Ridiculous week

we've had a really really bad week this week. ronan has not been sleeping at all and i really mean not sleeping at all. waking up every 30-40 minutes at night. he's on antibiotics starting yesterday and hopefully will be better soon. and i've had no naps either for three days...so i'm a wreck and very tired. well this morning ben woke up at 5 am this morning with severe diarrhea. by this evening it was nothing but blood. off to urgent care we go! after xrays, ivs, blood samples, and general waiting, we were released with antibiotics and some sampling tools. (for special sampling gathering....:) ) they think it's a bacterial infection of some sort gotten probably by food poisoning. the poor guy has never been so sick i swear. sooo....i'm still very tired...very very tired. pray for ben to get completely better.
and for sleep, precious sleep.

day in and day out

christmas....christmas....blah blah blah....i can't figure out gifts this year...i'm tired of getting the inlaws the same ole same ole. but asking what they want is useless too....(sorry guys, you know its true). i want to be creative, but i'm just not. doesn't everyone just want a cute picture of my boys?! come on, they're adorable! hahaha....i have no idea what to get for my parents, for my sis in laws, for anyone.....poop. if i had more money the options would be greater. but i have to think more creatively. i love buying the boys stuff cause they'd be happy with a cardboard box. maybe i'll just get some moving supplies for them. :)
and then there's the photo cards. why do i do them? cause i love them...i love getting them from people and seeing how kids have changed, etc. but i always want to come up with something fun to do. last years pics were awful cause i just wanted to get them done on black friday...so i cut and pasted and then we were the color green for some reason. horrible i tell you. the years before that were just boring.....i've got nothing...and then do i do just the kids? the whole family? what would you want to recieve? and another fun thought, all my christmas card labels are on the crashed computer...great. so i've gotta try to retrieve those again!
bah humbug! but i do love christmas and i want to set the tree up already! zander is practicing for singing his christmas songs for church which i'm SOOOO excited about! it'll be the first time to see him sing and to experience that 'parent' moment. he's so stinkin' cute about it too.
ok that's all

silly boy

the other day ronan was doing his crazy screams for my ice cubes...he loves to eat that stuff. zander was getting annoyed that i wasn't giving ronan the ice right away so he says "mama, that's spanish for he wants ice.". :) hahahahha.....so funny.
i thought ronan had an ear infection too because he was scratching at his ear and freaking out and crying. so i took him to the doctor and she said he's fine. absolutely, positively nothing wrong with him. go figure. isn't that the way of it? oh well...better to know than not to know.

new pains

well i thought i might not have the pelvis pain that i had with the last pregnancy...but alas, it is starting. it's far less traumatizing this time cause i know what to expect and the pain is sadly familiar. but it's disappointing cause for some reason i was hoping it wouldn't happen. and my hips are already aching like crazy. dang third baby. how do people have so many children? do they have steel bones? feel no pain? just plain crazy? or lying to us about how wonderful pregnancy is?! blah i 'm not bitter. :) i would have more kids if i could have a surrogate. any volunteers? :) hahaha...
baby jade is moving a ton now! and i just want to say, that i wore my regular non maternity pants to church today. granted my butt was squished into them like sardines, but hey they bottoned and i didn't feel like i was going to pop. so yea, i'm bragging....if you'd carried the butt, thighs, and other nasty weighty places i did with the boys you'd be bragging too! jade is mostly all belly which is totally weird to me. the boys were little belly, tons of fat every where else.
ok, not sure why i'm even writing about this.
today was cold and rainy; and although i could have lived without the rain, i loved the cold. we've had 90 and then down to 65, then back to 90 again. i'm over it. one temp range per season please! but today was freezing cause of the wind but i swear my thermometer only said 63. oh how our bodies change since moving to cali. i've forgotten what real 'freezing' means! :)
ok, i'm off.

Sickies

Yup, sick again. Ronan is sick, zander is sick, and ben thinks he's getting sick. blah.....i hate colds. i think it's been less than two weeks since the boys had a cold. man i thought i would escape all this moving away from michigan. i took zander to the doctor tonight with stomach pain and turns out he's constipated. poor little thing. so we had to fill him with fiber supplement and now he's stomach's hurting again from that. plus he's just now coming down with the cold. so he's pretty much miserable. oh the joys....
they've both been waking up at the butt crack of dawn lately because of the time change. i'm so over it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they need to sleep better. i'm going to go crazy if i don't get some deeper and longer amounts of sleep!
oh well i'm off to eat some ice cream!

still going

so the computer went haywire yesterday and i couldn't finish my post. the ultrasound showed that i have placenta previa. if you've had csections before or a d&c you're chances of having it are higher. so i'm not surprised or alarmed really. if you don't know, it just means my placenta is over my cervix. because i'm having a csection already, it's not really a problem for me. but i guess it could cause early bleeding and bed rest of preterm labor. but 90% of women have their placenta move up on their own. so i'm really not worried. just an fyi.
also, our hearts go out to my father in law who's mother passed away today. prayers for you and your family!

Baby Jade

We had our actual 20 week ultrasound today! Jade looks very healthy and good. and she is DEFINITELY still a girl! ok, i can relax now. the first picture is her spine, butt and little leg. the second is her big foot, and the last is her looking right at you. unfortunately after we saw all the girl parts, etc. she started freaking out and moving and we didn't get a picture after that. but there is no question! she's 14 oz.