Don't mess with a pregnant woman!!

So I am quite angry right now! At Jade's school, every January, they do two weeks of ice skating, as part of their PE program. We found this out last year, when we had to scramble to find ice skates, and a CSA approved helmet! In Kindergarten, they actually only did two, forty-five minute skating sessions! This year, since she is in grade one, they are doing four, forty-five minute sessions.

We don't skate. Gairod plays hockey, but I have never been a big skater, and with the triplets, skating hasn't really been a family activity for the past few years!!

I ticks me off that they expect us (the parents) to get stressed out running around trying to find skates and helmets to borrow! Yes, I could buy them, but why?? It's not like Jade is going to be going skating any other time this year, and by next year they will be too small! If they want to do ice skating as part of their PE program, they should provide the equipment. Simple as that!

So I am writing a letter to the school, stating my concerns. A friend of mine sent me a website to a company that some of the elementary schools in Calgary use. It is called Alien In-line. They come out to your school, bring all the equipment, and teach the kids how to in-line skate! I think that it is a wonderful idea!

It's not like I am against ice skating or anything, it's just that not everyone does it, therefore not everyone has the equipment, so I don't think it is fair to expect people to go out of their way to get it!

Some dates to look forward to!

So I went to the doctor today, just to confirm my pregnancy, and set up some appointments!

I have my first prenatal appointment booked for February 23rd, one day before 10 weeks! I hate that you have to wait so long to start prenatal appointments, that's another 5 weeks away!!

The good news is I convinced my doctor to let me go for an early ultrasound to "date" my pregnancy. Well, really, I know EXACTLY when I got pregnant, but I just want to see the heartbeat, and make sure there is only one precious little bean in there! I am doing that on February 5th, so I will be just over 7 weeks.

Other than that, things have been going well. I am quite tired, and have to pee quite frequently, oh and my lower back is very sore, but those are all normal pregnancy symptoms for me! Over the weekend I was feeling very achy, chilled, headache, and my throat has been hurting, so I thought I might have tonsillitis, but the doctor checked today, and he doesn't think it looks too bad. He did take a swab, so if it is positive they will get me on some antibiotics.

Letter to Family

Since I am a little worried about how our families will initially react to our pregnancy news, I have decided to write a letter/poem, that we will mail to them! I think we will wait until after we have an ultrasound, just to make sure that there is only one!! How does this sound??

We want to let you know,
About a gift that's on it's way,
You probably aren't expecting it,
But we've prayed for it every day!

We love our children very much,
They make us feel so alive!
So far we've been blessed with four,
But soon we will have five!

We want you to be happy,
Not angry, or sad at all,
So once you've had time to think about this,
Feel free to give us a call!

Baby #5 edd September 23rd, 2009

I still can't believe it!

I still can't believe I am pregnant!! I walked around the house in a daze yesterday, and got absolutely NOTHING done! lol!

When Gairod got home from work yesterday, I waited until the triplets were in bed, and Jade was in another room, and I said "We NEED to start working on the bedroom in the basement". He was just sitting down on the couch to eat his supper, and I was in the kitchen doing dishes. He said "yeah". So I said, "Did you hear me? We NEED to!" He just kind of looked at me, so I said "Do you want to know WHY we NEED to??" He said "Why?" I said "Because I'm pregnant!!" Right after I said that, his parents came in the door! So our conversation had to be put on hold, since his mom was here to help him with his books. Finally a few hours later she left. Then Gairod said congratulations, and gave me a hug!

It still doesn't feel real! I have wanted this for so long, and now I finally have it! I want to cherish every moment of this pregnancy! My mind is racing, we have so much to do, so much to figure out, and only 8 short months to do it all!! I need to relax, slow down, and take it one step at a time. I am pregnant. I am happy!

OMG!!! I'm Pregnant!!!

I am 11 dpo today, but figured I was probably out for this month. We only had sex ONE time around ovulation (New Years Eve!), and my post-ovulation temps have been pretty flat (you will probably only understand what I am talking about if you chart!). I have a bunch of cheap pregnancy test I bought on-line, so this morning I thought I might as well try one, get a negative, and prepare for my period to come!

Imagine my shock when a faint second line came up!!! Luckily I also had some First Response Early Results tests, so I grabbed one of those, used the same urine sample, and there is was - A beautiful, unmistakable, POSITIVE!!!

I am in shock! I seriously did not think it was going to happen this month, although THIS is the month I WANTED it to happen! I am exactly 4 weeks, due September 23rd. I will finally have a fall baby!! The triplets will be 2 1/2 (in my opinion, the perfect age!). I am so excited! I can't wait to tell Gairod. I will tell him when he gets home from work tonight!

The only thing I am worried about, it telling our families. I am afraid they will think we are crazy, and not be happy. I don't know how or when to tell them. With both my past pregnancies, I have told everyone the day I found out! lol! I want to wait a little longer with this one, maybe at 8 weeks? I don't know if I can keep it a secret that long!

****Anyone who I know in 'real life', can you please not say anything to anyone else, or on Facebook? I would like to wait a while before sharing the news! Thanks!*****

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It seems I have kind of been slacking on the blogging lately.........


On Sunday, we went to a birthday party for another set of triplets! Lori (the mom) and I met through TTMAC. We started out emailing each other, and then eventually got together. She is the lady who I scrapbook with every other week! Our triplets due dates were 5 days apart, but she had hers VERY early, at 26 weeks. The difference between her kids and mine was astounding in the beginning, but now you would never know! It is so nice to have a friend who understands everything I go through!

Here are some pictures from the party!

All six little kids eating a snack!

Lori's 3 year old, and Jade!

On the way to the party, Gairod and I started fighting about something (I honesty don't even remember WHAT we were fighting about now!). We were civil at the party, and then continued our fight on the way home (I HATE fighting in front of the kids, and try to tell him we need to continue our argument latter, but he doesn't listen!!) We pretty much didn't talk all evening, and went to bed without saying a word to each other. This morning he got up and went to work without giving me a kiss and saying goodbye. That stung. He is obviously mad, because he ALWAYS says goodbye to me before he leaves. The problem is, I don't even know what he is so mad about?!

He is at volleyball and then hockey tonight, so I probably won't even see him, because I will be in bed when he gets home. I really hope we can sort this out tomorrow. I hate fighting, I just want things back to normal!

On a different note, Jade had to stay home from school today, because she has pinkeye!! Seriously, what is with our family and getting pinkeye?! The doctor figures it is just viral, so she has to stay home for 2 days, and hopefully it will start to clear up and she can go back to school on Wednesday.

Oh! I almost forgot! Today is one weeks since I started my official "eating healthier". I weighed myself this morning, and I am down 4.5 pounds!! YAY! Now I just have to keep going!!

Birthday Party Planning!

Well, believe it or not, I started planning the triplets' birthday party today....................or should I say 'parties'!!

I wasn't really planning on doing much for their birthday this year. They will be 2, and really won't know any different! We did a big party for them at a small hall last year, and had all my extended family, and a few friends. This year I figured we will just order pizza, I'll make cupcakes, and we'll have a casual dinner at home with our parents and siblings. We are still going to do that, but we are having another party as well!

Last weekend we went to a birthday party at a place in Calgary called "Coffee & S'Cream" it is a cafe/play area for parents and kids! It was really neat, and PERFECT for toddlers! There are tons of climbers/slides, ride on/push toys, play houses, and kitchens! So I decided to have a 'friend' birthday party there!

I am very excited now to start planning an organizing! I have a feeling 2 months will go by like nothing!

22 months old!

Well, yesterday the triplets turned 22 months old! That means only 2 more months and they will be 2!!! That scares the #$%@ out of me!! They are growing up WAY too fast :(

Here are their stats:

Kadance - 22lbs, 15ozs - 10th percentile
32 1/4 inches - 25th percentile

Cole - 26lbs, 9ozs - 25th to 50th percentile
33 1/4 inches - 25th to 50th percentile

Hayden - 26lbs, 8ozs - 25th to 50th percentile
32 1/2 inches - 10th to 25th percentile

I can't believe there is only one ounce between Cole and Hayden! There has ALWAYS been a pound between them, except for when they were really little!

So everyone has been in toddler beds since Sunday night. Things are going okay. At the moment they have been playing around for 45 minutes already, and don't even sound close to going to sleep! Nap time seems to be the worst, and it is a pain because if they fall asleep too late, I have to wake them up to go get Jade from school! Hopefully after a week or two they will settle down and just go to sleep!

Toddler Beds - Part 2

Hayden was starting to climb out of his playpen again, so we decided to just bite the bullet and put both the boys in toddler beds! I have been dreading this transition, but I am now realizing that I probably should have just moved all three of them at once! After a week of two of bugging the boys and taking forever to fall asleep, Kadance was nicely settled into her new bed. Now we are starting all over again! Oh well, hopefully after a week or so, everyone will be settled and sleeping nicely in their new beds!

NYE, and 2009 so far!

Wow, I guess it's been a few days since I've posted!

New Years Eve went well, we put the triplets to bed, then Jade, Gairod and I watched a movie. After it was over, Jade went to bed, and we followed shortly after! Yes, we went to bed at 10:30pm on New Years Eve!! Pretty pathetic, but like I said before, I have never been a big fan of NYE, and would much rather get my sleep then stay up to watch the count down!!

January 1st, Gairod got up early and went ice fishing for the day. The kids and I hung around the house, and didn't really do much. When Gairod got home, he, Jade and I watched our 2nd movie (we were supposed to watch it on NYE, but we were too tired!). It was over about 9pm, so Jade went to bed, and then next thing I know Gairod is turning off the TV and all the lights! I said "What are you doing??" he said "Going to bed, I'm tired", I said "It's only 9pm!!!" I was mad because assuming I had ovulated the day before, I wanted to have sex that night as well, just to have all our bases covered! Since Jade was just going to bed, and her bedroom is RIGHT across the hall from ours, we needed to wait until she was asleep! He whined and complained that he was 'so tired' and 'just needed to lay down' and told me to wake him up when I came to bed. So I came to bed at 10pm, and there was no way Gairod was waking up, so needless to say, we didn't end up having sex :(
So now I am not feeling so hopeful for this month. We have one shot - New Years Eve, and that is it! I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

Yesterday, January 3rd, Gairod said he would do something fun with me and the kids! So we went to The Urban Treehouse. It's an indoor play area for little kids. It is VERY expensive ($6 per child), but we got a bunch of passes for Christmas, so I wanted to check it out! It was okay, but I think more geared towards 3-4 year olds. There was a lot of stuff our little ones couldn't do, because they just weren't big enough! After that, we headed into Calgary, to Market Mall! Jade had a couple of books to exchange, and I had a jacket to exchange. We ate lunch at the food court, and were going to take the kids to the play area in the mall, but it was full, and there was an hour and a half wait!! So we went to Children's Place (my addiction!) and got them some new clothes instead!!
We headed home from the mall late afternoon. We dropped Jade off at my parents for a sleepover, and called Gairod's parents to babysit the triplets, so we could go out for dinner! We have a few gift certificates to use up, so we went to Earls! We had a nice meal, then rented a Wii game and came home!

Today Gairod is ice fishing again. The triplets slept in until 9am this morning!! I didn't know what to do with myself! We have just hung around the house today. I put them down for a nap at 1pm, and had big plans of stuff I wanted to get done (take down the Christmas tree, finish organizing their toys) but instead of doing anything, I decided to lay down and have a nap too!

Well, the triplets are awake now, and Jade is on her way home, so I better go try and get something done!