AMomTwoBoys

We have…a lot…going on lately.

Besides the pregnancy, which has left me incapable of functioning like a normal human for the past six weeks, we’ve also come to a point where we were forced to make another huge life change.

We’re moving in 6 days.  MOVING.  Out of our house and in with my in-laws.  Lucky for us, they have a large house with a huge yard, and we get along. Which will make things a bit easier.

We’ll be spending the week there and coming back to our house (an hour north) on Saturday afternoons after Dylan’s t-ball game.

You see, we plan on renting our house out once we’re finished with all the renovations/remodel stuff we have yet to complete.  And until our house is rented out, we can’t get our own home.  Because, believe it or not, we can’t afford two house payments a month.  Shocking, I KNOW.

So, we will spend our week in lovely Santa Barbara, and make the long-ass drive every Saturday afternoon and Sunday evening.  We’ll spend a day and a half working feverishly to get our house in rentable condition.  And then lather, rinse and repeat.

I’ve put a 5 month time limit on this insanity, as I refuse to give birth and bring a newborn home to someone else’s house.  I will need my own space.  And?  Dylan starts kindergarten (gah) this fall and I have to have a permanent address in order to register him.  As it stands, there are any number of elementary schools in the area and I don’t know which school we will be living near.  To save myself stress induced hypertension during the last few months of my pregnancy, we HAVE to be settled in our “own” home by mid-July.

HAVE TO.

So, please excuse me while I lose my mind in the next few days.  I have a lot of shit to do in order to be able to get us packed up and moved.  The only positive to this process is that I don’t have to pack my entire house right now.  I only need the items we will need on a daily basis.  The rest can stay behind and be weeded through and packed up over the next few months.

I’d ask you to send wine, but…I can’t drink it.  So maybe send chocolate instead?

Some of you, *ahem*Stacey*, wanted some further details about my post yesterday. So I figured the easiest way to catch you up was to give you a timeline of the last few months.

October 2009:

Have IUD removed because it was making me crazy in the head. Decide to take our chances and stay off birth control in an attempt to give my body some time to regulate itself.

November 2009:

Discuss possibility of third baby.  Decide we’ll take precautions, but if it happens it happens.

December 2009:

7th:  1st day of period

Mid month:  (I could give you specific dates, but you don’t need to know THAT much)  WHOOPS, weren’t very careful that time!

29th: Take pregnancy test.  Positive.  Happy Birthday to me!  Figure a due date of 9/13.  Six days after Zach was due!

January 2010:

First half of month: EAT! FOOD!  RED MEAT.  FOOOOODDDDDDDDD.  SLEEEEPPPPPPP.

January 16th: Send Zach to a family bbq wearing this shirt.  I stayed home feeling like CRAP.

Second half of month:  Puke.  Gag.  WHAT IS THAT GODAWFUL SMELL?!  SLEEEEPPPPPPPP.

February 2010:

First half of month:  Repeat second half of January.  Add sick kids and a head cold to the mix.

15th: 1st Doctor appointment

• Lost 4 pounds. No big surprise there.
• Blood pressure is high.  I swear up and down it’s because I’m nervous.  They believe me.
• See little peanut on ultrasound screen.

• Little peanut isn’t so little and measures a full 6 days ahead of where it should be.
• Identify heartbeat.  *phew*
• Identify alien looking FACE (awww…cute AND creepy) and moving legs with toes.  The little legs might be the cutest thing I’ve ever seen.
• Ask Doctor to look and venture a guess if there are boy parts growing.

• Certainly looks like that could be the case.  Much too soon to tell for sure, though.
• Doc moves due date up to 9/7.  The same as Zach’s!  He makes a joke about us only having sex at one time each year.  I laugh.  DJ doesn’t.
• Remember just how much I adore my OB.
• Get stuck with needle for H1N1 vaccine.
• Sent to lab for blood draw.

And…that’s about it so far!  Thank you all so much for your congratulations and well wishes yesterday.  I’m so happy to have finally told you!

Holy Crap, you guys!  I’m having a BABY!

It has struck again.

First it was Dylan.  He had a hacking cough and was home from school for a WEEK.

Then it was Zach.  He also had a hacking cough (that, at one point, I was convinced was Whooping Cough) and on Sunday developed a 104.6 degree fever.  Fun times.  Especially when Tylenol didn’t bring it down.  Sigh.

Here’s a video to give you an idea of what it’s been like at our house for the past two weeks.  After Zach’s whooping cough scare, I was trying to get a video evidence.  Thankfully, the whooping sound had disappeared overnight.  But we were left with this pathetic excuse for the world’s cutest 2 year old.

Now?  I have it.  Of fucking course.  Well, I have the head cold portion of it.  Luckily, so far, I haven’t developed the hacking cough part.

Fingers crossed.

Anyway, I have so much to fill you guys in on.  But it’s going to have to wait, because sitting up and typing and, like, thinking, is making me really tired.  And my eyes are watery and my nose is starting to run.

I paint a pretty picture, don’t I?

Thanks, once again, for sticking with me the past few weeks month. I know I’ve been MIA.

I have a TON of really awesome stuff to share with you.  Once I’m capable of being upright for more than 30 minutes at at time.

Which will hopefully be soon.