Our pool is up.

Due too water restrictions we can only water, wash our cars, etc on Sundays. So we put the pool up Sunday and filled it. Well I should say Katie and Daddy put the pool up. Jack just got in the way and caused Daddy a little grief. It was cute though, the kids were very excited. Of course they could not get in it till Monday. Knowing that when they looked out the window every 10 minutes and it was still there was worth the wait. The best part about the pool this year is that Katie ans Jack are both tall enough to stand anywhere in the pool. Makes me a little less nervous.
The weather and gas prices have kept us very close to home. I have been taking the kids out side between 7:30 and 9:00 in the morning so they can play and it isn't too dangerous for any of us to be out. At that time it is still already 80 degrees out. For the last week it has been anywhere from 95 to over 100 degrees everyday. Lets not forget the added heat index to make it feel like 105 to 110 degrees. I am not really sure there really is a difference between 100 and 110. If someone knows please let me know. We have just had to be creative and keep the kids in the coolest part of the house.
Jack has been doing very well at school with potty training. Right now we and the school are just working to get him to one accident a week. It's hard being two almost three, and remembering to stop playing to go pee. Most of Jack's accidents happen while he is trying to get on the potty not in the middle of the class room. Which is great he us almost there. Right now for us he is taking his afternoon nap and waking up dry so we have been letting him sleep in his spiderman's. He thinks it is so cool.
Katie is great. We have been working in the driveway with her sidewalk chalk on her abc's and putting the letters together to make words. She is working on writing the letters which is very cute. She will advance to the last room (purple) before kindergarten, sometime this fall and start kindergarten next fall (09). She has been talking about the purple room and the teachers and how much she likes them. She spends a few hours a week in the purple room now. I think like Jack she too is looking for a challenge.
The other day I washed all the tub toys in the washer with some hot water and a little bleach. However proactive I was being, it did not work for Katie too well when her purple Hippo was now PINK with a PURPLE snout. She asked me what happen to them when she got in the tub. I also had one of those fizzy purple salt tablets that fizzed in the water and made it purple. I thought it would be fun for her. But think about it in her 4 year old mind. Mommy made the purple hippo pink, and my bath water purple.........It took me 10 minutes to convince her that I was not going to turn her hair purple when I washed it. LOL
Baby Girl is still keeping me on my toes. The Doctor told me last Thursday that she is still sideways and still needs to move head down. The doctors I think are realizing she will be big. My belly is measuring bigger than the amount of weeks I am. In some cases I have grown out of my maternity clothes. I have gained about 37 lbs so far. I gained 40 lbs each time with Katie and Jack. So it isn't too far off. I am not sure how long I will work carrying this watermelon though. Daddy is having lots of fun with his jokes. Pretty soon he won't be able to joke about and I still weight less than he does.
Anyway, all is well and we are just trying to stay cool. Keep in touch. TTFN

The pool is open

Monday afternoon

For the past two days I had not been feeling well. Late Monday morning I was feeling really bad. I was very short of breath, having weird pains and bad acid reflux. The shortness of breath was really bothering me. I called the Doctor and they told me to go to the emergency room.
When I got to the emergency room they were too nervous to work with a pregnant lady so they sent me to the maternity ward. I was glad to be up there at least I knew they knew to worry about the baby too. I wasn't sure what was wrong but I knew they wouldn't miss anything.
After about four hours of being there all they could tell me was the following.... Little girl was up high, very high because of that I could not catch my breath. She is also either laying sideways or feet down which was causing my discomfort and weird pains. Because of all of these things it also caused my horrible acid reflux. Basically, by the time I left I felt better because I had laid down for a few hours. But there is really nothing anyone can do but let her get moved around into the right position and wait till she is ready to come out.
They are expecting her to be a big baby which also doesn't help. At my last ultrasound they said if they based the due date on what she was measuring they would move the due date up 3 weeks. However they feel that she is in NO danger so we came home. I have a follow up appt Thursday afternoon so we will see what they say. I have at least 7 weeks left before she would be okay. I am due in about 9 weeks.
In the hospital, she was moving around so much they couldn't keep the fetal monitor on her and had to keep adjusting plus she was kicking everything. The one nurse kept calling her a little rascal. It was cute. It brought a little humor to the afternoon. Other that that we are okay and just counting down the days. TTFN