BLASTED TECHNOLOGY!!!

So, we recently got a new laptop after Kalvin decided our other one needed a milk bath.....

We are now running Windows 7... yipee.  Well, we have an old desktop downstairs that is running Windows XP.  It has a HP photosmart printer connected to it.   Now, before I get into the nitty gritty let me say with the old laptop running Vista, I ALWAYS had problems setting up a home network.

So we get this new laptop, and I say, OK, lets at least make an attempt to set up the home network.  To my surprise, I go thru the steps, and BOOM 5 min later I am viewing shared folders and files from the desktop AND printing wirelessly from laptop to desktop.  NO problems AT ALL.  How weird.... especially given that technology is NEVER that nice to me.

Well, SPOKE TOO SOON.  We have had the laptop... what... one week? 2?  Thursday I used it to wirelessly print a document we needed for our taxes and it worked JUST fine.  Today I go to print some pictures..............

NOTHING.

So I look at the printer settings and the printer is "offline" according to the laptop.  I look at my network.  the Desktop NO LONGER IS AVAILABLE.   When I looked at the desktop, the printer is online and "shared" so the problem is with the laptop I am guessing but I dont get why............ SIGH.

Troubleshoot after troubleshoot and I STILL do not understand what could have gone wrong........ :/

Well.  I am gonna share the pics of all my lovely shower gifts on my blog, just for the fun of it.  I took pics of them and was gonna print them out just for a memory of all the gifts.... Id do it directly from the desktop but the damn thing is old and slow!!!

monkeys and giraffes!

my lil princess bedset! 

beautiful homemade blanket by Grandma Eleanor and burp cloths!

lots of cute sleepers and pack of onesies!

cute sleepers, diapers and wipes!

lots of cute girlie clothes and a big bro shirt for Kal!!!

a ton of baby stuff!  travel bed, travel chair, cozy for carseat, clothes galore and a memory calendar!

Adorable dresses, socks and a Kohls card!

more sleepers and onsies!  oh and more diapers!

monkeys, bath set, onsies and socks!

diapers, baby soap (the green is supposed to help when they have colds! ) a teether/brush! binky and gift card!

I have it all down who bought what, but didnt write it in here!

Oh well... gonna wrap this up and find food.  HUNGRY!!!

Household Chores.... BLAH!

I am sitting here, as I lazily ordered Dominoes Pizza for mine and Kals lunch today....(hey I was craving some of that yummy goodness,  in need of new stocking up on groceries again, and Greg did just get paid after all!  oh and its raining so without a vehicle I cant get anywhere without getting RAINED on!)

Ok I just rambled on a bit much didn't I?  Anyway, I sit here, full stomach and watching Kal slowly eat the ONE slice I gave him (as I already scarfed down the rest of that small pizza.... oops.... lol.)  Spongebob is on the TV, and I am staring down a huge mess that I SOOOO want to clean up mentally, but physically I can feel my body shutting down going NO NO NO! I didn't sleep well last night and therefore could REALLY use a nap instead!

Well, a lot of the mess is Kalvin's toys and stuff like that.... I am wondering, should I be teaching him to clean these up already?  At daycare it was a feat sometimes to get them to clean, but with alot of patience and a cleanup song eventually it did get cleaned up, and I worked in the 2s class.....

My father in law mentioned kids chores and receiving money for doing them yesterday, just in random conversation.... my question is he at a good age to start that?  even if the only "chore" I give him is cleaning his toys?  He is getting to that stage where he is constantly wanting candy and stuff at the store, so maybe giving him a quarter each day that he cleans up his toys would be a good thing?  Or is he too young to put the monetary thing to the chore of picking up his toys?

I am a child development major and I feel like I should know these things but I do not... lol.  At first, my first thought in my head was, he is too young for chores and an allowance!  But then I started thinking... he will randomly wake up from a nap or something and cry and demand to go for a walk to the store for "candy'.  Some days I just do not really have money to buy him candy and he doesn't seem to understand that.  So maybe this would be a good thing to start teaching him?  Will he grasp that concept at this age?  I don't know..... how do you moms get your kids to pick up after themselves?  just sing that annoying clean up song? or do you do something else?

Randomness

I dont know what it is about today but I am absolutely irritable.  Maybe its because Ive never experienced this "37 week pregnant" thing before or something.  Maybe its cuz I feel GIGANTIC and people make sure to inform me of that lately.  Maybe its because it literally feels like I have an Alien trying to break out of my stomach now when she moves!!  Whatever it is, it seems like everything sends me into a tizzy....

One thing that has particularly annoyed the hell out of me lately is talking to people I either only know casually or people I just met, and I get the stupid annoying "old wives tale comments".  Such comments as second guessing my 3 separate ultrasounds with 3 separate technicians that have identified GIRL parts, simply because I am "only carrying in the front"  God forbid, I was supposed to blow up like a balloon EVERYWHERE if I was having a girl right?  Never in your life would you think that genetically maybe I just carry my babies that way?  In general Ive said before that I hate when people overly comment on how skinny I am when I am NOT pregnant, but the fact that I only gained the weight in my stomach for both of my pregnancies might simply be because I have a high metabolism naturally and dont gain much weight normally.  But you know olds wives tales are so much more true than real pictures of the baby that trained professionals look at and can SEE and IDENTIFY body parts right???

Kal has been extra whiny and demanding lately too.  we went for a walk.  He wanted to go get something at the BP but I was headed to the WalGreens because we needed milk and the BP is literally just a "snack convienence store".  Then, on the other side of Eastern Ave (a pretty busy highway for those that dont live here) he sees the Burger King and wants to go there.  Well 1) not alot of money 2) not easy to get across that street from where we were, and I told him we cant go there today that we are gonna have mac and cheese for lunch today.  Crying again, we get to the WalGreens and he sees lolypops, and i told him that we could get one of those but on the way out, he still cried for a lil while, then he wanted gum drops instead but i got  him to get the lolypop in the end.  So on our walk home.... he sees the BK again.  and crying ensues AGAIN.  He  stops after a while but once we got to the door MORE crying ensued that he didnt want to go home that he watned BK... so I sat on the stoop while he cried about it.  Finally he said "i gotta pee" and BK was somehow forgotten about as we ran into the door to pee in the potty and when he was done he asked for "Spongebob" and wanted hot cocoa.... lol.....

Another thing.  I swear my mom doesnt want me to name the baby Chloe.  She continues to suggest other names... do you like THIS name? how about THIS name?  and decided to tell me that my grandfathers (dads side) response to my name choice was "WHATEVER" .

REALLY??  Whatever???  I guess I should have stuck with normal boring names right? Like he and my grandma did?  Idk. And anyway, Chloe is currently ranked #9 in popularity so its not like its some strange name I just MADE up or anything!!  Is is the older generation that doesnt get it because its kind of newer and fresh?  (even tho there IS a Chloe in the bible so its NOT really a new name).    And I am using Isabella for a middle name because I love that name but its just waaaaaaaaaaaaay too popular lately.  Did he "whatever" when I picked Kalvin Ellis for my sons name?  Maybe he did and I didnt know it... anyway I am done... Kal finished eating and I might try to settle him to a nap now....

FULL TERM!!

Looks like Kalvin is ready to be a big brother doesnt it? :) 

Ok, I am officially 37 weeks today!  Which means FULL TERM!!!  :)  I have been overly worried this entire pregnancy about having another preemie, but it looks like I am totally out of the woods with that!!  Especially if she really is the weight they SAY she is based on the ultrasound last week!

Even tho I am extremely ready for her to come now, thanks to my inlaws and hubby she needs to incubate at least ONE more week!  haha!  I am so grateful for the "surprise" baby shower that is coming up, but sadly it means I want to still be pregnant when its going on, so... wait one more week lil Chloe!!

Yes, my shower was initially supposed to be a surprise, but upon talking to Gregs grandma she let the cat out of the bag and ruined the surprise... lol... oh well tho... I am still "surprised" just earlier than they wanted me to fund out... LOL.

So I had the WEIRDEST dream last night.  I dont remember where I was, or what I was doing, but I was sitting down and the baby began to move.  Then she DRAMATICALLY began to move.  Like I saw a whole shape of a leg, foot..... everything extending from my stomach.  Then she started to roll and move.  she INITIALLY was head down, cuz the imprint of her leg was at the top of my stomach near my ribs.... (and according to my ultrasound she already is head down) Then she started to move and her head was to my left side and feet to the right side... and you could see her profile and everything imprinted in my stomach.  NEXT thing you know, I AM looked at her face, LITERALLY.... like dark brown eyes are looking right at me.  and a HAND comes out of my body right below my ribs.  I can remember screaming for my mother to come in right away (not sure why since she lives almost 5 hours from me now!) We called the doctor and the doctor asked if the baby looked fine and we said yea, and then he said is mom ok, and I said yea, so he said just take her the rest of the way out and all would be fine.... we didnt even go to the hospital... HOW ODD.   A baby came out of my abdomen like the movie ALIEN, but I was fine, not bleeding or ANYTHING.  Later in the dream I was carrying around a baby that looked at least 6 months old.....

cant fully see the massiveness of my tummy here... lol

ok that is more like it!

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delirious mornings....

Forgive me, I am blogging at 742am, before my morning cup of coffee, so if I am whining and miserable... thats why... haha

I am blogging this instead of posting a status simply because I can say more in ONE setting...

So Tuesday night I hit the pillow and the next thing I know its 615, the time Greg is crawling out of bed since his schedule was pushed back from 630-3, to 730-4.....  I slept the entire night.  I didnt wake up to pee even.  Didnt hear Gregs alarms.  How did this happen I dont know.  AND I dozed back off for a few after Greg left...

715 came and Kal was awake, and I was Ok with that unlike most mornings... lol I started my day right at 715 and felt good and got a lot done during the day. Now of course I still had a bad evening yesterday but thats a whole different story.

Well today is a WHOLE different ballgame.  I was up every 1-2 hours to pee last night, couldnt easily fall back asleep and had odd dreams the whole night.  Needless to say somehow I still slept through Gregs actual alarms, but when Greg got up to get in the shower... at 615... guess who woke up soon after?? Yep, Kalvin.  AND whiny Kalvin not cheery Kalvin.  It went down like this.  I got up to pee and we have this nightlight in the bathroom so I did not turn any lights on.  Well I guess Greg just got into the shower without using a real light either.  I go back to bed, Kal wakes up to pee and starts to WHINE in the bathroom.  So up I go, and he is whining that he wants the "light on"  I am like no we can see fine with the night light just go pee.... whining ensued but he went pee and he came to lay down with me in my room, but obviously sleep was no longer going to happen.

So I jumped in the shower at 7 when Greg was officially gone off to work, while Kal watched some Spongebob.... laid back down for a few after the shower, but Kal has been bouncing around since....

Ive brewed some coffee, altho I have yet to walk back into the kitchen to pour the cup...

I dont need reminded that my sleep will soon be even more interrupted.... for I AM NO DUMMY and I know that... haha..Its not like I am not a first time mother or anything.... but, can't I at least get some sleep BEFORE she arrives to wipe away whats left??  lol.

The Good, the Bad and the downright UGLY

The Good.

Some of you probably already seen my post last night, but got my ultrasound and lil Chloe Isabella is 7lb 4oz approx.  The technician said she is measuring at a 37 and 4 day mark when really my pregnancy is only a 36 and 1 day at that time.  So nice big healthy baby growing in there!

Of course, YIKES.   Or at least to me YIKES.  Sorry if I sound like a wuss to all those mommies that delivered 9 or more lb babies, but you gotta remember my first experience was a 4lb 34 weeker!  And pushing took some time with him for me.... I am just gonna pray that since my body has done this once before this one will be easier!!!!  lol.  But if born AT the due date, lil Chloe will be TWICE as big as her brother when he was born!!  and therefore I have a bit of a reason to go YIKES!  lol

So the rest of the appointment was to check my dilation and stuff.  Which was basically NONE! lol. I am still closed and only 20-30% effaced, so unless my water breaks again I don't see her coming out in the next week or so either...... lol.  I passed the Strep B test as well (they did that for me on Friday during my random visit)

The Bad.

Well, Yesterday was just a bad day overall for Kalvin.  I dont know what was going on with him but last night he was a MESS.  Coughing and crying and he didnt settle down till Greg decided to sleep next to his bed for a lil while, but then Kal was fine for the rest of the night.. odd.... I thought maybe he was getting sick, hence the coughing, but when I would go in there he wouldnt say ANYTHING.  Just cried and cried in between coughs.  Which is frustrating  and scary when you have a toddler thats almost 3 and has great language skills on a normal basis!!  I couldnt understand why when I asked him if anything hurt and he just cried... :(.  So needless to say, even tho Kal finally fell asleep, my sleep was very light if any all night because I was worried about him.  Also, my 36 weeker thats 7lbs thats still in my belly must have been resting on my bladder again cuz I was peeing alot again....

The Ugly

Well... I am not gonna discuss this in details on my blog, since its public and ANYONE can read it... and I am not sure I want to air this out here, but lets just say I found out some things about someone I know that is downright ugly....... that was also weighing on my mind last night keeping me awake as well......