That darn cat....

Tucker has been complaining about Mocha sleeping with him at night. He keeps telling me that she keeps sleeping on his head, but everytime I go check on where Mocha is sleeping, she is usually in his bed, but nowhere near his head...well tonight I caught her....poor Tucker.

Rain, Rain, Rain

We have had so much rain on and off this past week(well, now it is more like a week and a half or so)...it has made it hard for the boys to play outside...They kept asking to go play in the backyard and I looked and it was sunny, but raining out just a bit, so they put on their rain jackets my mom bought them awhile back. They also wanted to wear their mud boots, but they were too small, so Trey wore Tucker's old boots and Tucker just wore his Crocs. I guess it is time to buy Tucker some new boots. The rain didn't last long and you can't even tell it is raining in the picture, but they looked cute in the rain jackets.

Field Trip Fun

This past Wednesday the boys went on a field trip for school and I got to tag along too. It was Trey's first "official" field trip, even though we got to go along with Tucker last year. We went to Dewberry Farm and had fun on a hay ride, picking a pumpkin off the vine, feeding and petting farm animals, and playing around on the other activities at the farm. I love going there..this is actually the 3rd time we have been, but the weather was horrible...it was about 94 degrees with full humidity and because of all the rain we have had, the ground was extremely wet. Surprisingly, the boys didn't really get too muddy, which is so not like them...but I was happy about that. I was a little bummed out because usually they have a big variety of pumpkins, squash, and gourds, but one of the farmers told us that because the weather was hotter than usual, the squash and gourds didn't grow at all. Then because of all the moisture, a bunch of the pumpkins were moldy or rotten..I would say at least half of the entire crop was yucky. Despite the crummy conditions, the boys had a blast. I, however, didn't exactly share their enthusiasm, but I wouldn't miss it..I loved being able to experience these things with them.

Trey by the baby chicks

Trey feeding the goat

Tucker on the hay ride

Tucker in the pumpkin patch...he's making a face because it muddy and the pumpkins are "yucky"....it cracks me up

Tucker in the fort

The boys jumping on the inflatable "Pillow"

Trey going down the roller slide

Tucker going down the roller slide

The boys racing their ducks

Our fat cat!

We have 2 cats...we got Mila from a family who needed to get rid of her because their daughter developed severe allergies, she is about 5 and we got her just about 2 years ago. She is a very little cat.... Then last September we decided we wanted another cat...Mila is not the friendliest of cats..to say the least...Vinny wanted a cat to play with and love on and Mila usually doesn't want anything to do with anyone besides me. So we went to this local animal shelter (it is also where we got our dog Terry) by our house (not the city one, a non-profit, no kill shelter) and picked out this very pretty tiny kitty named Mocha! She was so little and made Mila look like a huge cat...but man did she change in a year. She is such a piggy.....we can't keep extra dog food in the bowl because she will eat it and she will steal any type meat or cheese and she loves eggs. We are monitoring her food intake very closely now because we don't want her to be an unhealthy weight, but she has seemed to stop growing now....however she has gotten so big that she can barely jump it up onto our bed and onto the bathroom counter (where we keep the cat food).

Our sweet little kitty at about 8 weeks old.



Above is Mocha September 2008...Below is Mocha October 2009

A bummer of a weekend.

I bummed out because our weekend didn't go at all like the way we planned...and Friday didn't go very well either come to think about it....

So starting off with Friday, (I'll go with the short version so I don't ramble on..) we took Vinny's truck to Walmart to get the oil changed and a few hours later when we were leaving to go visit Vinny's parents for the night, Vinny went to put on some of his new cologne, one he just bought on Tuesday for 50 bucks...(he keeps all his cologne in his center console...he always has and probably always will) and it was gone...the lid was still in there, but the bottle was gone. So he went back to Walmart to see if he could get some answers about why one of his colognes were gone (there are 3 other bottles in there..all brand name, expensive ones...Vinny has a thing for cologne...) Of course they say that they didn't take it and the manager said that they looked at the security tapes, but it is not like they would be able to see anything anyways...so there is nothing they can do about it, but it just pisses us off. I figure the guy smelt all the colognes and took the one that smelled the best and figured Vinny wouldn't notice for a few days or weeks because there was more than one bottle in there. I can't believe some people...

We go to see Vinny's parents, which is always nice, but we had to leave this morning from their house by 6:30am to make it to the boys soccer game at 9:15. The game actually got canceled so we were up freaking early for nothing....

Then we were planning on going to the Renaissance festival today, it was opening weekend and tickets were really cheap...plus the weather out is amazing...we haven't been in 2 years..but they call Vinny at 7am and tell him he has to leave for work today instead of leaving on Sunday like they told him on Saturday....so that sucks...no festival for us and I don't know if Vinny will be off another weekend and even if he is, if I will actually be up for it when he is off.

Then since Vinny had to work earlier than we thought and we made an unscheduled trip to Vinny's parent's house our house it completely a wreck...we started moving things around and painting the baby's room....so crap is everywhere and the painting isn't finished, the crib is only part way put together and sitting out in the garage.....so who knows when things are actually going to get done now....

The only good thing about the weekend is the weather and because it is cooler out the boys are actually outside playing in the backyard and have been for at least an hour now...which they haven't done if forever!!! I'm sitting here in the living room with the windows open watching them play.

34 weeks!

Well, I'm 34 weeks this week.....and somehow last week I missed out on the reliziation that I only had 6 weeks left...now only 5 weeks left. I had my appointment on Wednesday and things are good. His heartbeat was 131 this time and really strong. I gained 2 pounds a week since my last appointment, which is what I gain every week. In total I have gained 42 pounds since I have been pregnant, which she told me "is just too much weight to gain while pregnant" so I need to cut back and yada yada yada...whatever...I'm excited because if I keep gaining 2 pounds a week, I will have only gained 52 pounds....which my goal this time was to only gain 50 pounds...it is better than the 65 I gained each time with Tucker and Trey. I am just a person who gains weight when I am pregnant, no matter what I am doing as far as eating and working out and what not...so whatever... She told me that idealily I should only gain 1/2 to a pound a week because I have gained so much already...so I said okay, but I was thinking whatever...I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing.

She is going to schedule me another ultrasound in a few weeks to check on the baby's size again because my tummy is measuring 4 weeks ahead still(measuring 38). I am a little concerned because she is so conserned about the baby getting too big and is making it seem like she might take the baby early if he does get too big and I am really not okay with that. Unless there is some medical reason why he needs to be delivered early, I want him born at 39 weeks. Like I said in my last baby update post, they said Trey was going to be just as big or bigger than Tucker, and he was almost an entire pound less, so I would be very upset if they said the same thing about this little guy and took him before 39 weeks and he was really small, I would be pretty upset...I just want him to be healthy and just really don't think he should be born early just because he "might" be a big baby...especially during cold and flu season...sorry to keep going on about this, but it's bugging me.

As far as how I'm feeling...I'm actually feeling pretty good although I can tell I'm getting towards the end because I'm feeling pretty chubby and I'm sad my face is looking chubby, but oh well...they weather here has been horrible..on Tuesday, the hi was 93 with super high humidity...so it actually felt like 103. So it was hot and miserable...the heat makes me swell so bad, my hands get so swollen that they hurt...ugh..it is horrible. My feet haven't swollen that much, which is good, but I'm having other problems with them...because summer is so hot here, I don't think I have worn anything, but flip flops since May...so I've been wearing shoes a little more often now because I am so dang tired of flip flops and my feet hurt so bad after wearing them...they just feel squished and hot and for some reason my calves hurt....but if I wear flipflops my ankles and arches hurt so bad...either way by the end of the day, I'm sore... I've had heartburn pretty bad for awhile now, but it is getting horrible at night. Last night it was so bad it actually woke me up....I even had 4 tums before I fell asleep.

Now, as far as getting things ready for his arrivale, I am just going to make a seperate post about that...because we have been busy :D

BOWLING!!!!

We love to bowl!! The only thing that sucks it that bowling is actually really expensive here...so we don't go very often(we really miss the Monday dollar games at the Army base we used to live on...anyways...) Tucker asked to go bowling once Vinny got off, so Wednesday after school we went. It was a lot of fun and the boys really are getting good. It makes me sad, but proud that neither of them need our help to throw the ball down the lane anymore. Tucker got 5 or 6 spares and Trey got 3...They both are really proud of themselves when they knock a lot of pins down, but Trey was really excited...I think it was because he actually did it all by himself. Vinny and I bowled too, but part way through the first game, Vinny let the boys bowl for him because the boys were just having too much fun..plus Vinny said it's not really as fun bowling with the bumpers up...because we can't see who really wins between the 2 of us! I had fun and felt good the entire time...although it looked like I was caring an extra bowling ball under my shirt. Tucker cracked me up because everytime he threw his ball down the lane, he stood back and watched with his arms crossed over his chest. We had our usual bowling alley food, nachos and cheese fries (with ketchup of course..thanks to my brother Jake, I learned a few years back that the only way to eat cheese fries is with ketchup:) We had to pry the boys away when it was time to leave, they could have bowled there all day! It was so fun and I can't wait to go again!

Silly cat...

Today while Tucker was playing a fishing game on the Wii our cat Mila got overly interested in what was going on on the tv. It cracked us all up...I had to snap a picture before I shooed her away..good thing it was Mila because Mocha is huge and probably would have knocked the tv over.

Proud of my big boy

Tucker really doesn't have much of an interest for academic things. He is definitely a sports and games type of guy, but today he was coloring on the easel and told me he wanted to write his name. So I wrote his name on the bottom of the board and we practiced each letter, then he wrote his name all by himself, without me guiding his had at all, like I usually do. I'm so proud of him and I think he was proud of himself too!

Man I suck...

I have been pretty busy getting things organized around the house, so I have been slacking just a bit on posting stuff of the blog.

Last Saturday was the boys first soccer game. Tucker did great and had a blast. Trey refused to put his uniform on at the house and wouldn't play the first half of the game. Vinny called and talked Trey into playing, well more like bribed him with a new toy. Then Trey went in the game and did awesome. He was right in the mix of things, going after the ball and playing hard, you would have never guessed that the beginning of the game he did not want to play at all! Tucker played goalie for a little while and he is a really good at it..he watches the ball and moves in the direction the ball is coming and he is not afraid of diving on top of the ball. It was so fun to watch them both play. I really love it! Hopefully next game Trey will play without having to be bribed :D