Coming Spring 2011…

BABY # SIX!

Back in August I was awaiting my monthly cycle and when I felt like it was late I mentioned to Kyle that I was tempted to make a run to the store to get a test. Kyle looked me in the eyes and said “You are NOT pregnant”. I said “Fine but if I haven’t started by the time you get off work Monday will you get me a test?” He said he would, but he made me promise that I wouldn’t wake up in the middle of the night and take the test, he told me I had to wait until Tuesday morning. Fine!

So Monday still no cycle and Kyle got me a test and I woke up early Tuesday morning and took the test and it was POSITIVE! I went to wake Kyle up to tell him to take a shower and get ready for work, and then I said “And by the way, I took the test” and he said “And?” I said “It’s positive”. He sat up and had this look on his face like he was trying to figure out if he was still dreaming or if what I just said was reality. He was just SHOCKED.

Now I find that really funny because for the past few months before this we have been in a state of not trying to get pregnant, but we had also decided there was no reason to avoid a pregnancy either. I’m young, my body handles pregnancy and delivery very well. And financially we are doing better now than we’ve ever been at the time of conception. So either way having 5 kids was fine but there was no reason to be afraid of having another. He KNEW that we weren’t avoiding pregnancy so you’d think that he would have realized that that meant a pregnancy would be very likely, but he was still in complete shock. 😛

So now I’m 12 weeks along. Morning sickness is yucky, and I think it has hit harder this time than in past pregnancies. There have actually been a few days where I just could not get up to do anything, but had to get up to at least make sure the kids didn’t do anything dangerous. However I feel very lucky that even though I FEEL like throwing up, I never actually do throw up, so that is something to be happy about. And I’m getting to the point where morning sickness should be going away soon anyways, thankfully. My poor house (which was cluttered before getting pregnant) is just messy now because I haven’t been able to keep up with the daily messes. So when I say goodbye to morning sickness, I’ll be saying hello to getting the house back in order!

So excited to be having another baby. I have always enjoyed being pregnant. My due date is May 6th, so I’m hoping this one comes about 2 weeks early like the last 3 have, so that it will be born in April instead. 🙂

Chicken Pox :(

Well we’ve made it 7 1/2 years as parents and have never had to deal with chicken pox before (aside from when we had it as children of course). Ethan came to me after putting pajamas on a couple of weeks ago saying “Mom, I have a whole bunch of bug bites that weren’t there this morning. They happened while I was at school.” My first thought was WHY would a bug be crawling all over just YOU at school? So I asked him to show me. When I saw them I instantly thought “Chicken pox!” Now the last time that I had ANY exposure to chicken pox was more than 17 years ago, I’m no expert at what they look like or diagnosing it, but really that was the only way that I could explain so many spots appearing in such a short time. I called the after hours doctor, and spoke to a nurse. She told me that based on my description of the spots that they didn’t sound like chicken pox and there really wasn’t anything they could do about them. OK FINE!

The next morning, Saturday, I had Kyle inspect the spots as well and I insisted that Ethan go to the urgent care to have a doctor actually look at them and tell me what they are. Well they WERE chicken pox. Ethan has had both the chicken pox vaccine and the booster shot so his case was very mild. We missed stake conference, Sunday then he missed school Monday, but all of his spots had broken and were scabbed over by Tuesday morning so he was good to go back to school. Then life was good. Or so we thought…..

This past Saturday we were at Granny’s house, and while Kyle was holding Chloe, Granny pointed out a spot on the side of her head and said “oh she’s got a zit”. One spot no big deal, it could have been a zit, or a bug bite….

Sunday morning Kyle went to get Chloe out of bed and brought her into our room saying “I wonder why she’s breaking out.” She had more spots on her face, then he unzipped her jammies to change her diaper and there were other spots on the rest of her body too. Dang it! It’s gotta be chicken pox! Only thing though, is that Chloe has NOT had the vaccine! Her doctor was being lame and I decided not to go back there and I haven’t made an appointment with another doctor yet to take her in for her vaccines that she should have got at 12 months (Bad mommy! I know!). The varicella vaccine would have been one of those shots. Chloe has been coming up with new spots every day since. It makes me feel horrible to see her like this, knowing full well that had I actually just taken her in she wouldn’t have a full blown case of the chicken pox. 🙁

But in a way I guess it’s good that I got to see the difference between chicken pox with the vaccine and chicken pox with out….. Ethan only had a few patches on his belly, his back and neck, a few spots on his face and a few on his arms and legs. Chloe has them everywhere! All over her face and scalp, and all over her body and arms and legs and all over her bum. 🙁 SO SAD!

Washing her face and hands after a meal is so hard. Normally if there is a bump on her face it’s food that is stuck there and I get to pick it off. Right now I have to be careful about what I’m picking off her face.

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At least I know that if any of the other kids get it, they’ve all had the vaccine so they won’t get it this bad. Thankfully.

Student of the Month

Tyra received a “Student of the Month” award at school today! I had actually been invited to come to the assembly, but the paper inviting “parents” to the assembly didn’t actually say that MY daughter was getting an award, so I didn’t go. So I’m really bummed about that! I mean really the paper only said “Parents are cordially invited to attend Eagle Valley Elementary Student of the Month Recognition Assembly” then it lists the date and the times. Nowhere did it actually say anything about Tyra being student of the month! Lame! So I took my own picture after she got home and showed me her award.

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The Cheese Monster AGAIN?!?!?!

OK I think the cheese monster (aka Dinah) went a little too far this time!

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A brand new 8 oz tub of cream cheese spread all over the cabinet! Not to mention that she was eating it by the handfuls, so it was all over her face and hands too! Then the dog proceeded to lick up whatever she had left in the tub (which really wasn’t much) so I couldn’t even save that!