link to the haiti blog

so jer is giving me personal up dates but messenger on facebook

but I thought you guys would be interested in reading the church blog that our youth pastor(who is in Haiti with Jeremy) is updating.

really interesting

New Haiti Blog up: http://wp.me/pnPor-w5

woo hoo

well i put elias in waffle underwear for the night last night
bed was dry this morning
he was dry this morning
i even had to with hold cereal until he went to the bathroom....don't want his cereal to get soggy half way through
it was a fight but he went and he went good
soo proud of him
we are officially a diaper free house for the next 2 and a half months

WHAT 2 and a half months......yikes
wow not sure i am ready.

hearing more of me

over the next 10 days i am pretty sure you will be hearing a lot more from me

my husband is out of the country

jeremy and i have some what gotten used to out of town work for him

this past summer he was gone for 8 days straight at one point

this trip he is on is only 3 days longer

why will you hear more of me?

i have no real contact from him for the duration of the trip

when he is out of town for work we typically text each other once or twice during the day

and talk every night

he has no cell phone

limited internet

i didn't think it would be this hard when i told him i was ok with him going to Haiti

he is in Haiti right now

the plan is to build a wall

he has wanted to go ever since our church has chosen to partner with a mission organization there called Haiti Arise

it came up that they needed strong capable guys to come for a minimal cost to help build a wall

2 weeks before the dead line and 6 weeks before the trip he asked his boss for the time off

even tho busy the company couldn't let him pass up this opportunity

i was so excited for him....still am

i am soo used to winding down my day talking to him

i miss him and he just left yesterday.....lol

was thinking today when the last time i didn't talk to jeremy for more than a day or two was

the summer before we got married jer was on a camp ministry team called impact i was at the youth farm bible camp

we talked on the phone 3 times in 6 weeks that summer

exchanged some good old fashioned letters that summer

after that communication was intact from then on at least every day or every other day

that was just over 10 years ago

TEN years

so that is why you will be hearing more from me in the next 10 days

need an outlet to get out what i need to say

if you don't want to hear don't read lol

Ps on a different note elias is sleeping in underwear for the first night tonight so we will see

5 weeks is a long time

wow it has been 5 weeks already since i wrote about the hell that is potty training my son

well for some reason unlike most kids he would not let me completely give up for a time
he would suddenly start telling me when he had to pee
he would wake up dry
he would refuse to wear a diaper or pull up
sooo frustrating cause he didn't always tell me when he had to pee
and never, NEVER told me when he had to poop
thought i was going to loose my mind

then about a week and a half ago i went to toys r us to pick up some baby stuff that was on sale that i needed i went and picked up a pack of diapers also
his response was 'those mine??'
i said 'no those are for the baby. only babies wear diapers, big boys wear underwear and poop on the potty'
'oh' he says
i asked him if he was a big boy and he said yes so i told him he had to poop on the potty
so he did
only on the small potty for the first couple days
oh i should mention that i was still bribing him with hot wheels cars at this point
then this last saturday he decided that only the big potty would due
he has been dry for over a week now
dry about half of those nights
and i still here wondering why i didn't by baby stuff sooner.....like before his 3rd birthday
oh well i think this was just the right time

potty training

how i hate thee
zandria didn't catch on until a month before she turned 3
not by me not trying
i tried every couple of months since i thought she was ready shortly after she was 2
she just wouldn't tell me when she had to go, she would go when taken but would not tell us
soooo frustrating
then we decided that it was time to get her to poop on the potty, even if it took all day sitting on the potty.....well that is what it took
she pooped and then she was done, other than the very very rare accident
i thought she was difficult
NO.
elias is difficult
we have been trying off and on since he was 2....same as zandria
he refused.....most kids say no i can't or no i don't want to.....nope he says nnoooo i won't ....NO I WON'T.
what
kid seriously do you have to be sooo stubborn....honest but stubborn
again i tried every couple of months or so
nope no luck
then we decided no more diapers...pull ups or underwear.
after like 3 days of mess all over my house...mostly the bathroom we insisted he just wear the pull ups and we go on his cue.
side note about the bathroom thing.....for 3 days he wore underwear cause he wanted to most of the time but he wouldn't tell us soo i would send him to wash his hand for any reason and he would pee all over the stool and the floor....a little frustrating....it took me 2 days to realize that the running water was making him pee. so i had to convince him to go pee before he washed his hands at any point. hilarious.
anyway nothing clued in with him.
so we tried bribing him.....nope
so i tried what my aunt suggested.........i let him pick out underwear and buy it put it on him and if he poops in it he has to throw it out.
well he picked a pack of plain ones and a pack of mc queen and a pack of elmo ones.
the first time i threw away a mc queen one and he didn't clue in.
the second and third time was just plain ones soo it was whatever to him
then yesterday was the fourth time
he was wearing elmo
we spent the weekend with one of his friends that is a bit younger than him and this little boy peed on the potty all the time,
so elias decided he would do that too.
yesterday there were no pee messes, but he decided he needed to poop and didn't tell me.
yup cleaned him up with a shower(he hates showers)
got him to put elmo in the garbage
he came back inside and said he was very sad.
i proceeded to let him know that i was frustrated and that if he would poop on the potty instead of his underwear then he wouldn't be sad , i wouldn't be frustrated, i wouldn't have to give him a shower and he would get chocolate....the kids loves chocolate.
we put a pull up on for bed.
today he insisted on underwear
we went to a friends house, to the mall and home
no messes
bath time at 7 and still no messes and he told me when he had to go....but he didn't poop
bed time and he didn't want his pull up on....ummm it is bed time
ok
i pull out the water proof sheet and let him wear what he wants....just a little nervous to wake up to poop
he didn't do that today you know
he turns 3 on Thursday....i just wanted to get him trained before he turned 3
oh the humour
yeah
i still hate potty training
hope this third one isn't harder than the other 2

over half way

yup... half way there.

i had my just over 18 week ultra sound the other week

it was interesting seeing as the other 2 kids came and Jeremy

also this is the first ultra sound that i have had in a different clinic.....it was different

i didn't have to hold my bladder or worry about that at all...it was great

so i lay down and try not to lay flat cause that makes me want to puke

the technician complained about that but hey do you want me to puke all over your equipment

then she got me to half undress assuming that she would need the skin to move around on

well that wasn't needed

it made it worse that she spread the goop all over my abdomen too

she put the wand on my belly and didn't move it more than an inch in any other direction

she got a view of everything that she needed

heart, arms, legs, kidneys, lungs, brain, head....everything

she said to me at least 4 times...."can you not feel it move"

she couldn't believe i couldn't feel it, but i couldn't really feel it at all

oh well

she took a lot of pictures and a lot of them turned out better then the one she gave us

but her aim was to give us one that was the whole baby

not a great picture since in never stopped moving

i made a comment "reminds me of my first pregnancy"

she then asked "so i have always wondered are they that active when they come out?"

i just said "has she sat still for a minute while we have been here"

she said "ok that answers my question"

oh joy another one

So now it is just over two weeks later

i am just over 20 weeks

i am about a week over the half way mark seeing as i am having a planned c section at around 39 weeks(earlier if i can convince her)

that movement that i didn't feel at the ultra sound is getting to be a lot more...um......there

oh yeah and the ultra sound showed that it is also breech

so far i don't think it has turned

still feel most movement just above my pelvic bone

my bladder is feeling like a trampoline

i have to pee suddenly and often

at first Zandria said it was a girl and Elias said it was a boy

in the last week Zandria has changed her mind

it is now a boy

we will see

It's True....

so

if you are a friend of mine on facebook you know this already...

but i didn't fully believe it myself

almost a full six or more weeks ago i announced on facebook that i was expecting again

i was only 9 weeks

ONLY 9 WEEKS

if you know me i don't tell people until after 12 weeks or later

we had a family wedding

had a really really cute dress to wear that still looked good and fit pretty good(especially in the chest....lol...)

Jer had me try it on

he laughed

claimed it wasn't because i looked like a fat clown

but because he said there was no way anyone would not notice the belly

what I am only 9 weeks

so we had to tell people figured family should know before they just see me

a week after the wedding i had an ultra sound to see dates and if there was only one

there is only one and my dates are dead on

I was a little disappointed....i really wanted twins, but God has granted me with my 3rd miracle

I still didn't fully believe that some one really lived in my belly right then....she didn't let me hear the heart beat, just see it. that ultra sound was when i was 10 weeks.

this past friday i had my 15 week check up

i heard it!!!

it is true!!!

a heart beat of 155

i am pregnant and am having a baby

due jan. 5th but will have a c-section before the new year

zandria is very excited, but will only love it if it is a girl.....we are working on that

elias is excited and tells me my belly is chubby, and that there is a baby in there....oh and that it is a boy....

we will see.

but yes it is true next year we will be a family of 5. :)