more tid bits

Going to put things down before I forget them:

Went for a prenatal check up today. Heart beat was 160. I'll go in for an ultrasound next month!

Nathan climbed the ladder, walked to the edge and jumped off the low board this week, ALL by himself!! His swim teacher was in the water to catch him. Awesome!

Nathan also got in trouble in swim this week because he keeps getting into the water and doing bobs instead of sitting on the edge of the pool waiting for his next turn in the next activity.

We've had SUPER cool, rainy weather. I've loved it. Had the electric blanket going again this week. Love the thunderstorms, love the smell of rain, love not watering my flowers. Think it's a little funny that my tomato plants may have gotten too cold.

We had such a violent storm one day that the lawn was washing away down the street (no kidding) in a torrent of mud. We're hoping our house has a 'firm foundation.' The pool got so full we had to siphon out the water with a hose. Shane struggled with it until I came up with the idea to have the hose filled with running water, then unhook it and let it keep sucking out. It finally worked....Shane gave me ingenuity credit...take it when I can. The windows and downstairs all flooded too, luckily we were here to catch it all in bowls, towels and buckets!! Still need to do that wet laundry....

Shane finished washing the windows by pulling out the scaffolding...this made me much happier. It was better to see him on something solid, rather than a little wimpy aluminum ladder. He is my HERO!

I have decided that it's okay for me to publicly announce that I don't like pioneer days. While our stake was going through the "Willy's Second Rescue" some 16 years ago, and doing work for the pioneers that died in Wyoming (See any LDS publication on this event) I was being surrounded by the actual trials and death of my wonderful mother. So for the years everyone was telling pioneers stories, at meetings, at conferences, at special gatherings, at youth parties, at trek organizational meetings and talking about all of the great things going on with the church and the discoveries, I was pretty much uninterested and/or effected by it. So now when I hear about the second rescue stuff, YEAR after YEAR, all it does it bring me back to the end of my childhood, then end of my family as I knew it (for now) and a whole bunch of loss and sadness. (Yes, Yes, I know I have tremendous blessings and all that good stuff...but it doesn't change how those stories make ME feel.) There...now you know why I don't frequent Rock Creek.

I have discovered that Potty Training is much harder than I anticipated.

I have thrown up only once this whole month!! (this is really good news.)

And over all I'm feeling good, ready to have all the 2nd trimester energy put to good use!

I can't get the lap top to work, or I'd have some pictures to put up! I'll try to put some of my energy into that.