Just found this website for wall decals.  Love it.  

Dali Decals

Also, Land of Nod has some cute ones too.  

My Little Helper

This is a sign of how much vacuuming and cleaning I have been doing.  Samuel thinks it is a lot of fun to help me vacuum.  He has learned how to turn on the vacuum and throws a fit if I don't let him push it around.  Too bad he can't do the entire house.  

On another note, we had people come out to power wash our house.  The house and cement in back look great, but the buys that did it were scary and weird.  First, they just freaked me out.  They were disgusting looking and all of them wore sleeveless shirts and cut off shorts.  One was smoking a cigarette when he came to the door.  I told them not to let the dog out because she will take off.  I just checked outside and they left both of the gates open.  I am so pissed.  Then to make it even worse, the guy in charge asked two totally inappropriate questions or I guess I should say statements.  

First, he came in the house and said "I'm thirsty.  Can I have water?"  Not even a please.  Even if he did say please it is totally inappropriate.  They were only at our house for an hour and a half at the most.  Give me a break.  

Second, he was done with all the work and he said "I need to use your bathroom.  Where is it?"  I am sorry, really, do you really have to go now.  I wanted to say no, but he used the restroom, didn't wash his hands and left.  

He snagged the check off the dining room table without me even giving it to him.  I looked down and I said "Oh, I guess you already took the check."  

They were total freaks.  They freaked me out and we will never use them again.  

I wish I had interesting things to talk about lately, but I don't.  I am obsessed with keeping my house clean and I am finding new things to clean everyday.  Dave says that when he gets home everyday from work, the house looks ready to show.  I have clean almost every window in the house, plus most of the doors.  We are getting the house power washed tomorrow, so I am not obsessing about the dirt on the outside of the windows yet.  We have those tilt in windows, so if the power washing doesn't get them completely clean, I will be cleaning the outside of the windows on Friday.  

On the baby note, we bought new furniture for the baby room this weekend.  We bought the Ragazzi Classico in Cherry.  It should be the first set of furniture you will see on their website.  We bought it at Treasure Rooms.  We talked them into holding it in their storage facility until the beginning of January.  They were not very happy, but we didn't feel bad about begging.  The furniture was 40% off and there is no way we want it delivered to our current address.  Anyway, if we find a new house soon and sell ours soon, we can get the furniture earlier.  

I have a doctor's appointment on Monday and I am really looking forward to hearing the heartbeat again.  Since I have stopped feeling sick all day long, I don't really feel pregnant.  It is a strange feeling.  I got on the scale this morning and I have only gained 5 pounds.  I am pretty excited about that.  I think at this time when I was pregnant with Samuel I gained probably 15 or so.  But, I also ate every food that came within close proximity to me.  I am a little more controlled with this pregnancy.  

I am off to the grocery store.  

Busy Weekend

We were hoping for a relaxing weekend, but it turned out to be jam packed.  On Saturday morning, we all got up and decided to go for a walk because it was absolutely gorgeous.  After our long walk, we decided to run some errands to get stuff to clean our house and do the little things our real estate agent asked us to do.  Then we headed to Whole Foods to get groceries and some lunch.  

Side note:  Samuel is starting to recognize and say many things and is making a few animal sounds all the time, like a pig and gorilla.  First we walked around the produce isles and he caught a glimpse of the cheese area and started saying "Cheese, Cheese".  We had to quickly get past that area because he was leaning out of the cart trying to grab at whatever cheese he could get his hands one.  Then we were heading to the cereal isle, they had a huge display of on sale cereals at the end and all of the sudden Samuel started making his gorilla noises.  I couldn't figure out why he was making the noises and I looked over and there was a huge display of Gorilla Munch.  It was hilarious.  So we grabbed him a box.  Why not?!

Okay, back to the day.  We were heading home to eat our lunch around 12:15 and we got a call from our real estate company and someone wanted to see our house at 2.  Dave and I totally freaked out.  It was almost time for Samuel's afternoon nap and we needed to do some serious cleaning of the house.  Luckily Jonathan and Laura were home and came over to get Samuel, so he could go to their house for a nap and to play around.  Dave and I clean the house as fast as we could and then ran out of the house. 

Oh by the way, here is our house listing.

So that was Saturday and we were looking forward to relaxing on Sunday.  Well, at 7:30 in the morning on Sunday we were up eating breakfast and Dave checked our listing online and noticed that they had posted that we were having an open house on Sunday.  We aren't supposed to have one until next Sunday, the 30th.  Dave called our real estate agent and she said that the tech people must have accidentally put in the info for this Sunday instead of the 30th.  

So, from 12-2, we hung out at our house hoping that no one would show up.  Our real estate agent came over around 12:30 to give us some packets of info on our house and she hung out a little bit just in case someone stopped by.  Luckily she was there because someone did come by.  We weren't going to let anyone in (because our house still was spotless), but these people were from out of town, so we let them look at the house.  

It was crazy.  At least a few people have seen the house, but oh my goodness.  It wasn't a relaxing weekend like we hoped.  Oh well.  

Thank goodness it is Monday!

Milk Mustache

I haven't posted pictures in a while.  Here are some from the past week or so.  

As I said before, Samuel is really getting into climbing.  We were in the process of cleaning off and putting away our pot and pan rack in our kitchen and I look over after cleaning off the shelves and this is what I saw:

He was pretty happy with himself, until I told him he wasn't allowed to do that and pulled him off.

This  morning he was eating breakfast and drinking his milk.  He told me he was all done and I looked over and he had the best milk mustache I have seen in  long time.  I started laughing and he wasn't so excited at first about me telling him he had a milk mustache.  Then I told him to smile and these are the pictures I got:

Picture Day

I have been a little stressed out the past few days.  We are getting pictures taken of our house this afternoon.  I have been cleaning and organizing and stressing out.  The real estate agent came by yesterday to try to stage our house to make it look nicer.  She brought lots of things to put everywhere.  I had to tell her "no way" on over half of the stuff.  I know it is just for staging, but some of the stuff of hideous and I wasn't about to have that shit in my house.  It looks pretty good right now.  I am just worried about keeping it up.  

Samuel has been a wild man lately.  He won't sit still for even a second.  He is into everything and climbing on everything.  It wears me out just trying to keep up with him.  

I am officially showing.  Not much though.  I think some people would just think I have a fat stomach.  It doesn't really look like pregnancy belly yet.  I worked out on Monday and I am waiting for Samuel to wake up so I can go again today.  We tried something new last night.  We have been putting Samuel to bed at 8, but he has been waking up around 6:15 every morning.  He is so tired and then doesn't take the greatest nap during the day.  So we put him to bed last night around 7:30 when he started to act tired.  It is almost 8 and he is still asleep.  He woke up at 5 and 6 and cried for a bit, but went right back to sleep.  I am trying to pay bills and clean up while he is sleeping.  

I better go clean the last bathroom.  

I am sad that the weekend is over.  It went by so quickly.  I had a wonderful night out with Dave on Friday night and then we stayed in on Saturday night and just ordered food and relaxed.  It was a very nice relaxing birthday.  We did however, pack and clean up our house all weekend.  It is getting pretty close to looking good.  I have a lot of work to do tomorrow and Tuesday to get things ready for the photographer to come and take pictures of the house.  Hopefully it will at least look picture ready by Wednesday.  

I am starting to think about how I want to decorate the new baby's nursery.  I am searching for really cool modern wall decals.  I found a really cool website and I am listing it here, so I won't forget about it. (dezignwithaz.com)  If you guys know of any other websites that you like, please pass it along.  

I am hoping that I will have time to get a nursery ready in a new house, but if I don't we all will live.  

I am going to go to bed now.  

Coming Soon

Our house is officially going up on the market.  We have a "coming soon" sign outside.  Next week the real estate agent is coming over to check out all the cleaning and organizing we have done (which we are going to be doing all weekend).  Then on Wednesday her photographer is coming to take pictures and then by Friday, it should officially be up for sale.  I am freaking out.  The minute they put the sign out, my heart started racing and I began to have an anxiety attack.  We just have so much to do.  I am also freaking out about having to keep my house clean for who knows how long.  

My parents are coming in town tonight to begin celebrating my birthday.  We are going to have a weekend full of packing and cleaning.  I am so looking forward to that.  

As I have mentioned everyday now, I am craving sweets, but can't eat them.  To make matters worse, last night I had a dream of a table full of cookies and cakes and I was just staring at them and I wanted to eat them so badly.  I woke up with a stomach ache.  Every year for my birthday, I like to have a big cake.  Usually a marble cake with chocolate frosting.  This year I am not even going to try to eat it.  I don't want to be miserable.  I guess I will just eat some fruit or something.  

Well, Samuel is waking up, so I better go get him.  So much for a relaxing morning.  

The Tomato Soup I made last night was very tasty.  The entire family liked it and it wasn't difficult to make at all.  I read all the comments people left regarding the recipe before I made it and the majority of them said that it was too salty or too peppery.  I added less salt and pepper and I think it was actually under-seasoned.  Next time I make it, I am going to use exactly the amounts the recipe calls for.  I think I will also use more of all the other ingredients to make it a little thicker.  Overall it was great.  

Tonight we are having veggie burgers and sweet potato fries.  

On the baby front.  I am feeling the baby sporadically.  The first time I felt it was Saturday night.  It just felt like a push in my right side.  Then I haven't really felt it much at all until today when Samuel and I were on a walk.  Again, I felt a big push on my right side.  I guess that is where it is sitting.  Kind of crazy that I am already feeling a tiny bit of movement.  

Nothing else is really going on right now.  I am totally wanting a piece of chocolate right now, but I know I will regret it in about 5 minutes, so I am going to do some surfing on the Internet and hopefully the craving will go away.  

Tired

I am really tired today.  I know Dave is too.  We were sleeping so nicely and I don't think either one of us wanted to get out of bed this morning.  I have been dragging all day.  I am trying to get some stuff done around the house.  the painters finished everything this morning.  The house looks great.  I can't believe we didn't do the painting earlier.  It really makes the house look so much nicer.  I would take pictures, but the pictures wouldn't do justice, you would just have to see it in person.  It just looks so clean and fresh.  I am going to have to touch up the floor boards a little bit, because they have been scuffed up for a while and the walls look so good, I don't want the floor boards to stick out.

I am trying out a new homemade tomato soup recipe.  It is a Barefoot Contessa recipe and all of her stuff always looks so good, so I am trying it out tonight.  I will let you know if it is good.  Along with the soup, I am going to make grilled cheese sandwiches.  I bought all this really good cheese and fresh multi-grain wheat bread, so I am going to try to make a gourmet style grilled cheese.  Yummy!  I also bought a small fruit tart for dessert.  

I think I may have to start wearing some maternity clothes soon.  I can still fit into all my clothes, but I think I want to start getting comfy.  My pants are a tiny bit tight in the belly, but not too bad.  I still haven't gained much weight and I am almost 14 weeks.  I guess the lack of sweets has really helped.  

I was craving hot chocolate this afternoon.  So I made the real deal with milk and hot cocoa and marshmallows.  It smelled so good and the first two sips were delicious.  Then I just felt sick.  I didn't even try to drink more, so I poured it out.  This is so depressing.  I am wanting desserts and sweet things, but they are just not settling well.  This baby likes healthy foods.  I can't complain, I know this is much better for me then all the junk food I inhaled when I was pregnant with Samuel.  

Lastly, my cell phone is completely F*#$ed up.  This is the 3rd phone that is just terrible.  I have a Sprint Palm Centro or something like it.  It is horrible.  Don't even think about getting it.  Yesterday, I couldn't even answer my phone for the majority of the day because when I tried to answer it, it would act like it was on hands-free.  Then when I tried to get it to speaker phone, I couldn't hear anything.  It was extremely annoying.  I can check voicemail and get text messages, but nothing else.  It was working fine this morning and then started screwing up again.  I guess I better go to Sprint soon.  That will take up my entire morning.  I hate it when my phone doesn't work.  I am ready to get a new one.  Maybe I will switch to a totally different phone and company.  We will see.  

I am off to check on my soup.  

Busy weekend and my birthday week

We were really busy this weekend.  Today painters are coming over to paint the inside of our house.  We are preparing to put our house on the market, so we have lots of organizing and things to fix before that happens.  The thing is, we are planning to put the house on the market in the next couple of weeks, so there is so much to do.  Dave and I have both cleaned out our closets and we are working on getting rid of lots of other junk.  This coming Saturday a POD is coming so we can store as much of our stuff as possible.  

On Saturday we met Jonathan and Laura at Pi for lunch.  It was really really good.  I think I liked the thin crust pizza better then the deep dish, but they both settled really well.  This is the first pizza I have been able to eat while pregnant and not get sick.  That is a really good sign.  Then we went to Fro Yo for dessert.  Oh my goodness, it was delicious.  It was all self serve fro yo with every topping imaginable.  You just fill up your bowl and then pay per ounce.  Samuel shared so much of all our fro yo that he was so hipped up that he couldn't even nap in the afternoon.  

Then Saturday night, Dave and I went to see GI Joe.  Dave has been anxiously awaiting this movie coming out.  I have to admit, I wasn't expecting much and I really wasn't interested in seeing it, but it was no bad at all.  It was actually enjoyable.  The main male characters eyes were a little small for his head and a little too close together which was annoying to look at, but other then that it wasn't bad.  

Yesterday, we did more organizing and cleaning and Dave washed his car (Samuel helped by sticking his hand on the soap bucket, but loved getting rinsed off with the hose).  Samuel had his first Popsicle.  He loved it and even held it correctly by the little stick.  

Samuel is regularly saying "please" and yesterday he said "LaLa"  for his Aunt Laura.  He still can't say Jonathan.  I think that will take some time.  

Lastly, this is my birthday week.  My birthday is on Saturday.  My parents are coming in on Thursday.  We are going out to dinner on Thursday night with them and Jonathan and Laura.  Friday night Dave and I are going out to dinner and spending the night out.  Saturday we are packing up the POD all day and then heading to dinner again.  I am going to be eating a ton this weekend and I look forward to it.  

Here are some pictures from this past week and yesterday.

When I ask Samuel to "show me your teeth", this is what I get:

Here he is hanging out with Jonathan:

And here he is hanging out with Taylor, they were more interested in talking on their phones:

Fast Week

This week has flown by probably because I have had something to do every single day.  Today I have no plans, but I am sure I will come up with something.  It is going to be very hot today, so maybe Samuel and I will hit the pool.  Except that I desperately need to shave my legs, so if I get around to doing that, then we will go.  

I have made dinner everyday this week and it has been great.  Here is what we made:

Monday:  Chicken with carrots, celery and potatoes in the crockpot.

Tuesday:  BBQ Pizza

Wednesday:  Wheat Pasta with Four cheese pasta sauce and chicken Italian sausage.  (I made Dave a big plate of cheese and bean nachos).

Thursday:  Mustard, Pickle and Cheese Sandwich (me) and Samuel had applesauce, cheese, broccoli, cauliflower and some pizza.

I know I am pregnant because last night for dinner I didn't want anything to eat except a mustard, pickle and cheese sandwich. I haven't had one of those sandwiches since I was a kid. My dad used to make them all the time and I loved them. If you love Mustard, Pickles and Cheese, put it in a sandwich and it is so yummy. Anyway, I ate that last night and I had no stomach issues and I felt great.

This week, during the day I have been feeling better, but I still feel terrible at night.  There are many things different about this pregnancy then the last (I am writing this down, so I will remember too.)  For those of you that don't have any interest in my pregnancy, you can stop reading now because there is nothing else important I have to say in the rest of this blog.  

So on with my list of differences:

1.  I am breaking out all over my face.  I don't ever really get zits, but I have little ones all over.  Around my mouth, on my chin, around my nose, on my forehead.  I hope you get the picture, it is everywhere.  I don't think most people would notice them all, but when I get up close and personal with the mirror at night, I am horrified.  (I got no zits with Samuel, my face was crystal clear).

2.  I have been more nauseous with this pregnancy for a longer period of time, but I haven't thrown up.  I just feel completely sick, but I can't seem to yack.  It is good and bad.  

3.  This baby does not like sweets.  I ate a cookie that I made the other day and it tasted so good and then about 5 minutes later my stomach was in so much pain and I got a headache.  I felt terrible.  I have experimented with other sweet foods and my body is not responding well at all.  I feel like I may be pregnant with a baby that is very similar to Dave.  He hates sweets, but loves salt.  Now not eating sweets is in the big picture a really good thing, but I love chocolate and cookies and cakes and this is really going to be sad if I don't eat them for 6 more months.  

4.  I have to eat every 2-3 hours and small meals.  I can't eat really big meals.  I am talking one piece of fruit, one slice of pizza, one piece of toast...at a time.  That is about all I can handle or I start to feel sick.  With Samuel I could eat anything and as much as I wanted and I felt great (after the first trimester).  

5.  My boobs don't really hurt.  This part I really like.  I couldn't even be hugged when I was pregnant with Samuel, my boobs hurt so badly.  My boobs feel perfectly fine.  Hug and squeeze away.

I am sure I will think of more, but I am done for now.  I will probably be updating this list as my pregnancy goes on, so I can keep track of the differences myself.

Have a great weekend everyone.  

Drum Roll Please

Dave and I have some news:

Yes, it is what you think it is...an ultrasound.  We are having another baby.  I am 12 weeks and 3 days.  The baby is due February 10th.  Only six months from now (holy shit!).  Yesterday at the doctors appointment the baby was extremely active.  It stretched out its legs and arms.  We saw the arms, hands, legs, feet, head, face, spine, brain and of course its very strong beating heart.  It was such a relief.  I can't get over being extremely nervous before an ultrasound because I always fear the news of miscarriage, due to our very first experience.  It was such a relief and seeing that moving baby is truly a miracle.  

Not only in the last three months have I been terrible about posting because we have been busy and I was completely obsessive over the Twilight saga, I also had terrible morning, afternoon and night sickness.  I have been nauseous non-stop.  I have been feeling extremely sick and I have been getting terrible headaches. I have wanted to post so badly about how I felt, so I could get some sympathy, but I also wanted to hold out until the first trimester was over.  I will be sure to include you all in the lovely details of my pregnancy from now on.  Hopefully since I am entering my second trimester, I will start feeling better.  

At my doctors appointment yesterday, they told me in a very nice way that I better not gain as much weight as I did with Samuel.  As I reminder I gained 48 pounds.  I was huge and felt like shit.  I think I am doing pretty well so far because I have only gained 3 pounds (and that actually fluctuates, because yesterday morning I had only gained 1 pound).  We will see.  I am not nearly as hungry and crazy for food as I was when I was pregnant with Samuel.  

Speaking of Samuel, this was his reaction when we told him the news:

Pretty funny huh.  Actually he was just throwing a huge fit one day and I thought it was hilarious, so I took pictures of him throwing himself around the house and on the couch.  The series of pictures are quite funny, but I thought this one was perfect.  

Here are some other pictures of him relaxing on the couch in the evening.  Luckily just like his parents, he is lazy at night after dinner.  

Early Saturday

I have been up since 6 am and it is a Saturday.  I would have loved to sleep in, but I was wide awake at about 5:30.  Samuel started to stir and I wanted a little time to myself this morning, so I got out of bed.  It is not almost 7 and Samuel is still asleep.  It has been a nice hour.  Dave left around 6:20 to go golf.  Hopefully he will be home at a reasonable hour today.  

Well, the last time I posted Samuel was not sleeping well and I thought he was coming down with a cold.  I took him to the doctor on Wednesday and the doctor said everything looked fine.  She thought that he was probably just having teething issues.  He now has all his teeth, except for the 2 year molars.  I can't believe he has a mouth full of teeth.  Anyway, so I thought that Samuel was getting sick, but apparently it was me that was getting sick.  I have had a head cold since Wednesday afternoon.  I am blowing my nose so much that it is completely chapped now.  I honestly do not know how I can produce so much snot.  It is disgusting.  Not only is my nose running, but my throat was killing me.  It stopped hurting this morning actually.  I have been drinking tons of tea and trying to relax.

Although, I have been feeling terrible, I went to Kansas City on Thursday morning.  I haven't seen my grandparents in a while and they really wanted to see Samuel.  We made the drive and it wasn't that bad except for the fact that I wanted to die and I used up an entire box of Kleenex on the drive.  We had a really nice time.  We came back yesterday, so it was a really short trip.  

Dave took the day off yesterday.  He was planning to sleep in and relax a little bit since Samuel and I weren't home.  George woke him up at 8, so he didn't really get to sleep in.  Then since he knew I wasn't feeling well he did the laundry, vacuumed the entire house, cleaned the kitchen, cleaned the family room ceiling fan and cleaned out his two closets.  The house looked great when I got home and it was such a relief to not have to do anything.  I am lucky, Dave really is wonderful.  

I think once Samuel gets up we are probably going to run some errands.  

Tonight we are having breakfast for dinner.  Yum Yum!!