note waiting for her when she got home from school.

What would we do without Papa?! Maddy would probably call the POLICE!

Farm Life

We went to a local farm this past weekend to take a wonderful New England Fall afternoon

On our way home... and keeping with the farm theme, here is our conversation with Maddy:

Daddy: "Maddy, why did the chicken cross the road?"

Maddy: "I don't like chickens, can we go to the mall."

 

Hmmm... farm girl she is not. :)

School Days

Maddy also received a very special birthday day surprise from her Auntie Christen and family :)

Look at all the prizes... there were even some in there for baby brother and mommy! :)

We also got two of the most adorable knitted hats for the new little guy we have coming from Grandma and Grandpa. Ray and I definitely have very lucky kids.

Mommy Lessons

There are times as a mother that I am not proud of. I need to remind myself that as long as I learn from the un-proud moments maybe something will be accomplished. Yesterday Maddy woke up maaaadddd. She was mad getting out of bed, mad getting dressed and mad eating breakfast. Everything was a struggle. When I picked her up from school the bad mood continued, and since I am not a beacon of good-mooddiness lately, well I got in a bad mood. Maddy's bad mood and mommy's bad mood can be eerily similar sometimes and after the hundredth time of asking her to do something I lost it and yelled my head off. While yelling I watched as she looked scared, and then laid down on the floor... So, taking her lead I laid down next to her. She said sorry. I said sorry and we talked about our bad mood Tuesday. Next time, maybe I can just lay on the floor and skip the yelling.

Gymnastics!

It is gymnastics time again!

Last night Maddy asked me if the baby had a baby couch in my belly.
I was very tired... and said yes.