We have had sun out which means kiddo gets to enjoy the outdoors finally!

Too tired to sit at the computer much longer to actually type up something meaningful. Although, we did have a brief contraction scare last Friday but I’m fine and little Merrick is healthy and happy staying in me.

Anyhow, enjoy this pic from our park visit on Sunday. Isn’t he getting big?

This is a thumbnailed image to the new nursery paint progress. If you click on it, it’ll take you to the album with more pics the nursery and pics of the rest of the painting / decorating we’ve done in the house.

We still have lots of work to do both in the nursery and down the line, in the house. We get Braysen’s big boy bed this next week so that will be an interesting transition for all of us!

Going to keep this short and simple since I’m a bit tired and am on the Mac Powerbook instead of my desktop. I prefer to post from my own computer and use a mouse instead of a touchpad

I’m so overwhelmed with the amount of things I have yet to buy before this baby makes its grand entrance! We are heading into Babies R Us this weekend to hopefully get a few things off my list while I have coupons. I’m also trying to get through each day at work, although lately I’ve been spending my entire time there on my feet which has shown with the lack of ankles showing by the end of it! *sighs*

Well ~ kiddo seems to love my laptop (he keeps pointing to the “tick tock” on the screen and is practically attacking me trying to get to it. In fear of this getting deleted with him climbing, I’ll end my ramblings!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were
pregnant.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested
for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered
with bright colored lead-based paints.

Most of our bright colored toys were painted with lead based paints and they didn’t come from China or any other foreign country.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode
our bikes, we rode double, sometimes on the handlebars, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats,
seat belts or air bags. Too top it off we rode in cars that had rumble seats and suicide doors.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Kool-aid made with sugar,
but we weren’t overweight because,

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when
the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K. No sick child molester grabbed us.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the
hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a
few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo’s, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150
channels on cable, no video movies or DVD’s, no surround-sound or CD’s, no cell
phones, no personal computers, no Internet or chat rooms…….

WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits
from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us
forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis
balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many
eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the
bell, or just walked in and talked to them!

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to
learn to deal with disappointment. No phychologist to mend your little damaged mind. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They slapped our butt and
actually sided with the law!

These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and
inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL
WITH IT ALL! Why, we didn’t have the extreme liberal invasion yet and fruit cakes in Hollywood.

If YOU are one of them CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids,
before the blood sucking lawyers and the power grabbing government regulated so much of our lives for our own good

While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and
lucky) their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with
scissors, or butcher knife doesn’t it?!

I had my midwife appt. last week and had the pleasure of drinking that nasty orange crap for the glucose test. Went through all the usual stuff and baby is head down, was hiccupping away while listening to the heartbeat, measuring right on target and my blood pressure is staying in check so far. I passed the glucose test but found out I’m anemic. I keep saying, “if it isn’t one thing, it’s another.” So, last night Patrick cooked steaks and I’m trying to find ways to fit more Iron into my diet so my next blood draw looks better. I’m not a big meat eater while pregnant so I’m not too surprised but I do still eat a ton of veggies and other sources.

The whole 29 and some weeks thing right now has me on freak out mode, knowing that I’m probably only at most 9-10 weeks away from delivery. (Pretty sure that I’ll deliver early again). I can’t help but feel like we have so much to do and buy even before this baby comes into the world. We can’t even come up with a for sure name…think we have our 1st but no middle.
Cut for length~ rest is about my cleaning / nesting and anxiety issues!
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