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Busy day today. I took the day off work because I had a doctor's appointment and my DS-8 had a dental appointment to have 2 cavities filled. My appointment went well. The fundus measured 28cm, right on target since I am 27.5 weeks along. Baby is growing perfectly. I gained 5 pounds in 4 weeks, which is also right where I want to be. The heartbeat was 168bpm, and baby was flipping and kicking all over the place, so that was a waking heartbeat. My blood pressure was 111 over 60. Then on my way home from the OB, I got a call from the dental office canceling DS's appointment AGAIN! He had an appointment on Monday that was already rescheduled to today. And I took the day off of work specially so I could "be there" for him for his fillings. I was LIVID. On Monday they told me the doctor had "personal problems" and today her daughter was sick. Now I'm not against her taking care of her daughter, but I was upset that she had nobody to cover for her an...

I feel like I have been a good mom today. Here's why. The youngest, Joseph, has done well on his potty training. He has had a few accidents over the past few days, but this morning, he went both #1 and #2 in the potty, which is a big step. It took his older bro 2 months of going #1 before he felt confident to try #2. There is still the issue that if he is wearing any clothes below the waist he forgets to use the potty and wets, but today I had him go potty right before our walk, put the underwear and shorts on him, and he went potty right after we got back, and he was dry all morning. Yay! I really look forward to when he can wear the pants and take them up and down by himself. The kids and I get tired of seeing the nakey boy, but this is a tried-and-true method that works and is working. And then there was our walk. Since I live in the hills, going for a "walk around the block" is an extreme undertaking. Now that I am in my 3rd trimester (as of tomorrow), I am n...

See the bottom of the blog. I loaded in the underwater picture. Fun, huh? I asked them all to wear their "long" suits so I could share the picture around and not be showing their skin everywhere. I am really tickled about this picture. It was a challenge to do logistically, and that makes it rather unusual, I think.

I didn't choose this time. Joseph did (I sound like his big brother, whatever goes wrong, Joseph did it!) We were coming out of the pool 3 days ago, and Joseph asked to go potty. I figured what harm would it do to sit him on there, and he actually tinkled. 80. I got so excited that the next morning I dressed him in only a shirt, and over the course of the day he went potty about 10 times. The next day he went 0 times. The day after that he went about 8 times. Today he has gone twice so far, but we have been running errands, and that makes it difficult, because clothes confuse him. He thinks he still has a diaper on and is totally surprised when his pants become wet. So progress. I can't believe my little baby boy is on his way to being potty trained. It will be good to get through this stage, which is the most labor-intensive part of potty training, before the baby comes. For the next month, I anticipate bringing the potty in the minivan with us when we go on errand...

Here is my picture taken today at 26 weeks and 1 day. I'm feeling well, and the baby is active. I have gained about 14 pounds so far. I was barely able to squeeze into my size 6 jeans for this picture. :-D Just winding things down at the end of summer with all the kids.

I certainly did a lot this week. The athletes left on Thursday morning and that went well. They continued to be polite and were a pleasure to have around. DS-8 had horseback riding camp this week and he fell in love with horses. He learned how to groom, saddle and ride them. He said that when he gets a house, he wants to build a stall in the backyard. :-D Today DD and I went shopping and got her some kitchen utensils, a computer desk and swivel chair, and other sundries for her apartment. She is excited to move in after Labor Day. UCLA doesn't start until later in September, but she is anxious to be back on her own. She loves Westwood. DS-16 is still working at Knotts, which is great. He kept his job all summer, which is no small feat for a boy with ADHD. He will stop working after next weekend and school starts for him on Sept. 4, as with his younger brother. I can't wait to get onto the September schedule. The teenagers will be visiting on weekends, DS 8 will be...

I have abandoned my computer. I think I caught a viru$, and I don't want to risk emailing from there and infecting my friends. I'm now on the downstairs computer (much nicer and faster) without all my links and pictures. I need to load my pictures off the old computer onto a device that has a lot of memory. I don't want to lose them. There is about 6gigs worth of pictures on there. And some other financial data. Once that is done, the entire computer can be erased. We'll probably reload the startup software and then put it into the kids' room. Their computer is an old dinosaur, and needs to be updated anyway. So that in addition to the fact that there are 3 teenagers staying here for these 4 nights mean that I am a very busy lady. The teens turned out to be 3 very polite boys from New York. They are tennis players. I hope they do well. Listen to me. I barely know these kids, and already I'm feeling competitive on their behalf. ;-) Last night was t...

Today I am 24 weeks pregnant. It is a milestone, because now, if the baby is born, there is a chance that he may survive. Yay!

This may sound like small potatoes, but I am so relieved to have successfully registered my 4-y-o in a particular preschool program this morning. Registration started at 8:30am. I lined up at 7am and was dismayed to see about 25 people in lawn chairs were ahead of me in line. Then I got even more nervous to hear that there were only 5 spots still available in the class that I wanted (folks who were enrolled in spring had preferential pre-enrollment). I wanted him in the 8:30 to 11:20 class, not the afternoon class. Afternoon is nap time. If he was in class during nap time, and his bro gets off school at 2:30, then the afternoon would be set up all wrong. The good news was, most of the folks in line were there to enroll their 3-y-o kids. The bad news is that I will have to do this again next year for my youngest. He is turning 3 in December. Too late to sneak him into the class in the spring, even if he is potty trained by then, because he would have needed to be 3 by mid Nove...

I asked my doc at the visit what was coming up after the blood tests were completed. Since I had just faxed him the list of my fasting blood sugars for the past 2 months, he was pleased, and agreed that I could skip the glucose sugar/water testing. So the next thing will be the Beta-Strep culture at 35 weeks. He said, "you're cruising". That made me smile. I have waited for SO long to get to the point in my pregnancy where I could feel like I was cruising and not stressing. I got the information packet today on the athletes that will be staying here the week after next. There is a thing happening in Orange County, CA this year called the Maccabi Games, which is in essence a type of Jewish Olympics for high school kids. We will be hosting 3 athletes, boys, in our home. They are 13/14-y-o tennis players from New York. It will only be for 4 nights, so hopefully I'll survive the extra driving/cooking/dishes. And they will be gone all day long, so I will drop the...

I went to my 4-week doctor's appointment this morning. Everything is going great. My blood pressure was 92/57, the baby's heartbeat was 151bpm, and the fundus measured 23cm, which is exactly on target. Doc also told me that I only gained 1 pound in the past month, and said that was great. I know better, though. I think on my last appt I was a little, er, well, retaining weight, if you know what I mean. I also know I have only gained 10 pounds this pg so far, so I *am* doing well, and gaining weight steadily. I asked him to order some bloodwork to check that all is well with the medication I'm taking. So he ordered a PT and PTT and threw in a cbc and liver enzymes as long as I was going to the lab. It needs to be fasting, and I will need to make arrangements to leave super early one of these mornings to do that. But he doesn't expect anything to be amiss, and neither do I. I know little buddy is growing strong. He has reached the bladder-trampoline stage. I...