Time for an update

Well, I’m doing well, and the baby is doing well… which is about all I have to say.  Well, not really.  I have to go take another glucose test, a 3 hour one.  I am going to aim for doing that tomorrow morning.  I would have done it this morning, but the last I’d eaten was 9 last night, I got up at 9 this morning, meaning I don’t make it to Kaiser with all 3 kids until 10, so I don’t eat til at least 1.  That is a LONG time to go without eating, esp when you’re pregnant.  It’s almost 10 now, and Shabree is still sleeping… their sleep schedules are ALL messed up, because they’ve been going to bed at 10, and even as late as 11.  Sydni was crying last night…we went to bed before her, so didn’t tuck her in, and really, she was just overly tired.  But she was pretty disappointed that she didn’t get tucked in.  However, they were watching tv, Jerry told them that they could finish the show they were watching, and we went to bed.  We were almost asleep when she came upstairs, and not about to get back out of bed, and so Syd went downstairs, and we could hear her crying.  I told Jerry she was awfully tired… it had been a long day.  Brian FINALLY got Cassandra yesterday.  It’s been something like a month, maybe two since Arlina’s showed up with her.  So he and Nancy brought her over yesterday, and we went swimming (I didn’t… wasn’t feeling like it too much, and Nancy wasn’t swimming, so I didn’t feel right about it)  Cassandra LOVED the hot tub.  She loved it so much that after we had dinner, she was leading Brian to the door to "tell" him that she wanted to go back out there, and when he went to put on his trunks, she had an absolute FIT that she wasn’t going outside.  She’s kind of a strange child, and I suspect she has some form of Autism… she’ll be 3 in Sept, she doesn’t speak any words, not even anything that sounds like it might be Spanish, she was interacting better yesterday, but typically, she seems like she’s in a world of her own.  She doesn’t quite seem to understand what you tell her… to an extent she does, but it’s really hard to tell, where Shabree, even though she seemed a bit langauge delayed, understood everything she was told, and was, and is, a very expressive child, letting you know EXACTLY what’s on her mind… lol.  In fact, I have to tell this story.  We were going to the doctor’s the other morning, and so I packed some cereal in a baggie for her, and off we went.  On the way, she says, Mommy, I’m hungy (she cannot pronounce that R for whatever reason), so I told her to eat her cereal.  Well, she couldn’t, because it was on the floor.  So I reached around (with my right hand) to try and grab it, and I couldn’t, and I told her regretfully that she’d have to wait til we got to Kaiser to get her cereal.  So then she says "Mommy, try your EFT hand" (left hand) so I did, and I GOT the cereal.  I thought to myself "wow!" and I even said to her " You’re a smart kid!"  I thought to myself, she did not say, try the OTHER hand, she said, try your LEFT hand.  She absolutely knows the difference between left and right, and she’s not even 4 years old yet (July 10th is her birthday)  So I have NO doubts that Shabree is VERY intelligent.  In fact, all the girls are very intelligent, and all in very different ways.  Becca is incredibly creative, Sydni is well spoken, and Shabree… well, I’m not sure yet, but she just picks up on everything, it seems like.  She’s been saying Dammit, because she’s heard me say it, so I’m trying to curb my swearing, and I’ve told her that’s a bad word, and we’ve been talking about words she can use instead.  She can be a bit intense at times…she’s in competition with 2, soon to be 3 other girls… and that’s another thing.  She tells me ALL the time that she’s going to "win me" (Jerry tells them that they’ll get in trouble if they "beat" whoever, so she’s stopped saying that, lol, and sigh… it is the correct way of saying it, and he’s just teasing, but he seems a little serious about it…it’s just screwing up her language even further)  Anyway, she’s pretty competitive, and I don’t discourage it, though I have been telling her that not everything is a contest with a winner and a loser, and sometimes, a win-win is better for everyone.  Pretty heady stuff for a 3 year old, but I feel compelled, because some days, the "I’m gonna win you" gets on my nerves.  However, mostly I find it cute and amusing, and I let her "win me" all the time.  I just laugh at her, tell her Yep, you win! and go on.  Some days I do give her a run for her money, just because I’m feeling competitive too.  :).  That doesn’t happen often, because I am pregnant, and shouldn’t be running… but I did outswim her the other day, just to show her I could.  😉  I told her, Mommy’s a good swimmer, huh?  She’s a good swimmer… she’s getting to where she’ll dive in without her floaties and swim to the steps.  I’m really proud of her.  I feel like, if she’s swimming this good NOW, just wait til August.

Changing the subject, I’ve done 15 pages in Samantha’s book… well, I’ve at least STARTED 15 pages in her book.  I’ve got titles down for most of them, won’t do the photomats, I don’t think, until I’ve actually got the pictures.  But I have it in my head that I will need to do 100 pages to use up all the supplies I’ve bought, so I’m putting together some generic sorts of layouts with titles like "Bear Hugs" for her build a bear page, and "I’m the baby, gotta love me" and "Blue Jean Baby" for her jeans layouts.  I LOVE jeans, and I love little girls in jeans.  We went to goodwill yesterday, and I found some cute clothes for her.  I’m going to wash them, and put them away.  I’m hoping to find some cute dresses at the thrift stores to put her in, since dresses tend to be expensive, even for babies.  I still need to go through my swaps and see what I can use of those for her book.  I think I’ve got some paper piecings in there I can use… cute stuff, and would be nice to get some swaps used.

Well, I guess I’ll wrap up, this has turned into a pretty long entry.