Burger's Birthday!

Well, today is Burger's birthday. He is 24 now. Old timer... We celebrated yesterday mostly. He made himself a cake and today he made roast in the crock pot for dinner. With potatoes and carrots and all that jazz! We went to the bakery and got donuts for breakfast. We also had to pick up the newspaper because I let our subscription expire and haven't called to renew it yet. Oops. We did a ton of laundry today and bought the paint for kid's bedroom. I think we will be painting next weekend. That's the plan right now. I need to get prices to have the carpet cleaned, but that will have to wait to be done until after Thanksgiving. Then I will work on setting up a dresser and a crib, maybe. Emrick needs a few newborn sized sleepers for when she is born, but other than that we are good to go! We will also be purchasing a new swing because we borrowed the one that we used for Jacob. We have a travel sized pink swing picked out to buy but we are waiting until January or February to actually buy it! No rush... We picked a travel one because our house has no room for a full sized one, and I will be able to move a travel one around to any spot in the house. I think that will be handy! I feel a little guilty because when I was this far along with Jacob, I think the whole nursery was put together and I'm pretty sure we had almost everything we needed! But since they will be sharing a room, we are kind of waiting until the last minute to set anything up! I figure it doesn't really matter since she will sleep in the bassinet in our room for at least a couple weeks, anyhow! I just feel like I'm going to put it off and put it off and then before I know it, Emrick will be born and I won't have anything ready! Then I think to myself, would that really be so terrible? I mean, she'll never know the difference! And we have the stuff, it's just not set up! I go back and forth between the two extremes. I guess that's a sign of pregnancy, huh? Anyhow, we had a nice day. My parents came for dinner and then my mom cleaned my microwave, which is always nice! We had cake and ice cream after we sang Burger his song. Jacob went to bed after he had a huge melt down about Grandma taking his juice. It was a good time. Hopefully tomorrow will start the week off right! Have a good one, every body!

Did we even get anything done?

The answer to that would be, no, not really. But that's OK because we had fun, right? We started by getting breakfast pizza and taking it to my parent's to share! Then my mom and I went to Kohl's while Burger and my dad and Jacob went to the local Farm and Fleet. We met up and then Burger and I ditched the rest of them to go see Zach and Miri Make a Porno. It's the new Kevin Smith movie. It's in regular movie theaters, and it is not an adult film. It is rated R and not for children to watch, but it is not a porno. Just to clear things up. We ate lunch at HuHots, which is always good. We also went grocery shopping without Jacob which proved to be much more efficient! Then we picked Jacob up and came home. We have been sitting here hanging out and now Burger is making himself a birthday cake. We were going to buy one at Cold Stone's but a small one with six pieces is $19.00! So we just decided to be happy with the boxed batter kind. At least we have peppermint stick ice cream to eat with our cake! We have no plans for tomorrow, but to hang out and enjoy Burger's birthday in relaxation.

Friday!!

Our Friday didn't start off the best, but we still enjoyed it! Jacob and I went to story time at the library but only stayed for about five minutes. Jacob was out of control so we had to leave. Then he cried the whole way home because he wanted to read stories with his friends. Sorry, kiddo, but when you don't listen and act like a cave man, we have to leave the library. He came home and read books by himself in his room for about 45 minutes until he got tired of it! I talked on the phone with Megan for most of the day, but managed to get some laundry done. I was thinking about washing the dishes all day, but that never actually happened! When Burger got home we went to the bank and Wal-Mart. We ate dinner at Hardee's. Sunday is Burger's birthday. He will turn 24 this year! He wants to make a birthday cake so while we were at Wal-Mart he chose his box of cake batter and frosting with sprinkles! Pretty exciting! I paid some bills online and now we are getting ready for Jacob to go to bed. Hope everyone enjoyed their Friday. Mine was mediocre.

All on a Wednesday Night

For those of you who know me, you know that I have been a Kid Rock fan since the mid to late 90's. I still love all his albums and was so excited to watch him on the CMA's this evening. That is actually a total overstatement. I completely forgot about the CMA's until the Clifford DVD was over and I told Burger that I wanted to see what was on the TV instead of watching Clifford for the fifth time in a row. Instantly saw the CMA's were on and then I got super excited because that's when I remembered that Kid Rock was going to be on them, live! Jacob also likes Kid Rock. If not the music, then only because he knows I like it and think it's funny when he asks for Kid Rock. When I told Jacob that Kid Rock was going to be on the TV he was excited also and clapped his hands! Yay for Kid Rock! Well, we watched until Kid Rock was over, now we are all getting ready for bed! Hope all of you had a good day and also enjoyed the CMA's! And just so everyone knows, the picture is not from the CMA's. It's from some other time that Kid Rock was in concert.

What was I supposed to do?

Jacob was being very quiet in the living room while I was looking up things online. So quiet that I thought he fell asleep and didn't think anything of it! That was my first mistake. He suddenly came to me, so excited and said, "Lookit, Mommy! Lookit!" while holding out his hand! I saw the pen and got a really sad face. I told him that we don't pen on our hands, we pen on paper. He had paper, why did he pen on his hands? He got tears in his eyes and looked at the floor... He was holding his hand in his other hand like some sort of fabulous and breakable treasure and my heart broke instantly. He had taken all this time to make me the most beautiful picture in the whole world, and I was angry about it. With just a few words, I squashed his whole independence. What kind of a parent does that? Next time I will remember to see things from his point of view before I say words.

Emrick's Doctor

Today we went to the doctor to check up on Emrick. She is healthy, as far as we can tell from out here! My next appointment (in four weeks) I will have to take the glucose test. So, everyone should cross their fingers for that, considering my entire diet is basically sugar. I have been feeling fine, but having terrible headaches the last couple days at work. But, seeing that I work in a room filled with children... Also, when I was pregnant with Jacob, I was especially sensitive to fluorescent lighting. The YMCA is lit with all fluorescent lights, so my headaches could be due to that also! No big deal, just pop some Tylenol and every thing clears itself up usually. Jacob was excited to see Emrick's doctor. He was very well behaved while we were there, which makes my day so much easier! We made some chicken stir-fry for dinner tonight, and that was delicious. Jacob tried some of it, but hasn't been a big fan of dinner the last couple days. Then he wakes up in the morning and wants to eat dinner again. Funny kid. He loves to eat breakfast! We went to McDonald's for breakfast the other day and when we asked him what he wanted to eat he said tacos. It reminded me of the kid on the movie Big Daddy! We ordered him a sausage burrito and he ate it all up, so everything turned out fine! The plan for the rest of the night is to stay nice and cozy in our house. And with our newly plastic covered windows, it should be no problem to stay cozy! Thanks again, Dave!

Working Day!

Me and Jacob snuggling. I took this picture myself, in case you couldn't tell!

Jacob with his hot chocolate.

He is trying to fix things.

Burger and me. I also took this picture.

Today Burger's dad is here helping Burger get some stuff done before winter hits us hard! Things that should have probably been done weeks ago... But still! They put the storm windows up and covered the inside of the windows in plastic. Right now they are working on the roof fixing the shingles that blew off. I am so grateful for Burger's dad to come help with these things because otherwise they may have never gotten done! Thanks Dave, for coming to help us! We really appreciate it so much!