Going crazy

Now I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a patient person. And I'm almost OCD when it comes to planning. I plan everything right down to the minute. (At least the things I know I can control.) Ask Jesse about my lists. I make lists for everything, and charts, too. I'm downright quirky when it comes to being in control of organizing things. And it drives me nuts when I have to wait for deadlines before I can move to the next step. So naturally the wait (not weight, hehehe) of finding out the gender of this baby is killing me! I don't know if I should haul out Sydney's old things, or hunt down every clearance rack in Columbia for deals on blue stuff. And I haven't even let myself crack open my baby name book yet, just so I don't add to my own insanity. The worst part has been the past week, just because I get the chance to find out on Thursday. This Thursday. Like in 2 more days, ya'll. I'm gonna lose my mind! People have been asking me which gender I'd prefer and my response lately has been: "I don't care anymore! I just wanna know!!!!" (picture me pulling my hair out) I know it's just me being silly, but I really can't help it. I don't know how women did it before there were ultrasounds. I don't think I would have made it. I'd be giving birth in the crazy house......Did I mention that a flair for the dramatics runs rampant in my family? Once I do find out, rest assured the word will be spread. And I'll be able to get back to my crazy nesting that I also haven't been able to control. My only comfort is that I know I can't be the only pregnant women to lose her marbles over this gender thing, and I won't be the last. 2 days..........lets see if I can make it!

Try try again......

And again, and again, and again......Sydney is still potty training. We have spurts where it really is just easier for her to be in diapers and then it's easier for her to train. Last month the weather was so cold that she needed to wear pants. She didn't want to take off her bottoms and then put them back on, so we would fight every time we tried to go potty. We backed off for a while, but now the weather is very warm!! Yay! Which is great since she's also going through her naked phase. She'll keep the panties on but you can forget everything else. I've decided to pick and choose my battles so she can be naked at home, but she understands that she has to wear clothes when we go places or outside. This has made it infinitely easier! So far we've got a potty and a reminder timer and books to read while we are waiting. She thinks it's great and understands what the timer means and what the potty is, but doesn't quite get that "things" need to go in the potty. Still trying.........we'll get there......eventually........

The Big Kill

Well Jesse has killed his first turkey of the season! The birds were out in rare form on easter morning. My dad -the expert (he does this for a living!)- called the bird in and Jesse got him just as he was running into the clearing. I don't know who was more excited though, my dad or Jesse. Jess says my dad jumped up and was halfway to the dead turkey before he could even put the gun down! LOL We are very proud of our men. This was a very good sized bird. I could go into details about how old it was, if it was a good fighter, and how much he had been breeding this season, but that might reveal exactly how much of a redneck I am, so we won't go there. When they brought the big boy home we took some pictures (as you can see) and my sister Beka (aka Carson) ripped some wing feathers out-southern girls, what can we say? My dad took off the tail feathers so we can dry the spread and save it. No we aren't going to mount it. I'm not that redneck. Then he cleaned it. In a few weeks, when Jess gets back from some of his trips, we're gonna have fried turkey breast. (The breast is about the only edible part of the bird, the rest is too tough.) I can't wait. This is one piece of wild game I can have while pregnant, so i'm gonna enjoy all I can!

Easter fun

My Aunt Mel and Uncle Troy hosted the family Easter lunch at thier house and EVERYONE came! Oh it was so good! Then it was time to hunt the eggs. Syd donned her pretty new dress and grabbed her basket and all the kids took off. Sydney really got into this whole egg hunting thing. She even gathered eggs from an abandoned basket after all the eggs had been found!!!

Later we played with the basketball and Daddy helped her make some slam dunks. Then we got on the fourwheeler and rode around the yard a little bit.

It was a great Easter Sunday!

Sydney's Slide

My cousin Kayla has one of those disk chairs at the foot of her bed, and Sydney discovered that it made a great slide. You can also hear one of her favorite things to say: "Hi! How are you?"

Just so you know, she did this for at least 45 minutes before we had to leave, and now repeats this activity everytime we go to thier house. (but only if people are watching her. That makes it more fun for her)

Down and Dirty!

Well the nesting has officially started a little earlier than I thought would happen. I've been busy, busy! And as a result, i've included the rest of the household in all my craziness! I'm making Sydney's easter dress, based on a $100 one I saw in a catalog. I've tried and suceeded at making my own laundry detergent, Thanks to Beth! (it really works pretty well) I've also planted some veggies in some planter pots. Now my seeds are outgrowing thier starter pots and are ready for the ground. Where to put them? How about where we killed the bee-attracting bushes by the back door last year? Great! Just one problem.....The stumps and roots are still there. Well daddy, get to work!

Not only did daddy get in on it (or rather forced into it) but Sydney decided to help by digging around and pulling up the big dirt clods.

Aunt Cera even got in on it and tried her hand at stump pulling. This just started as a whim, but has now escilated to include more veggies than I originaly planned. We're going to run out of room if I don't pull in the reigns on these projects!

Hair today, gone tomorrow.....

I just couldn't stand it any longer........Litterally! Keeping up with a two-year-old, and working full time, and dealing with being pregnant just did not equal nice hair. All the time it ended up being in a pony-tail or bun. My hair is also very thick, so buns and ponytails are heavy and hurt my neck. I needed something easy to fix, one of those "wash and go" types. So on a whim (which is how all my haircuts happen, by the way) I walked into the nearest chop shop and requested a whack! The poor stylist was worried, she chopped off over 8 inches! I loved it when she was finished! I still love it. All I have to do to it is blow it dry and it's set to go! I do this routine every few months or so thanks to fast growing hair. In fact if I decide to keep it this short I'll have to get a trim in about a month. It just might be worth the extra trims.