The Accident!!

So for documents sake I'm going to retell all that happened on Tuesday with my dear sweet Lilybug. So that morning really early in the morning I brought Jonathan to the airport to go on a business trip to Reno. We got up at 3:30 am. So after we got home I let the kids sleep some more and then wake Lily up for school. I got her out the door and went along with my day. This day I was feeling particularly sick, no fun. It came time to take Emma to school (sometimes I bring her in my jammies. Luckily I had gotten dressed that day), and on my way my cell phone rang (which I never have) and I missed the call. I see that it was Lily's school so I call right back and the principal answers, and says is this Mrs. Manning I say yes and she says Lily had a accident. My first thought was oh she wet her pants and I need to bring her more. The principal goes on to tell me that Lily ran into a basketball poll and had an inch and a half gash on her head. She tells me that she thinks they may have to call an ambulance and take her to the ER. Right now I'm freaking out, and not able to think a straight thought. I tell her that I'm right there at the school and I'll be right in. I had to lock my other 3 kids in the car. So as I'm rushing in I tell Emma's teacher what happened and that she won't be in school that day. I go in to see Lily and see that she's getting really sleepy, not a good sign for a head injury. I confirm that I want the Ambulance to come. I had to leave Lily with the nurse as my kids were still in the car. Outside there was a kindly lady that has a kid in the same grade as Lily and she offered to stay with my kids while I waited with Lily. As this is all going on I'm frantically trying to get a hold of my neighbor to take my other kids until my Sister-in-law Maria got there. But to no avail. So I decided to rush home and find another neighbor to take them. To my luck my other neighbor had just pulled up, so I ran up and pleaded that she takes my kids for 15 min until Maria got there. When I got back to the school I saw Lily with a neck brace and a back brace strapped to the gurney. This really freaked me out. What was wrong with my little girl. So I get in the ambulance and they tell all they did to her was precautionary. We get right into a room and Grandma Margaret and Christina was already there. Soon after Grandpa Larry, Joseph, and Bryan were there to give Lily a blessing. What a joy to have that much support in my time of need. At that time I was feeling really dizzy so I had to lay my head down on Lily's bed. She was so brave, and the only thing she complained about was the huge head and neck brace. The Dr. cleaned up her head and stitched it right up. Lily didn't even move and the Dr. said that had been his easiest one yet. She didn't have a concussion (thankfully). We left the ER just after about 2 hours (short amount of time if you have ever been to the ER). Lily was still disoriented and seeing spots but she got past that quickly. She will have the stitches out on Wednesday (hopefully). We went over to Margarets house and rested. Margaret and the boys returned later after going to my house to gather stuff for staying the night there. All this time I'm have the worst morning sickness I have experienced so far. So Lily and I had our first Ambulance ride and I hope our last, and I hope none of my other children have to experience that ever. Over all Lily is doing great and I don't think that the scar with show that much as most of it is in her hair. Lily has learned to watch where she is going and to not be in such a hurry. We are just glad that Lily is OK and didn't have something more wrong with her. I'll post a picture as soon as I get one.

Pregnancy Journal Week 10.

I had promised Ultrasound pictures........ but due to my dr getting sick we had to reschedule my appt. to next Tuesday. It's good because Jonathan will be able to go with me. I'm having more days of not being sick, but today wasn't one of those. But thankfully I was at my mother-in-laws house. She helped me as well as my sister-in-law. As I mentioned that I finally found the babies heartbeat. It was 130 bmp, and according to old wives tales it would indicate a boy. But not all babies go according to wives tales. All my first 4 were the same heartbeats, and I had 2 boys to 2 girls. So we will see in about 8 weeks. I have to admit I want a girl so desperately it's crazy. I want it more than I wanted to have a first boy after 2 girls. I cried when I found out Peter was a boy, so this is saying allot. But don't get me wrong I'll take anything I get. I just have to rethink if I want to end at 5. I just really want a girl. We already have names mostly. I can't wait to find out what we are having. Anyways I hope next week I'll have pictures to share. 

Bad day yesterday!

Lily had a accident yesterday. My sister in law helped me out tons yesterday and blogged about it Here. I'm not at home to write more about it.

A beautiful sound!!

Here is a link that leads you to our babies heartbeat. I got my Doppler about a week ago and was very excited to hear the baby. I've been trying this whole time. I finally found it yesterday morning. It has a option to record it on the computer. I also had to find a site that hosts audio so if you go to it, it may be slow. 

First part it's my heart beat just to show you the difference between the mother and the baby. 

Tomorrow I have a Dr Appt. I'm getting a ultrasound, so I'll do my journal and post pictures from that. 

My Pregnancy Journal Week 9

I got this Doppler yesterday and I'm so very excited. I can't hear the baby yet but that is to be expected. Maybe in the next 1 to 3 weeks. It's nice to know that the baby is still there and doing fine. When you can't feel the baby move those months in between appts. are really long. At the time being we have been hearing our own heart beats. The kids love it, and Peter is trying to take claim of it. Other than that I've pretty  much been the same but I've tackled my morning sickness to a point. With my totally radical 80's wrist bands, zofran (morning sickness pills aka golden pills), and ginger ale. My fatigue is still a big problem. Right around 2 o'clock I get so tired and want to take a long nap. That's right about when my girls need to be picked up. Then after I want to get their homework done, but I'm just too tired to help them with it. So we try to get it done on Wednesdays (that's their early release day). I can not wait until I feel a little more human. Next Wednesday I have another Ultra Sound. I'm just so excited to see the baby again. Then after that I'll have to wait 8 to 10 weeks to have another one and I'll be able to know what we are having. So I'm very close to being done with the morning sickness, and be able to hear the heartbeat with my little toy. All in all we are in for some good times. 

Funny Bird

Here is another video of our parrot Jack. She talks alittle more and makes funny noises. 

Is it the 80's still?

Yesterday Jonathan and I went to eat Chinese for valentines day. I have been craving it big time, so I indulged myself and ate too much. It set off my all day sickness big time. I was going to seriously lose all of my lunch and didn't have my morning sickness medicine with me. So Jonathan found the closest Walgreens via his GPS and got me some wonderful seabands. They are wrist bands that look like they come straight from the 80's. They are really tight and have a plastic ball attached to them. They push the ball into a pressure point in your wrist that alleviates nausea. I felt better instantaneously. He also brought me out a wonderful card and a big Hershey's kiss. I have a great husband.

My Pregnancy Journal Week 8

I thought I would update earlier this time due to my Due Date being sooner than I thought. Which is great considering all of my previous Due Dates being later than I thought? So what has this week brought me? EXPENSIVE medicine that takes away my morning sickness. I’m taking less than is prescribed as I can’t justify swallowing 4 dollar pills three times a day. I’m not That bad off, and ginger ale is working for me. I have a really great husband that let me buy a Doppler (valentines present) so I can hear the baby’s heartbeat when ever I want. Takes away a lot of stress between the time the baby is big enough to hear the heartbeat and being able to feel the baby move around a lot. So in a couple of weeks I’ll be able to do that. I’ve rented one before but now I’m just going to be able to keep it. It also has a cord that will allow me to record it on my computer. So watch out for little baby heartbeat in the next couple weeks to a month.  Jonathan has been so patient with me being so emotional, but he’s a pro at this. I’m not in maternity clothes yet, but I have a huge problem. We were getting rid of things and I just “knew” that I wouldn’t need all my maternity clothes for many years, and I would be much smaller when the time came for me to get pregnant again (HA). So what did I do?  I got rid of all of them. Now I don’t have any!!!!! OOOOPPSSS!!! My bad. 

Valentines Day

Lily and Emma had their Valentines exchange and parties today. They had a great time.
I stayed up too late to help them decorate their boxes. Lily said her box was the prettiest there. I also took all their candy and will give it to them sparingly. I don't need a crying Peter and hyper girls. 

Funny Peter

Peter loves playing the piano. If the girls are in the middle of playing he pushes them aside and plays Happy Birthday to you. It's very cute.

Andrea my sister in law wrote a post about her nieces and nephews, and she was decribing how Peter says YEAH so I made a video of it. It is very cute and I love it. 

My Pregnancy Journal Week 7

This last week was a week of anticipation....... I was waiting for my ultrasound to tell me how far along I was and a actual due date. I went to get my blood drawn on Saturday. I just felt like I was a pin cushion. I've been sick still, and very tired. Smells drive me crazy. So I've had a week of laying around and trying not to throw up. So fast forward to today. I was so nervous to go and see what we would find on the ultrasound. I felt good about this pregnancy, but you still get nervous whether you'll see a heartbeat or not. It's very scary as I've heard of many women not seeing a heartbeat, and have to go on and have a D&C. I had my appt. at 9:10 am and after allot of waiting I went into the ultrasound room and we saw that the baby had grown from a little bitty line to a little blob on the screen. To my delight we saw that it had a heartbeat and it measured 148 BPM. Ohhhhh what a sigh of relief. To see a heartbeat brings down the risk of miscarriage to 3%, and I have a 64% chance. I also found out that I'm 7 weeks 5 days pregnant so I'm further along than I thought. I'm due Sept. 23rd, and the funny thing is Christina my sister-in-law is due Sept. 17th. Not even a week apart. Oh my poor mother in law. So we will see who will go first. This is my 5th and her 1st so we will see. Oh and the best news is that my Dr. gave me a prescription for a pill that will help me with my morning sickness. YEAH!!!! We will see how that will work out. More good news I don't have to have my blood taken anymore. I just have to have another ultrasound in 2 weeks. OHHHHH darn!!! hehehe. Things are looking really good so I'm happy. 

Fun at our House.

We had another fun night with Maria and Bryan on Friday. We played "Would You Rather" again. The next question might be Would you rather- Go to Jonathan and Carries house to be completely embarrassed or have water dripping in your eye every two seconds for 24 hours a day for a week. I'd be really curious what the answer would be. 

Maria got the most embarrassing challenges. At the very beginning of the game she was subject to letting us put whatever makeup on her any way we wanted. WAH HAHAHA!!!

Here is the before picture. 

This is my handy work. I wanted to finish there. 

But Jonathan thought it wasn't embarrassing enough

(not a picture you would get very often, Jonathan applying makeup)

The finished product. She had to stay that way the entire night. 

(she looks good no matter what we did to her)

She was such a good sport, and the only one that had to do embarrassing things. She also had to reenact the Neapolian Dynamite dance scene. I'm not putting it up unless I have her permission. So after all of this she did win the game. 

WE SHALL BE FREE!!!!!

OHHHHHHHHHHHHH I'm just so excited................... OHHHHHHHHH happy days are too come. (oh I have tons of happy days, but happier) This is something that is 8 years in the making (for me, but Jonathan more). Jonathan finished his class: Business Negoiations last night. So starting next Tuesday he is on his last class. WAHHHHHHOOOOOOOOO. <------That deserves to be it's own sentence. It is just so surreal that it's almost over. I'll have my husband home more. He won't have homework looming over him weekly. No more me trying to be his force field while doing his homework. (Very hard task concidering the kids flock to him whenever he's around.) The kids are so exstatic. Emma asks me quite frequently when Daddy is going to graduate. (By the way May 9th at the Cardinal Stadium) (aka university of phoenix stadium). He has worked so hard. He's working more than full time and going to school full time. His job requires him to manage 60 to 70 accounts monthly. Well not at this time but come summer we better watch out. Summer time is the time it gets busy. But Jonathan is figuring a way to maximize his time so he will be more efficient. He is always thinking of ways to improve everything he does, it's quite amazing. He blows me away with all that he comes up with. Some times I wish I could think like him some times. OK back to my excitement of his (and my) impending freedom. I'm so glad that he persevered and did it. There were times that it was so hard and graduation seemed so far off that Jonathan considered not needing to finish. But he saw the importance of having a degree, and how it would make him a much better provider the decision to keep on track was obvious. Now he's almost done, 5 short weeks and it's over. I just can't express how proud I am of my determined husband, and that is what he is, determined. If he wants something he tries his best to get it. All I can say that we are all excited to see more of him. Good job Jonny we all love you so much, and thank you for setting a great example for our children.  (ohhh in five weeks don't be surprised if you see a post that is filled with CAPS. I'm not yelling I'm just to happy to contain myself.)

My Pregnancy Journal Week 6

I really don't know when I'm due so as to what week I'm on is merely a guess. So I'm SICK, SICK, SICK it's good because I know my hormone levels are going up. I've never felt as sick as I do now. If I'm sitting down I'm ok I don't feel like I'm going to lose everything I've eaten. But now my house is seriously in need of some TLC. I try to do some here and there but it progresses to tornado valley in an instant. I'm so tempted to hire someone to clean it for me. If you know me I don't like someone else cleaning my house. So I have got to be bad. Also I'm tired all the time. I feel as if I haven't slept in days when I'm sleeping as much as I can (not easy to do with 4 kids to take care of). I have to get blood taken more than I like (well I don't like it at all). As you can see I'm bruised up. I'm sure I have to get my blood drawn weekly until I'm 12 to 14 weeks along. I hope this doesn't sound all negative and such. I'm really happy I'm going to be blessed for the 5th time. I just want this to be very realistic for me. I want to remember all that I felt. Sometimes you forget all the little details. It's nice that I'm going to be able to look back at this pregnancy and remember the details with accuracy.