The Last 4 Days

Oh boy, it's been 4 days since I've posted. oops. sorry.

We have been busy busy busy.

We spent the weekend with family. Saturday was at my MIL with the family from Ireland and other family from the tri-state area. It was a really nice day, except the the Kid was so upset to see 'Lisa' go. That was the 5 1/2 yr old that went back to Ireland. They had a great time and they were so cute together.

Sunday we were at my dad's cousin's house for a pool party. I think during the 4 hours we were there the Kid was in the pool for about 3 of them. He just wouldn't come out. And he could TOUCH the bottom in the low end. So he was walking around dunking himself under. He was a little fish. Unfortunately it was only my cousin's there which range from 18 to 28 so no little kids for him to play with. But he did have a blast with my dad...he's a big kid anyway when he is around the Kid.

Monday I went out of my mind (obviously) when I went to Sesame Place in PA. Yes, I went to a water park at 36 weeks pregnant. It really isn't that big of a park anyway, I wouldn't have went to Great Adventure last week - and I didn't. Plus SP has mostly water stuff, so I could sit and cool down while the kids played in the water. Here are some fun pictures from the park (Thanks again K for having your camera and uploading pics much quicker than I.)

On the way home from Sesame, we stopped and had dinner at my dad's. I was so exhausted!

Yesterday we just took it easy. Hubby and I went to go get new cell phones. That was a fiasco. My new car can have a bluetooth sync and there wasn't anyone who could tell me which ones are compatible. Also, I have to move all 75 photos from my phone and send them to my email because they said they may not be able to move them to a new phone like they can with the contact list. Hubby has over 200 photos! But that is because I accidentally deleted all of my photos a couple months ago, and cried over it so bad! So I sent some back to my phone from his. So after almost 2 hours we gave up and will try again tomorrow.

The Kid is at the Little Gym now, and then we are having one of his little friends come over and we will be heading to the beach today (Beach Wednesday!). Tomorrow we are dropping off the new van at the dealership (and getting a loaner car) to get the LoJack installed (yes the Hubby had to have LoJack - that is a whole other story LOL) and the hitch installed, then I have my strep-test at the OB - FUN! not. - then we are going to the mall to pick up my engagement ring I had to have the diamond tightened and have some lunch. Hopefully by then the van will be ready and we can go home! I have a feeling it's going to be another long day.

Meanwhile, upstairs, we passed the rough electrical inspection and we have the rough plumbing inspection today, then we can make the framing inspection and if we pass we can put up WALLS! YEAH! Cross some fingers for us!!

Beach Friday??

I didn't go to beach on Wed...so here's a beach Friday story...

Unfortunately I don't have any pictures yet...still haven't tried uploading any. The previous beach pictures were sent to me via email from my friend who was there that day. (Thanks K!)

We went to the beach today with the same crew that the Kid went to Great Adventure with yesterday. Which btw, he got home at 8:30pm, was still up since the poor little thing had a belly ache and had to go potty. He went, brushed teeth, got PJs on and as soon as his head hit the pillow he was out cold and he slept until after 8am today! Nice.

My MIL wasn't there today. Her and her cousin from Ireland were out shopping for food for a big family party tomorrow. But the rest of the Irish family, plus my SIL went to the beach. It was a gorgeous day. The Kid and his new little buddy (Lisa, who is 5 1/2 -not her real name) had the BEST time today. Both of them were talking about each other later when they were going to see each other again. I am going to have one heartbroken little Kid once she goes back to Ireland.
Lisa and the Kid were playing in the waves together, making sandcastles together and chasing seagulls together...well, that last one was more my Kid than Lisa.

We were at the beach for 3 hours and then walked back to their hotel and played in the pool for another hour. The Kid was shocking. He kept jumping from the steps to the 4 foot end of the pool and submerging himself, touching the bottom and bouncing back up! He is only 38 inches tall! If I had asked him to do that he never would have. I am amazed and proud that he was just doing it on his own. I guess his trauma of swim school has passed and he can enjoy the pool again!

We will see them one last time tomorrow at my MIL's house for a nice family gathering. Then we have my dad's cousin's pool party Sunday and then they go back to Ireland on Monday. He is seriously going to be heartbroken.

Computer Frustration! (& update)

Bad blogger! I have been reading many other blogs, but just haven't sat and wrote anything myself. For a couple reasons. One is that my computer is a pain in the ass and has been freezing up on me almost every time I am online all week and the other is I have been real lazy and have been waiting to download pictures from my camera that I want to blog about, but haven't. So I am going to try to catch up today and jump back on this bloggy wagon. :)

I had to try four times to get these pictures up for today. I know it's not Blogger's fault. I can't get on any web sites when the computer freezes. But OMG! I am getting very pissy about this.

I finally got a picture up! I was trying 5 at a time the last few times, but now I guess I have to do 1 at a time.

Last Thurs we went and swam at a friend of mine's house. It was so not really hot enough and her pool wasn't heated, but it was so nice to be weightless for a little bit!

Sunday we had the Kid's good friend's birthday party...at least you would think they were good friends. They are always so excited to see each other and then when they are actually together they fight like nothing else! It's quite amusing. It was a pirate birthday. Complete with a pirate pool, hats, eye patches and a pirate pinata!

Happy 3rd Birthday 'A'

We actually have a pretty slow rest of the week. Not much planned, except for a trip to the hospital at some point to get my RhoGam shot. This weekend I have the last birthday party of June and my cousin's college graduation party. This is the last kid of 3 brothers to graduate college in that family. One went to Tulane, one Princeton and this one just graduated Harvard. Seriously. I only hope to be so lucky and have at least 2 smart boys. My Aunt certainly did something right with her 3 boys.

I will also be moving right on into the 3rd trimester this week. Wow! Has time really flew by. I am sleeping like crap and my back hurts more when I actually get up each time to pee at night.

Oh and just an update on the Kid's cough. It is still lingering, but he'll cough maybe once or twice an hour and the duration has been shorter. So I am hoping he is kicking it. Another couple days and it will be a full 2 weeks, so I may be making another trip to the doc with him.

Thanks for sticking around my little hiatus. :)

Trying to Keep Cool

• Yesterday was much lying around doing nothing. TOO HOT! Our pathetic little a/c units do not keep the whole house cool, but at least they are at least 15-20 degrees cooler than outside.

Closest shot you are going to get of me in my bathing suit.

We basically sat in the pool all afternoon again, and then went to my MIL to visit and have dinner. They have central a/c, very nice.

• Today was the Kid's 2nd to last day of school *tear* and we hit up McDs and some playtime in the airconditioned playplace of germs and came home and went back in the pool. This was day 3 of the pool water, so it was a tad slimey on the bottom. We emptied it out and will fill it back up tomorrow.

• I am so happy my friend is letting me borrow her big curved body pillow! I have been flopping around this last week with a pillow between my legs and another behind my back. I happened to mention to her today that I was going to order one and she said "I have one!" I am so excited to go to bed tonight...and Hubby has nothing to do with it! hahahaha

• This baby boy is being very stubborn already, just like his big brother. When you last read that the Kid felt the baby kick for the first time it was the only time he has felt the baby. Everytime I call him over and put his hand on my belly he just runs away and says "I already felt the baby!" And then, when the one other person in this house that wants to feel the baby puts his hand on my belly the baby totally stops moving. So Hubby has yet to feel the movement.

• Tomorrow we have the cable people coming to see why we can't get the Disney Channel in our bedroom. There is a box, but it's just a black screen. And since it has never really worked well in the living room (3 boxes later) that was the only place he could see his beloved Higgly's. And then...I have my wonderful 'drink the nasty sugar water' glucose test. Yeah! Good times. At least the doctor's office will have a/c. That is a requirement of where ever I go these days.

Hot Weekend

Yesterday we had our first of 5 birthday parties for the month of June. It was so fun. There was even a little bounce house. So the Kid was thrilled. Of course he was having a little too much fun when he was sucking down whole juice boxes at a time and then going bouncing. He threw up all over the bounce house slide. Thank goodness he wasn't really sick and that the bounce house is washable. The dad of the birthday girl just hosed it off for us.


And what a beautiful day today!! We were outside all day. While the rest of our area suffered in sufficating heat, we were sitting near the shore about 5-10 degrees cooler and in a little blow up pool! It was awesome. Sorry you guys that were sweating.

Waiting for daddy to fill up the pool with the air compressor.

We blew up the pool this morning and invited my friend and her son over and the boys played in the pool most of the afternoon. Then after they left The Kid and I sat in the cooooold water together. Without all the splashing. It was COLD. I stepped in it and didn't think I would even sit down, but I did. :)

The boys having a blast.

Having SO much fun dumping water on his head!

Darn it, I forgot about the water getting in my eyes.

We were mostly comfortable all day. I was actually shocked. I thought it would be much worse. But they are calling for even hotter temps tomorrow. We just turned the a/c on when we got home from my in-laws around 8:30pm. They live a town away, inland a little, and we could feel the difference when we got there. It was crazy.

Hope you all enjoyed your day! I'll be back in the pool tomorrow.