Meanwhile, you know kids... Billy was so intrigued by what the woman was doing. He stood behind the husband and tried to look in the stall (they left the door open, since they both can't fit in the stall while she was puking). I ushered him on and then once we were in the stall, he proceeded to kneel and try to peak underneath....

I can tell you she probably had eggs for breakfast, because that was what appeared to be in chunks on the bathroom floor in our stall.

Good times.... Good times.

There just isn't enough time in the day. Little B started pre-school and this week (and next) Big B is out of town (country) so I get the morning ritual all for myself. Ritual of getting Little B off to school on time. Once I drop him off, it seems like I blink and it's time to pick him up again, 6 hours later. Where does the time go? Three infant feedings, my breakfast, lunch, dishes... if I'm lucky a little down time. Right now I want to sleep. I opted for coffee instead.

I have a bubble on my eye. Huh?! Seriously. I looked in the mirror yesterday because I could feel that something was in there. It's a little bubble on the white of my eye. If it doesn't go away soon I'm going to be really annoyed.

Absolutely love that Netflix has the Watch Instantly available on the Wii. I have watched four seasons of Bones and then ran out. Waiting anxiously for season 5. Love it. Tons of stuff in our queue, they even have some Thomas and Caillou.

I better cut this short. Tick tock, it's almost time to leave the house again! Things to do!

B started his pre-Pre-K -- two two-week summer sessions before officially starting preschool. Not a tear was shed when he went to school. He loves it, but probably because they have trains and tracks there. Unfortunately the playground is one for mosquitoes too. His second day of pre-K, I picked him up to find he had about 12 bites, 4 of which were on his head. That and he carried a pound of sand home on his head, in his hair.

So anyway, the little guy is starting school. Enter our newest addition. She joined us early in June and it's been wonderful, but hard to get used to the whole infant thing again. Wow. She has to eat AGAIN? LOL. Eat, cry, sleep, change diaper. Heavy on all except for the sleep part! Though she is starting to sleep longer through the night, which is wonderful. She also has started smiling in response to funny faces or cooing, so the fun times are right ahead of us!

Other than that, it's been all about the business. The dog is driving me crazy. I need a maid. I hate spiders.

That's all for now, don't want to overload you or anything. ;-) Have some things to do before things get moving again for the day (baby wakes up and time to pick up the little guy from school).

Yay!!!

But, once the doctor came in and started, the fears subsided somewhat. He did all kinds of measurements, and it wasn't until he said Congratulations was I relieved.

The estimated due date is June 15th.

I've been taking it easy, not wanting anything to cause a problem after last time. My workouts are pretty much done with. I'm too exhausted anyway, but am hoping to take Billy for a walk today to the grocery store. Exhaustion, nausea, bloating, indigestion.... welcome back! I welcome it all back if that means the baby will be healthy.

Now I need to dig the maternity clothes out and see what I can wear. Apparently after the first pregnancy you tend to show sooner.... my clothes are getting a bit too tight!

I despise Citibank. I am using it as much as I can for now just to hit my $50 reward mark so I can cancel the damned card and get my earned cash back. The moment I see the reward hit the mark, the card is going in the shredder and I'm cancelling the account.

More to come later!

So, when I found comparable bags of rice in Walmart, I was thrilled. And then there was the whole rice shortage thing. Watch this progression of the price of the same bag of rice over a the span of 1 year 4 months:

03/28/08 - $ 9.58
05/01/08 - $10.48
06/25/08 - $12.78
09/14/08 - $15.18
10/22/08 - $18.24
07/09/08 - $18.24

Looks like the price increase has stopped.

Just thought you folks in Hawaii would like a laugh at the price I have to pay for my rice. Yikes.

Meanwhile, I'm paying $2.78 for a gallon of 2% milk. So take THAT ;-)

Right. Busy. So, what have we done this week? Mowed the lawn, several trips to the grocery store, got new passport photos, doctor appointment, went to the library, sent off passport papers, renewed membership to the zoo, laundry, searched Lowes and Home Depot for a replacement grease tray for the grill as well as a replacement filter for the AC unit, and did prep and painting in the sun room. Also drove to Orlando for the inspection on the potential site of the new store.

Hopefully we'll do some stuff outside today. The sky is clear, and unfortunately there's not much of a breeze, but a little sun will do us good. Hoping to take B to the beach and the zoo this coming week. And why not? Maybe clean the car today. Or scrub the back porch. Or maybe both. Need to do more work in the sun room though. Look forward to hauling myself up the ladder to apply caulk. Not.

Feels good to get things done without worrying about needing to do this and that for work. I have a feeling the free time will dry up soon. We'll be headed to France sometime later this summer or early fall. Should be interesting.

B tried to watch The Tale of Despereaux -- he must not have been too into it because he didn't demand that I pause it and also shut it off early in favor of doing something else. Hmm. I wasn't watching it with him, so maybe it just was dull.

His funniest thing he says now is "gods sake!" I'm sure this is because I frequently hiss "For gods sake!" I tried to convince him that the better thing to say is "oh man!" or "for goodness sake!" but he insists it's "gods sake". I really am trying to watch what I say. Oh, he still mutters under his breath "dammit" occasionally. Oops. At least he's a polite child, for the most part. Please and Thank You are always coming out of his mouth. :-)

Been pretty busy this week so far, time pretty much flies until after dinner, then the day feels a little long. Probably a good time to give in and go to bed, but then something else always comes up and now look at the time, it's 2:30am and I'm still awake.

I was triumphant in locating my passport, birth certificate, social security card, and other important items today after two days of searching. I was positive that it had all gotten thrown away during my last desk "cleaning", but just when I thought I was going to have to go to Miami to take care of the lost passport thing, I gave another look somewhere, and what do you know?! Found it!! Whew. So thrilled.

I have a list of things to do, of which includes getting a new passport, getting a new social sec. card (updating info), getting a passport for B, painting the back porch, and a few other things. But, we also have fun things to do, like make sock puppets, make some balloon animals (made my first dog tonight), etc.

As you can see, I don't really have much to say. Just thought I'd take a minute to update. Time for bed.

The summer has been wonderful before July rolled around. We spent a week in New York over Billy's 3rd birthday. Billy had a great time with Grandma and the rest of the family. We left the dog there and headed home for a few days before we flew to Hawaii for 3 weeks. Had a great time there too, the days were planned out well and we visited some places I actually had not been to. Bill got some business stuff done. We spent a long week in Maui. (A week is just too long in Maui anymore and was too windy for the beach!) Got to see Grandma & Grandpa & the rest of the family before we left, as well as some family I haven't seen for a while at Mel's baby shower.

Came home at the end of June and took a pregnancy test (or three). Yay, pregnant me. Calculations would have put me at about 5 or 6 weeks. We spent a few happy days at home, I got a doctor appointment scheduled for the following week, and then we hit the road for NC to pick up the dog. We got to see Mom and Johnny, collected the dog, and were left NC the next morning after breakfast around 10am. At a gas stop somewhere at 2pm I started bleeding. We were home by 7ish, I talked to the doctor, and he suggested I go to the ER. So, off to the ER where I spent 3 hours uncomfortably, only to leave with lab reports confirming that I had been pregnant, but the hcg levels were too low to be around 5 weeks, so likely the baby had passsed. "Sorry sorry sorry" said the on-call doctor, who then proceeded to say (jokingly) that why would we want *another* one when the one we had was TROUBLE. (Billy was quietly watching a Thomas DVD.)

Let me just say that miscarriage is the gift that keeps giving, if grief is a gift. The physical loss is ... therapy-inducing.

But, I'm okay. Other than I lost my job on Friday. So, lot's of free time. Good, because I guess I'll spend the time looking for work and creating a budget. And, finding a budget-friendly preschool.

Lemons. But I love lemonade.

Anyway, I'm not complaining. I'm in awe!

Hope you had a wonderful birthday, little "baby" brother!