thanks chi! wish i could get mine trimmed like that. maybe when i have a job someday. :lol:

i think i need to turn our humidifier tonight too.

I have random dry spots on my arms. ): They make me sad. I've been remembering to lotion myself up about 4 times a week though, so I'm hoping that it goes away soon.

Why do we bother making gift registries in the first place? haha. I know at one point baby daddies had registered...somewhere. But I was never told where so I got them whatever the hell I felt like getting them (oh, and a baby, can't forget that...) While browsing on thinkgeek I found this: ThinkGeek :: Made With Love (and Science) Creeper so I have that waiting for them for baby number two. I don't think they're quite geeky enough to fully enjoy the onesie as much as I do, but I think they'll appreciate that this is exactly how we're making babies!

Oh man that is absolutely adorable <3

Originally Posted by Melody

I have random dry spots on my arms. ): They make me sad. I've been remembering to lotion myself up about 4 times a week though, so I'm hoping that it goes away soon.

Why do we bother making gift registries in the first place? haha. I know at one point baby daddies had registered...somewhere. But I was never told where so I got them whatever the hell I felt like getting them (oh, and a baby, can't forget that...) While browsing on thinkgeek I found this: ThinkGeek :: Made With Love (and Science) Creeper so I have that waiting for them for baby number two. I don't think they're quite geeky enough to fully enjoy the onesie as much as I do, but I think they'll appreciate that this is exactly how we're making babies!

My fiance scans that site for items all the time. xD

<3 It's adorable.

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Originally Posted by mynanaflirts

Thank you and its okay i know i am random when it comes to my post and you want to stay on topic... I tend to be the odd ball sometimes lol



At first i didn't like it because it made me look fat but now i like it... i might end up doing the pig tails one day just to see how it looks like that lol. I also wanna see what it would look like if i were to straighten it.


about the babyshowers.... i would do a babyshower for each of my kids but not call it a babyshower... i would basically be like hey i am having a bar b que and we are gonna have some cake to celebrate because we are having a baby boy/girl... if you wanna bring something you can if not its fine but we would love to have you come hang out with us and eat some good food.... thats what i would do but thats me lol.

As soon as people found out I was pregnant I was getting non stops "what gender is it? " "When's the shower?" "What things do you have yet?!"
1 to early to tell - now its a girl :D
2 Idk.... let me think o.O
3 pretty much nothing kk. xD

OMG they were so obnoxious.

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Originally Posted by Jaz

Love the hair guys... My hair hasn't been cut in er.... 3 months I had my friend cut it just before I had Ellie.... But it is at that awful stage right now where it isn't long enough to be elegant pretty and it isn't short enough to be cute :/ So it is always ALWAYS in a ponytail....

Re: Baby showers... I've had 3... My oldests baby shower was by far the best... He got a ton of stuff... Big and small.... It was a surprise shower thrown by my mom. My second shower was awkward... I kind of threw it myself which made me feel greedy especially after someone on here attacked me for having a shower for a second child >.>;... But I kind of felt like I forced my sister in law and mother in law to help throw it... Though I don't know for sure that they felt the same way.... But it was overall nice. My third was thrown by my best friend and mother. It was fun though not one person looked at my registry... With the exception of Melody and Chi who are super awesome sauce <3 <3 <3

You can't have a baby shower for second child o.o

WHyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

and i'm not greedy... I'm just poor and needy :D yay! <3

@llonka.
Love the hair :] it reminds me of my friend rachel.
My hair hasn't been cut recently. But that's cause i've decided to grow it out instead of keeping it shoulder length now . :D

I love that onesie. Heck, I love ThinkGeek. ;)

Shadami- if you want to cut your hair, you shouldn't do it while pregnant anyway. xD At least from my experience. My hair grows faster while I'm pregnant. So even if I get it cut to the perfect length...a couple months or even weeks later it's past the perfect length and not nearly as cute. ): So after baby is born, I get hubby to watch it (or send it off with it's parents) and take myself out for a "pamper" day where I get my hair and nails done and feel pretty...because I'd still be too fat for clothes shopping. xD

And you can have a baby shower for a second baby...it's just... meh? It's viewed as greedy, especially if the second child is the same gender as the first. You should already have everything that you need, why are you going to make your friends and family go to a second shower and buy you more gifts (because if you don't bring a gift you're an ass) when you don't actually need anything? A lot of people will be excited for your baby, and will get a small bag of stuff after baby is born to say congratulations regardless...so forcing a shower upon them is just rude. At least, that's my take on the matter. :3 I don't care if it's your first or your 7th child, I'll still be excited for you and get you something if you're a good friend to me, but I don't want to feel obligated to do it, I'd rather do it because I want to.

Jaz&Chi- I know! Geeky baby clothes makes me so happy. xD

ugh i'm bleeding again. and kinda crampy. earlier this morning i felt a sharp pain in my uterus, i wonder if the IUD is poking me or something. or if it's just a freak period. i dunno but ready to get this thing out. how much did the nuva ring cost you Mellie?

on a side note, we have kittens! our pregnant kitty gave birth to five kittens last night about 3:00 AM!

hair grows faster when pregnant? AWESOME I've still only at about half the length I want :D

llonka- with military insurance I was paying $8 a month for it. Though I got my first... two free from my Ob/gyn. I'm sure if I would have requested more she would have given me more...I also got this nifty little timer thing that you keep in the medicine cabinet and it goes off when it's time to change it out and put it back in. Super nifty. (: I think there's a downloadable/app version of it as well if you check out the website... Anyway, a friend of mine pays $20 a month for hers and I've had a couple of friends that just get them free from planned parenthood.

Sha- lol. I don't know how much faster it grows, but I got highlights done right before I got pregnant last time, and I ended up needing to get it done again because I had about two and a half inches of roots showing by the end of the pregnancy. xD

I've never gotten anything after a baby was born... Well except for from my mom with the boys but it was a balloon and or teddy bear... I felt like Ellie got kind of jipped :( She got no balloon, no flowers, no teddy not even a card... Heck no one visited us in the hospital except the grandmas and an uncle... and only a few people have bothered to come by to see her since she was born and she is 9 weeks now...

hmm maybe after i get this IUD taken out, and get some from the doc, i'll go to the planned parenthood. :yes: i think i really want to try it.

Oof. This mama is sick for some odd reason. ;-;

How's everyone's weekend going? Nothing new here, just relaxing. Oh, we did get the food pantry more stocked for winter. I think we just need to get some bottled and jugged water, a couple more canned vegetables, then we're set. :D

Awww feel better Chi!~

I've spent the weekend cleaning and shoveling snow so far. I'm...tired. lol. I met my next door neighbor and helped her shovel her car out of the snow birm that had kept her stuck for the past couple of days. Her hubby is gone until April. ): So I figure I'll help her out as long as I'm here and don't have anything to do I may as well help her out too. (: Oh!~ I totally noticed today that I've got arm muscles! OMG! /excited

I also rearranged the livingroom! And we cleaned the dining room today. The kids helped so much. I was totally happy with them, and I guess I still am. haha. They've been really good today. And yesterday actually...it seems that they're really good when Scott is gone. Which is a nice change of pace!

Dinners done. <3

haha seems like my boys behave better when dad isn't home. :lol: something about dad being home means all chaos can let loose. :P

Hubby normally keeps the kids in order. xD He makes sure they listen to me. I've been really impressed by how I can ask them to do something now and they'll generally do it.
Of course it probably helps that them NOT doing it would cause the party today to be canceled...I'm not having strangers over if their rooms and bathroom are a complete mess!

My arms and shoulders are so sore today. D: Too much ice breaking yesterday. Mama needs a stress free day. ...I think that's what I'll do on Monday. lol

Oh, I should totally mention: My big girl turns 7 today! O:

Originally Posted by Shadami

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As soon as people found out I was pregnant I was getting non stops "what gender is it? " "When's the shower?" "What things do you have yet?!"
1 to early to tell - now its a girl :D
2 Idk.... let me think o.O
3 pretty much nothing kk. xD

OMG they were so obnoxious.[COLOR="Silver"]

... For me i wouldn't tell anyone i was pregnant until i will be like 5 months... because then they wouldn't bother me about what it is..... but thats me... I like to suprise people... always have... i don't know why...

oooh happy birthday! hope she has fun!

hubby is getting better about discipline, finally.

So teh party went off with out a hitch. We had a good time. ...but after the party the downstairs neighbor (who the kids neglected to invite) came over, and then left and told her mom that we'd had a party, so her mom comes up going WTF why wasn't my daughter given an invitation? (In the authentic way that Puerto Ricans do it) and I'm like...well Kura invited her classmates, as your daughter isn't in her class she didn't get an invitation...I kinda assumed the kids would tell her to come up when they were all playing together yesterday. I know they mentioned it to her but alas, apparently that didn't count. So now I feel like a twit for not going down and inviting her when I thought about it (while making lunch) because now I'm the bad guy for hosting a childs party and not inviting her child. And ya know, I should have been sure she was invited since the kids play together a lot. But her daughter also criticizes my kiddos a lot and has made EACH of them cry on multiple occasions. She constantly excludes either Aaron or Melody and tells Sakura to stop acting so silly. So in a way I feel bad for not inviting her, but at the same time, she's a snob. Why would I want her around to be a bratty bitch at my daughters party in the first place? Everything is beneath her. She first met us two days after we started moving our stuff in here. She came into the house and was like "Ew, why are there boxes and things all over the floor, this house is a mess" SO I told her it was because we just moved in, and she's like "You need to clean it up". Well Fuck you little monster! ugh. Anyway, I just had to complain about that because it ruined my otherwise good day. If my daughter wanted your daughter here she would have invited her. I can't control my daughter (okay I can, but in this instance I'm not going to. She's allowed to invite whoever she wants to)I'm not going to force her to invite people she doesn't want to.
But I should have reminded her about my downstairs neighbor incase she did want her here, so that part is on me...but meh. can't change it now!

To hell with that. If she's rude, and Kura didn't think to invite her of her own accord, perhaps there was a reason she decided not to bring it up. I guess I'm of the opinion that kids should be nice to other kids, but kids should also be comfortable in their own environment, and especially get to enjoy their birthdays drama free.

There's one kid in my town that leaves me worried. Her step-mother (someone I went to school with but only know as an acquaintance now) puts her into every pageant imaginable--and she wins. Not places, but wins. I worry for what that places on her image. Some day, she won't win. And it's going to hurt her far more than it ever should. As awful as this sounds, I think she's quite possibly the homeliest thing I've ever seen. Period.

She is a snot bag. Her biological mother wrecked her, and her father and step-mother got custody and tried to overcompensate the lack of love and, well, care. She's spoiled rotten and makes other children cry if they don't wear high-fashion clothes. To her, it is worth hating her peers for not wearing Ambercrombie and Aeropostle. I probably misspelled those brands, but you get the idea. Her peers come home crying to their parents, desperate to fit in by this girl's standards.

Kids that act like assholes worry me, because it's bad parenting and eventually those kids are going to hit the real world and be sorely disappointed. Kids should get better upbringings than that. :(

sorry to say this melody... but tell her to kiss your ass and to have a good day. It was your daughters party not yours...

;-; I'm so glad you don't think I'm a raving bitch for not inviting this kid. lol.

Kids should be nice to other kids. I did get kinda annoyed at the little boy Aaron invited over, because he started to tease Aaron for playing with "girl toys" Aaron promptly ignored the comments and showed his friend Flounder (from the little mermaid) sitting on top of the wedding gazebo (it's all part of like a zwinkies toy or some random thing like that) and he was giggling about it. Because duh! Fish don't belong on top of gazebos! then he had Sabastian pulling the wedding carriage...and after that his friend joined in. I was so proud...and later they all watched "Barbie: A Mermaids Tale" together. It was sweet.

When I went into the basement to bring the kids up for dinner Melody was sitting on the stairs pouting because our downstairs neighbor was being mean to her again...and I was thankful that I'd not invited her. I can't stand extra drama. If you're going to go to a party, leave the drama elsewhere. It doesn't belong at a party much less a childs party. Seriously, I don't want to deal with that shit. I do hear her parents yelling a lot...but I never know if it's anger or what. They tend to just be loud people, which is something I've come to expect from Peurto Ricans in the Coast Guard. Not saying they're all that way, it's just the few that I've met have all been, and a few friends that are from there as well have also said it's normal, so I don't know if it's anger, I can't understand them half the time haha but it feels angry. However I also think people speaking German are ALWAYS angry so really, what do I know? Anyway yeah. Drama was avoided today and now instead of feeling annoyed at myself for not prompting them to do something they hadn't thought to, I'm content with it. Because I'm sure there would have been more pouting and crying had it happened another way.

well i don't know what do to about that... i don't really have kids like that so i can't say... plus my step son gets along with all the kids in our trailer park so i rarely have any problems...

i say if her and mother threw such a fit about not being invited, then that means they didn't even deserve to be invited. they prolly would have caused lots of drama at the party. who cares if they got their feelings hurt, at least you didn't.

i think other kids are just mean in general. and this why we don't do much that involves other children. this basketball thing Jacob is in right now is annoying already. Jeremy takes him to practice so when i go to the games, nobody knows who I am and looks at me funny when I'm taking care of Jacob. and the kids all single Jacob out and don't let him play. so he just runs back and forth across the court. I don't think he's very interested in team sports. :P

So, I'm curious if anyone else experienced this and might be able to tell me what it was.
Last night I got this pain in my lower stomach areas. Like.. sharp stabbity death pains. It hurt realllly bad. I couldn't even move without it shooting another spasm of even more pain. (made it really difficult to get out of the car) It lasted about 40 minutes and than just stopped, just as I was about to go to the hospital and be like. WHHHAAAA helps T.T

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Originally Posted by mynanaflirts

... For me i wouldn't tell anyone i was pregnant until i will be like 5 months... because then they wouldn't bother me about what it is..... but thats me... I like to suprise people... always have... i don't know why...

Eh.. i was rather freaking out ^^;; I'm 20. So i wanted advice and such, and the story in a small town just spread.

by lower stomach do you mean lower abdomen? Since your stomach is like on the side and up and stuff... anyway, you're pregnant right? There are round ligaments that keep your uterus in place are being stretched, and sometimes they attack you and it HURTS. Lying down generally helps the pain, and massaging the area, but there really isn't anything you can do to stop it from happening. I had it a few times with my last pregnancy. Generally during sex, which killed the mood fast. xD But excessive movement in your abdomen could be the cause of the issues like if you were bending down to pick up socks left on the floor or your husbands shirts/you were hunched over making the bed...I guess excessive is the wrong word since it kinda just happens randomly with small movements as well now that I think about it... but yes. Round ligament pain: random article on it that I haven't read but the first few lines looked promising Alone it isn't anything to worry about, it happens. I'd actually talked to my midwife about it a couple of times because it was so uncomfortable (okay it was so bad I thought I would die if I moved from the position I was laying in) and she told me to just take it easy after that happened because the muscles/ligaments needed to relax back to normal as well.