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This is a discussion on Check In! within the October 2006- Precious Pumpkins forums, part of the Born in 2006 category; It's been dead around here lately (I'm sure everyone is busy enjoying spring!!) so I thought that we'...
It's been dead around here lately (I'm sure everyone is busy enjoying spring!!) so I thought that we'd all check in to see where everyone is at!
Everything here is good also. Parker is starting to use more and more words which is a great relief after only saying a handful for a long time. He's also getting much better with directions from mommy and daddy which is fun to watch. DH likes to tell him to "get the kitty" and he runs over and jumps on him or something! Otherwise, we're just working away, DH just got a new job in March and I'm hoping for a promotion here at work this month so hopefully that works out well, and then going home to play with our baby!
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JESSICA - 23 ~~ DH - SAM - 23 ~~ DS - PARKER JON - 9.27.06
I've been busy working the last few nights. We went to a Brewer's game yesterday with some friends that are moving out of the country and across the country. Lily had fun, especially during the wave lol. She got a little pink Brewer's hat as a really early bday gift since our friends won't be here in October. She loves it!
Lily's been doing good though. She's been talking more and listening a little better. Her newest word is "nite nite." It's so cute putting her to bed, she says it about 20 times I think she's also starting to understand that there's something going on with mommy's belly.. she keeps poking me. Her jealousy hasn't been too bad lately, so I'm hoping that'll continue when the new baby comes!
DH is starting a new job in June so I've been trying to get him to contact them and figure out what's going on with insurance. Of course he hasn't called yet. I know we're covered until May 31 with his current job, but I have a dr appt June 2nd and kinda need to know if we'll be covered.. he's such a bum sometimes I'm probably going to be picking up a lot of hours in June to save up a little.. my brakes have been acting up and I'm sure that'll cost a pretty penny to fix. Besides all that, I'm going to try to get my backyard looking decent. We're planting a huge lilac bush from my parent's house tomorrow and working on a flower garden.
Ok, I wrote a lot.. sorry. Time to go clean while it's still quiet around the house!
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Erin, mommy to Liliana & Expecting Baby #2 in November 2008
We're good... I'm almost 32 weeks and finally decided to "fire" the midwife, because I just couldn't keep leading her on and then just not calling during labor (there's a post I made about it in the due in july board). But otherwise the pregnancy is going really great!!
Jake is wonderful... using lots of words, along with speaking "sim" (anyone else play sims2? LOL). He's still sleeping great... still hasn't been sick (except diarrhea once or twice, and a fever once, lol). Our pediatrician... well don't get me started on that. Our pediatrician labeled my active, happy, smart child as "failure to thrive" because he was in the 8th precentile or so... oooooh-wee! And then, after a LONG discussion about DS's MILK PROTEIN ALLERGY, he says I need to give DS pediasure twice a day. Yeah... and what's the second ingredient again??? (for those that don't know, it's concentrated milk protein). Anyway, I got a second and third opinion, who told me the first opinion was ridiculous . I was in the market for a new ped anyway b/c the practice I was going to said intact boys should be retractable by age two, and obviously that's ridiculous and I didn't want to risk putting my 2yo through that kind of sexual assault!! So, new pediatrician we found.
Dh applied for a job in Chattanooga and if he gets it we're moving. Since we live in the city with one of the highest crime rates per-capita, horrible school (even though we're HSing anyway), and hardly any kid-friendly stuff to do (for under $30, eek!)
Sadly, we found a new home for our boxer today. We LOVE him, he just doesn't get enough time and love around here and there isn't enough room in our backyard for him. So we found a wonderful family that already has a female boxer the same age, and 3 acres of farm land... we'll miss him but he'll be soooooo much happier in the long run. She's coming to get him today at five... ...
So yep... I think that's it We're doing great.
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Sunny, wife to Kris, mama to:
Jakob Daniel (Oct 2006) and Mikah Donovan (July 10, 2008)
Intact & no vax, gentle disciplining, toddler nursing, co-slept & wrapped,
cloth diapering and ECing, future unschooling, and Jesus-loving family
Unassisted home birthing and tandem nursing as of July 2008!
Well, Pip seems to have recovered from the ear infection marathon but has a slight cold now- just seems to be a runny nose thankfully. She is fine otherwise. One of her latest tricks is singing her own songs. The current top hit is "Thank you, You're welcome" which sounds like "tank-oo, oo-walka-m" over and over and over to some nonsense tune. Gotta love it!
I'm 32 weeks+ and have been diagnosed with gestational diabetes. ugh. I'm meeting a diabetes cousellor today and and dietician tomorrow. Not sure how this will affect my moving to Vancouver for the delivery since we were hoping for a mid-June date and now it might be earlier.
Otherwise life is barrelling along faster than we can imagine! Can't believe it is mid-May already.
Oh yeah, we got a new range and sofa sectional on Saturday! Yay!
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Pigtails or prey?
Rebeca
Married October 12th, 2002
Piper McKinley ~ October 26th, 2006
Taryn Marie ~ July 10th, 2008
1:54am 6lbs 9oz
Things are good around here. Jack is talking up a storm and loving being outside. Especially now that he can walk really fast! LOL! He is obsessed with dogs, turtles, and really any animal. He went through a phase of being Mr. Cranky Pants but seems to be doing better this week.
I am officially 30 weeks today and ready to have this baby! I am so sick of being sore at night and sleeping on my sides. We are working on Jack's new big boy room this weekend.
Other than 3rd trimester woes, we are good here!!!
I am here. Nicholas is doing well. This last lmonth is his healthiest month of his life. So that is great. He is talking up a storm and become very active and cute! He loves all sports. Which means my life is going to get interesting as t-ball starts tonight for ds1 and Nicholas will not be happy that he cannot join in.
We are doing ok. Clarissa is learning so much and is so active. The babysitter taught her "good job" with her thumb...but she hides her thumb instead of sticking it up! I like how she will answer you when you ask her something (ie. "Do you want a drink?" and she shakes her head yes or no).
I am counting down the days til I go to court next Thursday. It can't come soon enough for me tho. Jason doesn't know what he is in for, but he is going to get a BIG wake up call!! He is still making stupid choices (bragged to the babysitters son about "doing a burn out last week and broke the drive shaft on my truck". Then paid over $300 in parts to fix it. Hmmm....that $300 could have paid for the DIVORCE that he still hasn't filed for!). He is careless about the girls (Hailey has had 6 t-ball games and he hasn't been to 1! Pretty sad that his brother has gone to 1 but he hasn't!), he just thinks about himself and noone else! Sunday he called me up and flipped cuz he wanted the girls for "his b-day party". Well guess what, Sunday was Mother's Day and that was more important then you having them for your party...which you would have just ignored the girls anyway! Then he told me we have "shared" holidays and he looked it up in the Law books and "shared" holidays means he gets them one holiday and I get them another. Ummm....HTH do you SHARE Mother's Day with the FATHER??? Duh!!!
Anyway, I still check in maybe once a day or so, but I don't really post as much as I could be.
We have been busy getting ready for our move. Trying to sell as much of our stuff as possible. And things wont be slowing down for a while.
We are suppose to go to visit family in PA next month, but with gas almost $4 a gallon (probably will be by then) i'm starting to rethink that trip. We already decided if we do we are not taking our jeep and just taking dh's car because its so much better on gas.
It really sucks that we might not be going home, because this would be the last time we will see most of our family for at least 4 years. Its so frustrating!
Then its off to Italy in July and who knows how long i'll be with out internet when we get there.
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DH: Chris (23)
DD: Kairi Madison (4) 10/8/03
DS: Zachary Christopher 9/26/06
I'm here.I don't have a computer at home so I don't get on the board that often.I really want to buy one with my stimulus check but I know it has to go toward bills.
I had my first appointment this month.The baby is doing good.I got an u/s and they changed my due date to Nov. 11.I have my big u/s June 2.I have m/s still and I'm ready for that to end but other than that I'm okay.
Camryn is getting so big.She's talking more.I'm still trying to get her off the bottle.She's probably the only one still on a bottle but that's the only way she takes her milk.We're doing good though and I wish I could check in more.
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*Candice* ~mama to....: Madison MacKenzie:3-29-01.. Jordyn Leigh:2-26-02.. and Camryn Elisabeth 10-13-06!
We are doing pretty well. Reilly is trying to say more and more words, and on the days that he isn't cranky (there are little molars bumping a poking through all over in his mouth) he is a joy. Jaina still isn't sleeping fabulously, but we'll get it figured out. We've decided to try cloth diapering part time (moreso on Jaina than Reilly; we'll see what he thinks of it) and I placed my first order. DH is coming up on finals and stuff, and we'll be going to Arizona (home) in June for my brother's wedding. It will be great to be home, but NOT looking forward to flying across the country with the munchkins...
We are here, just busy, busy. Hubby and my older DD had a nasty virus last week, thank goodness Julia and I did not get it. My DD will be 3 on Monday and the inlaws just flew in from Arizona today and we are having a huge party on Sunday. I can't wait until everything settles down, lol.
Not much going on here. Watching my bank acct drain from DH being home...:-(. It's hard not having the control I had while he was gone and now everything has changed. Everything is going well overall though, little spats every once in a while over dumb stuff- like how he doesn't do anything to help with the house. LoL.
Bre's over her ear infection so I think...we will be making a follow up appointment tomorrow to have them to check it out. If it's still there, I'm 100% sure I wanna go with tubes, cause she's had the same ear bothering her for months. She is definitely hearing better and talking A LOT more and learning more words and stuff.
I'm bored as heck now that school is done. Jason starts leave in two weeks for 52 days! YIKES. That's a long time to stay home all day with each other but we have plenty of plans.
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Stacey-21
Jason-25
Breanna Leigh- October 27, 2006
Married 4 years on December 11, 2008
I am here...just don't post much anymore. Busy with work and Ava...enjoying every second.
Looking forward to a mini vacation in a few weeks and quite a bit of time off in the summer (5 weeks)...so we are making plans, now that DH is working again!
Like Logan, Ava doesn't say many words, but really understands a lot.
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IUI Miracle Ava Kathleen born on October 30th, 2006
Not a lot happening here, just watching Audrey grow is amazing, she just woke up one day and decided she wasn't a baby anymore and is now a toddler lol. She is growing up so quick !
Also we got our a few weeks ago, yay no more charting lol, so im still feeling cautious haven't had our first scan yet, but got to hear the heartbeat at 8 weeks on a doppler so feeling abit better.
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Just super busy, my Dad died in March and then we moved in April and things have just been crazy getting settled!
Dh & I are hosting two barbeques this weekend to celebrate our anniversary and then hopefully we'll be back in a more consistant routine so we can enjoy the outdoors and not so much cleaning inside!
It's great to read everyone's updates!
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Mommy to Joey (4 yrs.) & Tommy (19 mos.)
Demari and I have been suffering from the pink eyes for the past couple of weeks, hopefully all is well and we don't get it again, other than that we're great. and hopefully there'll be more posts to read (LOL) it's been slow for a long, long time and half the members are missing.
I'm still here...lurking mostly! Wesley is doing well.....starting to say some words and doing lots of signs! We went camping this weekend and he was sick the whole time! I think he is teething. He still had fun though!
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I'm probably going to be picking up a lot of hours in June to save up a little.. my brakes have been acting up and I'm sure that'll cost a pretty penny to fix. Besides all that, I'm going to try to get my backyard looking decent. We're planting a huge lilac bush from my parent's house tomorrow and working on a flower garden.
Expecting Baby #2 in November 2008 
. I was in the market for a new ped anyway b/c the practice I was going to said intact boys should be retractable by age two, and obviously that's ridiculous and I didn't want to risk putting my 2yo through that kind of sexual assault!! 
So, new pediatrician we found.
We're doing great.
a few weeks ago, yay no more charting lol, so im still feeling cautious haven't had our first scan yet, but got to hear the heartbeat at 8 weeks on a doppler so feeling abit better.
Christie
