Dinner Time.

What happens when it takes you 2 hours to eat dinner?

July 2008

Oct. 2008

Eve takes forever to eat dinner. She does this on a regular basis. These are just the few times we thought to take pictures. She will eat her fruits and vegetables first and then just won't eat the rest of the meal. I think she might be a vegetarian and this is how she is letting us know.

And the award goes to...

I just want to thank Jaime for giving me this award. She truly is an inspiration to me. She is one super strong woman! I seriously stalk her blog all the time. Check out her blog.

There are so many great blogs out there I had a hard time picking just a few to give this award to. So here goes.

The Noeske's

Bill, Miss, and Brood.

Heart Attack!

That is what I almost had while driving home today. I was checking my voice mail and there was a message from my Dr. office asking me to call. I felt my heart sink all the way down to the baby. I quickly called while praying they were still open. I would never make it all night without finding out what was wrong. I kept praying that they just wanted to switch appointments or something small. I got through! I was so excited and waited anxiously to be connect to my Dr.'s nurse. She said all my tests were fine but the urine showed signs of a UTI so they needed to call in a prescription for me. AHHHHH. Relief. I have been noticing a little uncomfortableness in the area but just felt like that maybe it was the baby stretching me. So the munchkin is still doing good and I am feeling much better and will have to call back with our pharmacy number tomorrow to get my prescription filled.

Getting Tough.

Sometimes being a parent is really tough. Eve has always been an awesome kid. Don't get me wrong she can be a royal pain in the behind but for the most part she is very well behaved. Until the last month or so that is. She has decided to start pushing the limits. Mostly she has just stopped listening which drives me nuts. I used to be able to ask her once to do something and she would just do it. Now she tells me no way. We skipped the terrible twos and went to the sassy 3.5. This is not a stage they often talk about. She is setting her limits and trying to become more independent. I seriously have to remind myself she is only 3.5 and that this behavior is totally normal. All of my IRL friends who have kids around the same age are dealing with the same issues. So today we asked her a million times to clean up the living room and her bedrooms. Tornado Eve had swept through in the morning and you could barely walk at all in either room. Have I ever mentioned that one child shouldn't have nearly as many toys as she does. Eve wanted to do 2 things today. 1.)Help grandma make a cake. 2.) Go see the fireworks at the park tonight. Well she refused to clean up for more than 10 minutes in the living room. We ended up taking away both activities from her. She still wouldn't clean so we told her we were going to throw away all the toys left in 5 minutes. She finally started to clean again for 1 minute. After 5 minutes we got a garbage bag and packed up all of the extra toys left out. I have never seen such a fit. Once she calmed down Adam took her to her room and told her she had an hour to get everything put away or it was going the garbage too. Well after 10 minute reminders for the entire hour she managed to not put away anything. Adam and I packed up all those toys too. We have three large garbage toys sitting in our garage right now. She was even more upset because she lost 2 very beloved toys during the room cleanup:Boo and her flashlight. As they were placed in the bag she kept crying those are my favorites please no. Now before you think I am totally cold hearted let me explain that this whole process made me really sad but it is what had to be done. We made her take a nap after we finished packing up all the toys on the floor. When she woke up she was a completely different child. She was back to my sweet little girl who knows how to listen. She asked nicely for her toys back and when I explained that they were taken away because she didn't know how to listen she said sorry. We made a deal that every day she is a good girl and listens she will get one toy back. I think this will get her to act properly. She was an angel for the rest of the night and didn't fight us on anything. I am not opposed to her being independent but I do expect her to listen and have respect for her elders something she was quickly losing. I hope this does the trick or we are back to square one. I hate having to discipline her. I honestly think it is harder on me than her.

Eve Dancing.

She was teaching me how to dance tonight. I love her so much.

Today's Appointment.

I had a great appointment today. Adam took off of work early so that he could be there. Nothing exciting happened. I got violated for my yearly since I was severly overdue. Weighed and saw I am only 5 lbs away from my final weight with Eve. Not really a good starting point but I will take it. I love my Dr. she is so positive and happy. Being in their office always puts me at ease. She said my uterus felt great and perfect size for how far along we are. I am officially due May 12th. I graduate with my Masters 3 days before. How crazy and wonderful that time will be.
I go back Oct. 29 and get my 1st trimester u/s screening on Oct. 30. I am so excited that everything looks good so far.

New symptoms?

So I have had a bit of nausea on and off for the first week after I found out. Then it went away except when I ate a ham and egg sandwich at Adam's parents house and literally almost threw up half way through. Well tonight I think that awful feeling has returned. My head freaking hurts and my stomach feels like it is going to do inverse operations. It started late this afternoon and I think I am going to have to give up gum because that was seemed to trigger the stomach ache. I tried 3 different flavors and they all made me feel sick. I love gum so this might be hard. What took the nausea to a whole new level was for dinner we had shrimp salad but my mom added a bit of egg to it and guess what? That feeling I got at Adam's parents house has returned and won't go away.
On a side note teaching junior high and being pregnant is really hard. I have this student who loves to wear AXE...you know the proper way they show in the commercial to wear it is to spray the entire can in one sitting. I have already yelled at him 3 times for doing this. It isn't just that he freaking stinks but the fact that he does sprays that crap in my classroom so that I can smell it literally across the room. I have already laid into him about it and not in the nice caring teacher way, in the I will embarrass the crap out of you way. Well today I seriously almost lost my cool completely. I think I laid into him for like 10 minutes about it and then made him stand by the door with the door open so that he would air out for the entire class period. My super smeller cannot handle this and I don't want to let the kiddos know that I am pregnant yet so I can't use that as an excuse but I seriously almost threw up from the smell.
So new symptoms include: super smeller, nausea, and serious bitch.