I am working from home today and the phone rings and here is how the conversation goes:
Stacey: Hello
Stacey: Hello?
Salesperson: Oh Hi! Is your mom or dad available?
Stacey: Nope!
Salesperson: OK thanks.
I didn't lie--they weren't available!! :)
YEAH!! Made my day! Now if I can just get carded! Oh wait--I can't drink right now! Darn!
Woohoo! Hope you're having a great day! 29 again!
Ok, so I'm biased.
We've been having a tough go of the big girl bed transition but I think we may finally be onto a semi-good sleeping pattern again that is if you include your kid sleeping on the floor at least 50% of the time a good sleeping pattern. She's been pretty good and laying down at night and going to bed (provided one of us is sitting in the room with her until she falls asleep, otherwise she's out of the bed lighting fast and will sleep on the floor the entire night instead of just half) but has still been waking up at least once a night. When she wakes up she climbs out of bed, fusses for a few minutes then goes back to sleep on the carpet. Not the best accomodations but what can you do? We've tried putting a pillow and blanket on the ground but those usually end up pushed aside.
Everyday this kid amazes me. On Monday morning she was standing in the bathroom with me while I was getting ready and she was trying to get by me with the step stool so she could wash her hands and she told me "excuse me". I am always amazed with the words and phrases that she pulls out and when she uses them in the correct context. After that she saw me pulling on the sleeve of my shirt because it needed to be stretched out a little bit and asked "is it too tight mama, too tight?". Then she saw that Scooter had somehow managed to get himself locked downstairs (we have a gate at the top of the stairs) and told me that scooter was "locked out"!
This past weekend we went to my niece's 18th Birthday Party/Debut. It's kinda like a Filipino Quinceanera. An extravagant party to celebrate coming of age. It was a beautiful party. Kinda like a wedding, just without a groom. Marley had a dress made in the Philippines, and she kept telling me that she felt like a Filipino Princess. Here are some pictures from the event.
Birthday Girl, Ferdie and my sister Robin, my darling nephew Justin, Marley and Jererlynne aka "the dancing queens", all of the cousins together (not a great pic, but you get the idea of just how big our family is!).
p.s.~ another offer on the house came in today...we are getting closer.
We haven't sold the house as of yet. We did have 2 offers that we countered, the first counter, they couldn't come up with the money and the 2nd counter, we never heard back from them, so I am thinking it is a no go. We had another Open House this weekend and we had about half as many people come through this one as we did last week, but still good numbers. The showings have slowed a bit, but I am still optimistic. We just have to find the right buyer for our home!
Seriously. I'm not really opposed to the new hands free law in California but I am opposed at how stupid it looks when people choose to wear their bluetooth headsets everywhere.
I mean, you never really know when you'll get that super important phone call huh? This is so annoying.
So I have been going to monitoring twice a week and haven't had any news to report but last Thursday and Monday I have something to report! I had two contrax both days while I was hooked up. It was nice to have some activity since there hasn't been any at all.
Then, I have my doctors visit after my Monday monitoring and I was talking to the doctor and asked him my questions (are you going on vacation? when do I call with contrax, etc.) and got all my answers--by the way, I can't have this baby the first week of August since my doctor is on vacation. Then he goes to measure me---two weeks ago I was measuring right on track at 34 and this week---I am measuring 37!!!! He is already guessing that this kid is already about 6 pounds. I see him again next Monday (7/28) and he will send me for a growth ultrasound but there has already been talk of an induction.
Then on Tuesday night I had a contrax--no big deal. Then I had another (at this point Dale noticed it was 9:00 exactly), then another at 9:07 and then another at 9:14 so I get up from the couch and go and lay down in the bed and they went away. I was a little bit freaking out!!!
So, needless to say, we may find out if this kid is a boy or girl sooner than later!
