It just hit me

It just hit be today that I am having a little boy in 3 months or so! This is crazy! I have been so busy sometimes I forget I am pregnant (which can be nice) I didn't forget last night though. I haven't done anything particularly strenuous in the last 2 days yet my feet were swollen last night! I am not even in the last month so my feet should not be swelling! I didn't sleep for hours because I was soooo hot! Luckily its freezing outside in the mornings so when Daniel got up for work in the morning I asked him to open the balcony door and it cooled down and I fell asleep.

I am also realizing I need to get all new little boy clothes from 0-2 years old! WOW! Well it won't be that bad but I need to get things in order for when the little one comes. I am trying to get the whole house done before the little boy comes so that I won't have to worry about anything but the kids when the time comes. I want to have the whole month of august to try to catch up on sleep I will not be getting so I am ready for the new baby but Daniel thinks this baby will come even earlier than normal (2-3 weeks early is my norm) he only thinks that because all the pregnancy symptoms seem to be coming alot faster this time around like the moving of all my bones and such. He thinks the baby will come on the 12th of August to make his date book an easy task. In fact I think he plans on having me run up and down the stairs all day that day.

This is the part of the pregnancy that is irritating to me. I still have 3 huge months left but I have to start seeing the doctor every two weeks after tomorrow. I bet that won't work out anyway. There hasn't been an appointment yet that hasn't been extremely late or rescheduled because their last appointments don't coincide with Daniel's work schedule. Oh well. I already know the baby isn't here yet oh crap I think I was supposed to go do my Nasty drink diabetes test before tomorrow. I guess I will just have to get yelled at and do it next week. Where has my memory gone?

I got IDed for SPRAY PAINT!

Here is my funny story for the week. I was at walmart buying groceries the other day. I usually have my children with me but I didn't this time. I needed some of this:

I didn't want to stop at Lowes on the way home so I got a can of white and put it in the cart. I went to check out and the thing beeps (as it always does at walmart for spray paint) and usually they just push it through cause DUH I AM AT LEAST 18 YEARS OLD! The lady tells me I have to be 18 to buy the spray paint and can she see some ID? WHAT? I didn't fuss I just pulled out my GUAM license (I know I need to get to the DMV but who wants to do that with 2 kids??) and she let me get it. HELLO? DO I REALLY LOOK THAT YOUNG?

Its like when I went to get my hair done the she asked my why I wanted to chop off all my beautiful long hair (that in itself is a delusional statement!) I said "oh I am 5 months pregnant and don't want to deal with it" She is shocked I am pregnant and asks if its the first "um no its the third" she almost chokes because "You don't look old enough to have even one" I don't think they are trying to compliment me here on saying I look young I am not old enough to need "you look young" compliments yet.

This happens all the time!! No its not a compliment who wants to look 18 with 3 kids?

That reminds me of another tangent story. When I was pregnant with Alexander I was asked to say the prayer in sacrament meeting so I did (I didn't wear a ring then either cause my fingers were too fat) and then this lady I knew (apparently not very well cause I can't even remember her name) came and said "oh I have the funniest story" she said her husband was fuming after he saw me give a prayer in sacrament and said to her "what is the bishopric thinking letting a pregnant young woman say the prayer in sacrament meeting" Um HELLO I WAS 21 at the time MORON. I didn't think the story was funny and it taught me I can't get offended for other peoples moronic (yes its a word) comments and you shouldn't judge ANYONE cause you are probably extremely wrong.

I don't know why I get so irritated at people when I am pregnant (HORMONES) I have been really good this time around though. I love our new ward! No one asked if I was pregnant (even though I totally am huge already) they were all courteous and I didn't get any comments until after I told them I was pregnant. Honestly HOW HARD IS IT NOT TO ASK SOMEONE IF THEY ARE PREGNANT? All it takes is a tiny bit of self control. Wow this post got out of control I will end it now.

But seriously do I not look like I am 18 years old? You watch when I turn 30 I will look 50 all of the sudden.

US

Not much has changed over here in New Mexico in the Reeves household. I am still as sick as ever. The children still wonder why we don't leave the house much anymore but they know the weekends will be full of fun because Dad's home then. Here are some pictures of pretty much our days of late. We have Jamma days :


and movie days and play puzzle days and of course we watch the olympics not all the events just when there is nothing else to do oh and the mens long program skating. I just found out last night that ice dancing and figure skating are not the same? I don't plan on watching the ice dancing because I mean come on it looks the same as the figure skating. That was a tangent anyway we get a lot of this:

I had a picture of bubba too but I don't know where it is. This doesn't happen all the time just whenever they get into big mischief (actually the mischief happens all the time who am I kidding). Bubba just sits there for his 4 minutes and then we let him out. Eva cries and cries so her time is when she stops crying.

This is a picture of them whenever we put our shoes and coats on to go somewhere.


Oh and this is just a random picture of when Eva lets me do her hair, she actually likes when I do her hair its just hard to keep it in. She let me do a little braid to get that bangs out of her face. (yep that is green dye on the carpet in the back ground)

Oh and of late I love beef stew. Is that weird of what? and fish and chips yum. Oh and I hate the smell of EVERYTHING! However that is a lie I do love the smell of detergent and soap (not perfume soap but like lemon and pinesol) and I LOVE the smell of bleach.

Miriam

Today I am 3 months

Valentines Day

We generally don't do anything special for Valentines Day. I just never felt the need. Anyway Daniel got me a card this year. I wanted to share because I thought it was adorable. So I love twilight. Especially during this pregnancy for some reason I have already read the sagas twice just during the pregnancy. Anyway so Daniel got me a card with Edward Cullen on the front that say's I hope you have an extraordinary Valentines Day with the Cullen of your choice and in parenthesis (We can dream right) the card made me laugh and I loved it and it plays Claire De Lune when you open it! :) Random I know anyways I loved it maybe because I am pregnant who knows.

Miriam

Bubbas B-Day

We are posting some pictures we took of Bubbas Birthday. We got him a scooter with a helmet.
He turned 4 today and the smallest size helmet he fit was 8+, now he wears it alot.
First we went to Chuck-E-Cheeses. Anyone planning on taking their kids to chuck-e-cheeses do not do it on a Friday night.
Then we went home and had birthday cake. This was the only one that wasn't to valentines day overwhelming


Here is a picture of Alexander in his helmet that fits an 8 year old. When we came home from Chuck-E-Cheeses he was screaming about his hat. We finally figured out that he wanted birthday hats. So we got him the ones that are on Daniel's head and everyone had to wear them.


Here is an action shot on the scooter. He is falling on purpose. Apparently if you are wearing your helmet then you are obligated to fall.
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

Yes

Hi Everybody,
Yes we are pregnant, well no we aren't pregnant I am. If only Daniel could experience the 'joy' of pregnancy. So far its the worse pregnancy yet and this time round there is no beach to take me away. According to pregnancy calenders our due date is Sep 3rd so I still have like a million hours of this to go. The nausea started at week six, I think thats a rip off but what can I do. It only gets worse or stays the same. Its a 24 hour thing this time no morning sickness of night sickness its always-sickness even when I wake up in the night I am nauseous. My children are not very forgiving with my lay on the couch with movies and snacks for them all day. They have been rebelling with many colorful (the color green yesterday) different messes each and every day. I am having a hard time keeping up.

This time round I have tried sea sick wrist bands (they helped but didn't take the nausea away fully) crackers, soda water, fruits veggies salt and vinegar chips and every other remedy out there nothing works so its a suffer through it thing. The problem with this pregnancy is that food doesn't help. I used to be able to eat a meal with bubba and eva and then the nausea would go away until I was hungry again. This time the food makes it worse so its hard to even want to eat. I don't crave anything which sucks because I never know what to eat. Everything just sounds GROSS to me.

The good news is I might only have two weeks of nausea left. The obvious bad news is this pregnancy is so different maybe I have 7 more months of nausea left. We don't go anywhere, Daniel worries about me and tries to get me out of the house but I just feel so sick it doesn't ever sound worth it. We always go out on Saturdays all day and that helps a lot I have started to really love the weekends now.

Daniel has been wonderful I can't believe how wonderful! He sometimes works 13 hours a day and he still comes home and helps me with dinner and cleaning. He does all the shopping and I just can't believe how great he has been! Every now and then he comes home for lunch. I LOVE that! Its a nice break for me just to see him in the day and the kids look forward to it especially Eva. Anyway sorry for this complaining post. Many of you know what kind of pregnant lady I am so I will try to keep the posts positive.

Thanks for all the congrats in the last one.

Miriam

The Latest and Greatest from the Reeves

Sorry we haven't blogged in a while but Daniel has been super busy with his new job and Miriam has been sick for weeks now. So here are a few quick pictures of our last saturday. Miriam has not been out of the house in a while because of the nautiousness, so Daniel took her and the kids out. All of these picture were taken by Miriam.

First we went down to the Bosque open spaces and went bird watching. I think these are Sandhill Cranes during their Migrations.



Here are two of the kids holding hands to go look at birds. It was funny because Bubba was worried Eva would run off. Normally she hates holding hands but she wanted to hold hands with Bubba this day.



Then we went to the park were. Eva and Bubba love the park. They must get it from their Dad.

Yes here is the oldest child playing at the park, their fearless leader. Bubba and Eva just laugh at dad and want to make sure mamma saw what dad was doing. Bubba kept going up to Miriam and saying "Mamma look at dad". Eva would just point and yell Daddy. Sorry their are no pictures of the other 2 but Miriam was the one who took all the pictures.

Random

This baby is never coming! We put new plants outside that we got from the nursery and I think they look great. Apparently my cherry tomatoe plants have some bug, daniel is going to try to spray them and hope they live. Life is pretty mundane right now, its getting a bit hotter Alexander is getting more and more bored everyday, but only a few more days and he will have his Auntie Lete and Amma here to entertain him. That will be a refreshing change for him and me. Anyway thats all, I will take pictures of the plants when they get bigger, we got some kind of palm tree too, not the fan kind, I really like it. Anyway Go Celtics.

graduation

Just so everyone knows we graduated or walked for graduation while we were in Utah on our last trip and I was just going to post some pictures from it. These are the only ones I have so if you have anymore feel free to send them to me. ok thats all.

Miriam

First Blog on Guam

Well we finally have internet, cable TV, and home phone service. The only problem is we don't have a TV or a phone, so 2 of the 3 services we are paying for we can not use just yet. The good news is we can now blog because I know so many of you were waiting to hear from us. One comment on the no phone thing, when you buy a cordless phone from a second hand store in guam to save a few bucks make sure it comes with a battery otherwise it won't work, lesson learned. With the TV we are saving our pennies until we can get a nice one. Miriam wants a flat screen so it won't take up so much space, Daniel wants it big.
We have lived in Guam for a total of 12 weeks. with 2 trips back to utah in between. For anyone counting that is a total of 96 hours on Airplanes or in Airports with a 2 year old. Now we have no plans to get on a plane for a long long time.

Daniel works for Landscape Management Systems, a landscape company in Guam. He is an account Manager for the Hilton, Hyatt, Westin, and Onward beach resorts in Guam as well as the tourist district in Guam. Pretty high-end notable accounts. One thing he has learned so far with this job is that the grounds will never look good enough for his employer or the clients, there is always something to improve on. He enjoys it though.

Miriam is doing fine. They have now moved the baby's (Eva) due date for the fourth time back to the original due date the 23rd of June. Alexander is keeping her busy during the days. Her mom and youngest sister are coming on the 13th of June to help miriam with the baby. We are really excited because miriam has not seen her youngest sister (Matelita) since Christmas 2003.

Guam is nice we go the beach every saturday and Alexander does one of two things the whole time. He either throws every rock, piece of coral, even the ocassional hermit crab (mistaking it for one of the first two things) he can find back into the ocean. Or he tries to chase dad into the ocean when Daniel goes snorkeling. Miriam trys to relax on the beach, but usually she ends up dodging rocks, coral, and hermit crabs that Bubba throws, or playing with Alexander as the waves come. We found a new beach that we really like, not as good as other beaches for snorkeling, but way better for relaxing on the soft sand at the beach. Here are some pictures from our last visit to this beach. It is called Ritidian Point beach. One of the reasons why it is so nice is because it is a Wildlife refuge for sea turtles. We have yet to see one but are hoping we will one day. Meanwhile we did see a huge monitor lizard.