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I'm getting anxious. I feel like time is slowing down and I just want this pregnancy over. I want to meet the little baby! I hope to be back to posting daily tomorrow.. It's been crazy here.

More questions..

Erin asked-

Are you having a boy or girl?

I don't know! Seriously! We chose to not find out. My mom knows. But me, no.

Do you have and wedding plans?

No, not yet. We want to wait to get settled with jobs.. which could be awhile... I do know I want it in the summer at the beach. And if I can't have it at the beach.. then in the summer. I want a bigg wedding. i'm excited but we need to save money first.

As Promised

I promised to post about my day yesterday and today.. so here it is!

I woke up at 6:30 and saw schools scrolling across the bottom of the TV. I prayed to The Gods Of School Delays that we would have a 2 hour delay. And we did. Little did I know I wouldn't be falling back asleep at 6:30. I received a phone call from my sister asking If I could come watch her kids until at least 8 because the sitter wouldn't allow kids into her home until 8. It was a bit ridiculous. But whatever. I said sure. I got there and fell back asleep. When the alarm went off, I woke them up and took them to the sitter. I went home, took a shower and put on my best clothing. I arrived at the school at exactly 10am. The first kid walked in at 10:10. Since it was snowy and cold we had indoor recess. Not what I was looking forward to. But we had a good time. I enjoyed my first day and I'm so happy I got to go back today. Today we had another delay. This delay was called at 7:30 last night! So, I slept until 8. We had another good day and I'm glad to be heading home soon.

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Sorry I've been slacking.. it's been pretty busy around here. We're finally realizing that another week is down and it's only 17 weeks until the baby is here.. that my friends, is a little freaky. So, if you don't hear from me for a few days, I'm trying to prepare this house to become even more crazier!

Pulling My Hair Out..

I'm bored to tears. I'm so glad that we're doing something tomorrow. Don't know what though. I'm like ready to sleep.

We made it here by about 2pm. I slept pretty much the whole way up.

I'm missing my kids and Ryan but I'm also glad to get away.


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Pam, Preston has Ryan's last name. I want to look into eventually getting Abbie's name changed too. Ryan and I have talked about Abbie's dad giving up his rights, since he doesn't bother with her, and letting Ryan adopt her since he's the only father figure in her life. I understand that if her father does give up his rights he doesn't have to pay child support, and I'm perfectly fine with that. I wouldn't have to worry about dealing with his bull shit anymore.

I'm going to do a post on the whole thing sometime next week when I return home.

Remi

I found it.. It's another strange one.. but I'll have unique kids!

If we welcome a baby boy into the world in a few short months, his name will be-

Remington Isaiah.
With a nickname of Remi.

The whole name flows.

The new baby will get Ryan's last name.. one day, I will too.

Remington Isaiah Tyler..

Annaleigh Isabelle Tyler..


yes? no?

She Missed Me!

I never realized how much attention Abbie lost when Preston entered the world almost a year ago. Boy do I owe her!

It all started this morning around 10am. I was cleaning up Preston's room. Abbie was playing in her room and Preston and Ryan were relaxing on the couch. I heard Ryan getting up and saying "Ok buddy, daddy will be back later. Love ya bud." Before he had a chance to come into Preston's room I blurted "Where are you going?" "Well I was planning on going to Cabelas for the day." Woahh.. I clearly stated that he was not leaving the house without his 10 month old son. He huffed and puffed and finally saw some good in it. He would get the chance to introduce his precious baby boy, who will probably be a hunter, to all things every hunter loves. It just wouldn't make sense if he wasn't. Ryan, his brother, his dad, my brother, my dad, my cousins and uncles all hunt. If this kid is not a hunter, who knows what he'll be. Ryan and Preston were out the door by 11am and left the house to Abbie and I.. well my sister and her family were there.. but I barely even notice they're here. By the way, totally off topic, my sister is watching the kids tomorrow so I can put effort into finding a job! Thanks Cait! Love ya. Back to our day.. I decided to make home-made pot pie. Yummm. I made Chicken, Ham, and Pork. Yummy! While Abbie was helping me she goes "momma, I really miss being with just you." That broke my heart. I'm going to set aside a day each week to spend with just her. And it breaks my heart that once this next baby comes Preston will loose more time. I don't know how I'm going to do it, but I will. I'll learn to set aside a day for each of them and only them. I just hope that I don't favor any other them. I may feel like I'm favoring the new baby because s/he will need more attention. Oh boy. I'll learn to live a new life.. I guess.

Relief

Preston is feeling better since taking the medicine that the family doctor prescribed him.. Thank God!

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I'm feeling pretty shitty today, but I need to get my act together and get in contact with the local schools this week.

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My sister and her family are here and all is well. We barely know they are here. They are residing in the basement, which is finished, so we barely see them.


And I think that's everything for tonight!


ohhhh. I've done some 'shopping' online for the baby. I found what stroller/carseat I want.. Just have to find it in a store!

I Claim Myself As The WORST Mother. ever.

Sleep is usually not an issue. I start our new little bedtime routine around 8. It goes a little something like this:

8:00 pm.- Take kids in bedroom, go back to Abbie's bedroom and get her pajamas, go to Preston's room and get his pajamas.
8:05- Put Preston in the bathtub and let him play for about 10 minutes.
8:15- Wash his hair.
8:18- Wash his chubby little body.
8:20- Let him play for ten more minutes.
8:30- Get him out. Dry off. Put in crib.
8:40- Get bottle ready.
8:43- give Preston bottle and go back to bedroom to find Abbie running around the bed completely naked. Well thanks, darling, for taking your own clothing off. That saves me five minutes of fighting with you.
8:45: Draw new bath water.
8:50 Put Abbie in bathtub and let her play for ten minutes while watching her out the mirror as I start to straighten my hair.
9:00- Wash her thick, curly hair. Poor child. She ended up with my hair.
9:05- let her play for five more minutes.
9:10- Wash her tall, skinny body.
9:15- Get her out, dry her off, dress, take to bedroom.
9:23- Start to read story.
9:30- She's out.
9:30- Check to see if Preston is sleep, and sure enough, HE IS :)

This takes extremely long. Longer than it used to. But we used to start at 7:30.

You may notice that I let Preston play in the tub longer. It entertains him and keeps him happy. Abbie gets bored playing the tub but she likes ten minutes of it. So, I allow ten boring minutes of playing in the tub.

Last night, neither of them wanted baths. I put Preston in and he SCREAMED so loud. He wouldn't stop. So I gave up. I took him out, dried him off and handed him to Ryan. I went to undress Abbie and she wouldn't. She screamed and kicked and hit. I gave up. Whatever. Preston wouldn't take his bottle. He wouldn't stay in his crib. He wanted Daddy. Whatever. Ryan and put him to sleep. He tried rocking him to sleep. That didn't work. He just screamed and screamed. I thought it was never going to end. He finally brought him in the living room and put him on the floor and left him play with his toys, which we have to clean out before Christmas. I took Abbie in her room and started reading to her and she jumped out her bed and threw the biggest tantrum I have ever seen. I was ready to just break down and cry. Preston was happy playing with his toys.. I figured, what the heck. Let him stay up an extra hour if he's going to be happy, and it wore him out a little bit. Abbie, she wanted nothing to do with any toys or baby dolls, which usually make her happy. I offered her a cookie. Nope. Milk. Nope. Brownie. Nope. Water. Nope. Juice. Nope. She wouldn't tell me what she wanted.

After listening to her scream and stomp around the house for an hour, I decided to take them for a car ride. It couldn't hurt. It always makes them sleep. I put their jackets on, Preston in car seat, bottle in hand, and out the door. Put them in the car, give Preston bottle and pull out of the driveway. Withing 10 seconds of leaving the driveway, the screaming started. By then, I had a pounding headache and just wanted some sleep. I had some gummy worms in the car and offered her those, and she took them. And that made her happy. I stopped to get some water at the store and Preston was sound asleep. One down, one to go. When I came out, Abbie was asleep. Mission accomplished. Finally, two sleeping kids.

I didn't care if they slept for an hour, or they slept all night. They were sleeping and I could finally go to bed. I decided to take Abbie in the house first because she always wakes up when she hears the garage door. She can't hear it from her room so in we went. I went and got Preston, shut the garage door and took him in the house. He didn't wake up until I woke him up this morning. Abbie, she was up half the night.

I really hope we get more sleep tonight.

I am now the worst mother ever. I bribed my kids with gummy worms to make her stop screaming and left the other stay up an hour later so he would be happy. Good grief. She was cranky this morning. Great. This is going to be fun. But we had no problems. I hope she's better when I pick her up from the sitter's.

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This has nothing to do with being the worst mother ever.. but anyway.

I got some comments on what to do about finding the gender of the baby.. we've decided that we are not finding out the gender. My mom really wants to know.. I might let her go with to the appointment and let her find out. Then she can get the stroller and crib sheets and everything. She planned on getting all that anyway. So that's what I think I'm going to do. We plan on waiting until after s/he is here to paint the nursery. We first have to transfer all the stuff from my office into either Ryan's office of the basement, then transfer Preston's stuff up there and then get the furniture. We're going to keep the furniture in the basement until the nursery is done. We're going to wait to get the swing and pack and play until s/he is here. We plan to take a day and letting my mom keep the kids, if she don't mind, and paint the nursery and move all the furniture in. This probably won't be for a good month after s/he is here.

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Hope you're having a good day! I'm ready to get out of here.
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I'll post wordless wednesday later.