What's Up Wednesday

I've decided to get my brain juices working more often (you can only sit and watch netflix for so many hours in a day) so I'm gonna start my own little blog series.

Wednesday is the day were you realized you've survived half the week, but you also have half left till the weekend.

Its an odd feeling day.

So every Wednesday (okay honestly most likely every other Wednesday)  I'm going to post something to get us through the week.  It could be a new recipe I've tried, a funny story I heard or maybe some silly pictures to get you through.

So I though I'd start out this first Whats Up Wednesday with some of my favorite Buzzfeed articles.

I love a good Buzzfeed post and I've had quite a few recently that I've enjoyed.

• Who's on snapchat? No one? Well you should. I'm airkaka87 if you want to follow. :) Any who if you're a mom and have snap chat you've more than likely done 100% of these...I know I have. 

16 Insanely Accurate Snapchats All Moms Are Guilty Of Posting

• Okay so who else has an obsessed household of Star Wars super fans? Just the other day Chris and I were talking about a theory about Rey, cause seriously WHO IS SHE??!?!?! I came across this fan theory about who she is and I'm like....I don't know but maybe? 

This “Star Wars” Theory About Rey Is Insane

What do you think?? All I know is episode 8 needs to hurry up!!

• And finally, this mom is basically a genius and my hero!  I love Target.  Its my sanctuary.  Can I have my 30th birthday party at Target?  

This Kid Had His Birthday Party At Target And It Was Everything

Well there you have it.  A little something for your Wednesday.  

What are some Buzzfeed stories you've found and liked this week?? I wanna know!! Share a link! 

hadababyitsaboy

well well well.

whats new with you?


yeah you guessed it, i had my baby!

only a day late of my expected due date, but really i consider this little guy of mine ON TIME!!!

GLORY HALLELUJAH!!!

So lets get into what when down, before i forget too much.  if you get weirded out of birth then you might not like this story. i'm not going to get into details because honestly i think birth is gross, so yeah. hahaha. i'll spare you.

lets it begin. this is a long one.

friday morning i was at the end of my rope, i just could not be pregnant for one more day, my body had enough. but i knew i could have very well have weeks to go. so i told myself i am not going to bed with out my baby in my arms tonight. then i tried to figure out how that was going to happen. evelyn had a field trip that morning, when her and chris got home around 11am i decided you know what i'm just going to go for it. so yes, i did. i drank some sick nasty stuff, clearly i was desperate. castor oil. i attempted 4 tablespoons, which i heard is the "magic" number. i couldn't choke it down, i had mixed it with OJ too. i probably only got down maybe 2 tablespoons but i figured if i was ready it would work. 

I'm just really going with positive thinking at this point. so fast forward to 3pm.  i had one contraction. AWESOME!! i'm so flippin excited. 4 minutes later another! SCORE!  2 minutes another, again 2 mintues.  after timing them for an hour they were consistently 2 minutes apart and 1 minute in length. my mind i'm thinking, uhhhh isn't this when people are told to go to the hospital?

i called my mom, warned her we were going. we were going to drop the girls off at their house, plans changed mid drive. i was nervous cause i know i could go quickly and i'm not about to have things go down in a van down by the river.

we get to hospital. wait for my mom. we get checked in. as we are getting checked in the triage nurse comes in and looks at me, see's that i'm smiling, cracking jokes and says "oh you are going to fine." as in this girl is probably not that far. so we are walking in the triage room, right outside the door, my water breaks! what!? uhhhh AWESOME!!!

SUCK ON THAT TRIAGE NURSE!!!! BOOOOYAHH!! 

 

baby had done his business though, so it was pretty gross. eeewwwww. so thankfully they had one labor and delivery room available. yay. so wheeled away we went. get in, changed, cleaned up, and was checked. this was about 7pm. i was at 6cm almost a 7. yay!! they do their routine questions yadda, yadda, my nurse started talking about an epidural and i stopped her and told her to never mention it again. in a nice way of course, and that was that. :)

i have to say that the contractions weren't really all that bad. i could get through them. breathing, focusing on things, and just staying positive and laughing. after about almost 2 hours of being around 7.5cm things started to get interesting. things got more intense, not unmanageable, just stronger. the hardest part was of course transition. it wasn't a very long space of time, it was just the whole, yeah i feel like a need to poop out a baby and i can't yet feeling, which was hard to resist and just breath through. good grief. i guess at one point i swore under my breath. i don't remember that but really i can't be blamed for anything coming out of my mouth that that point. i tried my best to stay focused and calm. i thought i did a pretty good job, but when i had to get him out i knew and i had to wait for the doc to get there. LONGEST like 5 minutes of my life. hahaha.

pushing the baby out was i'd say the BEST part ever. such a relief and it didn't hurt.  i pushed a few times and my little man was born! yay!! i asked the doctor if it was still a boy, yep he's all boy, then they layed him on me and the first thing i said was on my goodness he is heavy!! they weighed him and he was 8lbs 10oz. he could have very well been a tiny bit more cause he kept pooping while the nurses were trying to clean him up. haha. 20.5inches long. born at 10:23pm. i was so hyped up on baby love i had the hardest time falling asleep that night, i just had so much energy it was amazing!!

my nurse mentioned how great i did. i think she was just happy i wasn't a psycho while in labor and didn't want to kill her. she was super amazing, i feel like i was really lucky getting her as my nurse.

so here we are 6 days later, feeling great, just trying to get a schedule down and figure our new lives out. i must say that my husband is the bomb! he's been my rock through it all and has been doing so much to make things easier on me.

so now picture time!!!

 

 

 camden with his cousin henry.

henry is 7weeks old

camden is 2 days old

cam is bigger.

that's my boy!

lol

:)

time keeps on slippin....

slippin, slippin, into the future.

oh man Space Jam. memories.

anywho.

so time is flying peeps. thank goodness. the last thing i need right now is for time to stand still and take forever. i've got one thing after another lined up this month and next to keep me busy and my mind occupied.

32 weeks folks.

i'm feeling large and in charge. wish i wasn't so large, but you get what you get and you don't throw a fit.

it started to sink in that i have 8 weeks (possibly more) left when i realized i'm starting to see the doctor every two weeks now. it usually doesn't hit me till that point. then every week, yikes. panic button. nah just kidding. it's exciting but definitely different feeling the third time around for sure.

-right now i'm up at 5am because i can't sleep. joyous. well i could sleep cause i'm tired just too uncomfortable this morning. i can fall asleep easy and as long as i don't wake up for a bit so i get good sleep. i consider myself lucky.

-braxton hicks for the win people. it's a bit of a new experience for me. none with evelyn (that i can remember), and a few times with amelia. this one, he's throwing me for a loop. i'm hopeful this mean i'll actually go into labor on my own. that would be nice and what i'd like to happen this time around.

-i've been watching baby stuff on netflix. ever seen The Business of Being Born??  i probably wont be having a natural birth, but i've enjoyed watching the movie, and the episodes. i'm definitely more knowledgeable, about time huh. haha. its been fascinating.

-i think amelia might have a hard time with the baby adjustment. she's been acting out a lot more this last week and i think it's because of baby. she got mad at me yesterday and punched my stomach. i'm hoping this is just a little phase and not the future.


well i hope you all have a wonderful day! make it the best day yet!

dex

so when i say 'i'll post pictures tomorrow' what i really mean is "sometimes in the next week or so....maybe" hahaha


oh man such a slacker here!!

well i've been kinda distracted this past weekend.

we got a new addition to our little clan.
well at the moment a temporary addition.

if you follow me on instagram you've seen the pics. :)

on thursday a little puppy showed up at our house. i was on my way out so i left some water out, cause i felt bad for the poor little guy he looked exhausted.  it was only 10am but it was already way too hot for this little guy. when we got back from shopping he wasn't around. 
we had to go get something around 5ish.  the girls peek out the mail slot in our front door and evelyn told me that the cute puppy is back.  I open the door and the poor thing was sitting on the door step, he looked tired, dehydrated and all sad.  i couldn't resist helping him.  so i took him around back gave him some cold water, i don't have any dog food laying around so i gave him a few pieces of chicken i had cooked from lunch. i felt bad giving it to him but it was all i had and he looked hungry.

we've been searching for any owners. he didn't have color and tags. we got him checked for a micro chip but didn't have one. we went to the pound to see if someone put up a flyer for him, i've been posting online everyday, and haven't heard anything.

i don't want to take him to the pound, because i just feel so bad for those little animals there it breaks my heart. what if no one comes for him and he is put down, i would hate myself for that.

i am a softy when it come to animals. so now we have this adorable little puppy, for the time being. 
the girls have loved having him around, he is calm and takes a lot of crap from the girls.

(cell phone pic so it's pretty crappy. sorry.)

we'll see what happens this week.

oh and we've named him 'little buddy ronan dexter' or just dex for short. :)

cat beach?

evelyn got a little yo-yo from one of those 25 cents machines at the giant pizza place in oceanside-ish (close but not exactly in the city)


oh i didn't mention the giant pizza place....my bad!

 getting excited to eat some giant slices

our family took every seat they had.

see GIANT! 28" i think it was.

we actually ate 2 of these bad boys

yes that is a gnome.

my mom love gnomes and it came with us on vacation and got lots of pictures with things.

any way so where was I....oh yes YO-YO

evelyn decided that her yoyo was her pet kitty, and she names it little buddha. this morning while daddy got ready for work he said how great it was that the cat was on a leash. she responds "well cause i'm going to take it to the cat beach"

how funny would it be if there was an actual cat beach.  they could play nice aka skin you alive. oh that would be a sight to see.

she mentioned the cat beach because while in oceanside we went to a dog beach with those 3 great danes. it was super fun.  this is getting bit long so i'll have the dog beach story for ya tomorrow.

out in the open

does anyone else try to avoid seeing people they know in public?

please tell me i'm not the only one.

don't get me wrong, i love chatting with peeps from the past and "catching up" in the 2 second conversation, but i hate awkward situations like that.

i'm the girl that will turn the channel, look away or squirm when i know that a awkward/weird moment is coming up in a movie or show. 
i'm not sure why i do it, but i guess i just hate those moments so much i just try to avoid them. i try really hard to not look like i want to run away and hide though. :)


i've experienced with many time in the last couple of weeks, it was horrifying.

one just the other day. i took my girls out to lunch. Evelyn chose a booth. the gentleman in the booth next to us looked familiar to me, i don't know him, but familiar. i try to get the girls to go to a different spot, but they were persistent. ugh.  i knew this was going to get awkward real quick.

my fears didn't disappoint.  just a few minutes later the wife of said gentleman came walking up to sit. of course i knew her and we said hi then she sat down in the booth next to me.  ugh. i wanted to run. i will say i'm glad i was facing away from their booth.

it has nothing to do with the people i see. especially the amazing person in this situation, i mean she is super fun, nice and just an all around spectacular person, i just hate the situations. i shutter again just thinking about it.


AAAAAWWWWKWARD.

random weekend

so this weekend was full of fun things.


Friday, one of my cousins got married.  They are a super cute couple.  I helped at their wedding reception that night from 6 till about 9:30.  It was a beautiful reception, with some amazing food, and great cake.  It was fun helping out! seriously, a good time. I really love working at receptions, like for serious, i love it! If anyone is looking for someone at any time i would love to help! :)It was also a plus that i got A LOT of walking in, it was a great workout too. WOOT! two for one right that! awesome! haha


Saturday, consisted of...as i'm typing i can't really remember.


hold please.

(five minutes later. have a mentioned how terrible my memory is? well it is awful and it got worse after children.)

okay, i remember now. we did not much. i guess that is why couldn't remember. oops. :) we just did some grocery shopping, played "water jump" out side for a bit with the girls. (water jump is basically just sprinklers but that's what they call it. i have no idea.) then we decided to go out to eat as a family. you know sit down. whoa we are getting crazy up in here peeps, watch out!  we went to the bees of the apple (applebees if you didn't catch my coolio lingo) and we had a good time as a family. you know playing with sugar packets, saying hi to everyone, and screaming with excitement, the goods. :)


i feel bad cause i totally stink at taking pictures. i know that i love reading peoples stories and blogs with pictures. why must i be so lame? must change this.

we'll be at the zoo today so i will try and remember to take pictures and i'll have a super splendid picture filled post comin at ya!! i hope.


thanks for stopping by....you stay classy.