18 weeks tomorrow!

Well I am approaching 1/2 done with this pregnancy already! Finally 2 weeks ago I started to feel human again and it's been wonderful :) All Dr appts have gone excellent although at my 16 week appt Doc couldn't find the heartbeat with the doppler. I was not concerned since I had just listened to it loud and clear at home with my doppler so he opted to hop back and check the kidlet out via ultra sound. I never turn down a chance to look at my little miracle! He/she was in there kicking and boxing around healthy as could be :) I got another pic of kidlet which I always love to get. I've had an ultra sound at every appointment so far ;) So it's nice to see the kid grow and change! My next appt is June 15th and we go in for our big ultra sound. Since we're not finding out the sex it will be just another chance to see how much our lil one has grown! I am still not feeling kidlet move around much if I am at all. Sometimes I think I might be but others I am unsure and think it could be gas so I'm not considering myself to have felt movement yet at this time. HOpefully in the next couple of weeks I"ll feel it though! It took awhile to feel it witH kailer and I don't even remember when I felt it regularly with Kaeden.. that was a long time ago! lol

Both boys are excited to have a baby on the way and both must give Mommy AND baby belly kisses good night and good-bye. It still hasn't sunk in to me that we will be a family of 5 before the end of 09! Maybe it will when kidlet lets me feel him/her moving around in there regularly. Heck now that I'm feeling better I forget I'm pregnant 1/2 the time! I just feel like a lazy Mommy not a preggo Mommy LOL It is a bit difficult knowing I don;t get to know that this is a boy or a girl and know what I need to shop for and know what names to concentrate on. I feel like maybe that is why it doesn't seem as real this time around? By this point with Kai I knew he was a boy and even if I wasn't feeling him move I was able to refer to him as our lil man. Now I just have the baby in me... not your sister or your brother. But it is exciting to know that when the baby is born I'll get to hear it's a ??????? and I'll be surprised by the answer! (boy I just know it)

Memorial day weekend Steven ended up getting an extra day off so we met up with my parents at their beach house in Lincoln City. LOOOOONG drive but it was fun! Bummer that it was windy every single day we were there. But it was great that my boys didn't destroy Daddy's beach house and things went pretty smoothly :) We brought home lots of great memories and a van full of sand ;) We went to the tide pools at Yaquina and Ripley's, Wax Works and Undersea Gardens in Newport. The dogs were able to go with us and they had a blast too! Sally LOVED to climb the rocks at the tide pools!! I was surprised at her determination :) We also spent the day at Taft Beach digging in the sand and playing in the freezing cold water and burying my boys leaving only their heads peeking out LOL THey thought that was pretty cool. My Dad tooK Steven and I to the casino to lose some money and even shared some of his winnings with us to lose as well. It was fun and relaxing. That night we all went to Taft Beach and had a fire with the drift wood and roasted hot dogs and smores on the beach. Dad took the boys agate hunting and they found one or two. We went yard saleing with my Dad on Friday and wow can that Grandpa walk! I was tuckered out by the end of the day LOL It was a great trip and I did not want to come home but alas, life calls and home we came.

Last weekend we decided we needed a new pool for the kids since theirs popped last summer at the end of the year. I bought the small pool, had 2nd thoughts and wanted Steven to look at a slightly larger pool and we ended up coming home Friday night with a 15' by 4' pool LOL James came this weekend to hang with us and helped us with our pool project.! The men tore down the swingset and James even managed to hit himself in the back of the head with his claw hammer during his manly swinging LOL oops! Dont' worry he's ok. Got the set down and raked the ground, set up the pool and started filling... Yikes it was unlevel by way too much. Drained the pool and Sat morning steven started over with the leveling. He was my hero. I know his back was killing him and it was hot as hell out there yet he pushed on. Got it much more level the 2nd time around. Not perfect but it was fine. Started filling the pool at 11:30ish... .Finished at 9ish.. WOW that is not going to be a fun water bill! lol I'm dreading seeing what it turns out to be. Let the kids splash in th epool while it filled and they had a blast. Yesterday morning I was awoken to breakfast in bed from Steven! First time I've ever been served breakfast in bed like that. what a treat :) Then we started doing some house cleaning, yard work and chores and made plans with Heather and Eric to have them over for a bbq and pool party with the kids! Had a wonderful day hanging out with friends and the kids swam and played hard. Unfortunately my poor boys got sunburnt and this is the first time Kaeden has ever been in pain from a sunburn ;( Poor kid! Steven and I decided to ahve him stay home from school today between allergies and sunburn. He was bummed he is missing PE today but he complains every move he makes so PE probably wouldn't have worked well for him today anyway~! We finished off a great weekend watching the move Mall Cop last night. We both thought it was a good movie and then off to bed we went!

And now here I am on Monday morning avoiding my chores. I need to clean. I need to really clean good and I don't want to. Kai spilled sugar on the floor last night so I should sweep and mop the kitchen etc. it just doesn't sound fun to me at all! I also really need to kick my butt into gear and start decluttering to add to our yard sale heap in the overflowing garage and start organizing the garage to have a yard sale. This is something we need to do very badly. Our garage cannot be walked through and most of it is yard sale stuff! Soooooooo we need to make some extra money and clean out that garage before we put it off for another year. LOL

Did I mention I still haven't smoked? YAY ME! April 18th was my last day as a smoker. I have now spent a weekend at Lindsays watching her brother and his wife smoke while we played poker and yesterday had a pool party and bbq with our smoker friends and I didn't have any smokes YAY. They dont' stink like they used to unfortunately and they almost smell a bit good, but it's nice to be free from the cigarette and am planning on staying that way! Still haven't finished reading that quit smoking book LOL But I am doing well.