Little Battles

I don't think I mentioned that we bought a house.  Yep, our first house.  We're so excited!  But we're not moving in until school ends.  It would be really hard on the boys to put them into a new school for the last two months and driving them to and from school everyday would be a major hassle for me.  I'm already exhausted from this pregnancy and everything else going on right now so we're waiting until the end of May to move in completely.  In the meantime we thought it would be a good time to fix some things about the house the I don't like.  For instance: the kitchen floors were a terrible color plus the cracks and holes in the tiles just didn't make me happy so Chris has been working hard pulling them up and chiseling the cement underneath them. For Conference weekend Chris' brother and his family came to visit so Chris enlisted Shawn and his two boys to help.  They did about three Saturdays worth of work in that one Saturday.  Not only did they get the floor ready for sealing but they also pulled the tiles off the counter tops(I hated those too).  So yesterday Chris sealed the cement floors and ordered the wood, which should be here sometime before this coming Saturday.  This Saturday the plan is to either lay the wood floors(if they're ready) or find the new counter top slabs we want.  After the kitchen is done we'll start on the yard.  The sprinklers should be running by then so we can figure out how best to landscape.  It's  a lot of work and I think Chris is feeling a little overwhelmed by it.  Since I'm expecting, I can't do much.  We don't want to do anything to harm the baby, so I'm avoiding the fumes and chemicals.

Speaking of the baby.  I have now been to two doctors' appointments, and the doctor thinks the baby is doing well.  Apparently I'm 14 weeks along and due October 11.  I got a lot of confused looks while people were trying to figure out my due date.  They would ask me "when was the first day of your last period?"  and I'd say "November 2012"  and they'd give me this look and say "you mean 2013?"  "Nope, 2012!"  I would smile and tell them "I have a seven month old and this was a little unplanned."  Their eyebrows would raise and they'd apologize and say "I can't help you."  While trying to figure out who my doctor was actually going to be, this time, I think I went through the conversation at least five times in one day.  Is my situation so abnormal?  Anyways I finally found the doctor I like, who will help me(I did see one who nicely said he couldn't/wouldn't help me because I want yet another VBAC) and I had an ultrasound to check on the baby and measure it, which is how we figured out my due date. Here is our baby at 12 weeks.

On April 11 my Samuel got a little older.  We celebrated his Seventh Birthday!!!  Chris made him an Oreo Ice cream cake and Sam invited his best friend, Adam, over to play.  He said it was his "best birthday ever!"  He got a new bike and a new Giant Skylander, plus all the love from his grandparents.

 

My biggest battle this last month, though, started during spring break three weeks ago.  I sat Landon down to give him a hair cut and as I'm combing through his hair I come across a bug.  I didn't want to alarm him, but I think I screamed inside my head and tried to convince myself that I was just seeing things and my child DOES NOT HAVE LICE!  But when I saw the second bug I knew that anything I might want to do with the kids that day would not be happening. (my head is starting itch just thinking about it)  I sent him up to shower and texted Chris about the problem.  He left work right away and brought home the shampoo and supplies needed.  By then I had checked Sam and Seth and they also had the dreaded bugs so we washed everyone's hair and the washing of EVERYTHING began.  I think the washer was running for 24 hours straight.  Every sheet, blanket, pillow, coat, jacket and any other article of clothing went through our washing machine.  I also used the RID spray and sprayed down the couches and anything else too big to fit in the washer.  I got lice once when I was 21.  I brought it home from work and my sisters and my mom helped me delouse myself.  I missed their help this time around!  I went through Landon's and Sam's hair and cleaned them out.  Seth was a little harder to pin down.  He screamed and cried and ran away and hid.  By this time Chris had washed and gone back to work and with my low energy level I was exhausted and just couldn't fight the Seth fight.  So I washed his hair again the next day and hoped that it cleared it all up.  However, this last Sunday, while sitting through Stake Conference I was running my fingers through his hair and came across, yep that's right, another bug.  So after only an hour of church we ran home and began the process all over again.  This time I held Seth down while he cried and went through every hair finding at least 20 nits.  Sam only had six or seven and Landon was clean, but the house got torn apart again and I'm still working on getting all the stuffed animals and blankets through the wash.  I'm really hoping we are clean, because if I find another bug, heads will be shaved - including possibly mine.  Does anyone know a good place in the treasure valley to buy wigs?  I have to say, though, I have never been happier to have a bald baby than I was during this whole battle.  I didn't have to do anything to Violet because it's very obvious that her head was not affected by this infestation.

I just LOVE it when my kids bring home little friends from school!

I have to admit that Sam had been telling me that he had lice for several weeks.  I thought it was just because the school sent home a letter telling parents that a child had come down with it in his class and so he was being paranoid.  Apparently I was wrong and should listen to him more often.  

I'm sorry about the lack of pictures.  We actually took quite a few pictures but they are all on Chris' phone and so when I figure out how to get them from there to here I'll post them, so you can see the new house.  

I will say that Seth has been coming up with the strangest notions lately.  This is the conversation we had this morning.

Seth:  Mommy, my eyes are not scary anymore.  

Me:  I'm glad your eyes aren't scary anymore. 

Seth: Your eyes are scary, mommy.

Me:  Why are my eyes scary?

Seth: I don't know.  But my eyes are NOT scary they are green!(I should mention that green is his favorite color)

Me:  I like your eyes, but they are not green they are a beautiful blue.  Like the sea.

Seth:  The Sea?  I can see!  

I think he was a little loopy because he hasn't eaten very much since lunch yesterday and has a fever and very little energy today.