"A Stitch in Time"

Doctor’s appointment accomplished and to day – no baby… which is good, mom is not off work until tonight and the weekend is open for us to enjoy… BUT next week – we check the situation once again. On another positive note – up to 128.6 lbs (whew), bloodpressure fine, measuring ok, baby heartrate at 136. Time is ticking down!Oh and strep came back NEGATIVE so no IV – yay!

After all the rain we have had lately the mosquitoes are out full force, in fact all 4 kids have bites! When we went the splash park we couldn’t get the bug spray on them fast enough and today they are out even WORSE! So I spent my early afternoon convincing the twins on the merits of playing the nice and cool basement. Even running out to pick the raspberries I had to throw on some bug spray and rush through it. Applesauce will have to wait until later as I am not going to brave those bugs again today!

Red block castle (Gavin)

Tomorrow looks like another inside day. We have to stick around the house for an appointment with a utility (gotta love those LONG spanning – we will be by, be home sort of things), but Ken has a play test with Bioware in the late afternoon the lucky man. So I am still trying to sneak in another trip to the local conservatory before Thursday -  to take pictures and smell the flowers of course.

I just can’t get over the heat – +30 cel today, the fans are really NOT working and the kids still have energy to spare! We did finally get rain in the evening but still a whole day of heat… bleck.

We made a run to The Mall… final baby shopping. It is a tradition for this family that each of our babies is born owning their very own build a bear. And since the twins’ birth they have been made by the next oldest child… the twins made Emanuel’s, Emanuel Trinity’s and now Trinity Baby #5’s. The teddy of choice – a puppy!

"washing" the puppy!

That leaves the soother holder and the baby book. I feel positively READY! Well, except for the fact our room is not sorted for baby… so close though!!!

Reading up on the alphabet

First night of the boys in new rooms has passed without too much incident. The twins were noisy enough for Emanuel to hear them through the floor (the bedrooms are stacked) but other than that it seems to be a success. Now for the reorganizing to make sure that Emanuel’s new room and the basement room are tidy and the kids know where everything SHOULD go. All that is left in our room is Trinity’s crib… so the big move is imminent!

I spent much of last night with two different projects – continuing mocking out pages for Emanuel’s book (I have a nice stack now, hopefully the printed images will work out) and burning cds of photos off my laptop. I am finally up to mid 2010 and my computer is no longer groaning at my excessive photography efforts. I can’t wait until I have my own external harddrive (which will occur sometime AFTER Ken upgrades to a better one than the one he has currently and I inherit that one… so a while yet). I have way too many cds and since I am depending on that medium for storage I have TWO sets of the photos… Ken is VERY glad we are digital and NOT film!

Our morning centred around going to the nearby splash park… we met up with just Nathan and had a brief run through of how the carseats are installed and gave him some baby stuff that we don’t need. The kids had a pretty good time, splash parks like this one are not Emanuel’s favourite thing, he likes water tables more… and there was a little boy who was unsupervised and not overly well behaved but we managed. following that a trip to H&W of course, can’t go without our fruit!

Gavin, Zander and Emanuel

Fun in the sun

Zander and Nathan

Today is a bit of an off day for me, truth be told… I spiked my sugars for the first time in over a week by eating two little white bread subs (mmmm) and then taking a nap, but checked 15 min later and had gone down substantially which makes me feel REALLY good… but add to that having Ken constantly telling me to SIT DOWN when I have NOTHING to do and I am starting to feel the mopy moments. I just want to be productive and everything is waiting on someone or something else. Once I finish my last commission (not that I am NOT open to taking more!!) I am going to get started on my birthday present – Tinkerbell Afghan! This is one I am determined to not gift at the last minute!!

We did throw the kids out into the backyard in the afternoon… I am going to get the boys done their camping lapbook this week, but today was simply not the day – instead we had bubbles and messing around with their toys.

Bubbles on the Belly

The twins and Ken headed to the library tonight to do a library program which gave me a little over an hour of little kid time. Kai Lan and colouring books for the win! Some days it is hit or miss with how the little two get along. Trinity is still only 2 and grabby, and Emanuel does get tired of sharing. Doesn’t help that I let them stay up past 8pm just to see Daddy and the boys get home.

So tomorrow is my regular appointment and then we plan out the rest of our week. Wish me luck!

Cheese!

Ok now I am SURE the end of this pregnancy is not too far off… last night and this morning I woke up with a severely sore lower back (but no contractions) and then today… standing in line at the bank (oh my goodness FOREVER) and then shopping at Superstore, ok, standing in LINE to pay at Superstore for what felt like an eternity it hit barely past noon and I felt like I had been running a marathon.

The plan for tomorrow is to head out to a nearby splash park and let the kids run like mad while we rest. Ken has put me on limited walking and activity… which means if I start wandering he starts grumping. We would LOVE for Baby #5 to make her or his appearance AFTER the 1st of August so I do understand where he is coming from, BUT there is so much still to do! Raspberries to pick every day, apples to keep checking to see if they are ripe… cleaning, kids… the list goes on.

The family gallery is up to date now! Lots of pictures for July with my dad visiting, trips out and about and general kid cuteness. So be sure to check it out!

The boys have spent a nice portion of their afternoon outside in the sun and pool. Bubbles, water and little boys = some time to myself… sort of! They are rather consistent with trying to get “one more thing” – another drink, snacks, more toys…

Bubbles!

Fun in the pool (Gavin blue)

and then dinner outside in the sunshine… hotdogs and melon.

Supper in the sunshine (Zander green)

I finished a cross stitch last night. I am not sure how many people are familiar with the Warm Fuzzy story. But it is something that I remember from Elementary school – the idea of saying and doing nice things for people. Well someone did something nice for me (us) and I wanted to do something nice in return so that person is receiving this little stitch (I won’t say who to keep the surprise). I want to do a few variations on this one and post them as a set for purchase (pattern wise mainly) after I get a few more projects done. But I think it is super cute!

Completed Warm Fuzzy

Ted and Ken moved the twins’ mattress into the basement tonight and dismantled the rest of the bed. The big move is on! I am curious as to how this will go over – them being at the far end of the basement, quite the walk to get down and do any sort of disciplining if they are loud or rowdy.

So another day draws to a close and I still feel like I have a TON to do! But we are getting there!

Watching Daddy at work