Not Much Goin On 'Round Here

Other than it being INSANELY hot. Hot and pregnant do NOT mix. Seriously. All I've been thinking about is how I can come up with a spare 3 grande to get central air conditioning installed in my house. We went for a walk last night and I saw two houses with the air conditioner unit sitting outside. I almost turned green with envy. It has been so friggen hot in here I haven't cooked in over a week, I haven't cleaned. I've done nothing but the absolute minimum. The kids have been in the kiddie pool every day for the past week. Our water bill is going to be insane because of the number of times we've had to empty, clean and refill the kid pool.

So, as you can see, it's been pretty boring around here. Liam has started vocalizing a lot more in the past few weeks. I wish he'd just pop out a word here and there. It's still just noises. He's definitely telling you something when he does this, but still, a 'mommy' or 'daddy' here and there would be so nice!!!

Anyway, that's it for now. It's supposed to be really hot again today, so I have big plans of hanging out in my basement and doing NOTHING other than playing with kidlets and changing bums when needed.

Wood

Floors!! We're going to the floor store today to get some prices on installing wood flooring in our house!! This is exciting folks!! I do love vacuuming, but it's becoming insane. I cannot keep up. Three times a day, every day and you'd think I didn't even own a sophisticated carpet sucking machine if you saw my carpet. It's embarassing. Sooo the solution? HARDWOOD BABY!! I'm hoping to not spend any more than three thousand...but we'll see. We do know that we want real hardwood, not laminate, so we know the cost is going to be substantial. But, it's cleaner, it boosts resale, it keeps it's value and it looks nice!! I'm very very VERY excited! I took measurements today, with my trusty 3 year old helper! He's VERY good at holding the end of the tape measure for me!! haha and Soooo happy to help out! We're looking at about 300-ish square feet of coverage. Not a huge space, but still, it's not going to be cheap!! It's funny because when we were house hunting a lot of fairly nice houses didn't even make it onto our short list because of the wood/laminate floors. Now, it's all I can think about! Go figure! We had them in the old house, but they were the cheaper engineered kind and super glossy and kinda tacky now that I think about it!! I did have a quick look yesterday and found a few finishes that I really liked, that were low sheen and already looked slightly distressed. So, when I'm going to have three boys running around, pristine floors aren't really an option...slightly distressed is though! haha anyway, off to see how many kids I have to sell to get new floors in my house!! ta ta!

Some Pictures

A few pictures from out trip to my Dad's house. There's more, but I don't feel like adding them! hah!

Infected

So our kids brought home a lovely little gift with them from vacation. They both ended up with Hand Foot and Mouth disease. I've never ever heard of this until now. On our second day of travelling home, Liam was really irritable, wouldn't drink or eat, and just was not fun to be around. We thought it was just because he hates being in his carseat for long stretches. Nope. Turns out he was brewing a little virus in his little body. We noticed that night that he had a red rash on his bum, like hives. I figured it was because he'd been sitting for 2 days, and no matter how many diaper changes he had, it's still hot to sit strapped in and not move. Anyway, the next morning Spencer also had the same rash. Again, I just thought it was from sitting in the carseat for so long. Spencer was never pissy or fevered like Liam, so I just thought that maybe Liam was trying to pop a few more teeth. So, we leave for home last Thursday and all is fine. Liam has a bit of a crappy night, but I assume this is because he's been away from his bed for so long, it's just taking him a little bit to get settled. Spencer slept great that night. Friday, Liam is still pissy and really really clingy to Dan. Spencer...just his usual self. On Saturday morning while I was getting Liam dressed I noticed his toes had some blisters on them. Didn't bother me too much. I thought that maybe his sandals were rubbing his toes and that's why he had blisters. Then around 11 Dan says that Spencer's hands are now covered in blisters. THIS freaked me out. I had just been playing with Spencer about 45 minutes before this putting stickers on his hands and arms, and he had NOTHING. So it scared me enough to pack up both kids and head for the ER. Turns out they've both got Hand Foot and Mouth disease. It's a normal childhood ailment and it clears up on it's on in about a week. We were told to just give Liam some Motrin as he had blisters in his mouth that were cleary very uncomfortable. Other than that, just make sure we do lots of handwashing and no cup/utensil sharing. Good enough. Today is the first day that things are starting to look better. Spencer's hand blisters are starting to deflate and fade away. The huge blister on Liam's toe is now fading too. His mouth is better. He had a bottle this morning...apparently that was part of his temper issue. He hadn't been taking bottles because his mouth was too sore. So in turn he was a little monster to deal with. Gave him a bottle this morning and the world seems to be all right again!! I'm hoping by tomorrow or the next day the blisters will be gone and things will be back to normal!

Hello Blogger, It's Been a While!

But, in my defense, I was on holidays!! Nowhere exciting, but it was away from here and that was good!! It's nice to get away, but holy god, it's nice to get home!!! I have NEVER been so thrilled to sleep in my own bed!!! We went to visit my Dad and unfortunately had to sleep on an air mattress the entire 10 nights we were there. HORRIBLE! My pregnant hips and back were screaming at me every morning!! Not fun.

Oh yeah, we had the ultrasound, and we're having ANOTHER boy. I'm not gonna lie. I'm dissapointed. Of course I love him, of COURSE I love him, but I was so hoping for a girl. This pregnancy has been so very different from the previous 2. I haven't been sick, I haven't been sore (until now) I haven't been moody. Nothing nothing nothing like the last 2 times! So anyway, I did make it out of the ultrasound office before I completely broke down. We're talking crying so hard that I couldn't form a single sentance. I felt so unprepared to hear it was a boy. We only had a girl name picked out. We had only been looking at pink baby items. It was all girl in our heads. I felt guilty that I was sad it was a boy, I felt guilty that I didn't have a name. When we had our ultrasounds with Spencer and Liam, we knew when we left the office who was in my belly. First Middle and Last names. With this one. Nothing. How unfair is that. We do have a first name now. It's Nolan. However, a middle name is proving to be very difficult. It needs to be two syllables, and start with a consonant. Why? Because I'm nuts. That's why. So anyway, the shock of having 3 boys was a bit much. But I'm dealing with it. and I'm really looking forward to meeting my little Nolan! I'm not sure if we'll have anymore babies. I am really on the fence with this. I'm going to have a long chat with my OB and get her opinion on whether or not my body can handle another pregnancy. Whether or not it's safe. 3 c-sections in 3 years is pretty extreme, so I don't know if more babies are even an option. In any case, we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.

The vacation was good. It was a nice getaway, both boys had loads and loads of fun! We didn't have any sort of agenda. We didn't really go visiting anyone, I know that's bad, but man it takes a lot of energy to sit with family. We played in the sun, spent lots of time as a family of four, took the kids to the beach, tried and failed to find a bear...BC wildlife HATES me, I think!!

Anyhoo, I'm tired, it's late. So time to hit the sack!! Mmmmm I love my bed!