This week in pictures

We had a pretty uneventful week, due to me being pretty much confined to the house. It was pretty boring actually. Here are a couple of pics to prove it.

Me and Ivy on the couch. I was putting my foot up to reduce swelling and Ivy said, "I need to sleep with you!" and joined me for a while. She's so sweet.

Ivy doesn't enjoy Sundays because of our 1:30pm church schedule. No nap means falling asleep on the couch early, and she's usually not very happy about it.

Once again Dexter held still for too long and fell asleep on the computer chair. I swear he could sleep anywhere!

This is a pic of my foot while it was super swollen. I guess its hard to tell in the pic. I should have taken it with my other foot next to it so you could see the difference.

Swelling is gone, but bruising has begun. Its hard to see, but the bruise goes over the entire top of my foot from ankle to toes.

And here it is this morning. I really wish you could see how purple it is. Its pretty hideous in person! At least its feeling a lot better now, and I can limp around. I'm even going to start walking to school again!

Braggin' Wagon Wednesday: Helping Out

I feel like I haven't had much to really brag about lately. It's not that things are going badly or anything, I just can't think of anything. Well today I've got something.

The boys at my house are lifesavers. Not just the little boys, but also the big one who is married to me. Yesterday I could barely get around (see previous post), and Corbin and Dexter were practically fighting over who got to help me do things. It was so sweet and so helpful I couldn't believe it! Then Scott used his lunch break to go to savers and pick up some crutches and bring them to me right then so I wouldn't have as much trouble getting the boys to school. So helpful. Also, after he got home from a hard days work he made dinner. It makes me want to cry. My boys are great!

The worlds greatest husband snuggling with one of the worlds greatest boys (especially when he's sleeping)

The two greatest sons the world has ever seen listening to Muse on their wannabe Ipods

NOTE: I'm not saying Ivy isn't great, she just didn't help out really. She's small and didn't understand that I couldn't carry her up and down the stairs, or do lots of things she wanted me to. She was a little mad at me all day. But still adorable and great.

And here's sweet little Ivy-kins pushing her baby in the stroller. Beautiful girl.

An Evening Ruined By A Plastic Kiwi

That's right. A plastic kiwi can ruin your evening simply by being on the stairs when you try to go up them in the dark.

It was sudden, it was confusing, and it was painful.

I fell victim to the aforementioned plastic fruit just as I realized that I'd forgotten to grab my book for some end of the day reading in bed. I turned to grab the book, stepped on the kiwi that was hidden by the dark, rolled both my ankles at once and fell down the bottom two stairs.

I cursed out in pain and yelled for my knight in shining armor. We looked at my foot, (although I had actually rolled both ankles, only one of them felt like it had been ripped from my body). I cried as we looked and tried not to wake the kids who were blissfully dreaming in their rooms.

Something was sticking out on the right side of the top of my foot. It looked like it might be bone. We panicked. Scott called his brother, Shawn, who thankfully lives just 1 minute away, and he and his wife came over to hang out while the kids slept and we headed to the ER.

They double lead-vested me (because of the baby in my uterus) and took X-rays. They twisted my foot at will as I tried to "man-up" and not screech out in pain. It took forever to get the results back.

Not broken, thank goodness. Severely sprained with torn/stretched tendon's or ligaments (I forget which exactly, it was after midnight and my brain had already shut off). They sent me home with a brace and said to put ice on it every few hours.

Scott helped me get through the house last night, to get my jammies on and use the bathroom, because I can't put any weight on my foot. He's so sweet and patient. Today, I am on my own with the kids. I crawled into their rooms to wake them up, and I scooted down the stairs on my bottom to where Scott had lovingly left the stand-alone towel rack from our bathroom that I am now using as a walker. He's going to pick up a set of crutches for me at Savers today, but until then, the towel rack will have to do. I haven't figured out how I will get the kids to/from school today, but I'm sure I'll think of something.

Curses to you, plastic kiwi!

Preggo Update

Gestation: 26 wks 1 day

Weight Gain: 8 lbs. Either I ate a lot or the baby had a growth spurt because I swear I gained all 8 of those pounds in one week, and then stopped gaining again. Weird.

Fetal Movement: YES, YES, YES! This baby is doing gymnastics in there! You can already feel the movement from the outside (Corbin especially loves to feel it move), and you can even see it moving. It's awesome.

Maternity Clothes: Some shirts but I'm still in my regular jeans. I need to go to DI and pick up some skirts though, that's starting to become a bit of a problem.

Symptoms I'm Experiencing: Fatigue (still, it never went away), moodiness, itchiness (but just fyi, it has definitely gone way down in the past few weeks. Its still there, but no longer bad enough to drive me crazy). Oh yes, and the worst of all, the stretching of my tummy muscles.

Speaking of Stretching Tummy Muscles: Have you ever had this before? I had it with my other pregnancies, but it would just be kind of an achy feeling on my lower abdomen and along my sides, and it subsided pretty quickly. This time around the only way I can describe them is; its as if I'm having a charlie horse in my stomach! I don't know if that makes sense. Anyway, it happens all the time, especially when I stand up or sit down too quickly, I'm in a hurry or walking to drop off/pick up kids from school. In order for it to stop, I have to stop and take a break (which isn't always possible). I know what you are thinking Braxton Hicks Contractions,but that is not it. I've never had pain with a braxton hicks contraction, and my stomach doesn't get hard like it should with a braxton hicks contraction. I swear its my muscles just flipping out. I started wearing my pregnancy brace thing that I got with my first pregnancy to help with Sciatica. I'm thinking it will hold up my stomach to relieve some of the pressure on my muscles, and I think its helping a little.

So apparently complaining is also a symptom, because I just did a lot of it. Sorry about that. Here's a pic of my big ol' belly.

Good News Everybody!!!

Cadbury Mini Eggs are now available at your local grocery store, enjoy! I know I am/will until they stop selling them again. They are SO FANTASTIC!!

Now for some bad news.....The 63 degree weather that I enjoyed so much yesterday has disappeared. I want to cry.....Can you believe this? Why Mother Nature? Why must you toy with my emotions like this? The kids think you are awesome, I however, think you are a treacherous snake woman!

The kids enjoying it.

Close-up view of the snow/hail mixture. It makes my heart cry.

Braggin' Wagon Wednesday

Yesterday as I walked to school to pick the boys up I had to take my coat off because I was too hot! How great is that?! I took off my coat (the boys immediately followed suit) and we walked home with the sun shining and a nice cool wind, it was heavenly. I wish it would stay like this, but I know it won't.

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When Scott and I lived in Kearns, Ut we had these neighbors named Bev and Royal (you can tell by their names that they were quite elderly). They were SO NICE! They'd come over to check on us, bring us cookies, and Bev and I even carpooled to some Relief Society activities together. I remember she watched Dexter for me once while he was a newborn so I could mow the lawn while Scott was at work or something. They were so disappointed when they saw the "for sale" sign in our front yard. And while we were sad to leave such good neighbors, we were excited for the next stage of our lives. Then we moved into our house here in Boise, and our neighbors suck. Not just one neighbor, both neighbors. They park in front of our house ALL THE TIME, and on one side even park in front of our driveway!! Isn't that the rudest thing ever?! Who does that?! I swear both houses have 20+ people that live there and they all have cars! The neighbor that is nice enough to not block our driveway has really loud parties once or twice a month instead. They also house someone who plays the drums in their garage until all hours of the night..............I sure miss Bev and Royal. They were the kind of neighbors to brag about.

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Ivy is quite possibly the cutest girl on earth. She's such a talker. She says such funny things all the time. Whenever I leave a room I hear her say, "Mommy, come back!" in her sweet little voice. Everyday at dinner she yells in a voice so loud you'd be shocked it came out of her, "Dinner boys! Dinner!" It's seriously the cutest thing ever! I love this age. Whoever came up with the notion of "Terrible Two's" was terribly wrong. Two's are awesome, its the three's I worry about!

To Celebrate or Not to Celebrate?

Scott and I aren't huge into the whole Valentines Day thing. We've gone to dinner a few years, but definitely not every year, and we hardly ever get each other a gift. I don't think we're doing anything this year.

I do feel that I need to admit, we've had two mid-november babies, so you do the math.....we're getting in some celebrating!!

Happy Valentines Day love of mine!