Help, I've fallen and I can't get up...

Well, those were words spoken by me on Sunday, after I fell in the backyard- with my husband in the front (mowing the grass) and the kids riding their bikes. I was trying to carry some chairs into the garage and tripped or something (not entirely sure as the whole thing happened so fast and I was 100% concentrated on not landing on my stomach/baby). Anyway, after a couple hours at home attempting to evaluate the severity of my ankle injury-- I could barely walk and was in immense pain- we decided to take a trip to Providence ER. Thankfully my ankle was not broken; however, I did tear a ligament which will take about 4-6 weeks to heal (which is really not that much better than a broken bone- but at least I didn't need a cast). I get to wear a lovely air cast that only fits inside my old tennis shoes. I would have given almost anything for a stronger drug than regular strength tylenol-- but oh well. The baby was fine-- not that they checked her heart rate or anything at the hospital (something my midwife's pretty peeved about) -- but she's been moving and everything seemed fine at my appointment on Tuesday. The baby's due to come in less than 7 weeks, so I won't be able to be staying off my foot much, cause I have WAY too much that I want to get done before she arrives. I'm actually getting around much better now, and I'm hoping this will just be a slight nuisance until it's completely healed.

Matt and Kayla are doing awesome. They are very happy that Christmas has come to "me house" in the form of a Christmas tree with lights. We spent last night doing crafts- pictures with puffy stickers and snowman ornaments for the tree. Funny enough, I think their snowmen turned out better than mine and peter's... maybe I'll switch the names on the back ;) Matt's now regularly counting things (although he often forgets the number 6) - and is always obsessed with "what time it is?". Kayla's been loving playing with her baby (especially now that we have all this 'real baby' stuff aroundn the house) and the other day while in bed for a nap decided to give her room, bed, baby, Elmo’s and self a baby powder shower. I'm still trying to clean up after that-- I would have taken a picture- but I was worried she'd think she did something good. My mom ended up washing the baby powder sheets for me while she was here helping out (due to the injury) and practically was killed by the huge amounts of baby powder dust in the air when she went to put them in the wash.

Ah, backtracking a bit- we had a GREAT thanksgiving. We watched the parade in the morning and enjoyed an awesome dinner and great company at my aunts in the afternoon/evening. Following that Dan and Jillian spent the night to watch the kids for the black Friday shopping morning-- so we played games for a few hours before bed.

Now we're forging ahead towards Christmas. I have all but 2 gifts bought... and all but 4-6 wrapped (I think). Christmas cards have been sent out, and decorations are up... and yes, I was almost this crazy before I was pregnant :)

That's about all for now. Sorry for the randomness :)

Recovery

Well, I can safely say that we have now recovered from the shower last weekend. I had a great time, and we pretty much got everything we needed. On Sunday Peter and I went Babies 'R Us for the rest of the essentials (we were able to get everything on that list with returns that we had to make due to a couple of doubles). Now pretty much everything has been put together and is "in place" (or in a waiting place) for the baby. It feels more real now that there's baby stuff all around the house.

I'm having a hard time believing that Thanksgiving is next week, and Christmas will quickly follow. I have completed my wrapping (minus one gift for matt) for the kids birthday, Christmas (from Santa and us) and it's all in bags ready to go- I really like to be ready early- and with the baby being born between Christmas and the kids birthday I wanted that out of the way as well. We're planning on putting up our tree after shopping on Friday for the last few gifts on our list. This weekend will be spent cleaning up the house-- finishing the outdoor chores for the winter, and hanging out as a family (we haven't had a lot of family time this week due to numerous evening errands needing to be completed).

Anyway, that's the update.

Check out this pic of the most "original" baby gift given to us at the shower-- it was a doll made of cloth diapers, outfitted in clothes we registered laying in a box on a boppy pillow :) The face is taken from a picture of when I was a baby.

My baby's getting big...

Every once in awhile I get a glimpse into the future when my kids are more independent, talkative etc. Today, I realized that Matt and Kayla are so much more "big kid" than baby lately. Kayla's currently downstairs playing her "puter" (daddy would be so proud that the machine he built for them is getting lots of use). Anyway, she came up to see what I was doing, and said "I'm going back to play my puter". It's weird not always having them at my feet when they're up, but definitely getting easier to get things done. :)

On a side note, my sister-in-law Laura is my favorite person of today. Although my mom and Jillian offered to watch the kids while I voted, I wasn't sure where I had to go- so passed on that and just hung out and talked to them while they were over visiting the kids. Laura called later, and asked if she could stay with the kids during their nap so I could vote AND she even knew where I was supposed to do that :) So awesome props to her for thinking about us, and always being so willing to help out! Thanks Laura.

Halloween and such

Well, zoo boo was fun, but cold and wet. I'm supposed to get some pictures from Anna, but most of ours didn't turn out from that night (flash issues or something). Matt refused to wear his coat over his football uniform for about 1/2 the night- until I looked at him and saw his entire body shaking-- reminding him that sometimes even Danny (a football player) wears a coat- I put his on. He was much happier once warm.

Halloween was a blast. Peter worked on Monday until 5:15am, then on Tuesday (Halloween) left just to trick-or-treat with us, and then headed back to the office until 10:30pm. He's nothing if not committed to getting his job done :) Anyway, the kids trick-or-treated for about an hour and a half, much longer than we thought they'd last. Then we headed back to Sue and Cappy's and hung out for about an hour before heading home. As I pulled into the driveway some kid/guy jumped the fence out of our backyard-- but thankfully our neighbor was out and came over to check our window's etc-- being pregnant, with 2 kids and no husband home-- that made me feel much better. Meanwhile, as I walked with John outside our house- the kids stayed in their chairs in the locked van- matt decided to bite into his glow stick- ingesting about 1/2 of it-- thankfully grandma Lorraine had purchased them NON-toxic glow sticks. What a GREAT grandma ;)

We've spent the past couple weekends trying to get stuff ready for the baby (and baby shower items) that will be invading our house in the near future. We tackled the basement this past weekend gathering a bunch of clothes/toys and stuff to donate and throw away. We also have a pretty large pile of stuff to "try" to sell on e-bay/craigslist.

This week, I'm planning on "deep cleaning" (for a good explanation of this you'll have to ask Janet or my mom) the majority of the upstairs. As well, as trying to get everything else in order before our shower. I hate to add chaos to chaos. Then we'll be getting ready for the upcoming holiday season.






Here's some pics of my little pumpkins :)