A Little About Me

How Many Children Do You Have? 1, Thomas and another on the way

How Old Are Your Children? almost 5
Are You Married? Yes.

What Type Of Family Activities Does Your Family Do? go for rides, go shopping {way too much}!go to the park, fishing, anything together
What Type Of Restaurants Do You Like To Eat At? Anything where Thomas will eat at and possibly hopefully eat free!
Are You Planning On Having More Children? no two is all we can afford for now..
Do You Work Out Of The Home? no
What Type Work Do You Do? SAHM at the time but planning on going back to work when baby is old enough
Do You Have A New Years Resolution? "If we don't necessarily need it, don't buy it"
What Do You Like To Do When You Get Free Time When Your Children Go To Bed Or Take Naps? Read, or watch TV

Something That You Couldn't Live Without? Books, and my camera

Do You Wear Glasses Or Contacts? no

Do You Have Long Or Short Hair? long
Do You Live Close To Where You Grew Up Or Have You Moved Far Away? moved far away
How Long Have You Been Married? 5+ years

Have a Very Robotic Christmas

After all the hoping and praying and pushing and prodding and shoving magazine ads in our faces countless I don't know how many times all December long, Santa Finally caved and came through and put the biggest grin on one happy little boy's face Christmas morning! The house is now filled with the voice of "Wowee Robosapien V-2" ,Robopet, and Roboraptor howling off the hallowed walls of our house almost daily now , but if it means the joy or enjoyment of one little boy and fullfillment of one little boy's wish come true , then so be it. He is a good boy,and his intentions are true, even if sometimes he may get out of hand, and talk back and come off a little fresh, he doesn't really mean it. He's just trying to get his message across, it just comes across the wrong way. And he is truly sorry when reprimanded.He deserves the robots and truly appreciates them. The second day he got them, he broke them, one on the leg, the other he opened the V-2's hand to put a ball in, and the hand stopped working, and we were upset that we had to return it all the way to the mall an hour away, and he was TRULY upset - he was sobbing ! He was SOO upset they were broken it broke my heart to see him cry. If he really didn't care about these toys he wouldn't have cried. But he did which meant they meant something to him-alot- and he truly appreciated them. I voted to plain return them and wait a couple years till he was older but Tom replaced them and I think he did the right thing.He just has to learn to be more careful and not force the robots but use the remotes. These things burp, fart, use crass remarks- theyre almost human! Theyre a riot! He loves them and plays w/ them every day as soon as he wakes up- thats when I know he's awake !I think its Thomas' best Christmas yet! Who would have thought a Four year old would be playing with robots at such a young age? Boy they grow up fast!!from Dinosaurs to robots! Who'd have thought? Hold on tight its a fast ride!...

UPS Rescheduled Christmas Dinner

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A Couple Days ago,Tom and I decided to order our Christmas dinner we were going to make {or serve} for our family and relatives from online and give ourselves a break since we always do Thanksgiving and Christmas and decided to go easy this time . So we ordered from Harry and David- They had some REALLY nice looking stuff and we were going to serve Prime Rib this year, and they had one that was perfect to just heat up . So we bought that and some cute Christmas cookies and some Christmas cheesecake trees for dessert,and some pears. - Everything to go with the meal. They said it would come on the 23rd Guaranteed.Perfect. We had some pre cooking to do anyway so we made some Struofoli, and some dinner rolls to heat up, and christmas cookies, and cleaned the house, wrapped some last minute gifts, doorbell rings- cool- the foods here! What comes? the pears. Not cool! Where's the rest of the friggin food? We call the company, they say Ups is running all the way up until midnight- and the orders are in different boxes. Kay... well, we stay up till midnight, and UPS never returns... We're having dinner Christmas EVE the 24th. Tom checks UPS online SAT morning and finds out that UPS decided on their own that they RESCHEDULED our order for the 27TH!! That's our Christmas Dinner !! They can't do that!!! You have no Idea how utterly pissed I am right now! What gives them the right to say whoops! We missed some boxes, oh well! We'll deliver them next week. Lets go home and enjoy the holiday, screw them.. NAH NAH NAH! Get your lazy asses back in the truck and DELIVER EVERY LAST BOX like you were SUPPOSED to in the first place and to the RIGHT address if it takes you ALL NIGHT! Isnt their motto like on time every time or something - oh sorry "what can brown do for you" ? you can bring me my Christmas dinner like you were supposed to is what you can do for me! So now DH is driving to Ellenton outlet mall which he doesnt have time to do to the Harry and David store there where theyre going to credit him and make up a Christmas dinner there- they don't have a prime rib, but they have a spiral ham , and some Christmas cookies left they said and we reserved two cheesecakes last night in his name. Anyway, I'm just severely pissed at this whole ordeal and needed to get it off my chest. I'm sure eveything will be great - the family will all be together and we'll open presents and be happy and laughing and sharing and that's what counts- being together and happy as a family for the Holidays. ~ I just can't believe something so ridiculous turned out of something so simple as ordering a Christmas dinner to make life easy! But then again,that's how my goes-kinda like Murphy's Law-"whatever most likey can go wrong, will"

Christmas Family Photo

Tom and Thomas and I went to the International mall last night to get our family photo done for Christmas cards to be done and sent out. We haven't had our Family photo done since Thomas was like two years old! I think it was time for an update! It came out pretty decent I think, I think I look a little stoned , the way my eyes look - or the photographer caught me half blinking, I donno, but Tom and Thomas came out real nice. The Photographer was real nice though and very creative. he took a bunch of shots of just Thomas too.So we wound up with like three poses that we liked but are using this one for our family photo shot and Christmas card. We promised Thomas he could visit this robot he fell in love with at the Sharper Image store he could check it out again and play with it - this thing is cute it WAS 300 bucks- but was marked down to 199- I think it just made its way to Santa's list as Thomas talks about it NONSTOP at home - no joke- he's OBSESSED about this V2 robot Tom and I hear about it in our sleep ! Tom snuck it n the car while Thomas wasn't looking .. while I took Thomas to the play area at the mall. Thomas didnt even know he was gone- I swear this Christmas the boy put us in the poorhouse! With the baby coming , this might be the last spending spree christmas in a while so we figured might as well make it last while we can! Gonna have to tighten our belts after this one ... One last hurrah ya know? Plus Thomas was real good this year.. and he was real good taking the pictures- he took a nap during the day so he wasn't tired or anything - a real sport - was real into it .- He deserved the robot. It was worth it. And will be worth the look on his face when he sees what "Santa " brought him after he told him what he wanted when he sat on his lap that day at the mall - A robosapien V2.. There Really is a Santa Clause...;)

24 Week Echocardiogram

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I finally had my 24 week sonogram echocardiogram done today and just wanted to report that everything came back terrific! It was an 8 AM appointment and Thomas was supposed to be at school an hour later but never made it because his school was an hour away and we never got seen {waited in the office for like an hour and by the time we got seen and were done and would have drove back to his school, he would have only class for like an hour or so }, so it wasn't worth it so he got to play hookey and witness the sonogram with me. He LOVES watching my sonograms! BTW The babys heart was to be checked out to see how it responded to my medication and to see if there were any defects- septal, any holes etc.. since my last pregnancy Nicholas had a septal valve defect-{a very large one at that} where he only had three chambers.. But this guy..he is the picture of health! Everything is in perfect working order I am proud to report! He is making this pregnancy smooth as silk so far! He is one and a half pounds,a little bigger than a foot I think the sonographer said,stayed nice and still for the sonographer like a good boy,got a 'lil fussy towards the end, but hey he's a boy - whatcha want? They gotta stir up here and there.. my next visit is after the new year where I go once a week to monitor his growth and get my GBS test done on the 2nd of January.. Speedin right along. So thats my news or update as of so far. Xmas business is done, now to work on the lil guy- nursery and registry business to take care of - a moms life never slows down does it???
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Belly Shot Comparison-3 Mo& Beg.6 Mo....

I was seeing how I would compare belly shot wise 3 months to now going on six months{this coming week will be six- my 24th week} and made some pretty decent progress! STILL think I'm kinda on the small side and should be packin it in more when I look down, but when I compare the two pics, the lil guy's done some decent growin! can't believe only 17 more weeks to go! I better get crackin on the nursery! its still an office right now and the only thing we've done to prepare is buy some diapers and wipes! No crib, no furniture or anything, maybe after the holiday we'll focus on that. we'll see maybe sooner. So, this is me at 3 mos.. and here's me now at 23 weeks -

Pregnant & Kidney Stones- OY!

I don't believe I'm already at the 23 week mark-I'm halfway there already!I got to celebrate it by suffering through a bout of painful kidney stones this weekend! Oh momma! because of the medication I take,I'm told its bound to happen from time to time, I drink {or am drinking} water like a fish, I guess I'm not drinking my daily quota? I'm drinking my daily gallon of water like I'm reading that i'm supposed to be drinking, maybe I should up it . But anyway, this weekend I've been walking around like a 90 year old lady just shuffling aroundand doing breathing excercises -in through the nose , out through the mouth enduring the pain in my left side,groin and back and drinking water alll night and becoming quite aquainted with the "potay" till this morning the stones finally passed and I was like "that's it? " these tiny things gave me all that pain? they were half the size of a peppercorn! anyway thank goodness that's over, I had endured it once before and didnt want to go through that again, and the stones were half the size of THAT and I needed pain meds! { I know, wimp!} LOL felt like I was in labor! oh well Just thought I'd tell ya how my weekend went -painful , but finally over thank goodness!!
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Thomas & Pic With Santa

Thomas got his picture taken with Santa today- he never really was good with Santa, the Easter Bunny,Bigger dressed up Seasonal characters than he. They just freak him out for some reason- But lately he's been much better- When he was Three, we took him to see Mickey Mouse at Disney World when we first moved down,and he just stared at him and didn't cry, and the other day, well, yesterday actually we went to the Intenational mall in Tampa an Santa was there, and we asked if he wantd to siton his lap and he viciously shook his head no, but todauy we were at th Sarasota mall and he actually decided he wanted to sit on his lap so we said ok after making sure 5 times! LOL He still looked a lil shaky , buy looks like his fear of big seasonal creatures just might be ebbing! here's his picture w/ Santa from today.. not too bad ...

A Day At The Fair

Today,Tom went to a Bucs game while a friend from work was in town and they went together. Needless to say, Thomas was crushed -he wanted to go to the football game togehter with daddy so badly! it was so sad- He even put on HIS Bucs Jersey to look just like him- it was soo cute- but we had to convince him that another day we promise there will be other games where just daddy and him will go {never mind the fact that mommy would like to go too! } So I took his mind off and took Thomas to the Carnival that was in townwhile daddy went off to the Bucs game with his friend from work.here's a couple pics of his day at the fair- looks like he got a bit worn out after a while!Then we went to Dairy Queen for dinner since we had 2 free kids meals we got from his school fair he got one as a prize, and I got one for helping out with the games and prizes so we cashed them in and had dinner for free since daddy wouldn't be home and we spent enough on the games at the fair! anyway, heres some pics of our day..-here's my two "Buc boys.." and here's Thomas all wiped out after a day's rides and games.. * Note i know in a pic you'll actually SEE Tom on a ride with Thomas .. That's because the next day Tom went AGAIN to the fair with Thomas because Mommy couldn't go on ANY 9of the rides except the Merry Go Round due to the fact that she's pregnant {whoopee } which sucked for Thomas! and he REALLY wanted to go on the Bumper cars SOO bad! It broke my heart to just see him watch throughthe gate and not be able to let him on!... So when Daddy came home . he took him again the next night after dinner. :) So He had MORE Fun! Happy ending once Again!
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18 Week Test Results

I had my 18week visit with the neonatologist today and got my test results back from when I had the transnuchal sono test done to see if the baby woul have Down's or not,and it turns out as far as the sonographer said, the numbers were too low for the baby to have Down's so the Test came back Negative!! Oh what a relief! he still wanted to know whether I wanted to go for the amnio to make sure, I said if I didn't absolutely need it, and my odds were increased with age of having a miscarriage-and the sonogram already proved that the baby didnt have downs then why look a gift horse in the mouth and play with fire? I didn't deem it necesssary would you do it? So we did another extensive sonogram today to see how the baby was growing, and and he could see the sex of the baby... and boy was He not shy! yes , that's what I said , HE! Legs were spread like an eagle for everyone to see his manhood! LOL stickinup floatin in the breeze! DS got his wish for a baby brother afterall- he told his teacher last week he was having a baby brother, and his teacher congradulated me on my new son. I was like????? I said I have no idea what the sex is so my son must be Pshychic I told her! LOL apparently so because today we found out for the first time we were having another boy! Add some more testosterone to the household! there goes my princess nursery ... -just kidding-i dont mind either way- as far as the sonographer could tell, this baby is as healthy as a horse! The doctor wants an echocardiogram done just to see how his heart is reacting to my seizure meds. Other than that he's doing just fine. I see my regular OB this friday.I think to find out about my alpha feta protein test - the sonographer couldnt understand why that was oredered when the nuchal fold test was ordered .He ,-said it was a waste of money but whatever-, guess to make sure. Thats my update on my tests as of lately. Thought Id share- heres some pics of my not so shy lil guy. as for names- still kickin some around-like Brendan Michael, Aidan Matthew,etc..- I write them down for DH and he just smiles and nods and walks away or comes up with disney character movie names- he's totally not helping and joking around when I'm trying to be serious- this might take a while ... anyway, heres the not so shy lil guy..enjoy!