I have to laugh!

The most visited post on my blog is the one with the positive pregnancy test from when I was prego with Lex. I always wonder why people are looking at what positive prego tests look like. Is it because they want to be prego, they don't want to be prego, their test is a lighter positive, a darker positive, some idiot wants to keep a man another wants to scare one away with the picture, etc. Hmmmm...

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• School is over!!! Yippee!!
• Ted ate chicken last night! OMGZZZZZ! You don't understand what that means!
• I have insomnia
• My dad is closing his shop that he has had for more then 23 years!
• I like lists...a lot
• I have a bed, bath & beyond 20% coupon and I am going to use it. Yeah baby!
• I wonder if it will rain all summer? It has rained for 24 days out of 26 so far this month.
  
• I may have to learn how to build an arc
• I feel random. can you tell?
• I have a box of mail that I must sort into keep, trash or shred
  
• I like shredding
• I DO NOT WANT any more children but I miss being preggers and having an itty bitty baby in the house.
• I'm happy my husband is feeling better but still worried about what caused the pancreatitis
  

So why do people with older children forget how much work young children can be? They are work people and yes I am enjoying them but they are still a lot of WORK! Don't freaking sit there trying to talk up the pros of having babies in the house I know how cute and how utterly wonderful my kids are...have you seen my pictures?!?! I love my babies but, if one more person tells me to enjoy them when they just finished telling me how tired I look and I just finished telling them how my children didn't want to sleep last night, I think I may just bite someone!

And since I'm on the subject of annoying...allergies suck ass! I feel like shit and there is no end in sight.

Now on a positive note I am super stoked about Lexi's baptism!! I can't wait. Of course I still haven't found centerpieces and Lexi's godmother has given me so many good ideas (bless her). I haven't found a dress for my fat ass either but hey if I didn't do stuff last minute then I wouldn't be me! :)

My husband's new ride is sweet!!! Fast and takes off like a rocket when you give it some gas! :)

The peeps connection

Marrying a man who is Catholic when you are Greek Orthodox has its perks, namely chocolate bunnys and peeps twice a year. ;)

Sharing is not always a good idea...

Yep like sharing colds and stuff of course. That would be bad. Duh. For X-mas we got the boys a bunch of DVDs and one of them was Home Alone. We like sharing movies from our younger days with the kids. It is the first one not the 1 billionth version of the movie. So at first I realized that some of the things that "Kevin" says to his family are a bit bad and I know that the boys will repeat those things and I only have myself to blame but what happened next was not planned on at all. One night Tommy bursts out into full blowing sobbing. I ask him why he is crying and he says "Please don't leave me alone." I was not understanding where he was going with that request because it had been days since they had seen the movie, so I told him that I would be in the other room. He starts really sobbing now and he says "Please don't ever leave me all alone at home and then the bad guys will come and get me." He then puts his hands up to show me his ten fingers and says "if you leave I will cry this many times" and he is making his hands blink "like this many." I felt like I was going to start crying cause he was so sad. Makes me remember that sometimes the kids will react to something way different then we expect.

So at School Ted was star of the week. Every student gets a chance to be the star and during that week each day they have certain things they have to do. Like one day they share their fav book with the class, another day they have a show and tell with their fav stuff. They have to fill out a sheet that has questions about them and one question was what makes you special. SOTed wrote that he was a good oy and that he is a Rock star. lol SO when the teacher asked him way he was a rock star he said " 'cause I ROCK!" LMAO! Yes you do sweet cheeks!

Lexi is almost 9 months old! She is standing and cruising around the livingroom furniture AND she has starting letting go and just stands there until I guess a breeze knocks her on her ass. LMAO! She is so freaking cute! I swear she makes me want to hold and kiss her ALL DAY LONG!

Last week I had to go help out in Ted's class while the teacher and Para had their pics taken for the yearbook. I didn't realize that I would be left alone with the entire class. I swear I had a mini panic attack! I am NOT comfortable with children that I do not know well and here I was put in charge of 20 children I didn;t know well. Thank GOD the pics were done fast! :) I'm such a chicken shit around kids lol!!

My laptop power adapter went bad last week too. This is the third time! I think Dell is a good brand as far as the laptop goes but the adapter sucks donkey dick. I was reading everything I could get my hands on and at the same time. lol I had books open and mags open and I had to laugh cause I was going bake and forth between the two and I told myself this was like tabbed browsing. LMAO!

I got the book How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish last week. I also got their book about sibling rivalry. I think I am addicted to parenting books. I have so many of them. I always feel like I am doing such a butt job of parenting that I am always looking for tips on how to do it better. Of course God forbid someone in the real give me advice or criticism, I can't take that. I know, I know I have issues!

I have been sick for a week now and I am bored, bored, bored! I usually am happy o just chill at home but I feel like I did in my twenties like I want to come out of my skin from the boredom! I guess that is way this entry is so LONG 'cause I am sooooo bored. I think I need a vacation, a goal, something, anything to change this blah up a little bit.

I crochetted a scarf yesterday. It is cute. I got it in a yarn kit from Lion brand yarn. I think that it would be a cute gift for someone who likes to make stuff and was sick or soemthing and needed something to keep them busy. It comes with the needles, yarn and pattern. Not bad for $16. Ok since they don't pay me I will stop the advert. here.

Do I have to?

It's been a while. I don't have much to say or maybe I have too much to say and don't know where to start. Maybe this year I should just say exactly what is on my mind and not give a rats ass about what others think.

...I like 'em big, I like 'em chunky..."

Why oh why did Tommy have an accident while standing on Ted's bunk?! Ladies and gentlemen there was pee everywhere! Ted has the top bunk and so I had to clean two beds! I did look on the bright side and thanked my stars that it wasn't puke! Tommy also missed the toilet today about 3 times so I had a lot of floor cleaning to do as well. Go Tom. :P lol


Ted was very upset today after school because it seems that some boys in class have found the Yo momma jokes and they have been calling me names. Of course this bothers Ted and so he gets into arguments. I told him to ignore them and to tell the teacher. Growing up is hard. :/

Lexi has two teeth coming in and she is loving her solids again. For a little bit she wasn't eating too much I think because her gums were hurting too much. She is a good baby. I wonder if she is going to be a terror when she gets older. I sure hope not!!

So tis the season and all that jive. I a so lazy this year. I want nothing to do with decorating and gift giving/receiving. Bah humbug to you and to you a good night! Not really I want to give the kids a great xmas but I always feel so exhausted that I have to push myself to do anything. My body freaking aches I guess the fibromyalgia isn't in my head and I guess the doctor was right in her diagnosis.

Maybe I am a judgemental bitch but if your child is diagnosised ADHD and he seems to have a very hard time controlling himself would you park your car two blocks away from the school, one of those blocks is a foot bridge and the street before the bridge and after is a expressway service road with fast moving cars, and let your child who is in the first grade walk with his brother who is in the 2nd grade? Also keep in mind that the younger brother who is the child in question fights physically with the older brother on a daily basis. I have been told that I don't understand the mother and that I haven't walked in her shoes and that the child that has a DISORDER for fucks sake is just a bad kid!! I mean really way isn't this woman talked to and helped if there is any type of respite that she can receive because I am sure she is exhausted but if she can't deal with her child is putting him in danger really the best and only option? The whole situation makes feel sad.

Put it on your list

We do Santa here so when the boys are watching TV and they ask for almost EVERY toy they see I tell them to "put it on your list". It's funny cause sometimes they tell me to put a toy on each others list. Today Tommy told me that he wanted a put a Hover round on his list. HA! You know those are those old people wheel chair/scooter things. LOL! I will be putting a new hubby on my list since mine is married to his job lately. :P

So Tom was wearing the "I do my own stunts" shirt today and when I asked him what it said he told me that "the man is falling and here (pointing to the words) it says Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh." Yep he makes me laugh and he better because lately I want to sell him to some travelling gypsys!! Tommy has gone from my good boy to a holy terror. WTF?! I know he is jealous of the baby and he just started pre-k this year but OH MAN he just doesn't want to listen for shit!

HAHAHA!!!

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Leave it to the guys on a race car forum my hubby and I go to. They always find the funniest shit! :) Be warned it's very naughty.

yeehaw I saved the bunny

Save The Bunny - Operate on the bunny and save his life

No really she IS a girl!

So we went to the park today for a play date with Ted's friend from kindy who is SUCH a nice boy. While there we ran into a boy that Ted went to pre-k with, not such a nice boy. Pre-k boy started taking everyones shoes (crocs and faux crocs lol) and throwing them at the boys and when I went over to tell Ted and Tom to wear their shoes that boy had the balls to tell me that Teddy was throwing his shoes at him. Suuuuurrrre, I don't have eyes or anything! Anyway I held my tongue. Then his mother comes over and she is looking at Lexi and she says "daughter?" I say yes and then she says "she looks like a boy." So I proceed to tell her that she looks like a girl and she goes on and on how much my little girl looks like a boy and that if I hadn't told her that she was a girl she would have thought that Lexi was a boy. Now I am one of those people who do not get twisted if someone confuses my child for the opposite sex when they don't know if the baby is a boy or a girl because really at 3 months old it is pretty hard to tell the difference most times. BUT when someone who knows that this child is a girl and harps on about my daughter looking like a boy well that is pretty stupid. After that she went about her business and Lexi slept for about an hour. Right before we left she was by us again and at that point Lex had woke up and Ms. Rude says "oh she doesn't sleep huh?" So I tell her she was sleeping all this time. She of course looked at me like I was telling stories or something. Boy oh boy I don't know if she was being a bitch or if I just didn't get her because english is her second language and maybe where she is from it's a good thing to look male. LOL She definetely tweaked my bitch slap meter though. The other mom that was there with me thought that other woman was insane and said "what is a baby girl supposed to look like anyway, sheesh!" I told her "I guess I need to put a big vag on Lexi's head, so no one will confuse her for a boy!" ;)

On the mend

His rash is almost completely gone. PHEW! The benadryl has made his eyes so dilated it's freaky cool. :)

Here it comes again!

Ok first thing first Tom has a BAD rash! He has been to the doctor and we had to take him to the ER yesterday because his lips and eyes were getting puffy! Ugh! I have never seen hives on the inside of hands and the bottoms of feet till now. This is SO horrible for my poor little guy. He is in good spirits though other then the constant itch.

The second thing...fuck you thief!

Thank you for the boobies

That is what my second son told me today. He was telling me that babies drink milk from their mommies boobies and that our baby drinks milk from my boobies and that he drank milk from my boobies. He then looked at me and gave me a kiss and said "Mommy thank you for giving me milk from your boobies." How effing sweet was that?!?!?!?! :)

I am a goon-ni-goo-who!

The stairs to my bedroom/attic are steep and narrow. This morning after a good rogering lol I heard the baby crying downstairs and I went down the steps a bit too fast and slipped. Is it bad that the entire time I fell I wasn't thinking of how to stop my fall? Instead I had this going through my mind. I got up laughing my ass off. I kept saying Oh my god, oh my god! hahaha! I have aches and pains all over now and my right side took the hardest hit. I hit the frame of the door at the bottom of the steps with my hand and my knee and that was bleeding. I have taken an advil already and I am feeling stiff. I am still laughing though. Just call me Aunt Bunny! :P

Uhm, sure that seems fair.

So in my long Orkut saga I am laughing at the stupidity that is Google. Now let's take a step back. I *heart* Google products. Their search engine is the bomb. I enjoy gmail. I can go on and on. Orkut though I do not heart. Ok step forward again. So for those of you that have been playing alone in the whole Orkut stealing pictures fiasco I have been going over there asking (ok telling) those idiots to stop using my children's pictures on their pages. Orkut says to contact the person using your copyrighted images first and tell them to stop using them because sometimes people don't know they are stealing. *blink blink* Riiiiiiiiight. Anyway I do that and of course the stupid brats there have to all chime in telling me "relax it's just a game." Fuck you! My kids don't need to play your game. SO last night after getting home from the zoo (that was another rant all together) I see I have gmail. I have like 6 messages from those brats on my orkut page but when I click to read the messages I find out that my orkut account has been suspended. WTF have people lost their everfuckingminds?? I am completely ticked off! The brats have stolen almost ever pic I have of the boys before I went private. :( I finally found out how I can report them but I would have to send google a list of the urls that the brats are using with their name and such and then a url of the boys picture. You would think that would be no problem but my pictures are private now! If I make them public to supply Google a public url then the Orkut brats will steal again. UGH!!! It's all so overwhelming. Even though my account is suspended I deleted it today so even if Google unsuspends it it is closed. I guess once those idiot kids grow up a little and they can't find more pics of my boys they will finally be done with their pictures and it will eventually end. Or so I hope. :/

Shopping minus two is like going on vacation!

The last time John and I had to go food shopping my folks took the boys to the park. OMG I couldn't believe how unstressful that shopping trip was! I never realized just how anno...er...demanding my boys were when we went shopping. :P I was so relaxed. I came back home all smiles. My mother even commented on my big ole smile. I love my kids but holy shit they sometimes drive me crazy!! Hubby has off from work this week and already after the weekend and one full day yesterday he is screaming that today he is going back to work! HAHAHA! He is ready to jump out the window. I told him they make ya want to hang yourself in the closet but he told me to shut up it can't be that bad. LOL!! I couldn't wait for Ted to be out of school for the summer so I could have him all to myself and now I can not wait for him to go back because Ted and Tom fight all freaking day long. No matter what! They are super competitive with each other and I guess that causes most of the fights and melt downs. For instance I wanted them to go to sleep and I told them that the one that goes to sleep first will wake up first (I know I shouldn't of made it a competition but shit I needed to go to sleep it was 12:30!!!). Holy shit the next morning (he woke up at 8 might I add) Ted woke up first and Tom went ape shit that he didn't wake up first. Have you ever wanted to choke yourself with your own two hands?!?! The rest of summer break is gonna be Loooooooong!

On the flip side when they are nice to each other it makes me want to cry. They can be so loving. I love it when they team up against John and me. I know that sounds stupid of me but it shows me that they are united when they do that. ;)

Time to see the doctor...

holy shit read this and laugh or cry about the stuff doctors did to people.

testing, testing

The last time we took the baby girl to the doctor she hadn't gained a ton of weight. That of course shocked me because my children ALWAYS are on the big 1000000% type babies. I think the "problem" is that the little miss sleeps so well at night and then isn't the kind of baby that cries and cries that she is hungry. She was happy to have more milk although she seemed happy without it too. "Happy to starve" is a term I read in the What to Expect during the first year book. Sheesh she is watching her figure already!! :P I also started pumping before going to bed. Breastfeeding does make a strong bond for me and my babies but I always feel like a cow when I have to pump. Speaking of which...do you know that farmers found that if the cows while hooked up to the milking machines sat on water beds they produced more milk. I know I prefer to lay on a soft bed when lactating. LMAO! MOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

like swiss cheese

I know there are pictures and videos missing on my blog. You see I had to make all my pictures and video of my children private because of the Orkut stuff that I talked about in my previous post. After I bitched about my children's pictures being on Orkut I was contacted by a girl who as me as a contact on flickr she apologized for using my pictures. I thought it was very nice of her. We emailed each other a few times about the situation and she asked if she could use some pictures of the boys and linked me to her pages in Orkut. I figured since the pictures were being used without my approval in the first place this would be better because I would have an idea of who had my children's photos out there in cyber land. So I tell this girl she can use them BUT if I see something I don't like she needs to stop using them. She goes and posts my email on her orkut page to show all the other fakers on there that she has permission to use my pics. UGH I start getting a bunch of emails from the Orkut bunch!! So I decide that I've already had enough of this shit. I tell her to stop using the pics and remove my email. Which she has yet to do! In the meantime I put all the kids pics on private so that only friends and family can view them. I get a bunch more emails from the orkut crew asking what happened to the boys pictures. One of them actually went through my entire stream (over 800 pictures) and found one picture that I had forgotten to remove of the boys with John!
You know the way I feel about this whole Orkut thing is the same way I felt about the ants in the house like I have been infested and I kill one and there is another right behind the first!! DO you think boric acid works on Orkut pests too?!

Ted and I grew beans! I have a black thumb not a green one so this is something special for me! One year my folks gave me a potted gardenia and OMG what I did to that poor thing! It was all brown and looked like it had one last breath left. My dad took it form me and brought it back from the light and now it is even blossoming! I don't seem to have that in me. I am getting better though. I am surprised when anything living survives around me. So fair I'm doing pretty good 3 kids, 3 plants, 2 birds a husband and me. :P

Grrrrr!

You know I love sharing my pictures online but recently I have become aware that some people on a site called Orkut (it's like a myspace sort of thing) are using pictures of my boys. These Orkut people make up fake persona's and then use pictures of children for those fake identities. At first when I only saw a couple I thought it was funny. But then I started looking around and I found OVER 30 pages using pictures of my boys. Some pages only have one picture other pages have many pictures of the boys. One of these Orkut people made a youtube video of my boys pictures. That is CREEPY! None of these people asked to use my images. So not cool! Not that I would have said yes but shit these are my children's faces they are using not a picture of a flower or some shit.

HAHAHA!

same book different chapter

Movie
Originally uploaded by .Olga.

And so this week ends Ted's adventure in kindergarten. I can not believe that I have a child that is going to be in the 1st grade! It just doesn't seem possible that my little baby is almost 6! It really does all go to fast.

We are in the process of potty training Tom. I really don't care if he takes his sweet time BUT if he is gonna start pre-k in the fall he needs to be potty trained so here we go with potty training. I am not looking forward to this. ;)

Alexandra is already 7 weeks and doing FAN-TAS-TIC!! :)

John is going away for a week for work and I ain't gonna lie I am looking forward to him being gone for a few days. I am starting to like having the kids all to myself. :)

my goof ball

Yep it's official Ted is growing up before my very eyes. He came home Friday and told me he had a girlfriend and when I asked what it meant to have a girlfriend he said that "...boyfriends and girlfriends kiss each other." Oh boy!! Then John took him to a music store on Saturday and Ted wants to learn how to play an electric bass guitar. He plays air guitar like a champ so this should be easy for him. :P LOL

Wiiiiiiiiiii

When we were in the hospital we had ants in the room. Not a shit load or anything just a few. We told the staff and they offered us a new room and since we were leaving the next day and there were only a few we stayed in our room. Well flash forward and we should have changed rooms because we must have brought them home with us. ICK AND EWWW! I am not one of those women that screams at bugs in the house but holy shit we have never had bugs! So a few days after we got home form the hospital we had a few ants in the bathroom they disappear and a few days later they show up in the boys room on their bookcase. UGH! So John and I went on a search and destroy mission. That seemed to work but then they were in the livingroom under one of the windows. Fuckers! Go AWAY!! Again we took care of them so we are waiting now to see if we have gotten rid of them completely or if they pop up somewhere else. I sure hope they go away for good. One good thing that came out of the ants is I found my lens cover that went missing a while back behind the boys bookcase. :)Today was rock star day at Ted's school of course I gave him a gel mohawk. He told me that he will look like that when he gets older. lol

Of course we can't forget about Tom. He is doing pretty good with the baby being here. He loves her to death and wants to kiss her and hold her all the time. Sweet boy. :)

And of course the baby is doing great too!

I told john I wanted to look into the Wii fit game yesterday well no sooner had I said that to him but he bought the game console and wii fit too! He loves to spend money. HA! The console should be here tomorrow and the fit game should be here by the 28th. I can not wait.

So ants, kids, Wii and other fun stuff is my life in a nutshell.

Labor

Labor, originally uploaded by .Olga..

Ok so here is how the story goes...
I lost my mucus plug on Saturday the 3rd. I started having contractions throughout the day. I called my midwife later that night and she said that I should relax and lay down. She told me that she was in the middle of packing up her house and if we could hold off on the birth it would be cool. lol
Anyway the next day was another day of mucus plug and contractions. By Sunday night I was having contractions about 5-6 minutes apart and they hurt!! Finally at about 1:15 am Monday morning we went to the hospital. I was monitored and was 3cm. The contractions were intense! I couldn't wait to get into my room so I could get an epidural.
At about 4:30 am we got our labor & delivery room and shortly after I got my epidural. I was cursing and bitching and carrying on like a banshee until that epi! Once I started feeling better I apologized to everyone there and apologized in advance if I were to do or say something messed up. LMAO! I get checked at about 6:30 am and I'm about 6 cm. My water starts gushing soon after.
So at 8:30am I get checked and I am at 8 cm and +2 station. I tell my midwife that maybe this baby will be born at 11:30 like my second born. My midwife tells me that the baby will probably be born before that. At this point I start feeling some pain with each contraction. I am told I am probably feeling pressure not the contraction. I just try and deal with it.
At 11:00 I get checked and I'm at 6cm and baby has moved back up!!! I was so upset. Meanwhile the epi has completely worn off and I am in major pain. I feel like I have no control over anything and I feel like no one can help me. The anesthesiologist has been in and out of the room trying to see if there is something she can do to help me. She tries to lad up the epi with some other narcotic but nothing seems to be working. I start crying like a baby. All along I have to wear oxygen because the babies heart beat is falling too much with some contractions. When I started crying I stopped breathing and of course the babies heartbeat went down too. What a mess I was. After that my midwife and the other nurses try to make me feel better and give me a wipe down with water. They fix my hair and let me brush my teeth. They sit me up in the bed and rub my feet t stimulate some pressure points and I have to do nipple stim during all this. I wanted this kid out and the more time that passed the more I realized that I may end up with a section. :(
Next Dr. White comes in and he checks me and I am still at 6cm it's now about 1:30pm. I feel like I am at the losing end of this fight! Finally I get another epi/spinal and get put on pit. That was the best!! Thank goodness for the spinal! I got really itchy from the morphine but I'll take itch over pain any day! At almost 5 pm I get checked again and I am fully dilated except for a tiny lip of cervix. I start pushing.
Now with Tom my labor was long too but when it came time to push I literally pushed for 3 contractions! THREE!!!! And I really didn't push THAT hard. He just popped out. This little girl was totally different I pushed and pushed and nothing! I have never pushed so much in my entire life! I pushed for about 1:30 hours and she finally came out! Phew relief! She came out so content and didn't cry which made the ped a little annoyed cause he wanted to make sure her lungs were clear. That asshole kept flicking the top of her little feet and I only just found that out while watching the birth tape. I want to find that ass and go flick his feet with a 2X4. After the birth I felt depressed. I guess my body physically and mentally was done! The boys and my folks visited that night and met Alexandra.
The baby was 8lbs 14.5oz and 21" long. Her apgars were 9/9.
We love her and she has made our family complete.

girl still baking

girl still baking, originally uploaded by .Olga..

I am still preggers! 40 weeks 4 days! Saw my midwife today and she says I am 50% effaced and 1 cm and the baby is at -1 station. Things are looking promising! Hopefully in the next day or two I will have my baby girl in my arms. :) Today after the appointment I had some pains but nothing that I can say is gonna send me into full blown labor. Maybe this little girl will come on my moms bday which is this Saturday?!

Ain't life grand?!

I went to a baby shower yesterday for a friend who is having twins. She is about 30 weeks pregnant. I, if your the counting type, am 38 + weeks pregnant. If one more person asked if I was having twins too I was gonna flip! Anyway the shower was nice it was too bad I had to leave early because I had to watch the boys while John went to coach soccer.

So I have gotten the playard/bassinette set up for my little girl and that is about it so far. I am so not looking forward to clearing all the toys from my bedroom to set up the crib. There are about ELEVEN of those huge storage bins up there filled with toys! I never knew toys had offspring but they do it's true!!

The Dirty Seven

Linda wants me to list seven things about me. Ok here goes.

1- When I get excited talking to someone I get loud! Really loud!

2- I use smiley's and exclamation points WAY too much but I am addicted!!! :O :) :P

3- In school I talked too much and always got yelled at for it. I even had to sit near the kids that no one was friends with and I made them talk too. HA!! I am/was unstoppable!

4- I don't like to be criticized at all and I hate it more when my kids get criticized. It's something I need to work on if I could. ;)

5- I have a hunting permit AND a HAM radio license.

6- My first real make out session was with the older (by 1 year) boy upstairs was while we listened to the Bonjovi Slippery When Wet tape.

7- I always feel like I could do everything better then I already have.

Here you go Linda!!! :P If I had friends I would tag them. LOL

lounging in my fish bowl 57:365

lounging in my fish bowl 57:365, originally uploaded by .Olga..

I changed my OB today. I am going to see the same midwife who delivered Tommy. My OB pretty much doesn't know me from a hole in the wall and she sounds pretty certain that I will end up having a repeat section because my baby seems on the bigger size. Hello all my kids are on the bigger size!! But she would have known that if she actually paid attention to my file! So she pissed me off today after my almost 32 week appointment and I gave her the boot. Don't fuck with the pregnant lady cause I will take my business elsewhere! :P

my 4 pounder

my 4 pounder 50:365, originally uploaded by .Olga..

Here is my girl. :) She is already 4 lbs. At this rate she'll be about 9 lbs at birth give or take. I think she'll be about 8-8.5 lbs. I am starting to get scared though. Three kids is gonna be insane!! Oh well some how I will manage. :)

Let it snow

Let it snow 53:365 54:365, originally uploaded by .Olga..

It snowed! Finally! I have been waiting for snow all freaking winter. About f...ing time! :) The boys loved it. I guess I am either the worst mommy or the best mommy cause they are sick and I still let them play in the snow. lol

I have to start taking more video of the boys and of the grown ups around here too. I have plenty of pictures but like no video for months! That is pretty sucky of me. I especially want to take video of the boys cause they have the cutest voices. :)

smiley

smiley, originally uploaded by .Olga..

I love my boys. They are active little fireballs that have manners and are respectful of others feelings. I notice lately that there are so many children that are just mean and rude and their parents do nothing about it but actually allow the behavior and feed into it as well. I can't understand why?! What are these parents teaching their kids? I notice it everywhere. Children are snots and the parents just don't care. WHY? Are these the parents that were bullied as children so they think they are teaching their kids not to be bullied by making their kids the bullies? I can't seem to understand it. I don't know maybe I am the one that is wrong maybe I should be telling my boys to worry only about themselves and to hell with other peoples feelings but that seems so wrong. I find that I exclude people from our lives because their children are rude and mean but damn I am getting tired of it! Step up people! Teach your children! WTF is wrong with you?!

I see the future ahead of me 13:365 14:365

I see the future ahead of me 13:365 14:365, originally uploaded by .Olga..

My wedding anniversary, birthday and valentine's day are all coming up next month. Weeee! Bring on the gifts! :P

I can't believe in a few weeks (about 14 weeks to be exact lol) I will be holding my baby girl!!! I need to start getting this place ready for her. So much to do so little time and even less energy.

WEEEEEEE!

OMG!!! E.T. is on!!! E.T. is on!!! Am I the only one happy that this movie is on tv? Yes I have gotten to the point in my life that these sort of things make me extremely happy. :)

Super Stars

Super Stars, originally uploaded by .Olga..

Sheesh it took me long enought to figure out how to do this! I felt learning impaired there for a while cause I couldn't get it. It's really easy to do but I was using my stupid zoom lens instead of my prime at first and well it just wasn't happening. :)

My mommy gave me this shirt

My mommy gave me this shirt, originally uploaded by .Olga..

You know I am thrilled to be having a daughter but I am also afraid that what if I'm not girlly enough to raise a girlly girl. I was pretty worried about this I mean I'm not the kind of woman who needs to have a biweekly pedi and mani or to have my hair styled and colored and all that jazz every freaking month or two. I tend to my own needs, I mean it is not that hard to paint your own damn nails. But I was worried what if my girl is a girlly girl who likes that kind of stuff? I mean I wouldn't want to take that away from her but I don't feel comfortable doing that sort of stuff. Then I realized the answer...MY MOM! She likes to shop and do the girl stuff so once again my mom comes to the rescue. If I have a girlly girl my mom will do that stuff with her. :) I love my mom. I know my daughter will adore her yiayia. :)

TIme to buy some major amounts of pink!

I am having a girl! I can still not really believe it! I had seen myself a mom of boys I never thought a girl would be in our mix. I am happy but shocked. :) Teddy is getting the sister he wished for. That makes me smile.

sigh...

I am tired. My mom had her operation on October 24th and got out of the hospital November 1 and now (November 13th) she still isn't even close to being well. :( My dad has high blood pressure and has been having a pain in his lower back left leg for months now so he isn't 100% either. *sigh* Ted was sick last week with a stomach thing, Tommy is always coming down with one thing or another. John has been feeling yuck every time he eats. And me well being pregnant with all this going on just zaps every ounce of energy I might have left. Boohoo! I know I have so much to be thankful for and I am but sometimes I just need to say waaaaaahhhhhhh and this sucks and get it out.

Tonight is parent-teacher conference at Ted's school. I am scared to hear what his teacher is gonna say. :P He isn't a bad kid but he is a handful and spirited and if he gets something in his head you have to know how to deal with him to be able to not get him to blow up. I just don't know what I will do and say if his teacher criticizes my baby boy. I don't take criticism well I'm afraid. It really doesn't help that I have these pregnancy hormones charging through my body. ;)

Kinda sad

So my husband has a 1973 z28 Camaro. He built it almost entirely on his back in our driveway! We are in debt. Part is from the car part is just cause we make stupid choices sometimes. Anyway he decided to sell his car to get us out of debt and although I couldn't stand the car because it took too much of his time to work on and too much of our money I find myself very sad. He had a person fly from Virginia today to look at the car and he wants it. I found I was upset that this guy wants the car! It's so stupid of me to be upset but dammit it is my hubby's blood, sweat and tears in there. Not to mention that I too had to suffer as did the children while he was working on that beast. :( Blah I thought I would be happier to see it go but instead I am really sad. I am going to blame the pregnancy hormones for my strange car feelings!
Good bye 'Maro.

Hormones and all that jazz!

Why is when I am so hormonal that I could pee pure estrogen my husband decides to be a butthead? No really is he trying to see if I can actually kill him with my bare hands?

My mom

My mom had to have a cat scan and then a MRI to make sure she doesn't have LIVER CANCER! She IS my world! My mom and me have our moments where we butt heads but she is my hero! I can't fathom this world without her! She better be fine or else someone has some explaining to do, do you hear me lord!!!

State of Emergency

OMG! People are getting burned alive! They are calling the TV stations and the radio stations asking for help and people can't get to them!! I am crying while reading the articles! My Greece is burning ! :(

The test

The test
Originally uploaded by .Olga.

OMG the birds have rubbed off on me! I am almost 4 weeks pregnant. I know it's very soon to say anything but I figure if it's meant to be it is meant to be. So the questions I am getting is were we trying? Well we weren't not trying. :P Do we want a girl? Look I'll be happy with a girl but having another boy will be fun too! :) I am due end of April. Yep a taurus! My mother laughed and laughed since she is a taurus and we sometimes butt heads. SO get ready for belly pics on here. :)

I'm almost an auntie!

Yep we have an egg! I am shocked! I will have to post another updated picture with the nest my mom put in the cage cause these stupid birds just laid the egg on the floor of the cage like it was their poop. I placed it on some bounty at first taking care not to touch it. Later when I went to look at the egg they had taken the strips of bounty wet them and placed them over the egg. Now if it was hot and humid in here that would have worked but I have the ac on so that poor egg was probably shivering. :P So my mom came to the rescue (nothing new there she is super hero mom) and put some nest like stuff in there and then put the egg in that material. The momma bird has yet to sit on the nest but she stays close to her egg. :) John said we need to call bird protection services because these two birds aren't doing a great job as birdy parents. LOL

My "baby" is turning five this week!

I can not believe it! He is turning FIVE! WTF?! Where did the time go! :/

Tats

I want another tat I just haven't decided what and where. I want something to symbolize my family and I want it somewhere that I can show it off I want to but also hide it if I want to. Ah decision, decisions, decisions. :)

Secrets!

Just amuse me while I feel inspired. :P

Driving by the chemical plants

Driving by the chemical plants
Originally uploaded by .Olga.

You think the Meadowlands, NJ smell bad during good weather they are almost unbearable after a massive rain storm. Sorry NJ peeps but that was gross!

I love my mothers style.

My mom finds the coolest shit to decorate with. I have no decor style since I have two very active boys and they don't understand art is for looking at not throwing across the room. I don't even know what my decorating style would be if I could decorate. I am such a man when it comes to decor. LOL So anyway mom found the shoes above and she is decorating with them. I mean wouldn't you? Why would anyone put those things on their feet? :P She is the yard sale Queen!

good listener

good listener
Originally uploaded by .Olga.

This is what happens when hubby pisses me off. :P

You just gotta love him.

My dad is funny he has this way of talking to me that someone else would just not understand. You just have to know him. Like yesterday he says "there was another idiot (I am the first and foremost idiot of course :P) taking pictures at the park. He had a D200! He works for the telephone company. I told him don't be stupid, when you are working out and about and you see an accident take pictures and then give the victims your card if they want the pictures for their case they can pay you." Yes folks only my dad will take a mans hobby and turn him into an ambulance chaser. LOL! I love my dad! More seriously though the doc found that my dads thyroid levels and his PSA levels are not god. So he is getting tests done to found out what steps he needs to take next. :/

Teddy is graduating from pre-k today! Woohoo! He is also announcing during the ceremony. My guy! *tear* Last night he looked at me with love in his eyes and he said "mommy when I grow up I am gonna marry you!" Awwww so cute. I told him that it was nice that he wanted that but that he had to find a different girl to marry and he asked who she'd be and where he'd find her. :) He then went on to say he loved to learn at school and that he was going to have a job so he could have a family. My baby is starting to grow up.

I am many people - week 2

I am many people - week 2
Originally uploaded by .Olga.

I needed to clone myself my other personalities told me to do it. :P

gotcha

gotcha
Originally uploaded by .Olga.

:)

Our Burger King adventure!

Yesterday my dad and I picked Ted up from school and we all went to Burger King after. So Ted and Tom are playing in the tubes and I noticed that one little girl was getting a little too aggressive with Tom. All of a sudden Tommy comes out crying and his lip is bleeding! That little goat kicked him in the mouth! Thank goodness they don't wear shoes in there. The mom was super nice and started saying I'm sorry right away and then she put her daughter in a high chair and wouldn't let her go back to play. Poor Tommy kept saying "kick mouth" and pointing at the girl.

A little bit later there was another boy in the play area with Tommy and the boys comes running out screaming and crying. Tommy was following him with a look of confusion on his face. I thought shit now Tommy hit him or something. The boy had to pee and had tinkled a little in the play area and had gotten so stressed over it that he reacted that way. So Tommy is saying "baby crying, baby pee pee, baby pee on foot" So I ask him if the boy peed and Tommy says "baby pee pee my foot" I didn't know if I wanted to laugh or cry. :P So I started cleaning off Tommy's feet with wipes and the lady next to us was all curious why I was cleaning his feet so much and when I told her she was laughing. Of course during this time Ted decided to go back into the play area and slipped on the pee! So needless to say they both got wipes down with like a package a wipes and then we went straight home for a bath.

Having children is a trip! :)

The UNDERGROUND presets rock my world!

I have recently found some ACR (Adobe camera RAW) presets by Marina Miller that are so freaking awesome! The presets make post processing so easy and you can totally tweak them to your liking. They have also taught me how and what to change to make my own presets. ;) Here are some examples of photos using Marina's presets. My previous post with my oldest son is also using one of Marina's presets also. :)

looking to the future

looking to the future
Originally uploaded by .Olga..

Yep my baby is going to be starting kindergarten in the fall. Where the heck did the time go? I still can't believe that he is old enough to be starting K soon! *sigh* Today was his new schools open house and about 80 kindergartener's gave a wonderful show. They sang and danced to about 10 different songs. It was impressive that they remembered all the moves and the words. I wonder how Ted will do next year when it's his turn? I've heard good things of that school academically but I have also heard that the Principal doesn't like boys. I have heard that she doesn't care that boys tend to be more active learners. We shall see what that means for Ted. ;)

whip it, whip it good

whip it, whip it good
Originally uploaded by .Olga..

I am such a dork. So my dad is putting up an awning in the back yard but has only put one side up so far and so it became an insta-background for me and my photo shoot of none other then myself. :P I wanted to get a good picture of me cracking my whip. I like taking action shots. Now right near there was this bumble bee that was circling too close and of course I wanted it away. Well what better thing to use but my whip, right? Hell no wrong! I whipped it around all frantic like and ended up hitting myself with it. LOL Holy hell that hurt! I still have a tiny welt from it. So what did we learn today class? Take pictures of yourself cracking a whip away from bees of course! :P

maggie moos

maggie moos
Originally uploaded by .Olga..

I should remember when it's Cinco de Mayo and the local area bars are packed with people needing a reason to drink I should stay home and not go out to the one street near my home that has about 20 bars! That is all!

business in the front and party in the back

business in the front and party in the back
Originally uploaded by .Olga..

I love stuff like this. I mean to say I hate when my community is covered with this shit but I love taking pictures of it. The brighter it is the better I like it for my "art". LOL I wonder if that idiot that goes around marking up O.P.P. knows that I will be coming around to take a picture. See how life is full of cycles. So trippy!

TTC- Trying to conceive

Yes it's true there are babies being planned in this house. The space is being changed to accommodate a new addition or two perhaps. Yep lots of courting and mating going on. Even sharing food. My birds are trying to grow their feather family. You didn't think I was referring to myself did you? Silly!

My father put a nest in the birds cage and at first they used it as a bedroom it seemed just going in there to sleep. Well that has changed. A few days ago I noticed that they were putting pieces of paper (I put some materials in the cage in case they decided they wanted to make a nest) into the nest. Then yesterday I caught the male going to town with the female. It was the funniest thing he and her did their thang and then he regurgitated some food and fed his lady love.
I am so excited I am going to be an auntie soon. :P

beauty and space

beauty and space
Originally uploaded by .Olga..

What a design nature has here. I think that other flowers are probably jealous of the orchid. I mean look at that thing it is just...just...beautiful! I think I am jealous of the orchid. :P Look at it!

Sick of being sick

I think we have been sick off and on in this house since November maybe even before then. I am sick of being sick. I am sick of the runny noses, the upset bellies, the sore throats, sick of all of it! So I want germs to be gone! GONE I SAID! You think germs read blogs?

Stopping time

Fort Totten's view of the bridge1
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I am a daughter.
I am a wife.
I am a mother.
That is my life.
I take some pictures,
To stop some time,
because the clock keeps ticking
and it won't unwind!