My back hurts

Today I would like to write a post about a muscle. This muscle is called the erector spinea and it is located in your back, and it runs from your upper spine to your pelvis and goes right over your kidneys. This muscle does not like it when the human body is pregnant. It does not like being pushed on and it especially does not like it when you sleep because the baby puts too much pressure on it and decides to make you feel like your kidneys are going to explode. You can't breath or turn your back or walk or sit comfortably. This muscle is a huge pain in the........back. This muscle only likes to make itself known when there is a baby pushing on it, other than that, it is an invisible, painless part of your anatomy that helps you bend your back. This muscle is also impossible to reach, it is hidden under layers of tissues and thick muscle, including your latisimus dorsi and your thoracolumbar apparnurosis, making it an impossible task to try and relieve any discomfort you have. So it leaves you stuck, it pain and wishing you were dead at times. :) Oh how I've missed this muscle and am so happy it has made its triumphant return into my life and will not leave until the baby exits my body. I look forward to spending time with this muscle, especially at 3:23 in the morning.

sometimes you get a payoff

I try and teach my children good manners. Like saying please, thank you, may I, etc. Today it was so cute. We were sitting at the table eating dinner and Davis was throwing a fit about eating his food. He threw his fork across the kitchen and was then black listed. We were waiting for him to settle down and stop crying. Once he did, he asked Rylie to get his fork for him and said "Ryree, you get my fork?" and she said "I'm waiting for you to say please" so he said please and she said "Of course I would love to get your fork for you when you ask so nicely!" She sounded just like me. Then Davis said "I try harder not to throw my fork." (I always make them say they will try harder to work on what ever the issue it is at that moment.) Then he says "only throw bakseball." (thats how he says basketball) I busted up laughing. The whole conversation was so cute and rewarding. I love when Rylie tries to teach Davis what he's suppose to do, it makes me feel like she is actually learning things from me. And now I'm listening to them in the bath saying "don't bite me!" and "that's MY necklace, give it to me NOW!!!" It's a long learning process.....

Hospital visit

Today I had a nice little scare. I have been having heart issues with this pregnancy and the other day I almost passed out for no apparent reason and thought it would be a good idea to call my nurse and let her know about it. She asked me all about the heart flutters I've been having and I told her they have been getting worse. She said I needed to go in for an emergency EKG. So I went over to the hospital right away and had all these wires hooked up to me and had some blood taken. I have to wait until tomorrow to hear the results but I have a feeling it's not going to be good. My phone for some reason won't take incoming calls because of some problem with T-mobile and I'm so frustrated about it. They don't know how long it will take to fix and so I have to wait for them. I think this calls for yet another angry call to T-mobile demanding a free cell phone!! To bad all their customer service lines are down too! Convenient!! So I'm all flustered about it. I'm sure everything will be okay with my health, but I don't like having any problems especially when your preggers.

unemployed

I have some mixed feelings about what happened today. I got laid off again from my job doing massage for APX alarms. The girl I was working for doesn't need me anymore because her husband got laid off and now she needs to work all the hours she can. The company only allows a certain amount of hours each week and we were splitting them up. So now she needs all of them. I am kinda relived, kinda bummed. I have been having a hard time going into work and giving other people massages when I felt so yucky. But it was a good break from the kids and my house. And I got paid pretty good. That money was suppose to be our Christmas money....I guess we'll have to find another way. :) And I went in on Saturdays which is really our only day to spend together as a family and now we can try to do some fun things together. And its not like I can really work for very much longer anyway. I just liked having the consistant check and break from everything. Oh well. What can you do? I still do massages out of my house so come on over!!

Halloween festivities

Every Saturday morning we have pancake day and make pancakes for the kids. They love the tradition and so since Halloween fell on a Saturday this year we made special spooky pancakes for them. They were a hit!

This is the little cowboy family. Michael and Davis are cowboys, Rylie is a cowgirl......and I am the pregnant cow. My mom made Rylie's costume. I think we look pretty good!

Jack Sparrow made an appearance at our trunk or treat. Davis was terrified of him.

With grandma at the trunk or treat

Strike a cow pose. I look so ridiculous.

Giddy up!!

The kids had a blast at the trunk or treat. And on Halloween night we made potato corn chowder, it's our tradition, and had my mom and sisters and neighbors there. After some fierce Wii games, we took the kids trick or treating in a really rich neighborhood and got lots of big candy bars. We then put the kids to bed and finished off the evening with a scary movie at our neighbors house. I have been having a hard week this week with kids cuz they have been so sick with colds and it finally all caught up to me last night, I was fading fast and now have a full blown cold/flu. As if my body wasn't working hard enough.

more family pics

We went out Halloween morning and took some more shots with our neighbors. The sun was shining bright so it was hard to get any good lighting but some of them turned out cute.

Carving

I love carving pumpkins! It's a work out for your arm but worth it when you see the outcome. This year we added a new pumpkin to mix, its a tummy pumpkin.

Can you tell which ones are the real pumpkins? :)