Pure Perfection

Thursday, May 28, 2015
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One Expensive Penny!

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So Sunday at bedtime Anabel announced that she just swallowed a penny!
We weren't sure what to do. I immediately emailed our doctor but then realized it was Sunday and they probably wouldn't get it. Then i looked up what to do online. One person mentioned that they called poison control when their kid swallowed a penny, so that is what we did. They told us that if it's causing her discomfort then we needed to take her into the ER to get an xray. Well it was bothering her.

Then I did get a reply from our doctors and they said the same thing. So Bob took her in. 

I stayed home and got the kids to bed.

Bob kept me updated via txts. It ended up that our hospital needed to transfer her to a different hospital to get the penny out. So she was transferred by ambulance and ended up staying over night there.

The next morning she got another xray and they determined she needed 'surgery' but don't freak out, they didn't cut on her! They had to put her under and then pull the penny out. From knock out to done was about 6 minutes long. It went really smooth. 

Grandma and grandpa came down and grandma watched Abby, Matthew and Reuben for me so grandpa and i could drive down to pick Anabel and Bob up. Reuben was great while i was gone. He even drank from a bottle (drank some breast milk that i had frozen). I was so relieved he did so good for me while i was gone!













 

The Arrival of #4

Sunday, May 24, 2015
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Lazy Sunday

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Sitting here on the Sunday trying to put the messy house of my head and just enjoy my little man. 



Is there anything better? Baby cuddles <3

 

41 Weeks Along

Saturday, May 9, 2015
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Didn't wake up so peachy today. Had a very rough night. I felt very nauseous and dozed but had a lot of mild contractions. They weren't horrible but they were enough to wake me up all the time. That mixed with the nausea made for a crappy night and everything aches!

The morning has sucked but got a tad bit better. I took a shower, got dressed, did my hair and put make up on to make myself feel better. Not sure what is going on baby wise (other then feeling like crap) I've been having mild contractions and nausea but there is no telling until thing pick up. I am starting to have to fight the 'I'm done' feelings. I don't want to get to the anxious and depressed stage of being overdue. It is so not fun and I don't want to go there! But it's creeping in on me. I keep trying to counter act those thoughts with positive thoughts. So far so good but with me feeling extra crappy it's a little hard. :(

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40+5 Weeks Pregnant

Thursday, May 7, 2015
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So nice to have a relatively unproductive day but a very productive night lol


I got the kiddos to bed and before they were asleep i ran the vacuum over the carpets. I thought that would be it but then i kept going. 

-swept living room, dinning room, hall and bathroom 
-wiped down the bathroom walls, baseboards and counter
-cleaned the toilet, floor behind the toilet and even disinfectant the toilet plunger cover and washed out the bathroom trash can
-emptied out the bathroom and school room trash cans
-sprayed the living room furniture with disinfectant odoban spray
-disinfected the coffee table
-did a load of dishes and shinned the sink
-did a load of laundry and folded a load of laundry
-decluttered the dinning room table and prettied it up

So nice to be able to have the energy and want to do all that cleaning. I've been so pleased to have the energy to keep the house fairly clean, especially the kitchen. Big thing i need to do now is mop mop mop! Especially the kitchen cause it's bad lol. 

Its also super nice to wake up to a clean house so I'm looking forward to that in the morning.

I've been feeling good this last week and I'm super blessed because not many feel good when they are overdue like me lol. 

Hopefully i will feel good the day i go into labor and that labor will be easy for me. I can wish right?

 

Due Date

Saturday, May 2, 2015
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Today is my due date!


Not that it means anything cause little man will come when he's ready. Had a couple major contractions but nothing that has stuck so far. One of the contractions that was pretty intense gave me the feeling that the baby moved down. I thought something might start after that but i guess not. Hoping it did push his head down and finally get him engaged!

Then hubby dubbed the day a 'lazy day' we laid around most of the day, took naps. But i was pleased that i got stuff done this evening before bed. 

I got the girls sleep over bags packed for when the baby comes and they go to the grandparents house for a few days. And i got Matthews half done, sept he doesn't have near as many cloths so it's hard to pack his cloths when he will need some of them the next few days.

Then i worked on clearing the dinning room table, which has become a hot spot in the house. I almost got it cleared. Got a couple loads of laundry folded. 

Also today hubby got the craving for calzones so he made a double batch of dough and after all the calzones were made for dinner then i used the left over dough to make 5 small personal pizzas and froze them. More freezer meals for after baby! Yay!

So all in all, a very productive day! Very pleased! 

 

Discipline

Friday, May 1, 2015
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I am learning how different each child is. What works for one does not always work for the other.

Lately it has been a battle with my second to oldest girl. She sneaks into the kitchen at night to get food or snacks and hides it in her bed. She has been lying, hitting and biting to name a few. Time out or spanking just doesn’t seem to work like it does for my oldest. Abby could care less about time out and while she hates spankings and throws a huge fit if you go to do it, I don’t think it phases her at all after it’s done.

So I’ve been at a total loss with her. It’s gotten to where I almost ignore her bad behavior because punishment doesn’t seem to work. I realized I had to stop that right away! Then I went and let my pregnancy hormones overtake me and I bawled my eyes out for just how horrible of a job I have been doing with Abby.

So I got online (pinterest) and started looking for other options. I was raised more traditional with spankings and time out and that is how I started with my kids. I’m not saying it’s not the way to go, but it just doesn’t seem to be working for my Abby.

So I found a few things I really liked. We already have a chore system in place where they have daily routines and chores and earn ‘reward tickets’ for doing them so when I saw this discipline board that used a ticket system I thought we would give it a try and see if it could incorporate will. Here a link to the website HERE. I printed off their ‘rewards and consequences’ PDF for now but if it works then I will go ahead and make my own.

Then I found another printable HERE that has bible verses and consequences for different actions. Last night I printed both of these and got them up on the frig.

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So this morning I talked to them about the how things were going to change and what they could expect. We also started back up the daily routine and chore board to go along with it.

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Today has been tough to say the least. Poor Abby has lost quite a few tickets and privileges today. I’m not sure how it’s going to go. I will give it some time and see if her behavior improves at all because before it was just going down hill.

Today she has already gotten in trouble for hitting and kicking, bad table manners, acting up bad in public and lying >_< she has lost a lot of tickets and cried more then usual.

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But on the upside I have been able to speak a lot more scripture to them for their actions, there has been zero yelling and no spankings. So for me, a lot less stress! And Abby has came to me and asked what she could do to earn tickets back,

She currently has a lot of tickets she needs to earn back so before bed she has some catching up to do.

I am crossing my fingers this works for her because I really need something to help us.

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