It’s been a crazy past 2 days. So much has gone on, and I’ve been so tired. It didn’t help that I did something to my hips, and could barely walk on Tuesday night and all day Wednesday. Honestly, I got up from sitting in my comfy chair on Tuesday night after watching some TV, and couldn’t even walk across to the kitchen. We’re talking about 6 feet in total. I was in so much pain. Every step hurt so bad, and that was it. Obviously I couldn’t call the chiropractor at 11pm at night, but first thing in the morning it was happening. I had the WORST sleep EVER that night. I was in pain no matter which way I turned or in what position I slept. I woke up feeling better than the night before, but let’s be honest, I couldn’t have felt much worse than the night before. And, like an idiot, I didn’t call the chiropractor. It turned out to be a good thing though and saved my $40 bucks in the end. I wobbled and hobbled around yesterday, still in a fair amount of pain, but it was bearable…nothing like the night before. Finally before I went to bed, I had Jon do something that we’ve attempted before. It’s something that my Chiropractor has done, and seems harmless, and I guess I’ve never really needed it when we’ve tried before. I lay on the ground on my back, with my knees bent, and my hips, bum and feet on the floor. Jon grabs my knees and tries to pull them apart, and I try to squeeze them together. When the Chiropractor has done it, sometimes my pelvis cracks, and pops back in to place, and sometimes nothing happens. When ever Jon has tried it before, nothing has happened. Well, this was not the case last night. As soon as he started pulling and I started squeezing, I could feel this grinding and a couple of little pops and cracks, but not in my pelvis, more in my hips (which was where the pain was coming from). When Jon helped me up, I was surprised to be feeling a LOT better. I walked back to our room with very little pain, and felt so much better all the rest of the night. I slept great last night, and was shocked at how secure and stable I felt this morning. I had felt like I was coming undone at the hips, before. I feel amazing, and am thrilled that this seemed to work. If I could explain what it felt like in words…..I felt like my legs bones that connect into hips were out of position. Instead of being straight up and down and solidly in place in my hips, it felt like they were splayed outward, so that they weren’t fitting into the hip sockets properly. So instead of looking like an “H” it was making more of an “A” shape……..does that make any sense or should I just stop? Now I feel like we pulled/squeezed those bones right back into place, and I FEEL FABULOUS.

I know that I should leave the adjusting to the Chiropractor, and I do, for everything. This is the only thing that I’ve ever done on my own or asked Jon to help with. I’m not big into self manipulation. GROSS! and OUCH!, in my opinion!

Moving on, The diet seems to be working still. Jeremy had a crappy morning the other day. Jon wouldn’t let him take toy into the car, and he lost it, and then we had to rush him out the door so we wouldn’t be late. It was not good. It was bad enough that he took his blankie to school. I went in and talked to his teacher ’cause I was that concerned about how he would do. At the end of the day, wouldn’t ya know it, the entire day was FABULOUS. He even sat through an assembly with NO PROBLEMS. She even mentioned that others in the class had a hard time, but he did so good. I’m so happy. If effort of my part makes his life a little easier and happier, then bring it on. This picture is a little dark, but I love the calmness and peacefulness of it. Maybe it’s just ’cause I was there, but I’m enjoying reading with him a whole lot more, ’cause he can actually sit still, and focus on what we are doing for longer than 2 words into a sentence.

I love this shot of Xan doing her homework, or maybe I should say trying to not do her homework. She’s squinting at the computer, trying to see what game J is playing. She has the Papa Mark Eagle Eye squint thing down perfectly. Even with the glasses on. Not sure if that worries me that she still has to try to see even when she’s wearing them…..could just be the angle of the computer screen and the way the light is hitting it that makes it difficult to see, or maybe this is just “born” into her. And didn’t you know that you need a pink fluffy cape to get your homework done? It makes it a whole lot easier……

We had a Popcorn day at school last Friday, and seeing as J is not supposed to have corn of any sort, instead of trying to figure out a way to not let him have any…I just took him out of school for the lunch hour. The kids all take the popcorn out to the playground, and they are pretty good about sharing. I just didn’t want to deal with that, and so had a “SPECIAL” lunch prepared for him. We used my fancy tea cups, and sat at the dining room table, and used fancy plates and dishes. It was fun, but he did have a hard afternoon that day. Was it because we brought him home? Was it because they had a French Immersion Assembly that afternoon, or was there just no really good reason? Its hard trying to figure out the “whys”, sometimes?

Now, Yesterday was Geli’s 10th Birthday. It’s hard to believe that I have a 10 year old. Wow! Double digits! Pretty soon shell be a teenager, and then she’ll graduate, and…….life just moves so fast doesn’t it?

Click on the picture to see pics of her birthday dinner that we had last night.

That wasn’t all the excitement for the day. Oh No! We’re not finished yet. I went and had my blood drawn. My arm felt really sore last night, and so I pulled up my sleeve to see what was going on. Even around the band aid, I could see that I had bruised. I even pressed on it exactly like they said to avoid bruising. The only thing I can think of is that it’s the daily low dose aspirin I take. I know that I bruise super easily now, and have been glad that it’s still pants season ’cause my legs look brutal. And if I cut or stick myself, then I bleed for a lot longer and don’t clot as easy as I used to. I guess that this is a good thing ’cause there should be no clots between me and the baby, but it can be frustrating at times. Especially when I pick at the skin around my finger nails, and then rip a piece of skin off, and it bleeds for ever and ever. I know that’s totally disgusting, but at least I’ve stopped biting my finger nails. That in itself is a miracle.

On top of all of yesterday’s other busy-ness, we also went out looking at baby stuff, and found a stroller and car seat travel system, and bought it. The stroller is actually quite tall, which is a bonus for both Jon and I. We found that the ones we had with the kids were shorter, and wrecked our backs and shoulders ’cause we were always hunching over. It’s a Graco Quattro Tour Travel System in “Samuel”. It’s basically a dark brown and tan with a bit of a aqua color thrown in. I’d would have preferred it with no aqua, but a little color ain’t bad. There is a highchair with fabric that matches, that we are looking at getting, and I think I’m going to take the headrest into a fabric store, and see if I can find some fabric that matches to make a comforter and bumper pads for the crib. I can’t really find anything out there that I like, and so if I have to….I’ll try to make some. It seems really weird to be getting stuff, when I still have 4 months left to go. It seems like forever away, but I know that it’ll pass by fast; and really, we need all the time we can have to be able to save up to get everything. It’ll all work out in the end, and we’ll just be so happy when our little boy shows up that it won’t matter what we have or don’t have. Right???

Well, I think that about does it? I think I’m caught up! Mostly anyway! I do have some cute video of Jeremy that I haven’t shared yet, but I’m saving it for a rainy day. Other than the fact that he’s too cute, I really hope I don’t have any rainy days soon. Sunshiny days are much nicer.