Hormones & Murderers...

Last night was a rough night for this preggo. I was getting ready for bed while Miss B was taking her nightly pee break. She was barking a LOT during this little pee break so I went to see what her beef was. Once outside I could hear this awful screeching following her barking and jumping around like a hooligan. So I ran back in to grab a flash light thinking she had ANOTHER bird. (Yes she swatted a bird from the air and then proceeded to stomp on it like it was her toy. SO NOT COOL!) When I got her away from it I quickly realized it wasn't a bird but rather a BABY BUNNY! There you have the murderer now lets talk about those hormones. I immediately burst into tears, not just water in my eye tears, but gigantic sobbing blubbering mess tears with a side of hyperventilating. I corralled B back in the house and about this time the Husband came out of the shower to see his wife gasping for air as she was yelling at Miss B telling her she had not raised a murderer. Oh to see the look on his face - priceless. Eventually I got it out that she had a bunny and probably murdered it and that he HAD to do something! So being the amazing husband he is, he went out and took care of dead baby bunny. Then he came back in to find me still crying. He even prayed for baby bunny and it's mom - how sweet is he?! Then he asked me - quite shyly - why I was crying so hard? Well... I don't really know. I'm going to take the preggo card on this one! Ever since I got pregnant an injured animal just makes me burst into tears. You all know the abused animal commercials with Sarah McGlaughlin signing in the background, yeah I have to run out of the room before the flood gates open. Just hearing her song on the radio triggers the water works! The only reasonable explanation I can come up with is that seeing an injured animal makes me think of our baby and how they are both so innocent - but even that doesn't really make sense. I can watch a commercial about feeding the hungry children throughout the world without tears. I don't enjoy it by any means, but my face doesn't immediately take a shower! So yes, I'm pulling the preggo card on this one and I'm still mad and not talking to B. Poor thing doesn't even know what she did! I hope you are all having a better week than this crazy preggo lady, I'm ready for the weekend!

Odds and Ends + some BIG news!

I just don't know where the time goes!!  I feel like I JUST posted my last blog but then I checked and it was nearly a month ago!  So last time I promised pictures of The Hungry Caterpillar so let's begin with that.  I made cupcakes and cake pops.

 Big Sister didn't really appreciate having her picture taken!

  

 She finally warmed up to me with some help from Kelly...

 The 3 preggo's - Katie was due last Saturday but Benjamin is being stubborn (typical boy :), Sheena is due at the end of June and I'm due in November.

The shower was a lot of fun and my first shot at cake pops turned out great!

I came home at lunch last week to find this in Miss B's water bowl!!  She went to get a drink and slowly backed away - thinking she was out I went to fill her up and to my surprise this nasty thing was swimming around!  I promptly sent him down the garbage disposal so there is no more spider!

Remember the laundry room do over?  Well we FINALLY got around to adding some finishing touches!

Some bars to hang our clothes as we fold.

With some team work we got the hooks up for the broom and mop in the back...

He may or may not have gotten stuck during this project

  But it sure does look good!

This is my favorite new item that we purchased.  A giant glass jar for our detergent rather than the ugly box it normally comes it!

Thank you dad for building this and thank you husband for finishing it off!

Well it's July 4th and the Husband and I are tiling our basement bathroom tonight instead of watching fire works!  I guess we just weren't in the mood to sit outside and get eaten by mosquito's tonight!  I hope you are all having a GREAT 4th!

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Oh you didn't forget about the BIG news?!  

It just so happens that as of a week and half ago I am officially half way through this pregnancy!

Do you know what happens half way through?  

Sometimes you get to find out if you are growing a baby boy or a baby girl...  Any guesses?

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IT'S A BOY!!!!  

In November we will be welcoming a very LONG baby boy into this world!  At our visit they were able to measure his arms and legs and they were  in the 97% for this stage of pregnancy!  The Husband was 22 inches and a little over 8lbs and I was around 18-19 inches and 8.6 lbs.  So because the Husband is 6'6 now, they won't be changing the due date, but we are to expect a long at least 8 lb baby boy!  The Husband would really like to fast forward 18 years to see how tall this little guy is going to be, unfortunately that's not an option!

This morning we spent our time at Target and Babies'R'Us a register-a-thon! Then this afternoon I compared the two to make sure we didn't register for the same thing at each place so we are OFFICIALLY registered for Baby Boy Robinson!  It's hard work registering for a baby - there are ENDLESS possibilities!  The Husband's sister Randine went with us for a second opinion and she was a lot of help!  I for one am glad to have that over with, but it was fun!

Okay now go have a happy 4th!!

Movin' and Groovin'

This weekend the Husband was pretty busy taking a class all day Saturday and working the sound system at a recital Friday & Saturday nights and Sunday afternoon.  He claims it was worse than torture but I did remind him that he wants a girl and if that does happen there will probably be many more recitals in our future!  He said if we have a girl she can just learn to dance in the living room - I told him we would figure that all out later ;).  

As he was busy makin' dollar bills, I was making a cake for a baby shower we helped host tonight!  Pictures to come soon!  Saturday while I was taking a break from being a baker, I was sitting on the couch with me feet up and kept feeling a weird muscle spasm in my gut.  After about a minute of this it dawned on me that this was not MY 'muscle spasm' but it was the first official baby kicks!  Of course after feeling it and realizing what it was I know realized I've been feeling this for week or two, but now it is much more consistent!!  Baby Robinson continued to karate chop his or her way across my abdomen and I could even feel a couple with my hand!!  I couldn't wait for the Husband to get home hoping he could maybe feel it too.  When he got home nothing was happening, so I went about my business but at bedtime he/she started up again - unfortunately the Husband never was able to feel it, but I'm sure he will soon!  

Time for bed here, hope you all had a good weekend too!  Since I don't really like posting without at least one picture, I'll leave you with a picture of the bump :)

Slice of Heaven

Last Sunday I got myself a little slice of heaven which Miss B promptly claimed as her own...

That's right a kiddie pool!  No I didn't buy this for the kid-to-be, I bought it for MYSELF!!

You see I was quite spoiled growing up.  We lived literally ACROSS THE STREET - AKA WALKING DISTANCE - LESS THAN 200 Ft from the pool!  I got to swim EVERY DAY and it was GLORIOUS!  Here in Lawrence they don't really have such a thing as neighborhood pools.  (Side Note:  If they do PLEASE PLEASE tell me!!!!)  Growing up I also was a life guard at the same pool and it was so relaxed and fun - isn't it like that everywhere?!  NO!  Absolutely NOT!!  I worked one miserable summer here at the City Pool and let me tell you, those kids are NOT fun!  I mean they actually almost drown, you have to SAVE PEOPLE!!  In all 4 summers I worked at the neighborhood pool I NEVER once had to save anyone and I could probably count on one hand the times that other guards had to save someone (my brother is one of those, but that's a story for another day :).  Sorry got off on a bit of a tangent there.  My point is I don't really enjoy going to the pool here, so I've made my own little paradise!  This guy is about 6 ft across and a couple of feet deep.  Just deep enough that I can float on a raft while laying out!  The Husband thinks I'm ridiculous, but if I'm going to grow a baby this summer, I'm still going to be tan and cool for that matter!  Of course Sunday it was cool and rainy, so I haven't gotten to use it yet, but I will.  The Husband even made me a skimmer to clean out the bugs and grass!  He's secretly jealous :)

The rest of Sunday I watched as the Husband and his little helper trimmed trees so our garden will get a little more light.

Hubs hard at work

His little helper - Scar Face. 

Don't worry not a real scar, just dried spit.

 Ooo!  What are we doing with the stick!?

Playing?! Fetch!? Whatever it is it's great!

Hi Mom!

I'm working really hard I need a drink from my GIANT water bowl...

 And I'm back!

Keep Away?!

I love this game!

Need another drink

Gotcha!

No fair!  You're taller!!

I still have the biggest water bowl, so HA!

5 Years in the Making

So the Husband and I celebrated our 5th year of marriage on Saturday!  I can't believe we've been married that long!!  What is really unbelievable is that come August, we will have been together for 11 big ones!!  Yep we were High School Sweet-Hearts.  Started dating on my 16th B-Day in fact.  The even cRaZiEr thing is that I was the one who made the first move.  If you know us at all, that is so NOT characteristic of me!  You see I'm the shy sweet good girl and the Husband is the loud obnoxious in-your-face guy.  (It's true I'm always telling him he is so loud :)  But that's what happened folks and apparently it was meant to be considering we've got a baby bean on the way!  We always talked about wanting to go some where fun on vacation for our 5th Anny, but little did we realize we would be up to our eyeballs in school debt!  So instead we went some where fun - just locally - on a daycation!

We got to wake up to this sweet face...

First we went to the Farmer's Market as that's one of my favorites.  We bought some home-made jam from one of my patients and an apple pie.  The Husband used his bartering skills and talked her down from $10 to $7 - that's MY man.  Then we tried a new place for breakfast and it was awesome!  It's called Mirth Cafe - fun Lawrence atmosphere and great food!  Then we went home a took a nap - things really wear me down these days!  Then we went to the KC SeaLife Aquarium - get ready for picture overload...

Looks like it's wearing lace

 This is my favorite one!

 This guy wouldn't hold still!

Eels are gross

 This creature was kinda cute too, not sure what you call it :)

This one reminded us of Bailey :)  I think it's the eyes

After the aquarium we went to a T-Bonez Game which was so fun.  We were going to get the closer seats, but they didn't have anything left except the bleacher seats.  So we were a bit bummed... UNTIL we got to the seats!  They are completely in the shade and really spread out, so they were perfect!  

All in all a great daycation for our 5th Anny!!

Hopefully on our 10th we will only be in school debt to our ankles or else NOT AT ALL!!  Then we can take a vacation outside of 30 miles from our house!  :)