Preggo Stats

Lu and I went to see the midwife on Wednesday. Lu got to hear the heartbeat...but he was much more excited about opening the trash can lid with the foot lever for the nurses and the midwife. He was very helpful. I've gained 3lbs so far. I don't remember how much I had gained with Lu at this time. Maybe I wrote it down somewhere...probably not. I'm just glad that my sugar levels were OK. A little mouse has gotten into the Halloween candy over here ;) I noticed today that I've already gone through almost one whole bag of peanut butter cups. Oops. I think Tom finally understands why you don't buy candy until Halloween day.

I also got my blood drawn for the quad screen. Lu promptly got in the seat after me. Hoping to get a needle in his arm too? He did do really well when he got his blood taken a couple of weeks ago...hmmmm....I better keep an eye on that.
My big ultrasound is scheduled for Nov. 18th. Man, they book up fast! That was the first appointment they had available.

The rest of Domestic Wednesday (that's what I'm calling it) included a trip to the post office, Target, the store inside Target with the hot chocolate and donuts (that was all Lu, I swear. Although, I was hoping that he'd nicely ask for it.), and Lowe's to buy the paint for the nursery. Yes, that's right. I'm painting a nursery! I have to admit that I'm feeling a little guilty the second time around. Lu didn't have a nursery or really much of anything at all...this baby will have a whole house! I'm just glad that babies don't really care about matching decor, toys, and fancy equipment. However, every time I talk about painting the baby's room Lu has to chime in "paint my room too!?". Of course, little man! I let him pick out his paint colors at the store and he always seems to gravitate toward fuscia and pink. I think I'm going to go with classic blue. But first we need to take down that god awful paneling.

Oh, and Lucius is now into buying toys at the store. He's been asking to go to the toy store (not sure what store that is) and when we're in Target he starts showing me all of the toys he wants me to buy. I've already started talking about Christmas and making a list of toys for Santa to bring.

"I want dis hebacopter."
"No Lucius, you can't have it."
"Why Mommy? I want it."
"No Lucius, put it back."
"Why Mommy?"
"I don't have any money for toys. Do you have any money?"
"No"
"You need money to buy toys. So no money, no toys."

Of course now Lucius asks for money every chance he gets. If he finds some change lying around he immediately puts it in his pocket.

Halloween Party

We went to a Halloween party over the weekend and I got to display my craftiness. I can't tell you how proud I am of Tom's costume. What an accomplishment for me! I'm putting that on the resume.

Any guesses as to who we are?






So the vast majority of the fellow party goers had no clue who we were. I'm pretty sure most thought that I was a party pooper and not even dressed up. Ok, I admit that's how I normally look most days -- minus the weird hairstyle.



Oh, and that's not a prosthetic belly that I'm wearing. That's the real deal. Yes, I'm huge for only being 4 months. I'm nervous as to how big I'm going to be by the end of this pregnancy. Tom is REALLY nervous. He thinks that I might pop.

Here's my precious astronaut. Sorry, I mean "super astronaut".


I guess that astronauts don't wear clothes under their spacesuits? At least this one refused to. Then he decided to strip down in the middle of the party.


Once it hit bedtime the kids got to watch a movie in Miss Bonnie and Mr. DJ's room...and eat cookies on their bed! Then Lu went to sleep in Drew's room while the other boys chatted away. Poor Lu is going to be the party pooper at sleepovers...just like his Mommy. Every time the parents would go up to tell the other two to be quiet they would report that Lu was snoring away on the floor.


We had a great time, per usual. I actually made it until 1am when I told Tom that it was time to go. At least Lucius slept until 7am the next morning. I was a little worried since we had to wake him up to get him in the car and back into his bed.

He doesn't shut up.

That's what my Mom told me after she babysat Lu for the weekend while Tom and I were at a wedding. It's true though. From the moment he wakes up in the morning until he falls asleep at night Lu is a little chatterbox.

"Wake up Mommy, go downstairs, watch cartoons"
"Just be patient Mommy" ( I get that one a lot)
"Lucius have some candy please please please?" (with sweetest evilest grin that you can imagine)
"I go new daycare, play my new friends, eat lunch, take nap, Daddy pick up, go home, eat dinner, watch cartoon, go to bed" (that's what you'll get if you ask him his plans for the day)
If you ask him about daycare he'll now give more details "I play with tow truck, car wash, go up ramp, crash...*** said 'no mines', **** said 'get out of my way'"

"I have two cookies, sound good Mommy?" (um, no)
"No five, I want five dems" (if you ask him how many he wants, the answer is always 5)
"I say halloween, trick or treating, thank you" (if you ask him what he's supposed to do on Halloween)
"Ichabod bite my arm" (doesn't surprise me)
"Daddy be sooooo happy" (when we bought two packages of batteries at the store)

Oh, and speaking of Ichabod...I think he's the one that wakes up Lu at 5am!! That damn cat. Last night I went into Lu's room at 10p to shut off his light (he's supposed to shut it off himself when he's ready to go to sleep, but it never seems to happen) anyhoo, I found both Tacit and Ichabod curled up on his bed. I thought it was cute until Tom mentioned that maybe it's the cats that wake him up so early. Sure enough, this morning Ichabod was banging on our door at 5 am (yes, he actually bangs on our door). I could hear him running from Lu's room back to our room trying to get someone up.

Oh, Lu's also a healthy eater. And by healthy I mean that he eats a lot. Mr. Mark at daycare commented on the fact that after he gives the boys lunch, he'll turn his back for second and Lucius will be done already. What can I say. He's a Sledjeski-Dinzeo...that there's some eatin' genes.

My America

I know, I know, I need to update the blog. I promise I'll do it within the next two months...anyhoo, I just had to post this youtube video from a friend of ours. Tom grew up with Mischa -- the lead singer of Mighty Fairly. They just posted this video and I must say "job well done!". Thought I would share...

When Mom and Dad are away....

Tom and I spent some time in Rhode Island last weekend for a wedding (it was great!). Sitty and Jagee came up to watch Lucius for us and in our rush to get out of the door I didn't really tell them any of the "rules"...over even where the diapers were for that matter. I guess that's what you get when you take on too much work and not enough daycare.
Anyhoo, these are the pictures I saw when we got back. Oh, how grandparents love to spoil. But seriously, I'm so glad that Lu gets to spend time with his grandparents. He truly loves it.

Starting the day with a healthy breakfast from the Amish Market.


Washing it down with a vitamin enriched drink.


Burning off all of that "energy". Hmmmm, who's watching Lu to make sure that he doesn't fall? Oh, there's Sitty, waaayyyy in the distance.