Oh The Excitement!

So, this week has been a bit of a doozy!! Seems as though both boys have come down with the Rotavirus. We had puke and runny poop on tuesday, wednesday things seemed to be looking up. Though not that far up!! Wednesday night was a rough one for Liam. He puked at about 3:30 in the morning and must have scared himself badly because we had a hell of a time getting him to go back to bed!! He was so tired. Just laying on me trying his hardest to stay awake but if I tried to lay him in his crib, he'd scream this terrified scream. poor little turd. He finally passed out for a few hours. Meanwhile, we had Spencer trying multiple times to sneak into our bed. I should have known something was up because he very rarely does this. Anyway, first thing Thursday morning, he puked all over the kitchen floor. At least he had to the sense to puke on the kitchen floor and not the carpet!! What a good little man! Anyhow, he really starting going downhill after that puke. He was completely listless laying on the couch. He couldn't hold his head up, couldn't keep his eyes open, was barely able to respond if you talked to him. He had NO colour. And I mean seriously NO COLOUR. He lips were grey, his skin was white. It was awful! I phoned the clinic here and arranged to bring him in immediately. Doc checked him out, discovered he's super duper constipated, and had an irregular heart beat. EXCUSE ME?? Yeah, scared me pretty good. He sent us home with instructions to pump as much pedialyte into him that we could get. So we did. He started perking up around mid afternoon and today has been back to himself. We went into the hospital this morning so the Doc could check him. Everything is normal!! They even hooked him up to the ECG machine for a little bit just to make doubly sure that his little heart was beating as it should be. He loved the 'stickers' that the nurse put on his chest and was very happy to lay there while she stuck him all up with stickers and wires!! He was even more excited when she told him he could keep the stickers and take them home!!! He had them all peeled off by the time we pulled into the driveway!! haha So anyway, today has started off much better than yesterday. We're taking it easy, sipping on pedialyte mixed with apple juice, eating toast and soda crackers! We might get a little wild and have soup for lunch!!! Happy Friday!

Nolan Francis Thackeray

Houston...we have a name!!! After the shock of a third boy wore off...and the excitement of the 3D ultrasound, we've finally come up with a name that we love!! Francis is my Dad's middle name, and really the only name we considered that sounded good and 'went with' our other children's names!! I can't wait for this little peanut to be here!! Though if he's anything like my other babies, he's not going to be 'little'!! I give birth to half grown men, no lie!! I have yet to buy the bassinet/cradle for our room. Liam is still sleeping in his crib, and I've more or less abandoned any plans to move him to a 'big boy bed' at this point. Bottom line, the kid is NOT good with change. So I'll let him dictate (to a certain extent) when he's ready. And besides, our master bedroom is HUGE so a cradle and change table in there aren't going to be taking much space! AND, as ridiculous as it sounds, I can always turn our walk in closet into a pseudo nursery. So for the time being, there will be no newborn nursery in our house. Not sure how I feel about THAT, but I'm not willing to move Spencer into a basement bedroom, and I don't think the older boys are ready to share a room. So poor little Nolan gets the short end of the stick and take the closet as a bedroom!!

Free Years Owed

Spencer is officially three years old...or if you ask him. Free Years Owed. I cannot believe he's three already. I remember his early days and thinking oh my god I can't wait until he's a little bigger, and can talk and sleep through the night. Now I find myself thinking OH MY GOD why did we teach him how to talk??? This kid is such a super chatter box! He talks to himself when he's playing, he talks non stop to his daddy and me, he talks to and for his brother. He talks to the tv, to strangers, to anyone/anything that has ears. It's C R A Z Y!! But I love him. Holy man do I love him!!! He's the sweetest most compassionate little man I know! He always has a hug ready for you, tells you he 'wuvs you' without being told first. He has a great imagination, can carry on pretty awesome conversations...has a knack for dropping an f-bomb (whoops!!) here and there...though he's mostly stopped that in the past week or so!! THis kid who belongs to me is amazing!!! I can't wait to see what the next free years bring!!

Busy Busy

This weekend was busy for me. It started slow, almost stopped but then I found my groove. Thursday (we had a five day weekend...I made Dan take Thursday and Friday off so that we could have an EXTRA long weekend!!) anyway, I had to go to the lab for my gestational diabetes testing. I'm positive I failed, and I'm even more positive that the idiots who work in the lab here had no flippen clue what they were doing. Right on my req it said to fast for 2-3 hours before doing the test. Okay, fine. So I go into the lab first thing in the morning and they tell me...nope you have to go eat something and come back in an hour. Are you freakin kidding me?? Seriously. So I did. I had a bagel and a coffee. Then they gave me that god awful drink and made me wait the standard 60 minutes before taking my blood. So, when I go next monday for my prenatal appointment, I won't be surprised when they say "your blood glucose levels are a little higher than we like". I will be rather annoyed, however.

Anyway, Friday I worked in the evening. I decided to be a martyr and not take a nap that day...BIG mistake! I was sooo incredibly bagged by the time I went to work I don't know how I didn't fall asleep!! I don't really even remember what we did during the day on friday. Lovely eh? Nothing that I wanted to get done got done, I do know that. But that's usually the case around here.

Saturday I was having sensitive nose issues so I got out of bed WAY TOO EARLY because I'd decided in my crazy pregnant state that Dan just stunk way too much for me. HAH! Anyway, I got up, had some coffee, snuggle time with Liam and then started making breakfast. I made Spencer go wake Dan up when he got up...8am!!! So Dan got up and was grumpy as hell!! Guess it sucks being woken up by an ALMOST 3 year old!! haha I ended up going back to bed around 10:30 and slept until almost 2!! I have been SOOOOO tired lately it's almost scary!! I could sleep around the clock if I was able!!

Sunday I painted our bedroom!! I decided that the blue I had painted in March was disgusting and had to go. So I painted the same colours as I did in the spare room!! As soon as I find some bedding I like it's going to look sooo nice up there!! The paint looks fantastic and makes the rather large room seem a little more cozy! Always a good thing!

Spencer and Liam had a great weekend being able to spend so much time with Daddy!!! Liam is VERY attached to his daddy so it's always a good thing when he can spend all day with him!! He just wants to be in daddy's arms all the time!! I think it's adorable!

Okay, well that was a longish and super boring post! Gonna go lay on the couch now for a much needed break! ta ta!