Day 229

There was a heat advisory today, until I think 10pm. Grossss! We were invited to a birthday party for a little girl of one of Steven's coworkers. He told Steven to bring the kids' swim suits because there would be a big inflatable slide... an outside party. Ugh! I decided to skip it. Didn't sound fun to this pregnant girl, at all.

 

I ate junk food, watched a movie and pampered myself.

It'll be the last time for awhile!

 

I was so glad to not be out in the heat, Steven said it was miserable. But he had fun because the kids did.

 

 

Day 228

Rachel starts her second year of college on Monday and the baby's coming soon, so my mom invited Rian and I to a girl's lunch. She chose Chinese, yum! I made sure to pick something spicy in hopes it'd put me into labor! I knew it wouldn't.

Leftovers as soon as we got home!

Day 227

 

I was doing laundry and noticed my belly button shadow on the wall, it made me laugh!

Day 226 (37 weeks pregnant)

Seriously. How in the world is my pregnancy about to end?! Full-term today.

Nothing new to report. I haven't even really been having any BH contractions. Like none at all. How boring! Just the usual pain and pressure.

 

My three baby bellies

 

This baby gets hiccups waaaay more than AJ and Rian ever did. At least twice a day. S/he also hurts me way more than they did. There's constantly a little round thing, I'm guessing a heel, bulging out of my right side. It hurts!

 

I'm certain I'll go an extra week. But for now, I'm just focusing on my due date, 21 days away. When the 4th comes, then I'll think about those extra days. Three weeks is such a small amount of time! Thinking about having four weeks left feels so much longer, even though it's not really.

 

I'm so ready, but I'm so not. So many mixed emotions.

 

One more week until my first baby turns FIVE!

Day 225

My boy is loving school, which I expected. Last night he asked if he had school tomorrow and when I said yes, he said "Yay!" Love his easy going personality. I see other little kids crying and it's so sad. :( I'm already nervous about putting Rian in preschool next year, she's going to be the difficult one.

When I picked him up, he said "Can I do my homework today?!" so excited! We get the packets on Monday and on the first page it says which section to do on each day. Steven asked him what his favorite part of school is and he said eating. :)

He loves telling me which color shirt he wants to wear and picking his socks for the next day. Just like preschool, he loves looking cool for school.

I didn't take a picture today, so I was curious to see what we were up to, on this day, on my first 365 blog. I didn't start it in January like I did this one. I started it the day after AJ turned two, so August 22, 2010.

August 13, 2011

 

We were in San Diego! We went there in between Steven and AJ's birthdays to celebrate and took the kids to the zoo. This picture was the very first thing we did after we checked in our hotel, stopped at the beach. It was chilly, so we didn't put our bathing suits on, the kids ended up wet anyway! Guess I should've known that kids can't resist water, no matter how cold it is! Even though we both remember what a crybaby Rian was that whole trip, it was still so fun! And I really can't believe that it was two years ago. Crazy.

Day 224 (AJ's first day of Kindergarten!)

Today was the big day! Seven hours without my baby. :( He was extremely excited!

Our first day of school must-have picture!

On his first day of preschool, I also wrote what he wanted to be when he grew up, he said Policeman. I asked today too, but I wrote it on the back instead. He said construction worker. I also take the same picture on the last day of school, minus the future job written down. Fun to do the comparisons!

We also all had to get a picture with the school boy:

Brother and sister

My beautiful boy.

My guys.

Our baby.

We got there pretty early, construction is still going on, but it wasn't bad at all this morning. Thank God! So we got there pretty early. We watched him play until the bell rang. Aiden was on the swings when it rang and he started looking around at all the kids running to their classrooms. Steven had me cracking up, saying AJ probably had no idea what was going on! Everybody was running for their lives so he did the same. :) 

The spot he chose at open house.

His teacher had all of us parents come into the room and she read the kids a book, "The Kissing Hand." Then we all kissed each others hands. So if either of us gets lonely, we can put our hand to our cheek. I was doing so well, then she had our kids give us a piece of paper with a tissue attached.

 I made the mistake of starting to read it before we left and I started crying. Really hard. I told Steven I needed to go and he said, "Just put your sunglasses on." By then it was time to say bye. All of the other parents from around the school were already gone, the only ones walking out were the us with the red paper, with the poem on it. It was so sweet of her to do something like that for us. I like her so much already!

Steven and Rian ran a couple of errands after we got home, I felt lonely. :( Happy that Mondays are early out though! AJ took awhile to want to tell us about his day, he kept saying it was secret. He was the same way when he started preschool, he'd start talking about his day around dinner time. 

Day 223

We have two books about Kindergarten that we've been reading all week, per Aiden's request. "Look out Kindergarten, Here I come!" and "The Night Before Kindergarten."

He is SO excited! I feel "ehhhh" about the whole thing. Part of me is excited, but more of me is just plain scared. These school years go by sooo fast. So many changes, so soon. But I pray that he continues to excel and shine and is the best student and friend.

We laid his clothes out, he chose to wear a blue shirt for his first day and picked his socks. He loves his socks! His blue uniform shirts are huge, so he'll wear them tucked in and I got him a red belt, since those are the school colors.

I can't believe I'm officially the Mom of a school-aged kid.

PS- Five years ago today was Aiden's due date. I'm sending my four-year-old to Kindergarten. For some reason, that makes it seem even more sad. He seems so little!