A catch-up post

It’s been a while since I have blogged about my family and not products or being hacked.  Fortunately, the hackers didn’t get my blog.  That might have put me over the edge.  I am not sure these pregnancy hormones could have handled that too.

We have been busy around here as usual.  Last weekend we went to on Ole Miss basketball game.  Ford was really good.  He sat in my lap and concentrated hard on the black bear (ridiculous mascot) on the court and was highly interested in the cheerleaders’ belly buttons.  We have talked about them for a week now!!!

Trey and I made a flying trip to Jackson yesterday afternoon for a wedding and came back home this morning.  We discussed baby stuff (when he’d let me) on the way down there and back.  Neither one of us can “fully” agree on what to call Toto.  I finally told Trey that I am tired of people’s opinions.  I didn’t want to tell anyone anything anymore and whatever we decided they would need to accept.  The number one question I have been asked for the last two months from family, friends, and people at work is, “Does the baby have a name yet?”  As soon as I throw out some possibilities I start getting opinions.  I hear…. “Oh I love that one.” Or “I like this better than that.” Or “That names reminds me of _______, so don’t name him that.”  Or “My favorite is _________.”    I told Trey that we aren’t going to discuss names with anyone else and when we decide on one for sure THEN we will share the news.  On our journey home we came up with some new possibilities.  So sorry people, your input doesn’t count anymore. 

One night I heard Trey and Ford having a large time while they were bathing.  I went in to discover that I am not the only person in the house that loves a shower cap!

 

Ford’s favorite thing to wear; boots, blue jeans and his John Deere shirt

 

Applying a little make-up before school like Mommy. 

I have 14 more weeks until D- Day.  There is a lot to be done in 14 weeks.  Toto’s room is complete, construction wise and the baby bed is in there but other than the crib he doesn’t have much of a room.  I am getting new bedding and haven’t ordered that yet.  We also need to paint some furniture, get window treatments made and wash all the clothes.  I am sooo glad that Toto and Ford are born in the same season.  I honestly don’t have to buy this baby much at all.  We are also getting me a more family friendly car.  The Accord will have to go.  I am sad because I love my car, but I don’t think it’s feasible with two car seats.  

Ford and Daddy planting some trees on our property that we plan to build on one day. 

 

Ford’s crown, not to be confused with a hat, that he made at Sunday school.  He was proud to tell me that God made day and night. 

 

Pops really wanted to take Ford over to his friend’s house so he could ride the house-n-buggy and feed the donkey.  Ford was proud of his donkey feeding skills.

 

I honestly think our home renovations will never end.  We are redoing the back of our house now.  We are adding on to our porch, building an arbor and a patio.  Trey decided he needed to dig up some bushes and plant new ones today. 

 

An outfit for Toto

HACKED

My facebook account was hacked.  Please delete Kathleen Morgan.  I have opened a new facebook account.  My e-mail was also hacked.  My new e-mail is jlamar0044@hotmail.com.  I am praying my blog doesn’t get hacked too.

Some of my favorite products

I love products.  What kind of products?  Beauty accessory sort of products is what I am referring to.  I have a lot of them in my bathroom and I have to use a great amount of self-control when I hit that section of Wal-Mart.  Today I am going to share a few of my favorites with you. 

I love lotion.  I lather my legs up with Jergens and my upper half with Bath and Body Works, but my feet have their own special lotion.  My mother buys me this from Sally’s Beauty Salon and its fantastic.  My feet are addicted. 

 

Next let’s talk hair.  Oh this mane that I have needs help on a daily basis.  I am not one of those people who can wash and dry their hair and hit the door.  OHHH no!!!  My locks are highly flammable and require much work.  Some of you might wonder since I wear it pulled back 360 days a year, but it needs lots of help.

First, I love this Rusk spray.  It smells soooo good and makes your hair have a shine.  My hair is super dry and dull so this adds some spice to it.  I have to order it online.  I used to buy it at Trade Secret but they don’t carry it anymore. 

 

You all will love this next one…. It’s a glossing polish for your hair that I also purchase at Sally’s Beauty Salon.  It’s for African American hair.  I don’t discriminate.  I have used it since high school!!!!!!  I didn’t realize I was shopping in the African American section of Sally’s until about a year ago.  I laughed!!!  It tames my frizz in such a nice way!

 

I have short eyelashes and within the last year or so my kind of mascara was discontinued.  I have such luck.  I decided to find a new kind at Wal-Mart.  I settled with the Rimmel brand and I will tell you it’s great.  My eyelashes seem much longer than they did with the old kind.  It’s a keeper. 

 

I saved the best for last because this could be LIFE CHANGING for some of you.  I am not lying.  Listen closely those of you who have hairy arms.  I was not blessed without arm hair.  Now I don’t look like a gorilla either, but I have enough to notice.  My arm hairs aren’t black, but they are dark.  I have been dying my arm hairs for probably over 15 years.  This can be found at Wal-Mart or Walgreens.  It tingles, but it will make those arm hairs so blonde you barely notice them.  

I feel like Oprah sharing my favorite things with you!!!

It's Done

I am seriously exhausted.  Thinking about blogging makes me even sleepier, but if I don’t blog now then I will need to say too much on my next post and my mom, Gran, will call me and tell me I wrote too much!!  Love you, mom. 

Last Sunday Ford went to a birthday party at a kid’s gym.  It was right in the middle of nap time so I had to wake him up from his deep sleep which didn’t go over too well.  He wasn’t ready to get up and when we got to the party it took him a good 20 minutes to even get out of my lap (what lap I have left).    Once he warmed up he had a large time.

 

After the party we went to see some baby goats and to ride 4 wheelers.  Yes, I rode too.  I had to make sure that Ford didn’t fall off and I told Trey he couldn’t go fast or hit any bumps.  I don’t imagine I will do that again.  I haven’t gotten positive feedback from that idea. 

 

Ford is obsessed with himself.  He loves to watch videos and see pictures of himself on my phone.  It’s a normal daily activity. 

 

I got an e-mail about the blog books being on sale (only 10% off, but still) so I decided to get my 2011 blog published.  I went through all the steps and when I hit create it said the picture limit was 1,500 pictures and I had 1,524.  I was ticked.  Instead of deleting 24 pictures I made 2 books. 

 

Ford loves his bike that Gran and BoomPa gave him for his birthday last year.  He can finally reach the peddles and he has mastered the breaks.  He has no clue how to peddle a bike to save his life.  We went outside yesterday after he put on his uniform and attempted to ride.  Being that I am 23 weeks pregnant and I am carrying a cannon ball on my stomach it isn’t exactly easy for me to help him.  I tried to show him how to peddle and then I gave up and pushed him around the corner.  When we got around the corner I felt like I had run 5 miles and could kill over and die.  No time for death though, we had to turn around and go home.  I suggested that we ride his tractor, but that wasn’t on his agenda for the afternoon. 

IT’S DONE!!!  IT’S DONE!!!  Toto’s room is DONE!!!!  I am so pleased with how it turned out.  We went from this….

To this….

You can honestly not even tell that a room has been added on.  It’s like Toto’s room always was there.  Now it’s time to start decorating.  We have two doors leading into his room which will be nice depending on where you are in the house.  I think it will be just perfect!

Yesterday my blood pressure was up a little bit and I felt dizzy all day at school.  My mom sent me an e-mail checking to see how things were.  I told her between the hernia, my sciatic nerve issues, and being dizzy I might lose my mind.  If you have good health you need to seriously appreciate it.  This nerve mess I have going on might do me in real soon. 

Until next time….

The Big H

I love a field trip, if you will, to do something fun and interesting.  No, I am not talking about a school related field trip, but a family one.  A few weeks ago I decided we needed to paint pottery.  Last weekend we went shopping for stuff for Toto’s room, and this weekend was a trip to see the Peabody ducks.  Now Trey doesn’t share in the same excitement that I do about a “family fun day.”  He would rather stay in Mayberry, drink coffee, and talk about manly things that don’t interest me at all.  I like to give him my whole spill about the importance of family time and how when Toto comes it will be harder to get out and about.  He caved and went to Memphis with us.

 

They take this duck business extremely serious.  We got there about 10 minutes before the gig got started and I was quickly told I couldn’t sit where we were.  Luckily a lady hollered across the red carpet (fancy, I know) that we could sit on the floor by her.  The “duck master” came out and gave a 10 minute spill on the history of the hotel, the ducks, and our rules.  Basically, this guy was a huge goob and still hasn’t realized it. 

 

Ford was waiting on the ducks.

 

Those suckers scooted right on out of the elevator and hopped into the fountain. 

 

Ford and Gran

 

Gran, Ford, and BoomPa

 

He loved the ducks.  We were some of the last people left in the lobby watching the little guys swim around the fountain. 

 

Then we had to go up on the roof to see the duck palace.  Ford found it very interesting that they slept up there. 

   Then went to eat at Gus’s Fried Chicken.  If you noticed the mark below his eye, he fell off of the slide at school.  I got two messages from his teacher that day.  The first one said that Ford took off all his clothes (only a diaper left) in the playhouse and then I got another one that said he fell off the slide and may have a black eye.  Rough day for the little man last week.

And such a big day wore my little man out. 

Latest Pregnancy Developments….

The famous question that I am asked just about daily is, “Does the baby have a name yet?”  No.  I am sorry to tell you, but no.  Trey and I have only actually talked about a name twice and quite honestly we didn’t get very far.  We do know that Toto will have a family name, but trying to think of something as crafty as Jefferson Hannaford is a bit more difficult than one might think.  Puddin really wants to monogram something so hopefully we will decide something in a few weeks.

The builders finally came back this week after a 15 day vacay.  They say they will be finished with the room on Monday and the floors will be completed on Tuesday or Wednesday!!!!!!  I am really excited about that because I had to invest in a Swiffer today to clean my hardwood floors.  Those guys have tracked the white chalky sheetrock stuff all over my house.

I went to the doctor on Tuesday and I was right… I do have a big H.  Hernia, that is.  My kind is rare in women and won’t go away on its own.  The doctor said I would have to have surgery to repair it after the baby is born.  Not exactly what I wanted to hear, but there isn’t anything I can do about it now.  I am not supposed to be picking up Ford, but that is easier said than done when your baby is crying, holding his arms up for you, or yanking your pants down for you to pick him up.  She said it wouldn’t hurt the baby, only me, so I still hold Ford whenever I want to.

I also discussed this pain I have going down my right buttocks into my leg.  (Oh and Trey almost died when I blogged about my buttocks pain last week!!!!!!)  The doctor said that Toto is on my sciatic nerve, and again there is nothing I can do about that either.  Hot dog!

This baby moves and kicks ALL the time.  I do not remember Ford moving around so much.  If this is any indication of Toto’s personality then I am in some kind of trouble.  He will be a wild child.

The little man is slightly obsessed with his rain boots and blue jeans.  Every day after school he wants to put on his “uniform” and go ride his tractor.  He usually gets what he wants….

Go Away Fever

We have been fighting sickness at our house since Wednesday.  I was called at school with the news that Ford had a fever of 101 and I needed to come get him.  We went straight to the doctor and I was told he had a little fluid on his left ear and his tonsils were a little red.  I looked at the doctor and asked what that meant.  He said whatever it is you caught it early.  I felt proud of that news and we left with the baby “cure all”, amoxicillin.  Well, today is Sunday and the child STILL has fever.  I thought we were in the clear this morning before church because it was 99.1.  I thought, finally some normalcy.  After we got home from church it was 102.  We eat at Puddin and Pops’s house every Sunday for lunch.  During lunch I looked at Ford’s throat and the poor little guy’s tonsils are so huge and red they are touching.  Gran and BoomPa have volunteered to take him to the doctor tomorrow since I really need to go back to work. 

We have been eating some popsicles to reduce our fever….

 

Last weekend we went to Mud Monkey Pottery for a weekend outing and painted some.  Ford’s truck turned out super cute.  He is pleased with his work. 

 

A lot of schools nowadays have a strict uniform policy.  Ford has his own uniform.  It consists of rain boots, blue jeans, a t-shirt of some sort (usually with a utility vehicle on the front), a jacket, hat, and glasses.  Do you think he is trying to be like somebody?????

 

One of Ford’s little girlfriends at school had a birthday party yesterday.  There is no greater fun for a little kid than a bouncy house.

Ford always has big plans for Pops and his tractor.  Today Ford worked out a deal with him.  He told Pops if he ate his lunch real good then he could ride him on the tractor.  Ford was even nice enough to invite Puddin to ride in the wagon with him.  I think Ford is just rotten!!!

Preparing for the big ride…

And here is the hormonally pregnant blog author herself at 22 weeks pregnant!!!  I promise to act normal again someday for those of you who are annoyed with me!