If we can fulfill our dreams, it will be a two story house overlooking the water. I don't think the water frontage is possible though. The cost is ridiculous, and besides, most land on the ocean already has a house.

We may end up doing a one story, but perhaps not. We wouldn't ever move, so we'd need to think about being old and feeble, unable to climb stairs. :lol: I kid.

We want a finished basement, making it into a gaming/movie room. We want a huge bathroom with a huge tub. A nice kitchen with tons of counter top and cupboard space.

And now the baby is attempting to get into the kitchen trash, so off I go. D:<

I was thinking of a finished attic/basement for gaming or parties as well. >.> It sounds like fun! lol.

And ya know, you can always get one of those chair lift things to help you guys get up/down the stairs. :P

Scott wants a house on the water. Like literally ON THE WATER. A sail boat. xD

Dillon and I were talking about building a house today... LOL it will probably be 10 years out though... So Mikes would be 17 Sean 13 and Ellie would be 10 so we'd probably keep this house. We were talking about what we want to do to this house over the next 10 years as well.... We want to make the house more..... comfortable I guess... We talked about replacing windows, and doors... Remodeling the two bathrooms, etc.

We figure if we wait the 10 years to build we could both be in better jobs, or in a job in general I suppose for myself. And that would probably double the amount we would be approved for on the loan... We were approved for 72K when Dillon was working at 7-11 and he on paper is making more at this job then that one... If I found a job of equal standing to 7-11 which is in no means hard, that should double our loan approval amount to 144K or so.... If BOTH of us had BETTER jobs then those we should be able to get at least a 200K loan to build with. That would be awesome!!!! We already know we'd want a 2-3 bedroom house with a finished basement. I know the codes out there (the only land available for that kind of development is in the suburb of our city or in bad parts of town so we'd go with the suburb which is fighting to be its own city anyhow) are different then in town... I know that houses can't exceed certain restrictions so that would dictate whether or not we'd do a 1 or 2 story really... We know we'd want a 3 bedroom 2 bath. And a grass yard (which alone would cost us a pretty penny out on the worst part of the prairie) I want a big bath and shower in the master bathroom and the guest/ kid bathroom could be moderate size... And I want decent sized bedrooms... None of that bedroom= closest size room BS lol....

I'm still trying to picture drug dealing granny and it's conjuring up quite the mental image. :shock:

Me new house? We can't even decide on a play kitchen here D:

I originally saw this one which started this whole mess:
Amazon.com: Step2 LifeStyle Custom Kitchen: Toys & Games

The hubbers thinks it's too small and when the new baby gets older the girls will be shoving each other for room and prefers this one:

Amazon.com: Step 2 LifeStyle Deluxe Kitchen: Toys & Games

I can kind of see his point.

But now Grandma has got wind of it and likes this one:
Amazon.com: KidKraft Grand Gourmet Corner Kitchen: Toys & Games

I like that layout. The color goes against the "expensive stuff" being gender neutral rule though. She's in the mindset that boys will never want to play with a kitchen though. I don't quite believe it, but she's had two boys and I haven't so i'm not winning that argument anytime soon.

OMG Why so cute? D: http://www.amazon.com/Skip-Hop-Hare-...ef=pd_sim_ba61

My boys have THIS I don't believe in girls and boys toy... I think toys are toys >_> they are particularly mimicking skills that they should have later in life by playing with "Girl's" stuff... *hates that term and how often it is used in and around my house.* I think that I am going to make them one like this it is made out of an old entertainment center it would be SOOOO much more sturdy then the plastic ones and bigger too!! This of course would be another time. Not now....

The boys had and played with a doll cradle diapers and the shibang until earlier this summer. I gave it to my sister in law in hopes that I can buy a newer one.

Huuuwaaagh! *drags thread up from the abyss*

Okay ladies. What's new?!

Jaz, I have those two cloth diapers for you, one newborn and one "all sizes" diaper. They are so soft. If I get a bit more spending cash I plan on putting a couple other things into your package. I'll bug you for your address in a bit, but I wanted to ask how things are going. If you think she might be early and I should send it sooner rather than later, let me know. :heart:

Things here are the same old grind.

Been meaning to save the thread for a while now, but haven't had a ton to say on the parenting subject.... Well not that I haven't said else where since I am spending entirely too much time on Cafemom now... Man I'd have a bundle if I was getting gold for it :(

Oh thank you so much Chi <3 <3 <3 it is much appreciated as I feared no one got anything on the registries for the shower... Not that she didn't get some awesome things and not that I am not very appreciative of those as well... but she didn't get anything she really NEEDED! So we've been doing credit card runs getting things that were left because there are certain things I swear EVERYONE buys for a baby shower... :/ Even a friend of mine with no kids mentioned "wow you didn't get binkies everyone gives binkies...!" No baby soap, no hair brush thing no nail clippers, no diapers cloth or otherwise, I was amazed but she got a lot of clothes and blankets lol and a couple toys as well... My sister said she would help us buy some dipes when she got paid (she was sad cause all she bought her was a pair of socks that have the mary jane pattern) but we'll see if that pan out... My sister is a college kid and she can be very....... flakey...

As far as Ellie goes... Things are going... I am thoroughly uncomfortable most days now :P 6 weeks left... I swear she better not make me go much longer then that >.>; I don't think she is going to come early. Though she gave Dillon quite the scare today... I wasn't sure what I was feeling at first but by the end of the afternoon I was definitely having some really minor contractions... Only had three that were worth even counting, before coming home and laying down a bit... Which is apparently what I needed... I'm still uncomfortable but I don't think it was anything to worry about... It scared Dillon enough to make him stay home which scares the CARP out of me because he is on his final "write-up" for missing days for this 60 day period... He says that he will get an "action plan" tomorrow... But I am still really scared that he is going to be fired......... But honestly I don't think I would have made it through the day if he hadn't... we were at one store when I started feeling funny, then started feeling sick and couldn't drive home, Dillon drove me home and I got some water and felt a little better but not 100% so he decided to stay home cause I wasn't sure what the pressure I was feeling was (whether she was moving against my cervix or having very light contractions that were causing pressure)... We then had to return library books, and get lunch (went out to chipotle cause we were low on time, had a gift card and needed Sean fed by the time we had to get him to school), felt a LOT better so decided to keep going.... got Sean off to school went BACK to the opposite side of town were chipotle is and looked at the mall's second hand baby store for something to finish off Ellie's coming home outfit (to no avail but we picked up second had socks and some wash clothes to make wipes out of), then to the north side Walmart since the south side FAILS (so does the north side) at having latex drop in nipples....>.> bought 4-5 packages of wash clothes there for like 97 cents a piece SCORE! and found that they too don't have any changing pad covers O_o /fail then we did WIC shopping there (hates walmarts food stuff... ***spoiled***) by the time we got to the check out I had my first notable contraction... Another when the rude arse lady in front of me shoved me out of the way of the little check signing stand (I thought she was done... Oops) and another as we were going towards the car that was parked on the MOON... I asked Dillon if he could remember the child pick up routine because I was going to need to lay down a bit... He did luckily... And got the boys from school after dropping me off and putting away the WIC stuff then he took them both to the dentist by himself... I am proud of him :D and greatly thankful for him as well! I still don't think she is going to come early... I just think I over exerted myself today and pissed her off lol... I'm good at things like that...

Tomorrow I am just going to hang around the house (minus the normal run stuff of playing taxi to 3 different people), going to sit in her room and try to finish organizing her MOUNDS of clothes lol and maybe install her carseat.... If I can ever get around to cleaning Sean's his is sooo gross...

Other then that it is the same ol' same ol' really... Bought Ellie the newborn prefolds she will need thanks to cafemom I got them for a $1 a piece :) got her five more of the infant ($1.50/per I think for those) ones which she will be in before I know it too! I am praying we can buy 5 regulars a month ($2) for the next couple of months and those should get us pretty close to her first birthday if she is anything like her brothers who were BARELY 20lbs and all kinds of lanky by that time...

How is Tara Chi? How have you been?

Wow, that sounds nuts. Stay as rested as possible!

Are your lists still current? Just in case I can pack something else into it? I have this nagging feeling I should send out the cloth diapers to you in the next week or two. Can you PM me your address? ^_^

Terra took off walking sometime in September. I think she waited until she could do it just right. She can go room to room now, and every day is an improvement. I'm curious when she'll start running. Still nursing a ton, but I need to keep faith she'll wean when her body is ready to wean.

I've been tired. I went back on prenatals to see if that will help. We're not sure if we'll have a second child or not, but if we do we'll start trying next September or so. My periods just came back. Last Saturday, actually. I really hope that this one isn't a sign of how bad all of them will be. It was awful... :/

They will stop labor if I go into labor before 35-37 weeks if they can. So no rush Chi... My family has NO history of preterm labor, and neither does Dillon's in fact we are quite the opposite... On both sides water does not break on it's own... I think yesterday was sort of a fluke lol... And I doubt it moved anything... Ellie is still really active so she is no worse for wear.. But I will PM you the address... I modified one of the lists the Amazon list... I can modify the JillianDrawers decently fast :) so I'll do that after I post...

I think I know which of Mellies FB friends is Chi now lol... Don't know why I didn't guess it before LOL...

My period is really heavy when it first comes back... But then again, mine comes back RIGHT away! It's like labor stuff... a week or so break... EVIL PERIOD!!! But actually having babies fixed my old problem of having really evil periods... At least most of the time.... I try to take prenatals as long as I am nursing... I figure it's best since a lot of times I don't eat everything I should... :P I've been tired a lot too I should try to remember to take my prenatals... I hate taking medicine... I am so spacey....

Ohh walking!!! WOW... Most babies run between 15-18 months :) Usually depending on when they started walking... My best friends daughter is 16 months now and has been running for about a month lol... She was stubborn about walking she started walking out of the blue and almost perfectly when she was 13 months and running came quickly after... It isn't running like you or I of course... More like quickly scuttling feet I think true running comes closer to 2.... If I remember right lol.... I think my favorite stage is close to the 2 year old stage when baby starts learning to walk backwards :P

Today's mission is to get at least SOME of my hospital bag packed... I hope... O_o;; I've been putting it off.... Mostly cause I don't want to pack away bras that fit me well right now... And same with pants... Shirts and undies (for the most part) and socks are easy to come by though... And you know toiletries ...

My first few periods after birth are always worse than how they go after those few. Though I have noticed a drastic change in how my period was before babies as to how it is after. And even after each one. It's weird how it changes.

I'm up to Estrogen pills two times a day. Saturday is my last day of Lupron. Yay no more shots! Though I know that won't last long. I have an ultrasound appointment on the 19th and then I should start progesterone shots if all looks well. And I'll be getting pregnant in about 3 weeks. O.o Well, hopefully getting pregnant. It feels so incredibly unreal. Though it does help that Dad isn't thinking it's going to work. So the pressure is kinda off of me, and more on Yale. But I believe Yale is going to try hatching the embryos...so they're going to be HUGE instead of the little ones we had this last time. The bigger/more advanced they are the more likely they are to stick. And I think we're transferring 3. Which also scares me, because I know that if all 3 survive and attach, they'll be reducing, and I've never had an abortion, much less a reduction. Which is dangerous for all of the embryos. *sigh* But the chances of all of them both surviving the thawing and the transfer are very very slim. But still existent. So who knows.

is that daddies decision then? Or Yales? or yours? A reduction is at the embryo stage still right...? They don't do abortions that early... The baby has to be visible on an ultrasound which happens at 5-6 weeks gestation...

But yeah for a break in shots even if only for a short time... I am still tripped out a bit that I am almost done with my pregnancy and you are starting a new one O_O

I'd be nervous, too... Fingers crossed, though.

I apparently have nothing else to say. I just got done cleaning and I'm tired. Hubby got the baby to sleep though, so that's a plus. Maybe I'll actually play a game or something. GASP!

Yup... NONE of my hospital bag packed yet... *gets on that* but my furnace is clean.... ish...

And cleaning... I'm pretty sure the boys hear that as a dirty word *haha punny...*

It's Daddies decision. Though in the contract it says they won't make me carry triplets. Which Scott and I both agree is a good thing. I had a very easy pregnancy with the twins but I was stretched to ridiculous proportions. I have a couple of whore make up pictures posted on facebook of my pregnancy with them. And that was taken in July or August, still a month or two before they were born, before they started gaining a lot of their weight. I was IMMENSE. I can't imagine adding a third into that mix. I would be put on bedrest...and I don't do bed rest. There's too much life out there for me to want to deal with bedrest!
However, they will be getting advice from my doctor on the matter as well as Yale. The only time I have a say in an abortion/reduction is if it risks my life. And they already said that if my life is in danger they won't stop me from aborting. Which is sweet in it's own way. I wouldn't want them so gung ho on a baby that they would risk my life to get it.

I seem to spend a lot of time pregnant. >.> I am excited for a break in shots. But the shots I'm getting into after these are the painful ones. The ones I'm doing now are with insulin needles. Very small and practically painless. The ones I do next are 1 and a half inches long and about 3 times as large (width wise) as the ones I do now. The lupron is pretty liquid while the next shots are oil based. I have so many mixed emotions about this transfer and pregnancy in general. Mostly I think of the short moment between contractions while pregnant/giving birth to Owen when I looked over and told Scott I didn't think this was such a good idea. /fail

Am I doing the right thing? I just don't know anymore. Curse you hormones!

OMG THAT WAS WITH THE TWINS!!!! I assumed it was with Kura!!! Your tiny from the twin mommies I see in my group!!! They've been immense for months now... I feel so bad when I complain T_T and then I see them :(

Got me Mellie... Hormones are my worst enemy at the moment....I want so desperately to be done being pregnant but I know being done brings and infant... One I don't know well... And will have to learn her ques and she will have to learn mine... I'm getting really nervous... I also know that to be done with pregnancy I have to go through labor... No choice there at all... Well I guess there is but the other option doesn't really sound BETTER then labor... I am getting scared of labor again... :/ talk about /fail done it twice and it still scares the hell out of me... I've been desperately trying not to think about it... (which might be why I am STILL puttiing off packing my bags......

I'm, for the moment, content with one child. She has broken my cellphone and now the PS3, and she is not an unsupervised child. She's almost broken the laptop, and I imagine that will be next. As I type this she's literally running in circles jabbering for all she's worth.

Need... strength... and... money. :gonk:

Mama (aunty) Jazzy doesn't tolerate babies playing with my stuff... particularly electronics.... I know too many mom's that have lost cell phones, laptops, game consoles etc... To naughty baby play...

It is when I allow for a gray area that thinks go ary (sp?).... Like I started letting Sean play educational games with me on the laptop or when Michael is allowed to play the DS, Sean wants to play and we will set him up with one of ours... That problems start occurring....... Now Sean thinks the laptop is free game, he has caused it to go into freak out mode sooo many times... And he has broken different aspects of each Dillon, my and Michael's DS because he started changing the cartridges on his own by just RIPPING them out

Mine is most often a case of, "Mom goes to use the bathroom, baby decides the largest amount of destruction that can be done in 180 seconds."

Mine is usually bathroom doing dishes switching the laundry... Difference is Sean should know better :/

My kid is almost 9. He gets into everything all the time. One thing he likes to do is make traps. If he's been in a room alone for awhile you have to enter with caution or end up being tangled up.

Ohhh I am glad my 7 year old hasn't done that yet... But I remember doing things like that when I was a kid!!!

Haha... cute. :lol: Not so much for those who run into the traps I suppose, but hey!

I never thought of traps as a child...I hope my kids are like me. >.> lol

I lost cell phones, and my DS has some scratches in the touch screen from a child using a scratch board pen on it instead of a stylus. But the DS still work perfectly so I can't really complain. It's just...annoying. And the cell phones were really my fault. They all got water damaged at some point or another. Generally the kids had good timing with that and they would destroy them on or around my 2 year upgrade spot. They've yet to break a gaming console or computer though I suppose I should knock on wood for that one...lol. They have scratched up DVD's...but I think complaining about losing $10 of DVD's is pretty pathetic to the loss of a PS3. :lol:
Kura followed me everywhere when she was Terras age. I couldn't go to the bathroom by myself. She was a very clingy child. So while she wasn't breaking anything valuable...I had NO TIME to myself. Not even potty time. lol

Had my ultrasound today got to see Ms. Ellie in 3D <3 it was sooo special <3 I think Sean is totally in love with his little sister... That is "MY" sister... That's her face that's her belly that's her heart...

Mama feels like crap though I wanted to rest all day but no such luck... :/ I've been feeling neauseated at night and its accompanied by anxiety attacks... I can't tell what is bringing it all on though... and it is making me crazy.... I know I am nervous about Ellie coming but not enough to cause all this I don't think... Part of me think it is a combo of dehydration and hunger... (super early and light lunches and too many people giving me real coffee... O_O stop giving me coffee!!!! I'm an addict I can't seem to say no!)... By dinner time I feel so wretched the last 2-3 days that I want to cry... or vomit... or something... Then another part of me thinks it may be my thyroid but the fact that I got tested last month and they didn't do anything because my levels weren't far enough gone... I don't know... I'm just not liking all this....

but if you wanna see the 3d pic (for those not on my FB) There she is

Mellie, I hear you. Nine (and a half) times out of ten she's my shadow. Always. She was in eye sight when the PS3 thing happened. I was doing dishes and had my hands covered in rotting lobster. She reached into the entertainment center that someone forgot to lock, and I heard a beep. That was it. :gonk: Grumble.

Jaz, she's beautiful!! Can't wait to "see" her once she makes her entrance.

I wish you could have more opportunities to properly rest your body. It sounds pretty hard over there. :(