I don’t think my daughter is going to be pregnant much longer. She is having all the signs of this baby coming soon. She lost her mucus plug about a week ago , she is carrying much lower all of a sudden, her lower back hurts so bad it brings her to tears and has been keeping her up at night the past couple of days. The big sign to me is that I called her about 10:00pm last night and she was scrubbing her tub. From my experience the only time a woman scrubs her bath tub at 10:00pm is when she about to go into labor.
It would be kind of fun to have a 4Th of July baby, if not she sees the doctor tomorrow afternoon, I hope she has news for us.

20 years ago today I became a mother.
I was only 17 years old and scared to death.
I had no idea how much that tiny little baby was about to change me and my whole life.

I sure did a lot of learning along the way!
Many mistakes were made over the years and some pretty hard times were had but never, ever was there a lack of love.

For a lot of years Bethany and I were a team that had to grow up together.
I used to feel guilty about that, like I robbed her of having a real mom when she was young.
But now, I realize that those years help create the very special bond that we have today and I wouldn’t trade that for the world.

Happy Birthday to my beautiful daughter, who I truly enjoy spending time with. We still make one great team.

Our weekend at Cedar Point with the kids was a blast.
Way too many pics on Flickr.

Last evening we enjoyed some birthday cake that Allison helped mix herself the night before, her best friend Emily came over and after dinner she opened a couple of birthday gifts. A box of floam, a swimming toy turtle for her pool and a Nintendo DS game. It was a nice low key birthday.

She has no idea that we are surprising her and my nephew with a trip to Cedar Point tomorrow. Both have never been there. As long as the weather is nice, and so far the weather man says it will be, we plan on staying late enough to catch the fireworks before heading to our hotel.
I just hope they both really enjoy it. I know we will enjoy taking them.

Guess

who

turns

eight

today?

Happy Birthday Allison!
I can’t believe my sweet little girl is a whole eight years old already.
I have tacos and birthday cake planned for tonight, her choice for her special day.

Eight years ago this week, my husband became a father.

And just as I suspected back then, he is amazing at it !

Happy Father’s Day!

The shower -
Besides a few complaints with the restaurant management, like not telling me that I needed to bring my own cake plates and them really over booking the place, every thing went very well. It was just so nice that so many people (55) took the time out of their weekend to come and celebrate with us. I know my daughter felt a bit over whelmed, I caught her tearing up more then once. We are so very blessed with wonderful family and friends in our life.

Appointment-
Every thing looks real good and still no boy parts were spotted. So that’s a relief. I know there is only like a 1 or 2% of the baby coming out a boy but you know, some one has to be that percent, even it is a small.  I am glad we don’t have much longer to wait, I really want to meet this little girl already.

Allison-
I can not believe my little girl is done with second grade already. Over the past couple of days we have changed her name from Allison to “The third grader” when referring to her. Time is going going by way too fast.
Her dad and decided to sign her back up for horse back riding now that she is a little bit older.  She starts July 11Th and is counting down the days.

The starter Wife -
Very disappointing! I had such high hopes for it but I am just not digging it.

But what I am digging is Army Wives, on Lifetime. Two episodes in and really liking it.

I am taking Bethany to her doctors appointment this evening that includes another ultra sound.
Now that we have a house full of pink baby items, I am praying it’s still a girl.

I posted some baby shower pics on Flickr.

I think I need a nice bottle of wine, a warm bath and about twenty hours of sleep to recoup from this weekend.

This weekend is all about the baby, my granddaughter and getting ready for her.
Yesterday, was our birthing class where I played the role of “father” and some times “coach”. Nine cute lovey dovey couples and us. I tried to do everything the other dad’s were doing like rubbing her lower back and squeezing her hand from time to time.
The class was from 8:00am to 4:30pm, it was a long day but well worth it. Even after having two kids already I learned a few new things and I know it was very good for my daughter. You should have seen her face during the birthing video. Wow.
We also went on a tour of the delivery rooms and nursery. The rooms are beautiful and they have everything we could need. Amazing how things have changed over twenty years. Even over eight years things have really improved.
We left with all of her questions answered and feeling really good about things. I am so glad I signed us up.

Today, the baby shower!

The best part of being on vacation for a whole week has been walking Allison to and from the bus stop. I forgot how much I really enjoy being home for her during the day.
I just wish it didn’t go by so darn fast.

Allison came home from school early yesterday with an ear ache. So, I spent most of my evening sitting in the urgent care waiting room surrounded by coughing, sneezing and whining kids and trying not to breathe in hopes of staying well. Turns out my girl has an infection in both ears. She is on two meds and will be on the couch and cartooning it for the next day or two.