Cloth Diapers....have you lost your mind?

So I thought to myself....hmm what should a girl do who works full time, pretty much has all the household jobs and is going to have two kids in diapers do? Try cloth diapers! Ok. Well not really. But I did think to myself...hmm I'm going to have two kids in daycare and diapers. Spendy! So I thought for the next four months I'm to challenge myself to try cloth diapers. I wouldn't even think of doing this...but when we bought our washer/dryer we made a big investment and bought one of these front loading ones that can wash/dry a load in an hour. So more laundry isn't really a big deal...timewise. I haven't got it all figured out yet. And I do know that I will continue to buy diapers for daycare, on the go (maybe: I'm not sure I want to haul around poopy ones!) and vacations (if I ever get one again). Hopefully using some cloth diapers even out the cost and maybe I'll just love them so much I'll use them all the time....we shall see.

Baby Two...How are you? And Jack's attempts at Potty Training.

Today we got to see Baby Two up close. I almost wet myself because we had to wait twenty minutes in line to get checked in..some lady thought she could just come two hours early and get squeezed in..and I followed the directions and drank plenty of water. Too much in fact. They made me go pee so my bladder would stop squishing the baby. Geez people make up your minds...don't mess with pregnant women's bladders :) After getting settled they measured everything twice because we had a girl doing and internship for ultrasound tech. And determined Baby Two Stats: head 17 cm, waist 15 cm and weighing in at 13 ozs. At lesat that is what the computer said. It also said the due date based on size would be 7/12/10. Which did not make Momma happy. I think that must be based on averages. So baby might be a wee bit of a peanut like big bother Jack was. Guess I'll have to get to eatting more cookies.
The second part of the story is getting home from the ultrasound and Jack's newest trick is to pull down his pants and decide he has to go potty. (Of course there is a Lighting McQueen Potty involved here) So he sits on the potty for a while. Mostly he just grunts. And then he wants down....he runs in his room. I go to get a new diaper and he heads over by the rocking chair. Which I guess he decides to pee on the side of the chair. So we get that cleaned up and a diaper back on his bum. I head downstairs to help Glenn with dinner. I look up the stair case and see a diaper in the hallway...but no Jack. So I'm thinking oh great! I run upstairs and he's standing by the potty buck naked but at least no messes. After a breif chase we get him pinned down and re-clothed. So moral of the story: yes he might know he needs to go potty but no he's not ready to potty train yet because mom is not ready for pee-ing all over the furniture.

Snow, Snow, go Away!

With the thaw we've had the last week...I'm hoping for spring. I can't wait! I have a ton of spring things to get done before baby #2 comes. I want to get the flower beds cleaned up, our drive way is getting paved :) and I'm hoping we can plant a small veggie garden. If we can figure out a dog pee-ing proof method here. The neighbor dog is really bad about that...and Spike can't let anyone mark his spots.
Our ultrasound is next week Friday. We are not going to peek at baby's sex...but it won't be that much longer until we know any how. We have four babies that we know of due on July 4/5. So far we've heard two of them are boys. Jack and Glenn are hoping for another boy for their hockey team...and I'ld have to say I'm hoping they get that boy.

Peanut, Peanut Butter

Jack has a new favorite snack. Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches. Unfortunately he has a very odd way of eating those sandwiches. He has to put them on a paper towel (which is at least tidy of him) and eat them off the floor like a dog. I think the silliest thing he did was dig a paper towel out of the trash (he saw me put it in the trash in the morning so good job on remembering). He even Sometimes he forgets that his dog Spike also likes Peanut Butter Sandwiches as well :)
We are packing up our bags for another trip to the PGA show. Hoping to get a few more autographs and enjoy some warm weather. Tonight we are going to a hockey game and Jack has been saying Hockey all day. He's pretty excited about it. Even his blue jeans were Hockey jeans.

More, Hockey, Please

Jack's vocab is expanding exponentially everyday. Here are a few examples of how a little boy communicated with his mom today.

While sitting in the high chair "Rrrroar" "Hockey"
Meaning: Mom's cup had the Florida Panther's Hockey Logo on it

While taking a bath "More" "Me-Me"
Meaning: I don't want to get out of the bath. I want to play with my truck Mater some more.

While throwing a fit "Hockey" "More" add Tears, Laying flat on the Floor and lots of SNOT!
Meaning: I want to go outside and play on my hockey rink


Today Baby #2 had a check-up. Very uneventful. I found out my purse weighs about 10lbs. The nurse forgot to tell me to put it down when she weighed me. I did get to hear the heart beat...the little ticker was pretty quick. In six weeks we will have an ultrasound to see how baby is developing. And in four weeks we will be half way to having our Baby #2 home!

We're in the Great State of Texas

Well...we've had an interesting last two days! Never a dull moment with Jack! We had to be in Houston, Tx this weekend for a wedding. So our plans were to drive down to the Twin Cities Thursday night and fly out Friday morning. Plans never seem to go as planned. We had a bit of a snow storm hitting the southern part of the state Thursday so we decided to let it snow and drive in the morning. So we picked up a pizza....which wasn't sitting too well in my stomach. We got Jack to bed around his normal time and I was quitely packing his bag up while he was sleeping. I looked over at him and Puke Attack! All over the place. Poor kiddie. I guess I wasn't the only one who wasn't liking the pizza. We decided by morning to at least drive to the Cities and if it got really bad in the car only Glenn would go. Jack must have really wanted to go because he kept things down. Well he kept them down and saved it for about five mintues before we boarded our plane. But since he didn't have a fever I was still thinking food posioning. He flew like a champion. Slept the whole time. And he didn't manage to get sick again. He did end up with a fever yesterday and still a touch this morning. But he's keeping things down and eatting. He made a little girl friend Emily last night. She is 11 months old they had a lot of fun running around together. I wasn't very happy about him playing with her because I didn't want him to get her sick but her parents and grandma kept bring her over. They told me she was sick with a 105 fever the week before. So hopefully she doesn't get Jack's bug. We are currently watching Spainish cartoons and enjoying breakfast in bed. The wedding isn't until 4pm so we have lots of time for a good nap and maybe a swim for Jack if he promises to keep the water out of his ears and eyes!

To Post...or not to Post

Thinking back over the last year...I hardly took time to do the things I wanted to do. Mostly because I didn't have anymore time in the day. I was looking that I had posted 20 times last year. Well hopefully I can at least double that and keep updated a little bit more in 2010.
Today has been a not so great day. Emily has successfully given me her case of the headaches. I've had one since 7 am this morning and I've tired everything...it's not going away. I couldn't make it through church we (Jack and I) had to leave. Oh well there are worse things in life.