No, I am not pregnant. Praise the Lord! Haha. But lately, we have been talking about the third baby. And whether there will be a third, or when the third will arrive? Hmmm..... I am at a loss right now and not sure what to think. I decided to put it all out there and see if it helps my thought process.
PROS of another child:
-another baby to love
-someone for Hannah to pick on
-perhaps it will be a boy??
-We already have the van and room for it in the car
-No periods for a year!
CONS of another child:
-having to go through the infant stage yet again...
-Having to be pregnant and fat for another year
-It's expensive
-Our house would feel a lot smaller with 3 kids running around and I have no idea what our new house will be like...
-I won't reach my goal weight when I was hoping
-The third baby will be "odd man out" of the three kids. I feel like one of them will always be left out if there is an odd number. Also when sitting in the car.... 2 of them will either be sitting in the very back or in the middle and one will always be by themselves. This makes me the most sad!
-There's a chance it could be a boy..... haha ;)
-They will outnumber us!
-Going shopping with all three of them will no longer be an option because I will not have enough hands to hold all of their hands! I guess I could get harnesses for them though... haha
hmmm..... It seems the cons have outweighed the pros. But I also think that if we do not have a third child, it may be a decision that I regret later on. I know that if I have a child, I will not regret it because I know the moment I find out I am pregnant, I will love that baby SO much and will not be able to picture life without them!
It will most definitely be stressful and busy and I will probably need to check myself into the psych ward at work, but in the end, I don't think I will regret it if I had another child. If I didn't have another one, I may always wish I had. hmmm..... and I know Shawn really wants a boy. Though having a third child does not guarentee a boy, the chances would be....... uh, 50/50.....??? haha.
After reading some people's comments online of "pros and cons of having a third child" (yes, I googled this..... I'm really into looking EVERYTHING up online.... haha), I am leaning towards having another child. OH MY GOODNESS..... get the phone book out and call the insane asylum!! I seriously don't know how I can handle a third, but I don't want to regret not having another child later in life just because the first year is hard. (okay, I'm sure it will be hard for longer than the first year, but this is all I have experienced so far pretty much.... ) I just honestly don't know if I can handle the baby stage again. Well, really, I am just waiting until they go to school all day and then I will get a 6 hour break during the day and might be able to catch up on Laundry and house cleaning! And maybe get some scrapbooking done. Probably not though, seeming how I plan to get a job once they get into school or will be highly involved in their classrooms and become a classroom mom.... hmmm...
Okay, well, if any of you have opinions on this, please weigh in! I would love to hear what you think!
In Other News....
My cousin, Trish, from California, is flying in Wednesday night and leaving Saturday Morning. We are having a last minute baby shower for her on Friday and I am SUPER excited about it. My aunt left the games up to me...... muhahahaha..... I can plan some pretty crazy ones if I wanted, but I think I will be nice. I love baby shower games and have a few perfect ones in mind! Now I just need to go shopping for the prizes. Whoo-Hoo!! And other good news (for now, I guess...) is that her husband came back from North Carolina, where they stationed him for 5 months, because they told him he is 10 pounds overweight. So he has to come back for a year and a hlaf and then go again. This is good because he can be there to help Trish out and experience the pregnancy with her, but this is bad because now he will have to do his 5 months after the baby is born and miss out on 5 months of the baby's life. :(
Well, I need to go to bed. I know that according to this post, it is not bedtime, but the time is from when I started this blog, not when I finished it. It is after 11:00 right now. I'm pooped. I didn't even know it was that late and can't believe I am still awake! I sure hope the girls sleep till 8:00 like they did this morning! It sure was nice to get eight hours of sleep last night! Oh, Hannah had her appointment yesterday..... but sorry. I will have to blog about that later.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Sunday, September 19, 2010
A couple of cuties!
Well Megan got her pictures posted from the wedding. Here are just a couple. I love the one of KaeLee and Layla. They are super cute!
Yesterday after work we went on the Tour of Homes here is Yakima. It was pretty good. We got lots of good ideas for what we want in our house. And a few things that we definitely don't want. It was great to have some time without the girls for a few hours. We are going to finish up the houses today. There are 2 houses in Moxee that we didn't get to yesterday. I am leaving work early today (Whoo-Hoo!), picking up some dinner, going home to help pick up the rest of the house, we will swing into the two houses on our way to Jake's birthday party, then we will come back home for dinner with Jon and Sue. They are in town getting Christina all settled into her dorm this weekend! I still can't believe she's an official college girl! Whoo-Hoo!
It's a busy weekend! Hannah has her 6 month appointment tomorrow.... we will see how much of a chunk she really is and if she's reached the 17 pound mark yet... haha. (I beleive KaeLee was barely 18 pounds at a year old... haha) Shawn and I were talking yesterday about something going on on Friday and that I should try to get it off or switch it to Thursday... .and now I can't remember why. Hmmmm.... I should text him real quick.
Yesterday in my blog I said that our house is looking good and looks like crap at the same time.... but I didn't really expand on that. Sorry. Well, like I said, we are trying to get it ready to sell. The downstairs is almost done. Well, other than the crown molding. We have it all, but Shawn just needs to cut it now. We are waiting on some protractor or something that he ordered. The dining room is all done with the exception of the chandelier that will be replaced as soon as we find one in our budget. The front room is done with the exception of a second chair I think I am going to order. The living room is coming along and is almost done being painted. I like the colors but I think if I were going to do it again, I'd put a bigger contrast in colors between the wall and the fireplace.... Though this stuff is getting done, our house is quite chaotic right now with big o boxes in the way, extra furniture waiting to be sold, toys that need to be shuttled up to the girls' rooms, paint supplies everywhere and a counter covered with so much crap that you would never know there was actually a counter there!
But I have convinced Shawn that white walls are ugly! When we first moved into the house, he didn't want to paint anything because he said he likes white and doesn't like color on the walls. Well, after my initial painting the front room and dining room he started coming along, and now after the living room, he agrees that it looks MUCH better and would love to be able to paint the entire house... hahaha! Whoo-Hoo!
So KaeLee's behavior with Hannah has gone from cute to annoying pretty fast! She is driving me crazy now with things that were cute before! I swear, she thinks that Hannah was put here on earth for her own personal human dolly. It is cute (about the first 10 times) when KaeLee and Hannah are in the bath together and KaeLee is washing Hannah's back for her with the washcloth. Then she dumps water over her head. Over. and over. and over. and yup, over again. She know better and looks at me and pours it over her while staring at me, shaking her head no. Ugh. She says "ome more!" and pours it. Then repeats. A lot. This is because I pour a cup over her head trying to rinse out the shampoo and then I say "one more!" and do it again. And "One more" is usually really like 2 or 3 more. haha. It is pretty funny. Unless you are Hannah. Well, that's what I would think anyway, but Hannah loves anything that KaeLee does to her and this is no different.
Anyway, it's little things like this that annoy me with her. Maybe it won't annoy me so bad once Hannah is old enough to 'fight' back. When KaeLee pushes her, she can just push right back. But right now, the poor girl has no choice. I am constantly having to watch KaeLee with her. I know she loves Hannh a ton, but sometimes enough is enough, right? Like when KaeLee is trying super hard to pick Hannah up to put her in the swing, the wagon, carseat, or wherever else she feels she needs to go, and leaves nail marks in Hannah's skin from otrying to get a grip on her to pick her up. (all th while grunting and huffing and puffing and moaning "heavy...! heavy...! heavy...!")
Okay, well, it's close to trayline time here at work, so I should get going. I need to call my butt off this morning so that I don't leave her with a million people to call when I leave an hour and a half early. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
The Happy couple
KaeLee and her cousin Layla!
Yesterday after work we went on the Tour of Homes here is Yakima. It was pretty good. We got lots of good ideas for what we want in our house. And a few things that we definitely don't want. It was great to have some time without the girls for a few hours. We are going to finish up the houses today. There are 2 houses in Moxee that we didn't get to yesterday. I am leaving work early today (Whoo-Hoo!), picking up some dinner, going home to help pick up the rest of the house, we will swing into the two houses on our way to Jake's birthday party, then we will come back home for dinner with Jon and Sue. They are in town getting Christina all settled into her dorm this weekend! I still can't believe she's an official college girl! Whoo-Hoo!
It's a busy weekend! Hannah has her 6 month appointment tomorrow.... we will see how much of a chunk she really is and if she's reached the 17 pound mark yet... haha. (I beleive KaeLee was barely 18 pounds at a year old... haha) Shawn and I were talking yesterday about something going on on Friday and that I should try to get it off or switch it to Thursday... .and now I can't remember why. Hmmmm.... I should text him real quick.
Yesterday in my blog I said that our house is looking good and looks like crap at the same time.... but I didn't really expand on that. Sorry. Well, like I said, we are trying to get it ready to sell. The downstairs is almost done. Well, other than the crown molding. We have it all, but Shawn just needs to cut it now. We are waiting on some protractor or something that he ordered. The dining room is all done with the exception of the chandelier that will be replaced as soon as we find one in our budget. The front room is done with the exception of a second chair I think I am going to order. The living room is coming along and is almost done being painted. I like the colors but I think if I were going to do it again, I'd put a bigger contrast in colors between the wall and the fireplace.... Though this stuff is getting done, our house is quite chaotic right now with big o boxes in the way, extra furniture waiting to be sold, toys that need to be shuttled up to the girls' rooms, paint supplies everywhere and a counter covered with so much crap that you would never know there was actually a counter there!
But I have convinced Shawn that white walls are ugly! When we first moved into the house, he didn't want to paint anything because he said he likes white and doesn't like color on the walls. Well, after my initial painting the front room and dining room he started coming along, and now after the living room, he agrees that it looks MUCH better and would love to be able to paint the entire house... hahaha! Whoo-Hoo!
So KaeLee's behavior with Hannah has gone from cute to annoying pretty fast! She is driving me crazy now with things that were cute before! I swear, she thinks that Hannah was put here on earth for her own personal human dolly. It is cute (about the first 10 times) when KaeLee and Hannah are in the bath together and KaeLee is washing Hannah's back for her with the washcloth. Then she dumps water over her head. Over. and over. and over. and yup, over again. She know better and looks at me and pours it over her while staring at me, shaking her head no. Ugh. She says "ome more!" and pours it. Then repeats. A lot. This is because I pour a cup over her head trying to rinse out the shampoo and then I say "one more!" and do it again. And "One more" is usually really like 2 or 3 more. haha. It is pretty funny. Unless you are Hannah. Well, that's what I would think anyway, but Hannah loves anything that KaeLee does to her and this is no different.
Anyway, it's little things like this that annoy me with her. Maybe it won't annoy me so bad once Hannah is old enough to 'fight' back. When KaeLee pushes her, she can just push right back. But right now, the poor girl has no choice. I am constantly having to watch KaeLee with her. I know she loves Hannh a ton, but sometimes enough is enough, right? Like when KaeLee is trying super hard to pick Hannah up to put her in the swing, the wagon, carseat, or wherever else she feels she needs to go, and leaves nail marks in Hannah's skin from otrying to get a grip on her to pick her up. (all th while grunting and huffing and puffing and moaning "heavy...! heavy...! heavy...!")
Okay, well, it's close to trayline time here at work, so I should get going. I need to call my butt off this morning so that I don't leave her with a million people to call when I leave an hour and a half early. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
The Happy couple
KaeLee and her cousin Layla!
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Busy Busy Weekend....!
So, sitting here at work, I was trying to figure out what I am going to do after work.... and I'm llike Crap! We are too busy today to do anything.... I'll have to do it tomorrow.... then I was like Crap! Tomorrow is even busier! So, I guess these things will have to wait till next weekend.... haha.
The house looks like crap and is beginning to look good all at the same time! Since Shawn has been working nights all week and working out in the yard during the mornings, the house has gone to Hell in a handbasket. It's so hard to get anything done around the house for me when I am home alone with the girls. It seems like when I work on the weekends, Shawn gets a lot of stuff done during the day, but I'm not sure how he does it. I think he must stick the kids in the closet and leave them there all day so he won't be bothered and can actually get something done.
Or maybe I just play with the girls more. I feel like 80% of my day is spent on the floor, rolling around with Hannah while KaeLee is trying to use me as a human trampoline. The other 20%, I am putting Hannah to sleep, feeding one of them, or changing a diaper. During nap, if I am so lucky that they sleep at the same time, I am able to eat some lunch, pay a few bills and maybe pick up the toys. Maybe. But beyond that, nothing gets done. I don't think I am cut out to be a stay at home mom or a homekeeper..... Shawn seems to do much better at this balancing act. And no matter how much I try to entertain KaeLee, play with her, and give her the best snacks, she always ends up cheering louder for Shawn when he gets home at night. Then, the rest of the evening it is as though I have kept her under a rock all day in punishment and Daddy is her knight in shining armor that swoops in to rescue her. Whatever. At least she pretends to like me during the day, when I'm all she's got. I have a feeling that won't last long though once she has Hannah to constantly play with her. She will have absolutley no use for me then.... (poor me....!) At least Hannah loves me and prefers me (for now)!
Hannah is sure making me get some pretty ripped arms. Her chunkiness is really making me strong! All she ever wants to do is bounce on you. I try to put her in her jumperoo when she's like this, but apparently it's not the same. Mommy must do it better! haha. She gives me quite the workout. Yesterday, we went to a wedding. By "we" I mean me and the girls since Shawn is on nights this week. Yup. He got himself out of yet another wedding.
Well, we were running a bit behind and got there with one minute to spare (turned out it was more like 20 minutes, since they started so late....) and I was one of the very last cars, which meant we got the furthest parking spot! Ugh. I was lugging the diaper bag, Hannah in the carseat and started holding KaeLee's hand while she walked. I quickly realized that with where we were parked, this would take us 35 mintues to walk to the wedding, so I scooped KaeLee up and lugged a good 85 pounds across the parking lot and across the garden. My dad's cousin, Di, must have felt sorry for me because she saw me and came running. When she got to us, KaeLee instantly took a liking to her and went to her immediately. Her husband, Ken, took Hannah and we headed to the ceremony. Ahhh.... relief in the arms again! We sat next to them during the wedding and KaeLee and Hannah both had heads turning from everyone, of course, with how cute they are.
**A sidenote**
Ken and Di Paulus. Ken is my dad's cousin and Di is his wife. They have always been two of my favorite people at Beaudry family get togethers. They are genuinely great, caring people and when my parents were married, they were great friends of my mom. Every time I see them, they still always ask about my mom and how she's doing. I love them! Anyway, they live in East Wenatchee and I told them about our moving and they both lit up. It was great news to them. I am pretty excited about it actually since I forgot they lived up there. Before the end of the night, we exchanged all of our information and I look forward to giving them a call after we get all settled in up there. It will be great to know yet another family there. And the fact that the girls were so in love with Di made it even nicer. And her son, Brian, and his girlfriend were there, whom KaeLee also took quite the liking to.
Anyway, sorry for the tangent. The wedding, by the way, was my Uncle Roger (my dad's brother). He lives in Maine (or maybe Baltimore now?? hmmmm....) He was marrying Rhonda. They're story is pretty cool, actually. Rhonda was my Aunt's best friend since grade school, and had actually babysat Roger a few times. My Aunt Debbie was killed in a car accident in 1998. I was a freshman in high school. She was on her way out to the cemetary in Moxee to visit her daughter's gravesite (who died when she was just a baby... 5 months old, I believe.... she would have been the smae age as me.) She hit black ice, crashed and was killed instantly. This was an unbelievably hard time, you could imagine. She was a single mom of three boys. They're ages then were something like 16, 13 and 10? Something like that. Well, Rhonda and Roger (who had always been kinda-friends through Debbie) met up again at Aunt Debbie's funeral and reconnected and have slowly been growing in their relationship since. So, through telling their story and sharing stories of Aunt Debbie a lot also last night, it was quite a tearful event for everyone. But like it was said last night.... I am sure my Aunt Debbie would have been thrilled to have her best friend become her sister-in-law.
The girls were on their best behavior last night, which was super nice. There were lots of "little people" for her to play with. She really attached to Madison, a 9 year old girl (daughter of my dad's cousin, I believe) They held hands and went walking EVERYWHERE! She had that entire garden covered! (oh, the wedding was at Cascade Gardens.... an ex-nursery. It's beautiful!) Layla, my sister's daughter (who just turned 3) was pretty attched to KaeLee. So, KaeLee chased after Madison (who was chasing after Anna... 7 year old, daughter of my cousin...), and Layla chased after KaeLee. It was fun to watch. Every time someone picked KaeLee up, Layla would say "put her down. I want to play with her." haha. It was pretty funny. Anyway, we had a great time. I would have had some really cute pictures but I grabbed the camera out of the diaper bag to take some pictures, and Shawn had not put the memory card back in the camera! (I was quite angry, to say the least...) I know that Megan, my second cousin took some pictures, so I will have to steal them from her facebook once she posts them...
Well, I am at work, and am pretty behind, so I should probably get going. I will post more later.
The house looks like crap and is beginning to look good all at the same time! Since Shawn has been working nights all week and working out in the yard during the mornings, the house has gone to Hell in a handbasket. It's so hard to get anything done around the house for me when I am home alone with the girls. It seems like when I work on the weekends, Shawn gets a lot of stuff done during the day, but I'm not sure how he does it. I think he must stick the kids in the closet and leave them there all day so he won't be bothered and can actually get something done.
Or maybe I just play with the girls more. I feel like 80% of my day is spent on the floor, rolling around with Hannah while KaeLee is trying to use me as a human trampoline. The other 20%, I am putting Hannah to sleep, feeding one of them, or changing a diaper. During nap, if I am so lucky that they sleep at the same time, I am able to eat some lunch, pay a few bills and maybe pick up the toys. Maybe. But beyond that, nothing gets done. I don't think I am cut out to be a stay at home mom or a homekeeper..... Shawn seems to do much better at this balancing act. And no matter how much I try to entertain KaeLee, play with her, and give her the best snacks, she always ends up cheering louder for Shawn when he gets home at night. Then, the rest of the evening it is as though I have kept her under a rock all day in punishment and Daddy is her knight in shining armor that swoops in to rescue her. Whatever. At least she pretends to like me during the day, when I'm all she's got. I have a feeling that won't last long though once she has Hannah to constantly play with her. She will have absolutley no use for me then.... (poor me....!) At least Hannah loves me and prefers me (for now)!
Hannah is sure making me get some pretty ripped arms. Her chunkiness is really making me strong! All she ever wants to do is bounce on you. I try to put her in her jumperoo when she's like this, but apparently it's not the same. Mommy must do it better! haha. She gives me quite the workout. Yesterday, we went to a wedding. By "we" I mean me and the girls since Shawn is on nights this week. Yup. He got himself out of yet another wedding.
Well, we were running a bit behind and got there with one minute to spare (turned out it was more like 20 minutes, since they started so late....) and I was one of the very last cars, which meant we got the furthest parking spot! Ugh. I was lugging the diaper bag, Hannah in the carseat and started holding KaeLee's hand while she walked. I quickly realized that with where we were parked, this would take us 35 mintues to walk to the wedding, so I scooped KaeLee up and lugged a good 85 pounds across the parking lot and across the garden. My dad's cousin, Di, must have felt sorry for me because she saw me and came running. When she got to us, KaeLee instantly took a liking to her and went to her immediately. Her husband, Ken, took Hannah and we headed to the ceremony. Ahhh.... relief in the arms again! We sat next to them during the wedding and KaeLee and Hannah both had heads turning from everyone, of course, with how cute they are.
**A sidenote**
Ken and Di Paulus. Ken is my dad's cousin and Di is his wife. They have always been two of my favorite people at Beaudry family get togethers. They are genuinely great, caring people and when my parents were married, they were great friends of my mom. Every time I see them, they still always ask about my mom and how she's doing. I love them! Anyway, they live in East Wenatchee and I told them about our moving and they both lit up. It was great news to them. I am pretty excited about it actually since I forgot they lived up there. Before the end of the night, we exchanged all of our information and I look forward to giving them a call after we get all settled in up there. It will be great to know yet another family there. And the fact that the girls were so in love with Di made it even nicer. And her son, Brian, and his girlfriend were there, whom KaeLee also took quite the liking to.
Anyway, sorry for the tangent. The wedding, by the way, was my Uncle Roger (my dad's brother). He lives in Maine (or maybe Baltimore now?? hmmmm....) He was marrying Rhonda. They're story is pretty cool, actually. Rhonda was my Aunt's best friend since grade school, and had actually babysat Roger a few times. My Aunt Debbie was killed in a car accident in 1998. I was a freshman in high school. She was on her way out to the cemetary in Moxee to visit her daughter's gravesite (who died when she was just a baby... 5 months old, I believe.... she would have been the smae age as me.) She hit black ice, crashed and was killed instantly. This was an unbelievably hard time, you could imagine. She was a single mom of three boys. They're ages then were something like 16, 13 and 10? Something like that. Well, Rhonda and Roger (who had always been kinda-friends through Debbie) met up again at Aunt Debbie's funeral and reconnected and have slowly been growing in their relationship since. So, through telling their story and sharing stories of Aunt Debbie a lot also last night, it was quite a tearful event for everyone. But like it was said last night.... I am sure my Aunt Debbie would have been thrilled to have her best friend become her sister-in-law.
The girls were on their best behavior last night, which was super nice. There were lots of "little people" for her to play with. She really attached to Madison, a 9 year old girl (daughter of my dad's cousin, I believe) They held hands and went walking EVERYWHERE! She had that entire garden covered! (oh, the wedding was at Cascade Gardens.... an ex-nursery. It's beautiful!) Layla, my sister's daughter (who just turned 3) was pretty attched to KaeLee. So, KaeLee chased after Madison (who was chasing after Anna... 7 year old, daughter of my cousin...), and Layla chased after KaeLee. It was fun to watch. Every time someone picked KaeLee up, Layla would say "put her down. I want to play with her." haha. It was pretty funny. Anyway, we had a great time. I would have had some really cute pictures but I grabbed the camera out of the diaper bag to take some pictures, and Shawn had not put the memory card back in the camera! (I was quite angry, to say the least...) I know that Megan, my second cousin took some pictures, so I will have to steal them from her facebook once she posts them...
Well, I am at work, and am pretty behind, so I should probably get going. I will post more later.
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