Schools out for the summer.......

That song has been in my head all day... well except for when the song Alejandro has been in my head (like right now), but anyway.

Like I said... SCHOOLS OUT FOR THE SUMMER!!

and I could not be happier! It was a rough 7th grade year. I am so thankful it is over and that we only have 1 more year of middle school (for a few years at least).

9th grade seemed to be a great year for Conner but I am looking forward to next year, 2 AP classes and hopefully him doing a little bit of homework and studying. At least I am crossing my fingers for that! Hey, he needs to learn before college!

Ahhh no more thinking about school until we go back August 9th!!

Almost 33 week Doctors Appointment....

Whew long morning!!

My appointment this week was at 8:30am. I knew that they would do a fasting glucose on me and then I would see the doctor. I did get a nice surprise when I got in there and they drew the 1st sample of blood, they told me that I could stay or go out and get something to eat but that I needed to be back in the office by 10am. JACKPOT!! I was not confined like I thought I would be!

Well I guess I will take the good with the bad... OK not bad, just unexpected.

I go run some errands and enjoy an egg and cheese biscuit. It is kind of hard to enjoy the biscuit when I kept thinking... please let this not shoot my blood sugar up too much!

So, did some things I needed to do and was back to the office by 9:45. They called me back eventually. I went through all the normal stuff, got weighed (nothing gained), BP (120/70), they took my book where I record blood sugars (ick) and made a copy, then I headed into room 3. I waited for the nurse to come in for only a few minutes. She came in measured my big belly (measuring right on), listened to the heartbeat (beating at 148) and then looked through some paper work.

Here comes the unexpected... she told me that I needed to come in and have a fetal non-stress test done every week. hmmm Why?? She said it was protocol for gestational diabetes and that it should have been started at 30 weeks. Hmm, OK this is the 1st I have heard about this. I was told that they will hook me up to a monitor and then do an ultrasound to check amniotic fluid. One snag, no sonographer on Thursdays!!

So we go ahead and one of the ladies that works there takes me into a little room with a recliner, hooks me up to a monitor and then I ask how long I would be hooked up. She said probably about 30 minutes. WHAT! That's too long!! I told her that I needed to have blood drawn in 10 minutes (2 hours after I ate) and she said ok.

For the next 30 minutes or so I got to sit in a recliner, have the blood draw come to me, and have the doctor come to me. It was not so bad... quiet and relaxing!! I almost could have taken a nap!!

Doctor came in and said everything looked good. She was not worried about my sugar levels since I was still adjusting to the insulin (WHEW) and that I needed to come back for the ultrasound and another fasting blood sugar on Tuesday or Wednesday. Then she said I will do this every week!

Whew... get ready for some long appointments!!!

I think we all have a child that we can look at and say, "if you were the 1st, you would be an only child". Well I thought that I had that child already (love you Avery).... Nope..... this is THAT child!!

I have always joked that Avery was my challenge. Recently I have been joking how Kennedi makes Avery look like an angel. Now I am wondering what it will be like in 2 years.... will Kennedi look like the angel???

"Weeee," says Kennedi!

The other day Chris and I went shopping. Chris LOVES to shop!! (Can you sense the sarcasm)? Actually he doesnt mind it and I do not have him go with me too often but Kennedi really needed some things to play with outside. She is really hurting for the big things.

We headed to a few consignment stores and sales and we did pretty good. We still have a few things on the list that we want to get her but she was excited to see one thing we got.

checking out her new slide...

it took her about 20 seconds to figure out what to do

here she goes!

climbing back up, the wrong way of course!

yes, I know I cut off half her body. I wanted to get a picture of her new teva's. I spent a lot of money of these (a whole 1.00 at the sale) so I wanted to be sure I got a picture. She loves them and they have ladybugs all over the straps.

Is that all it takes???

So you ask (well maybe you didn't).... Why do you not have very many pictures of the boys and tons of Kennedi????

Well that is a very easy answer!!

Whenever I try to take a picture of the boys they usually turn out like this....
Keep in mind that I am using tame pictures for fear that the boys will kill me if I used some of the ones I have taken!

or this...

but then you throw in a girl and the pictures become quite nice!!

this is a picture of Conner and his girlfriend before heading into the movies...

Poor Cat!

Ok so not really poor cat but having a long haired cat (which I will never have again) requires some maintenance from time to time. My poor wallet!!! Much more often than I would like or than we even do but he still needs some upkeep.

Here is a before picture of 13 year old Cotton..... Yes its a bad picture but you try telling a cat to stay.

And after spending the day at PetSmart grooming area...

he is still a little wet.....

looks more like a wet rat now!

Whoa, you mean he is not the fat cat that we have believed him to be?!? Amazing!