my last 5 status updates

I enjoy reading other peoples blogs. I have a list (my "check it out-list" to the right) that I check every day, sometimes several times a day to see if someone updated their blog. Some people don't update their blogs very often. Not nice, when people like me are eagerly waiting to read what's going on. =) So I figured I should try to avoid becoming one of the bloggers who rarely blog. But I haven't had something I really felt like blogging about in a few days. So I decided to blog about my last 5 status updates from FB.

PB & B for lunch today

One of the few things I actually enjoy about pregnancy is that I can eat PB without breaking out as much as I do when I'm not pregnant. This day we made Peanut butter banana sandwiches, yum!

pool day turned into fort day

I had planned to go in the pool with E, but the rain made me change those plans. We made a fort instead, which E played in for about 10 minutes. I just took it down b/c she hasn't shown any interest in it since.

is eating crushed ice

Drinking water makes me nauseous. Not good since you have to drink a lot of water when pregnant. So I am eating a lot of ice.

E just started skipping. So cute!

It is very cute to watch her skip. It is not so cute to hear "mamma try stip". Skipping is not for pregnant people. She disagrees.

heading out to by some pool toys

Well, not much to say about this one. We bought some pool toys.

Waiting

I'm waiting for E to finish her frozen gogurt and then we're heading out to Toys R Us to buy some pool toys. Fun! We also have to stop by the grocery store to pick up a few things. Less fun, but I'm sure we will appreciate the A/C today.

Sometime soon I will have to dig through the basement to try to find my preggers clothes. Not that I need them just yet. Right now I don't look pregnant. I'm in that awful fat stage. Everything is tight and uncomfortable. And it doesn't look to pretty either...

Well, it's time to leave. The gogurt melted and E came over to me, leaving a trail of yogurt on the carpet, asking for help and putting her yogurt covered hands all over my pants. Let's hope the baby wipes can take care of that mess b/c I don't have many pants that fit...

who needs a vacuum?

For about 10 minutes now E has been asking me for things to throw out in the garbage. When I couldn't find anything else I showed her all the little things on the carpet (it needs to be vacuumed) and she is now sitting down, picking at the carpet like a monkey looking for fleas, just so she can push the garbage "button" and throw something out.

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Shower

I went to a bridal shower in S yesterday. I left 45 min. before it started, thinking that would be plenty of time. Well, it wasn't. The main road was closed off due to a parade, no detour signs, there was a festival going on so tons of cars. My plan was to find a parking spot near the restaurant since I had a pretty big load of presents for the bride-to-be and for her sister-in-law who just had a baby. Well, I realized that it wasn't about finding a parking spot close by. It was about finding a parking spot. I actually found one in the second parking lot I tried. A car was leaving as we pulled in. I had no idea where we were, but it turned out to be not to far away from the restaurant. God is good! I loaded the stroller full with gifts and bags, the diaper bag didn't fit so I had to carry that. I put a monkey harness on E and we started walking. On our way to the restaurant we passed the bride-to-be. Oh, no! It said on the invitation that the shower was a surprise. I looked away, hoping she wouldn't recognize me and then I called her mom saying I might have blown the surprise. Luckily she already knew about it. And when we got to the restaurant she said, I thought it was you.
Ella did really good. She cried twice. Once b/c she fell and once b/c I tried to put her in a high chair when she was perfectly happy in my lap. Other than that she did fine and was really cute in her new dress.
I left the party early, but later than I had planned, 10 minutes after E's naptime. And as we left the parade ended so we had to fight all the people walking and traffic leaving at the same time as us. It took a while to get home. E got her milk and then she fell asleep. I went out to the pool to walk aroud in it as it was filling up. There's a lot more to say about that pool. But that's a story for another time.

*sigh*

I am a little bit frustrated right now that something I thought wouldn't be a big deal might be a big deal after all. And it really shouldn't be. And now I'm gonna feel awkward about it and probably lose sleep over it.

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I couldn't stop nibbling on the leftovers tonight. I really like oven roasted veggies. Yum! I can't wait for lunch tomorrow...

We visited dad yesterday. E smelled all the flowers. We had pizza (can't wait for kebabpizza in three months) and we went for a walk. E rode her tricycle, but her tires got dirty from the dirt on the ground and she flipped out. And today she flipped out b/c her pantlegs wern't down all the way and she was stuck in her carseat so she couldn't correct them. And when she was throwing a ball with dad yesterday she stopped everytime she got the ball to clean it off. When she puts away her pacifier after naptime she always puts it on top of a small jar in a basket and the basket has to go back in the right spot. Can you say OCD? Where did she get that from?

Well, it's time for milk and bath and bedtime.

Jag Älskar Sverige!!!!

Happy "6th of June", Sweden!

If you want to see my beautiful Sweden... just click.

phone problems and more

My cellphone stopped working today. I could hear everyone just fine, but they could not hear me at all. So I went to Verizon and they gave me a new phone. They transferred my contacts and my pictures and videos were saved on my memory card. But I forgot to save my sounds there and I had a recording of E saying 'mamma' as my ringtone and it didn't transfer. Boohoo! Well, I wanted it back so I tried to get E to say it again. It's really hard to get her to say it right on time though. I kept getting "....ma". Finally I got it, and I also got her to say 'daddy' so I saved that as a special ringtone for when C calls. Maybe I will tackle other names after her nap.

After we were done at Verizon we walked over to Kmart and E got to ride on some coin operated horses. At first they didn't work and as I was calling the number on the coin box an old man came over and unplugged his machine and plugged the ride back in. That's why it wasn't working! So I hung up. Good thing b/c I was getting pretty annoyed with the option menu.

I felt really good this morning b/c I dusted and vacuumed everywhere and was done by 10am. But right now I feel lazy again. I should prepare dinner, but I might take a nap instead. I am normally not a nap person, but last night was a really late night. C and H were working on electrical stuff upstairs. Their goal was to be done by 9pm. At 10pm C told me he'd be done by 10:30. He came back down at 11:21. And then he had to treat his poison ivy and prepare for the morning. And I have a hard time falling asleep w/o him. So I'm tired today!

A little while ago M knocked on our door and borrowed my handmixer. I like our new tenants! Yesterday I got my allegy shots and then I went grocery shopping. I got a cart that kept turning to the right so it was really hard to stear. Not good when you just had a bunch of stuff you're allergic to injected in your arms. They were hurting so bad. When I got home M came home at the same time and he helped me carry my bags. So nice of him!

I am smarter... ;-)

This is an update to my previous post...

Yes, I was pretty upset when I wrote it, as you probably can tell from the title. But it did feel good to write it (and I didn't say it to her). I didn't want to waste the apple, so I washed off any PB she missed, cut it up into chunks and made apple sauce. When she woke up I served it as her pm snack. Did she eat it? No! So I gave her some crackers and told her that the apple sauce was dip. Did she eat it? Of course. My kid eats anything as long as you say dip!

Eat your freakin' apple!!!!!!!!!

I meant to sit down and write about a couple of cute things E did yesterday, but I'm pretty frustrated with her right now so I will vent first and then I might write about yesterday.

A few minutes ago E tried to open the fridge, saying "apple, apple". I took out an apple and asked if she wanted it. She said yes. I asked if she wanted me to peel it. She said yes. I asked if she wanted me to cut it into wedges. She said yes. When I handed her the wedges she said NOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Sigh! I asked if she wanted dip. She said yes. I gave her some PB and she licked it all up, ate no apples and is now sitting in her chair saying "all done". So frustrating!

I still don't feel like writing about the cute stuff from yesterday. But I'm going to anyways (b/c that way she can sit in her chair until I'm done. Very mature of me, right? ;) )

Every time we go outside E always brings me my shoes. She normally grabs the ones I use the most, or had on last time we went out, asks me if I want them or another pair and hands me what I want. So nice of her. Yesterday I had on a pair of gray pants. She grabs my brown flip flops (that I wear a lot) looks over at me as if to check out what I'm wearing, puts them back and reaches for a black pair (that I rarely use) and comes over with them. Did she know they would match?

When we got back she asked for milk. As I was preparing it (she will only drink it warm with a hint of chocolate) I heard her saying "städa" over and over again. (It means 'cleaning up'.) I walked into the playroom and she was picking up every toy, putting it back where it belongs. I didn't even ask her to do it. So sweet!

Ok, I guess I have to wipe of the PB she smeared all over and let her down. Even though she still didn't touch her apples. Hrmph!