I haven’t seen snow in almost 7 yrs. I woke up this morning to the fluffy white stuff falling from the sky.  It is so great.  We are supposed to get 2-4 inches and I certainly think we will. 

Here is the mini snowman Nicki made earlier this morning.  We have gotten a lot more snow since then.

I have a busy day ahead of me. I feel like I have so much to do and so little time.  My mom and brother will get to my house tomorrow around 7pm or so.  I need to clean the house, do the laundry (washing all the sheets and pillow cases) organize the baby stuff and pack a bag for the hospital.  I need to make sure all the dishes are done and that the house is in order and not cluttered before my family gets here and before I go to the hospital. 

With all the running around I am doing I certainly won’t need a weight loss diet pill.  I just can’t believe on Monday I will no longer be pregnant, EVER AGAIN, I will have to start watching what I eat and work on getting back in shape.  I’m sure my kids will keep me busy enough I won’t have time to snack but I know it will be difficult to get any workouts in. 

We will see how everything works out after I heal from the surgery.

We had our first official visit from a speech therapist.  I had not heard from anyone from the last visit.  The initial “let’s see if you even need our help” visit.  They said they have 30 days from that visit to get the approval to work with us and such and this week or maybe next week would be the 30 days. 

I had not heard anything from anyone until this morning, I received a call from the speech therapist and she said she had a cancellation today at 5pm and wondered if she could come by.  I immediately said yes. 

Lil Tony is just not concerned with talking and it is getting a little frustrating.  Whenever we are in public I feel like there is something wrong with him because he babbles but there are NO WORDS or familiar sounds whatsoever.  He just points and babbles in his own little language. 

Well the speech therapist came today and I think things went really well.  We sat down at the table….me, Lil Tony and Katie(I think that was her name).  She pulled out a bunch of different activities, puzzles, play doh and a memory game.

She wasn’t able to get him to talk but she was able to get him to respond to her.  He actually played with her, he is usually pretty shy around people.  Especially when they first meet.  After a few minutes of her showing him things and giving him time to warm up to her, he was doing just fine. 

She seemed to want to focus on one word at a time, today she chose “more”.  She did some activities with him to understand what she was trying to say.  Like I said he didn’t speak but the therapist was quite surprised with him.  She said the way he was acting was not how she expected the 1st day.  She thought it would take a couple visits for him to start imitating her.  I keep telling people that he is really smart and I truly believe he knows what he is doing.  Why he doesn’t want to talk, I don’t think I could understand.  I mean I know it may be easier for him but in some ways it’s not easier.  We are now refusing to give him things, juice or snacks.  Also he is getting very angry with us and vice versa.  I wish he would just understand that if he just said the things we asked him to that his days would be so much easier.

I felt good though that Katie thought we were definitely going to make good progress.  She sees that he is understanding and thinking about what she is telling him and trying to get him to do.

I told her next week would be a bad week to come back but I didn’t want to delay another visit so I made sure we had a scheduled day for her to come back before she left.  She gave me some things to work on with him and she will return on the 15th.  I am really excited to see what kind of progress we will make.  One of our friends had to take their 2 yr old son to a speech therapist too and he was saying basic words in about a month.  We will see. 

I will update you when I have the next visit.  Happy Thursday!

We have had a mouse issue for, well I guess almost 2 months now.  Our number reached 11.  Well I am not sure if we actually caught 11.  See a couple weeks ago I found proof we had a mouse but we never caught one.  I am not sure if he would have been number 11 or 12.  What I do know is that I have not seen a mouse in over 2 weeks.  

Now when I say haven’t seen I mean no trace of a mouse.  No mouse poop no chewed boxes or nothing.  I am not sure what to think about that, is hiding and procreating or did he give up and leave.  LOL!  We have several traps up and not a single trace of a mouse.  I am really excited because my family comes on Sunday and the last thing I need is a little mousey running around.  I think our battle is over……for now.

It’s really not getting any better.  Nicki’s acne that is.  She goes through fazes where she will have a period of nice skin and then gets some major breakouts.  I really need to find a good acne treatment. 

I had acne when I was her age too, I was never able to find the one right product.  My face seemed very picky.  I could use a face soap and after a week or so of using it, it seemed to get used to the soap and stop working.  I know there are some good products out there and I just need to find the one for Nicki.  She used a good product when she was in IL with her grandma, I just need to find out what it was and get it for her.

Most all of my family knows that I am having a baby on Monday via c-section.  There really is no surprise.  They also all know what the baby’s name will be.  So basically all they will need to know is the time the baby was born and how big he is. 

I am really not sure how I want to handle informing them.  Do I want to get birth announcements?  Really I am not sure, with all the new ways to get in touch with people online and for free I am just not sure I want to spend the money or the time to mail out the announcements.  I can just send notification through one of my online sites or just post it on my blog.  Money is tight this year and I think the best thing is something for free. 

We are down to the last couple days before baby Max comes.  Surgery is scheduled for 9:45am Monday morning.  I will have to be at the hospital at 7:45.  My mom and brother will be getting in to town on Sunday night and I am so excited.  I haven’t seen my mom in over a year, last time I saw her was when Isabel was born.  I haven’t seen my brother since about June. 

I am starting to hit my nesting stage pretty hard.  I feel my house is just so clustered and dirty, it feels like everything is all over the place.  I need to get all the baby clothes in order, the bedrooms in order the clothes washed……ah I feel overwhelmed but don’t feel I have the energy or anything to get through it all.

The other thing is sleeping is damn near impossible now.  I can’t sleep on either side because my thigh that I am leaning on goes numb.  So I have to toss and turn every 30 min to and hour.  If I try and sleep on my back, I think baby Max is laying on every organ in my body because I am just in so much pain and I almost instantly have to pee.  LOL! 

My lower back is in pain, big time!  So I am hoping the next couple goes by really FAST!

I am not sure if I posted about this but Tony is supposed to get this car for free from a lady at work.  She is not sure what’s wrong with it, she said it worked a couple months ago but it just sat in their driveway and now it doesn’t work. 

So all we have to do is pay for a tow dolly to be able to bring it back to our house.  Since baby Max is coming in a week we have not much time to get that taken care of before then.

I can’t remember what kind of car he said it was, it might be a honda accord.  Tony is really handy with cars so I am sure he will be able to figure out what is wrong with it.  Maybe it is just a timing belt or something,  that doesn’t sound too expensive or difficult to fix. 

Since we don’t live in California we won’t need to take it to San Fransisco auto repair.  We found a decent local auto repair shop yesterday when we had to get our state inspection.  If for some reason Tony couldn’t figure out what was wrong, we may just take it to them. 

I am really hoping whatever is wrong with the car will not cost a lot to fix, we need a second car but don’t have the money to really spend on one.  LOL!