Although I was on my last leg Friday afternoon & didn't think I could muster the energy, I managed to get by the store so that we could grill out and eat dinner on the deck Friday evening. Given my current "condition", me cooking in our kitchen or eating food's that been prepared in our home's a rare thing in the last month. So it was so rewarding to fix a meal (from start to finish) at home & get to sit & relax to enjoy it. Might not sound like a lot, but it was the cat's pajamas for me on Friday!
On Saturday we let Deddy sleep in & John & I spent time together relaxing. I thought I was going to flip through my new Better Homes & Gardens (a newly declared fave Sat. morning pastime - reading cover to cover), but lo & behold we put in John's newest movie, "Ice Age 3" & we both got into it. I think the final count last night was probably between 8-10 times that it played all the way through this weekend. So, a big thanks to Mimi - we (yes, the whole family) love the new movie. It's got a lot of LOL moments and is just plum enjoyable :)
After breakfast John & I got our shoes on & headed "out-dize" to plant some flowers. My lil' helper got to "help" for a while but after one too many reminders of which bucket was Mama's (the one filled with the good dirt) and which was John's (the one w.even more, but only so-so dirt) we collected ourselves (hence, me picking up the dejected, crying child & carrying him inside) and headed in for lunch/nap-time.
While John napped, the yard marathon continued till I pooped out & went in for a lil' afternoon siesta...Seth continued to work. When John & I got up from our naps, back "out-dize" we went. He & I played, Seth continued to work :) Saturday night we went to eat Japanese express which hit the spot. What was even more great than how good it tasted & the unlimited magical white sauce, was that we got to sit "out-dize" to eat. It was another lovely dinner in the lovely spring sunshine. Aaaaahhhhh, deep sigh - there were a lot of those this weekend.
Sunday was me sleeping in (thank you Seth) and we didn't make it "out-dize" till after John's nap. The yard marathon resumed w.Seth fertilizing & spreading grass seed post-trip to Lowe's. I decided to redo our rock bed, meaning remove all rocks & replace. There were a lot of DAMN rocks! Um, yeah - it got old fast! But, once all the rocks were out, I couldn't just walk away, so w.my helper close by w.his lil' spade & knee pad (I know they're his b/c he constantly mentions, "mine") I put each & every D*#% rock back in. I did it so well that I ran out of rocks & had to go find more - joy! Seriously, it wasn't that bad & looks a million percent better, but I could have done w.out the 3 time outs we had to give John for flinging dirt around like it was fairy dust. That & looking at me smiling as I say, "No John, do not touch the rocks!" (repeat 5 times) as he continues to touch & even pick up the rocks - the boy has "spirit" that's for sure!
For all the times I think I'm going to turn blue from repeating myself, I laugh at the lil' booger so much. He has so much personality, it just doesn't seem fair. And all his lil' vocabulary is just beyond precious. Said it before, but we continue to be enamored & amazed at how much he's growing & changing. My hands down favorite word from the weekend - John's severe over-use of the word "Dadiii" - heavy on the "e" sound at the end. To go from smiling as he would tell Seth over & over that his name was "Mama" (which also amused me) to saying Dadiii incessantly is hilarious. And it's not just that he says it, it's the way he says it - if he's not hollering it, he's saying it w.this serious face & so much authority in the tone - it just makes me laugh :).
And obviously, the BIG news has now been shared, so we're counting our blessings & continuing to pray about that. Looking forward to hearing a lil' heartbeat at our next appt. on April 6th. I'm continuing to be nauseous & hyper-aware of all my bizarre food/smell aversions, but I'm just taking it in stride & thankful for the good days. Got a lot going on at work (big projects, moving offices, etc.) so between busy there & at home, not a lot of time to sit & wallow. My belly's already sticking out a lil' but it's not a cute pregnant sticking out by any means. More of a squishy pudge at this point, but I'm taking that in stride as I loop that rubber band around the button on my britches & search the closet each morning for a shirt that won't show the squishy bulge :) I will go ahead & say that I know each pregnancy's different, but the foods I crave this time as well as the smells that offend me are different than w.John, so it leads me to believe Baby Fish could be a lil' girl but I'll be waiting along w.every one else to find out! We'd be ecstatic either way, but that's just what my gut's telling me. My gut's pretty weird right now, so I guess it's kinda silly to trust anything it tells me - ha.
Well, I'm gonna work on uploading some pics from the weekend. I will go ahead & apologize for my boogery appearance in them - um, let's see - well, I could give you all the reasons I look like a booger, but this entry's gotten long enough :)
Hope everyone has a great week, sorry to have been away so long - it's been a lil' rough going, but hopefully the worst is quickly fading behind me.
ps. this story people made Seth & I both laugh ~ very appropriate for Spring ~ enjoy...
Not sure when you stop thinking dandelions are beautiful, but figures it's somewhere around the time you get a job & can afford lawn chemicals
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