So much for writing more often. 
Time to stretch the writing muscles and try again!
Quite a bit has happened since the last time I’ve been here at the ol’ blog….
Ready.
May 29, 2009 at 1:17 pm (Army Life, Everyday Bliss, Jet, New Baby)
*swoon*
September 16, 2008 at 9:24 pm (Marital bliss)
First, a little background:
Knight sort of lost his job early last spring when the company he was working for sort of began something of a slow death. He has career plans in the form of joining the Army (hopefully by the end of this month, which I am very excited about, but that’s not the point of this post), but has had odd jobs in the meantime. Since April-ish, he’s been working at a local bowling center, either tending bar, working the front counter, or doing various IT-y things for them. It doesn’t pay nearly what he’s worth, but I admire him for putting in long hours to make ends meet.
One of the things I hate about the situation is that his schedule is wildly unpredictable from week to week. It’s almost impossible to make plans, or even to know how many evenings he’ll be home with the family. He works a lot of evening/night shifts, and, as a result, we mostly see each other through our eyelids. This, of course, is a difficult thing in and of itself, but it makes it even harder on a calendar-dependent freak like me since we have a hard time communicating on a regular basis about what his schedule will be. He doesn’t understand, though he has done a fantastic job of at least tolerating, my obsessive compulsive disorder about getting everything written in my day planner. It’s an understatement to say that he’s spontaneous.
Today, though, I received an email from him that made my heart skip a beat or three. You know that funny feeling you get when your heart does a few somersaults and then splashes down into your stomach? When you just want to hold onto a moment forever? Yeah, it was one of those moments. Here’s what the email said: “I’ve been using Google Calendar to organize my calendar, find interesting events, and share my schedule with friends and family members. I thought you might like to use Google Calendar, too.”
He’d imported his work schedule and everything.
I love it when he speaks my language. *swoon*
Good News!
September 15, 2008 at 6:30 pm (Everyday Bliss)
It’s a GIRL!!!!!
We went back to the doctor today, and he said all is well. Healthy baby, healthy mama!
And now the Great Name Debate begins in earnest.
Look! Quick! Over here! A POST!
September 9, 2008 at 8:16 pm (New Baby)
A great big “Hi There!” to all my friends who live in the computer… and to all of them who don’t but read here anyway for some reason!
I can explain the hiatus from posting, sort of, but that might just bore you to tears, so why don’t we just move on to the good stuff?
The pregnancy is progressing well – I’m 20.5 weeks along (halfway! woot!). We don’t yet know if we’ll be buying pink or blue, but we go in on Monday next week for a sonogram. We do want to find out, so I’m hoping that the baby cooperates. Jet sure didn’t. Knight and I were living in Dallas during our pregnancy with him, but would visit my parents often. We had our first sonogram for Jet, and he wouldn’t show. Maybe he thought he was being polite. For the next two weekends in a row, we visited my parents for one thing or another. My dad is an anesthesiologist, and took us up to the hospital to get someone to try to find out on BOTH of those weekends. Jet didn’t show for either one of those! Finally, on our next regularly scheduled doctor appointment, we wheedled our doctor into trying again. I guess Jet got tired of hiding, because we sure got an eyeful on that appointment! I know I said early on that I thought this baby was another boy, but I’ve decided that it’s a girl. This pregnancy has been so different from my first one!
I’m feeling really good these days – they say the second trimester is the “best” one, and I’m thinking I agree. I’m past the exhaustion and nausea of the first trimester, but not yet the size of a HOUSE.
The other thing that’s really fun is sharing the pregnancy with my high school students. I’ve had most of them for three years in a row, which is one of the reasons I love my school. I get to develop close relationships with them, and see them grow and learn over a longer period of time… Anyway, they are all really excited about the baby, and are taking good care of me. I rarely have to bend over to pick something up from the floor, and I never have to carry anything. They’re all very sweet and helpful.
We finally told Jet about the new baby in Mommy’s tummy. He was instantly excited. The playschool that he attends has infants, so he’s somewhat familiar with what a baby is like. He LOVES babies! It’s been about a month or so since we’ve told him, and he talks to the new baby everyday. He always says, “Hi Baby! This is your big brother Jet! I love you!”, and proceeds to tell the baby all sorts of things. When I ask him what he’s going to do with the new baby, he always tells me that he’ll hold him and change the diaper! I think if he was just a bit older, I’d be seriously encouraging this train of thought… Everyday, he tells the baby good morning, and includes the new baby in his prayers each evening. I knew that one of my favorite things about a second pregnancy would be talking to Jet about the new baby, but it’s even more fun than I thought it would be!
That’s it for now… I’ll try to post more blah blah blah….
Updates
July 19, 2008 at 9:59 am (Everyday Bliss)
I thought I’d start with the kidney thing. My doctor did put me on antibiotics, and I finally came around to taking them. My pharmacist went over the specifics about what possible harm could come to the baby with me. She’s fantastic, and I really trust her. (If you’re interested, the insert with the antibiotic stated that, when given to lab mice, a dosage of 65 times the proportional human dosage caused developmental problems, but a dosage of 25 times the normal dose did not. I’m a total science geek, so this made me feel a lot better, knowing I’d have to have a serious overdose to cause any harm to the baby.) One of the things that my doctor said to me was along the lines of “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”. Basically, this little prevention is much safer than actually getting a kidney infection, because they wouldn’t be able to give me the intensive, high-dose antibiotics that I would need without possibly causing harm to the baby.
Also, I can’t believe I only have two more weeks of summer left! I officially have to be back to work for inservice on August 7th, but I’m going to start back on the 4th. They have us in meetings for several days during inservice, and I just have too much work to do before school starts. There’s no way I can wait until then! Prepping for four science courses takes quite a bit of organization and .. well.. prep work. I’m excited to go back – I’ve already started having dreams about the first day of school. This time of year is when my nerdiness shines. I even have to be careful in Wal-Mart, since they have aisles and aisles of school supplies.
Well, I’m off to pack and do a million other things. Jet and I, and my sister Tinkerbell, are leaving bright and early in the morning to go visit my other sister Badabady in Minnesota! Yay!
Logic
July 17, 2008 at 8:56 am (Everyday Bliss)
Our conversation this morning:
J: Can I have a snack?
D: You need some breakfast first.
J: No… You know why I don’t need waffles or a sausage biscuit?
D: *shakes head no*
J: *holds up right hand* ‘Cause this arm hurts. That’s why I only need a snack.
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I have our niece Little Daisy (2 years old) with us for a few days while Knight’s sister moves their stuff to Houston (*sniff*). For the most part, the two kids are less trouble when they’re together — they keep each other entertained! As usual, they managed to get out every single toy in Jet’s room and spread them around/pile them up until there was literally no carpet viewable (which is completely fine – they had a blast). Jet and I got in there last night before bed and cleaned the place up.
After we got it picked up, he said happily, “My room got a haircut!”
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In other news, the pregnancy is going well. I’m 11 weeks along and finally feeling MUCH better. The nausea left a few weeks ago, to be replaced by near-daily heartburn. I don’t mind the heartburn. I can eat TUMS all day long – after all, they have calcium! Right!?!?
I have my energy back, too, so the house has finally been getting cleaned.
I went back to the doctor yesterday, and he said everything is going well. I heard the heartbeat for the first time, briefly. The little goober was hiding, so the doctor had to work for several minutes to find the heartbeat. He looked a little worried, which made me a little worried, but then we heard it… and it was fantastic.
Oy, the questions!
July 6, 2008 at 4:43 pm (Everyday Bliss)
I know that the questions are how Jet learns. The teacher in me gets that. However, the mommy in me is driven up the wall by the questions.
It’s not the number of questions, per se… it’s the repetition. It seems like he’s not satisfied until he’s asked the same question ten times in a row.
He’s been known to be upset if he doesn’t get the answer he expected, and he’ll ask the same question multiple times in a row, with a tone that makes it clear that maybe you didn’t hear me right, Mommy!
Sometimes, though, there’s a diamond in the rough…
J: How does God make people?
D: Well… I don’t really know. He just does!
J: I know! Maybe He does it with all of the tools He has in heaven!!
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J: When will my next birthday be?
D: Well, next summer…
J: Will all of my birthdays be on June 21st?
D: Well, yes…
J: But I want to have another birthday before next June 21st!
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J: How do people get hugs in them?
Knight: Umm… God puts them there!
J: Oh..
K: You know how I give you a hug, and then you give Mommy a hug, and then Mommy gives me a hug?
J: Yeah…
K: Well, we just all share hugs and pass them around!
Spelling
July 1, 2008 at 12:40 pm (Everyday Bliss)
Jet really doesn’t have that many “baby” words anymore. He’s straightened most of them out, and corrects us when we say “lasterday”. However, he consistently replaces the “re-” sound at the beginning of words with a “yer” sound.
He’s also very into spelling words.
This morning I received this query: “Mommy, how do you spell yercord? I don’t yermember.”
I suppose laughing at him really only continues to bolster his future need for therapy.
I have discovered the elixir of life.
June 12, 2008 at 4:39 pm (Everyday Bliss)
I would package and sell it, but someone else already has.
I’ve been experiencing quite a bit of nausea during the day with this baby, and have struggled to find things to eat that sound and taste good. I seem to have developed a reaction to watermelon and cantaloupe, so those are out, which is very, very sad.
However, my local grocery store sells store brand packages of frozen fruit (shocking, I know). The best thing EVER, I have found, is the frozen mango. I spent a summer in Mexico studying for my Spanish degree, and I discovered fresh mango. I thought it was nectar from heaven. In fact, the mom of the family with whom I was living made sure to have it on the table at every single meal for me.
It is very difficult for me to express how ridiculously excited I am about these dumb frozen mango chunks, but they’re just cool and refreshing and feel SO GOOD in my tummy. And pregnant women are ALL ABOUT things that feel good in the tummy.
Additionally, I’ve sort of been trying to watch what I eat, and I love that the only ingredient listed on the package is “mango chunks”. It makes me feel good to know that I can have fresh mango without all the work of peeling and cutting one up (which is a very messy proposition, indeed) and without preservatives.
All in all, it’s been a pretty good day (aside from the nausea). 
Summertime and the livin’ is easy
June 4, 2008 at 10:47 am (Jet, Summer Vacation)
Jet started swim lessons on Monday…
Here’s Daddy helping him get used to the water:
Made some new friends:
Blowing bubbles:
Knight’s sister and family visited us over the weekend. Knight and her husband went to the video store to look for an additional guitar to play Guitar Hero, and her husband bought us Rock Band instead. Consequently, I’ve been listening to a lot of this:
… but he really enjoys it, so I’m okay with it for about 10 minutes at a stretch.
