Today it hit me. Lexi isn’t going to willingly give up Bob (her pacifier). Lexi isn’t going to potty train herself.
I don’t know why I was thinking we wouldn’t have to listen to tears, or fits over Bob not coming out of her bed. Or why I thought one day she’d just suddenly forget she even had Bob.
But today being the 2nd day in a row that we haven’t let her use it out of her bed, I realized the fits are getting smaller. Today her following me around whining “bob, bob bob bob bob bob bob” only lasted 10 minutes at a time instead of 15.
And potty training? How is it even possible. we got her a potty 6 months ago. aside from one time that she pooped in her diaper while sitting on the potty, she’s never done anything but sit on it. We ask her if she needs to go pee/ poop/ potty and she’ll go in there, sit on it, then get up.
Today I thought “I’ll just let her be naked for awhile, and make her sit on the potty every 5 minutes” That didn’t even work! She’d get up off the potty, and go pee on the floor. We even tried putting her hand in warm water while she was sitting on it. That didn’t work.
So either she’s just not ready, just doesn’t get it, or is being stubborn and likes her diapers too much.
Either way, I realized neither of these things is going to be easy or fun for any of us, but they both need done. Wonder which will happen first…
Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by Jes
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or something like that.
I’ve reached 31 weeks, and although I want Caylee to stay in there until I know she’d be healthy (37 weeks minimum) I’m at the point in the pregnancy that I’m thinking “ok, enough already, just get her out of me and let me hold my baby!”
I don’t remember feeling like this with Lexi, it could be for a number of reasons, one being that I was working during my pregnancy with Lexi, so I was keeping busy. I also only made it to 34 weeks before Lexi decided she was ready to come out. Some people tell me it’s because it’s not my first pregnancy so my muscles are stretched out.
But what I blame it on is that I’m not in shape and I wasn’t when I got pregnant. When I got pregnant with Lexi I weighed about 15lbs lighter than I did before this pregnancy, I was walking a lot, climbing stairs on my lunch break, and I was just more active. I’ve only gained 25lbs with this pregnancy (I gained almost 50 with Lexi) and I’m only 5lbs away from weighing what I did when I had Lexi. I’m sure that has something to do with the ache in my back! Not to mention the fact that I’m not very active at all, aside from chasing Lexi around the house.
I’ve also been diagnosed with gestational diabetes. I’m not all sure what that means for me yet. On Thursday I have a meeting with a dietitian and a nurse at the diabetes center, so I’m sure I’ll be told all about my new diet and exercise plan… Really I should have seen it coming, the fact that I weighed so much more at the start of the pregnancy, the lack of exercise for fear that this baby would come early too, the extreme thirst and over all fatigue. Too many things were aiming for me to get it and yet I was still shocked when I failed the 3 hour glucose test. (Which by the way, if you have your choice of flavors, don’t get lemon lime).
So, 9 weeks away from my due date, the baby is still breach (pretty sure that’s not a big deal though), I’ve got gestational diabetes, I want to see and hold my baby, and we’re no where near ready for her to come yet!
Although this sounds like a negative post, it’s really not supposed to be. I was just trying to fill you in on what’s going on with me. I’m really happy, excited, and in a good mood. I am excited to hold Caylee, very excited to nurse again, and excited to see how good of a big sister Lexi is going to be.
Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by Jes
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No, really it is.
The Magic Eraser. It just made me very happy.
See, I’ve been watching this little boy who is Lexi’s age (almost 2), and boys do things girls don’t do. Including jumping on furniture, running, climbing, putting things in toilets and… writing on furniture with permanent markers.
Yah, much to my surprise today I was talking to my husband who was sitting at his computer when I noticed lovely black scribbles all over the front of the desk that was my pop pops. I was thrilled to say the least….
Ok, really I wanted to go into hysterics, crying and throw a temper tantrum.
Instead I went to the cabinet under the sink and pulled out the Mr Clean Magic Eraser. It has proven itself to me in multiple situations, so I thought maybe it could do the unthinkable- pull permanent marker off wood.
Guess what? IT DID!
Posted on July 22nd, 2008 by Jes
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Well, Meet and Greet Monday is back! not that I haven’t posted my share of pictures in the past few posts (here and here). After looking at my posts don’t forget to go to The Natural Mommy and look at other people’s pictures, they are cute too, I promise.
Now to pictures.
Proof that Lexi snuggles on occasion. She was quite sleepy yesterday morning when we were getting ready for church and Daddy was trying so hard to get a picture of her in her cute dress before her hair went crazy.
isn’t she adorable?
Now some from the family reunion
Here’s Eugene’s mom thrilled to be getting her picture taken.
Before you think the reunion was boring at all… here’s some fun shots:
Here’s all the aunts, dressed up in their western wear. I’m not sure why no one took a picture of all 11 aunts and uncles together, but at least we have one of the girls!
And of course, no family reunion is complete without a bunch of relatives dressed up in funny, odd clothing. This is actually the result of a very fun game where you have a bunch of random clothes in a cloth bag. They pass the bag around in a circle to the music like hot potato. When the music stops the person with the bag has to reach their hand in and pull something out of the bag. Whatever they pull out they have to put on. Let me tell you, his family has fun with this game… there are bra’s, underwear, slips, odd dresses, even nylons in the bag. Just a note- you can wear the clothing you pull out however you wish, so if you pull one of those embarrassing items out of the bag, you can at least have fun with it.
Posted on July 21st, 2008 by Jes
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so, I upgraded to Wordpress 2.6. All I can say is DON’T DO IT!
I’m getting really frustrated because twice now I have written a post, with pictures and everything, hit the publish button and instead of publishing it, it disappears. Despite the fact that it auto saves every few minutes while writing, it’s not in the draft section or the publish section. It’s gone forever.
EDIT: well, i found the posts. It turned them into pages. Why? I don’t know. but at least I didn’t have to do the whole post over!
I also can’t add the categories like I used to, and all my old posts I wrote before switching which were organized nicely with categories… the categories are gone.
And don’t get me started about trying to upload and insert pictures.
Why did they make all these dumb changes?!
Posted on July 21st, 2008 by Jes
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This morning while getting ready for church I decided it was time to paint my toenails. Little did I know that at the site of the nail polish Lexi would be right there asking me to paint hers too.
Luckily I had enough time, cuz what is cuter than pink toe nails on an almost two year old?!
After months of me wanting to paint her toe nails, and her running away screaming, about a month ago she let me paint them. Now apparently at the very site of the nail polish bottle she comes running. I don’t mind. It’s quite cute.
Did I mention she looked like this when she woke up?
After her bath she left these behind:
Do you see them? the two adorable foot prints on the rug? (ignore the incredibly off centered sheriff rug. it was $2.50 and we got it for the family reunion- it just somehow made it’s way to our bathroom.)
Posted on July 20th, 2008 by Jes
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I got an email from MyPoints about this website called Restaurantica. Have you ever heard of it? It’s a website for restaurant reviews. I clicked on my state and city and was impressed that it had every restaurant I knew of in my locale. It will be great for those rare moments that we go out to eat! Not every restaurant had a review, but hopefully more people will hear about this site and add reviews! I’m sure in bigger cities there are more reviews.
If you haven’t heard of MyPoints, it’s a great reward site especially if you shop online. When shopping online you can earn points per each dollar you spend. Since I don’t do much online shopping I earn my points by clicking on the links they send in the emails. 5 points for clicking on a link, 10 points for seeing if I’m qualified for a survey, 50 points for taking the survey. Once you earn so many points you can trade them in for Gift Cards to stores and restaurants. If you’re interested in signing up follow the link here.
Posted on July 19th, 2008 by Jes
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Well, a few posts ago I wrote a little about the family reunion. I promised pictures, here are some. I’m sure there will be more to come… You might want to know that each year the family reunion has a theme, this year it was Western- that explains the cowboy hats and horses.
Here’s my sleepy cowgirl still in her PJ’s but she’s adorable isn’t she?
Here she is testing out the horse, she didn’t quite understand what the point of it was, but she liked it anyway.
Here’s one of Lexi’s cousins. Little Eli in a cowboy hat- isn’t that so cute? He kept making this AWESOME smile, but as soon as his mom would go to take the picture the red light on the camera would distract him and he’d make this face. It’s still a great picture.
I saved the best for last. I’m sure my husband appreciates me sharing this picture. I should just leave it with no explanation, but I’d hate to have to face my husband if I did. So I’ll explain. One of the games for the kids was horse raises. There were 3 of these horses, so 3 at a time they would gallop down the hill to the finish line. The first one to cross it won a dollar. Since his family is so fun and crazy, they decided to have an adult race. The suckered 3 of the guys to compete against each other. The winner would get $5 not just $1. (They had to up the prize in order to convince 3 guys to participate.) Of course my husband was first in line. Although none of them galloped, it was still funny to watch three grown men running on stick horses. Eugene won of course. This picture was taken during his victory ride. I’m so proud of my husband. 
Posted on July 18th, 2008 by Jes
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Wednesday I reached 30 weeks.
Nesting kicked in. It occurred to me that if Caylee follows in her sister’s footsteps (which we hope she doesn’t) we could have a minimum of 4.5 weeks before she comes.
My house does not feel acceptable to bring a newborn into. Nothing seems to be organized, the carpets are dirty, we don’t even have the diapers we need. How will we get everything done, and buy everything before she arrives?
I know that God always works everything out, He provides what we need just in time. He did it with Lexi and she came early. We had everything we needed. We had put the car seat and stroller on layaway and made the final payment the Saturday before she was born!
So if you don’t hear from me much in the next few weeks, I’m probably scrubbing carpets or something fun like that!
Posted on July 18th, 2008 by Jes
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In case kids don’t have enough reason to take their clothes off, a Virgin Mobile has given them another excuse!
All in the name of charity of course. For each strip tease video that is posted, a clothing company will donate one new piece of clothing to homeless youth. For each 5 videos watched they will also donate one piece of clothing. I will say they don’t allow any “full” nudity, but I did see a couple girls take their shirts off….
Ok, I understand wanting to cloth homeless people, why can’t we do something like have teens post a video of them giving away an article of clothing, or helping feed them. Why do we have to ask the teens to Strip?!
Nice huh?
Posted on July 17th, 2008 by Jes
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