ALL THAT AND MORE

So I know i'm behind on my blogging. I blame the pregnancy hormones. :) Nothing too new to post here. I'm now 11 weeks. I have my next doctors appt tomorrow. I can't wait to hear the heartbeat. I love that! I'm definetly not going to look at the scale:) My clothes still fit fine but I just don't want to know. I didn't look w/ J and it made me happier not to know. I don't want to stress about it, so not knowing suits me just fine. I'll put some belly pictures up when I have an actual baby bump and not leftover's from J :) Sorry i'm sure no one wanted to know that. Here are some pictures of J's first day in his new class. He looked so cute.

Let's see. What else is new. I ordered all of J's summer wardrobe from the childrens place last week when they had thier summer clothes on clearance. So he is totally set for next summer. D and I went through J's closet this weekend and got 2 bags full of clothes that don't fit anymore put in the attic. When we were going through his closet I found lots of clothes for this winter that I had bought him last season so he's half-way set for this winter as well. Yea for buying a season ahead. I still have to get him some jeans and pants and a couple sweaters but that shouldn't be too bad. I'm going to the Little Lambs consignment next week so i'm going to try and get all his winter clothes out of the way and hopefully a few christmas presents as well. My goal is to have him totally set that way when we found out what the baby is,especially if its a girl we can just buy baby clothes and don't have to worry about J. If its a boy I definetly don't need to buy ANY clothes. Yea for planning ahead!

I got J's new nap mat for his class yesterday. Its so cute. I got his name monogrammed on it and I love it. He loved the monkeys :) I know you can't really see the design very well but you can go to wildkin's website to look at it. A local store here carries all thier products. So cute!

J and D enjoying a nice Sunday dinner D cooked. They love sitting in front of the TV. Mommy only lets them do this every once in a while :) Its so fun to watch J eat corn on the cob. He eats it until there is not one lil' piece left.

Pictures of You, Pictures of Me

Seriously J would sit for hours and watch the "moo cows". He loves Moo cows! So much so that I asked Namaw for a lil' calf to put in our backyard. I think she's still considering it, ha ha :)

J fell asleep on the 4-wheeler:) Seriously?

First day of school

So J started his first day in his new class. Should be interesting. They don't sleep in cribs anymore, they sleep on mats. Bless the teachers. They do story time, music time, art time, and all sorts of fun stuff. I can't wait to get all his fun drawings! Of course he was totally fine with it. I was getting ready to leave this morning when I said alright J mommy's gotta go to work, give me bye kiss. Well he turned around gave me a kiss went back to his toy and without even looking up said bye-bye :( Tear. I'm glad he's happy. I hope that he has a fun day and things go smoothly for everyone. He looked really cute this morning but I didn't get a picture, GASP! I even had the camera in my car! No worries i'll take it this afternoon when I pick him up. See all better. I have more to post. We went home for the weekend and visited w/ lots of family. But more on that later. Right now i'm sipping my ginger ale and sprite. one guess what that means.

Morning sickness- I wish

Whoever coined the term"morning sickness" obviously didn't know what they were talking about. Its not morning sickness. Its all day sickness. 24-7 sickness. Round the clock sickness. and on and on and on... Anyone see where I'm going with this?
With J I usually just got sick in the mornings and then was pretty much good to go. I did get sick a lil' in the evenings but not bad. Or else I've blocked it from my memory :) With this baby it is a different story. I'm still sick in the morning but also in the afternoon into late evening. Evening is my worst time. I hate it. Yes I hate being sick but more than that I hate not being there for my family. Evenings are our family time. Since J is in daycare all day evenings are very much cherished in our family. They are the few hours we all have together. Well not lately. Poor D has had to really do a lot more since I'm usually not good for anything in the evenings. D has been just so wonderful. He takes care of dinner, he plays w/ J, he bathes J and everything in b/w. I am so blessed to have him. He hasn't complained not once. He's usually off on Fridays so those days he spends cleaning the house, getting the laundry caught up and taking care of anything else that needs to be done. Seriously I don't know how he does it but I'm so grateful that he does.
I hate that I'm so useless right now but I'm kind of stuck b/w a rock and a hard place. I want to rest and take care of myself and this baby but on the other hand I'm frustrated cause I'm missing out w/ my other baby. As many of you know when I'm pregnant I try very hard to watch everything I eat and drink. I don't drink caffeine and I follow all the guidelines for food. I try to take as little meds as possible and so on and so forth.My wonderful husband also helps keep me in line. He's agreed to go off caffeine w/ me this pregnancy. We'll see how that goes. But anywho bottom line is I really try hard to watch the things I put in my body. Here in lies my second dilemma. I know there are drugs out there for nausea but again if I can help it I try not to take anything. I never took anything w/ J but its a whole new ballgame w/ this one. Well last week I talked w/ D and told him that I couldn't do this anymore. I told him it wasn't fair to him or J for me to be out of service. So to speak. I hated missing out on things w/ them and I wanted to be a part of what they were doing. I mean I missed J going pee-pee in the potty for the first time. So we talked about it and I said I would call my nurse and see if she would call me in some meds. Well I know someone on the phenegen(sp?) and she said it made her sleepy. Well I didn't want to be on anything sleepy cause that would defeat the whole purpose of what I was trying to accomplish. Being functional for my family. So the nurse put me on zofran. I picked up my prescription Friday and was shocked. $33.00 dollars for a 10-day supply. 2 pills a day. It also stated in the drug pamphlet that this drug is used for cancer patients when their going through their chemo. Yikes. Curiously D asked the pharmacist how much insurance covered on the drug. She said well the price was originally $360.00 dollars so you saved over 300 dollars. Yikes again. Well I said I would only take it in the evenings and if I needed it.
I took it Fri night when D and I had our "date" and felt pretty good. YEAH! I'm still skeptical of it and am not going to take it if I can get away with it but I am very thankful that I do have something now to help me feel better and get in some quality time w/ my family.