STILL waiting on baby Carter

Phone rings....9:40 p.m.

Thomas "hey, what you doin?"

Me - sleeping, why?

Thomas - we on our way to the hospital. we having a baby tonight.

me - ok, is she ok?

Thomas - I don't know, they left earlier, I had to take a shower and shave and put on clean clothes.

me - ok, do I need to go to the hospital?

Thomas - well, I don't know, let me get there and I'll call you back.


Needless to say, I got up, got dressed and headed to the hospital, not waiting on him....I got there, she was in pain, cringing when the monitors went over 60 for the contractions - later, I found out that this number was really not accurate, but she was having pain nonetheless.

Dr. came in, did his thing, left her hooked up to monitors, etc. At 11:30 p.m., dr. came back in and said she hadn't progressed, she wasn't in labor and did she want sleeping pill or pain pill? Sweet little Jaiden was holding back with all her might. She WANTED to let that evil little thought in her head to strangle that dr. work it's way on down to her arms to wrap her fingers around his neck and just shake the dickens out of him, but she didn't. In her sweet voice she said, I guess I'll take the pain shot. After the dr. left the room, I thought the devil was going to pop out of her head. She was SO mad!! She thought this time for sure she was having this baby and she didn't want to go home empty handed, she wanted to go home empty bellied! But, that was Thursday night, and it's Sunday morning, and still no Carter. He'll be here when he gets ready, no doubt, the patience part is just not there. She is 38 weeks now, and she is ready (she thinks) : ) I keep telling her he's alot easier to take care of where he is, but she's ready to see him and hold him, and I am too, we all are.

I have a picture to post here, but for some reason, it's not working. I'll have to post it later, I guess.

waiting on baby Carter

WWWOOOOHOOOO!!!

I have my house back to myself!!!  (i'm doing the happy dance!)  Just me and the dogs and the baby I'm keeping.  Speaking of the dogs, we have a new addition.  Courtney got a weiner dog for her birthday in November.  She and Ginger and Ken and Diamond (his weiner dog) every evening, pile up in the recliners in the living room and watch tv.  My dog, Biscuit, he's got allergies, he's smelly, (he STINKS!) he is very rambunctious, (he gets on the diningroom table!!!) and he weighs in at about 25 pounds - not a lap dog!  Yep, I was jealous, so I found the cutest, sweetest, most cuddliest, tiniest dog I could find...for me!  his name is Nestle, you know, Chocolate,  HELLO???!!!! and he is a toy poodle.  He is now 9 weeks old and just the most precious thing!  He goes everywhere with me.  We went to a scouting event last night, and he had to stay home alone.  He was so glad for us to come home and he followed me all over the house.

Speaking of the scouting thing....I have to say I was surprised to receive an award last night.  Our District Exec created his own trophy last year.  It's an eagle head and it's really cool.  He started out the presentation by saying   " I met the recipient of this award last year at this banquet.  I thought she was stuck up.  Later, I found out she was very hardworking and very dedicated.  I asked for volunteers for Day Camp and she stepped up and went to camp school and I'm jealous because she got to go to camp in the snow! "

 He was talking about me!  How cool is that!  I have my first trophy!   Told Ken we were going to have to get a trophy case!  It's so cool to be recognized for what you do.  Day Camp was no easy task, and camp school was HELL!  The hours required to pull off something like that are rediculous, but, it's all worth it when you hear from the parents of the scouts that they loved it and they are looking forward to this year.  This year is going to be awesome!, but you are going to have to wait for it!

Christmas went well.  Everyone was here except Brian.  He chose to stay in Colorado.  Thomas and Jaiden and her growing belly came for some gift exchanging, food and some laughs.  They got Maison a voice changer, which we all are hoping the batteries die soon!  He LOVES it.

Maison got two turtles, Rhino and Spike for Christmas.  It was funny, our neighbor came over after he went to his mailbox, apparently Maison had a letter that had gotten stuck in his mail.  The letter was from Santa.  He opened it kinda half heartedly, and was quiet....Maison, quiet.....yep he was into what that letter said.  We finally got him to read it to us.  After the usual Santa talk "you were a fairly good boy, pestering sisters too much, leave me some cookies," bla bla bla, "I hear you want a turtle, so since it's against Santa's rules to have live animals in the sleigh, I had an order of turtles sent to your local pet store.  Get your parents to take you there and get two."  Oh my gosh!  He was so excited.  When we got to the pet store, we told the story to the guy, and he went right along with it.  When we checked out, he asked Maison what was his name and address and he told him.  He had written all the information on a sticky note on his clipboard and said Santa had given him the info so he could make sure the turtles went to the correct home!  He also said Santa took care of the price of the turtles, but we had to pay for all the turtle stuff....food, aquarium, light, heater, rocks, etc...yeah, next time, Santa, I'd rather pay for the $10.00 turtles.......

We have about 6 weeks left before the arrival of the grandbaby.  He's growing and making Jaiden miserable.  She's having trouble breathing and she's tired.  I think they are all ready, Thomas says he'll be ready in about 8 to 10 weeks.  I tried to explain to him that in 6 more weeks, technically, it could be 4 weeks, his life will change, but he has no clue, he has no idea what this baby is going to do to him.  I can't wait!

just a few more days......

Yes, that's right, only a few more days until school's out for Christmas holidays. Only a few more days of freedom for me to do a tree, plan what to cook, and actually make it all work, receive boxes of all shapes and sizes at the door from the "Brown Man" (that would be Booder, the UPS driver!) and find places to hide it all, only to have to find it again. Have you ever hidden your children's Christmas gifts, only to remember several days or months later and have to use it as an Easter happy and then go find something really cool for the other three kids to be fair to everyone?

I have ordered most of the presents for this year, simply because I don't want to be in the midst of all those shoppers and all the germs and all the lines and all the illnesses and all the extra stress that puts on the holidays. I'd rather point and click and wait for the Brown Man.....

Monogramming is slow this year. I say that, I'm still busy, (busier than I want to be!!!), but I'm not up til all hours of the night trying to complete projects for others.....for that I am most thankful.

I think the Hubs and I are not going to buy gifts for each other this year. We are going to take the needed "time to ourselves" trip. That is, unless he does as he usually does when we make this decision and gets something really great for me, and I am there empty handed. He just doesn't understand somehow, that if we aren't going to buy gifts for each other, that means nothing, nada, nunca, zero! I don't care how neat it is and how wonderful it will look on me or how you just couldn't pass it up.....I usually do have a "something" in the closet hidden for him, just in case, but it's kinda awkward to have to excuse myself in the middle of opening presents to run upstairs and grab his "not a gift" gift, wrap it and run back downstairs, pretending I just forgot it in the closet. Then we go round and round about how I had something for him, and he had something for me, and how we weren't supposed to get something for each other and how glad we are that we each had something for each other and how awkward it would be if we didn't......

Another of my favorite holiday treats is taking the kids to get flu shots... (NOT!) .here's the bus, gotta go!

Courtney's birthday

Well, I have done it! We FINALLY had a spend the night party at my house with more than one extra child. I have to admit it was NOTHING like what I was expecting. The girls were WONDERFUL! We have some terrific parents of 11 and 12 year old girls here! Give yourselves a pat on the back, your girls were great! No giggling all night, no sneaking out of the house, no yelling and terrorizing each other, it was wonderful.

I guess I'm used to boys (you know, we ventured out and had spend the night parties when Thomas was younger, but they slept in a tent in the yard for about 10 minutes, then they were in and out of the house all night) It was fun then, but WOW, it's easier, or it was easier this time. We ate pizza and cupcakes (thank you Jaiden for doing the cupcakes!) and went to the movie to see Madagascar 2 - you ever tried to seat 10 people together at the theatre...that ain't an easy task! They all enjoyed the movie - I would have been better if the kid behind me had kept his feet on the floor and off my seat. I felt like I was in a rocket chair. I told Ken to watch out, I might be plastered on the screen the way that kid was kicking my chair around.

We came home around 9:00 p.m., ate ice cream and the girls watched a dvd Courtney got for her present, 2 went to sleep, and the rest were up until about 12:30 or so. Though the tv played all night, it was ok. They got up the next morning, ate waffles with all kinds of toppings, we won't dare go there!, and went home early. Ken had scouting for food at one of the grocery stores, and I had a monogramming class to teach, so we got rid of the girls around 8:30. It was good! Now, Courtney, Maison and I are suffering from sinus yucky stuff. They got antibiotics today, but it hasn't slowed them down at all. Maison is still bouncing off the walls!

Courtney's birthday present....a little early

Courtney received her birthday present a little early this year. She and I went to the pet store to get food for Jalapeno on a Steek (that's our bird!) and NORMALLY I'm safe there, b/c they only have birds, ferrets, a few frogs and LOTS of snakes and some mice to feed the snakes. While I was looking at the food for the bird, she walked over to the forbidden corner of the pet store, where all the snakes and reptiles are. They had 2 little doxie puppies, one male, black and tan, and one female, red. She started to cry. I couldn't deal with it, so I gave her the phone to call Ken. I knew he was a sucker for weiners. Long story short, meet Ginger.......

Maison and Wally

This is Maison and Wally. They became big buddies at Jaiden's family hay ride this weekend. Wally is a bassett hound in every sense. He is big footed, long earred, sad eyed, slow moving hound dog, and did I mention SMELLY????? Oh it was terrible! Maison just rolled and played with Wally and, needless to say, we about made him ride on the roof on the way home....they had a great time. Jaiden says that Wally is Thomas' favorite dog too. Apparently, Thomas loves on Wally and then tries to love on Jaiden. I don't think she appreciates it!