Sadie

 

Alright we are just stupid. I know we are, but when you meet Sadie you will see why you cant resist. A friend of Derek's bred his pure bred black lab with a pure bred yellow lab and had just a few puppies remaining to find homes, 2 black labs and 1 yellow lab. Literally at 6a.m. yesterday Derek asked if I'd like one, and I being stupid, said yes. First I wanted the yellow girl that remained, then switched to the black girl that remained. And not kidding, 3 hours later Derek came home with our new Sadie. She is really cute and for the most part is just a typical puppy, some pee accidents but she is only 2&1/2 months old.  We bought a kennel this time though - to train and make my life easier since in about a month another addition is going to arrive in this house.

We took her swimming yesterday and she totally liked it! She didnt freak out trying to find a way out of the pool and swam a bit with me and the kids, it was so cool! Even though its adding to our chaos, she seems to give Rocky a bit of companionship which has helped to keep them both happy. I like that we have a kennel this time around so I can just put her in there and not worry about losing my favorite shoes when I leave the house. :)

Old, New and Stuff In Between

 Pictures of the "boys" room with the big boy beds all set up. Just have to fill the drawers with the other piles of clothes laying around the house. 

This is an old picture of my Nana that was just emailed to me today.  She was basically my mom, and is the lady I'm named after (my real name is Giovanna).  She was quite the gardener. I miss her so much. 

Decided that since one remodel is done, time for another.  Derek demoed our guest bathroom about 2 weeks ago (aka as the "boys" bathroom according to our kids).  

Pictures below of the remodel almost complete.  Just waiting on someone to come over and tile the shower.

In baby news, today's appointment revealed he is measuring almost a week ahead, which was kind of exciting.  I'm feeling over all good, just feel like I have 80 year old hips so I'm kind of over that feeling. Trying to enjoy these last few weeks as a family of 4....

Our Boy Can SWIM!!!

Bobby can swim with no floaties!

Yesterday we spent the whole day with Derek's family at their house swimming.  It was my father's (in-law) birthday and hot!  Most of the family was with us and we had a great time hanging out, swimming, playing and eating.

Around 4pm yesterday Bobby was taught how to swim by his Papa Bob! I was inside the house playing cards, and I could hear my father (in law) and Bobby yelling at us to look outside and watch - I watched as my little 4 year old son leaped fearlessly into the pool, come shooting up to the top of the water and doggy paddle back to the side of the pool, push himself up and crawl out of the pool to repeat the process again!

I'm so happy he can do it, but now REALLY nervous! I know that Bobby can swim good enough with no floaties, but he cant touch anywhere on the bottom of the pool except the steps to get in so he may overestimate his ability to swim all over the place and get tired...we will still be on high alert but at least my heart can rest a little bit knowing he understands much more now.

Wish I could have captured it on video, I'm sure this week he will be at it again, so I'll have to try and record his latest accomplishment

We are so proud of him! He's the youngest on that side of the family to learn how to swim....what an awesome day yesterday!

Uh, June?

Its still June, right?

Whew. Just checking.

Derek's birthday was 6/10, then Father's Day 6/16. We didnt do much since I'm a grump-a-saurus lately.  My apologies to everyone around me.  I'm sorry to all you poor innocent souls who've had to be near me after a melt down or extremely long day. I'm trying to get myself out of this constant PMS...now pass the ice cream. :)

I am freaking tired though. Man, I am tired. Oh and did I mention HOT? Yeah. HOT. The kids are relentless. Just so much to do everyday.  School...I registered for my 2 summer classes and did NOT realize for the summer I take 2 CLASSES simultaneously. Two? Are you freaking kidding? Normal routine is 1 class every 8 weeks. Thankfully they are NOT math classes so they are somewhat manageable and easier for me, but I am stressed to the max. I neglect HW, the house is clean, I neglect housework (ha, "HW" again, blah) and HW is neglected. And the kids....? Speaking of....where are those...hey...get...back...HERE! It honestly feels like that.  For basically having zero help (and I mean ZERO) and juggling so much junk alone, I think I'm doing ok...

School. UGGGHHHHH The fall semester starts 8/26 and if I can deliver little man a week early like I did with Brooklyn, then I'd have a newborn and the new semester starting all at once. WHAT. WERE. WE. THINKING.????????????? So, I was debating: register or not register? I only have 1&1/2 years left. Not much left and I just did not want to stop. I want to graduate. I want to be done with this saga. So I've decided I will go ahead and enroll because I'm receiving so much in pell grants for the fall & spring semesters that more than enough of my tuition is covered, and hopefully my books plus some extra change. Thank Goodness. I'd like to put that extra free money aside for Bobby's preschool tuition. We shall see if its enough.

Here are some photos from the last few weeks....

Daddy's Birthday...

A quick little visit from some friends in town 

Some recent pictures of our 2 trouble makers

And a belly shot at almost 7&1/2 months pregnant (I live in my bathing suit these days)

Kids Are Funny

 Getting into mommy's closet and wearing her stuff and making a big mess 

- just wait Bobby....I will embarrass you one day!

 Nice tan line Brooklyn...That tan is with no sunscreen (yes bad mommy) but she tans in like 5 minutes just like her Daddy.  She definitely has some of the native american showing through on her skin tone...

 Playing a game with the kids - encouraged them to first draw what they see, then to try and draw stuff for mommy to guess. In the picture below Bobby drew those stick figures which I didnt think was half bad for a 4 year old. (But I have nothing to compare it)

 Brooklyn drawing circles or "o's" and she says. She is quite good with holding a pen.

 Bobby said this last picture below was a person in a boat. Hard to tell but the boat was pretty good, the person doesnt look to bad either.  The kids loved playing on the white board.  

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Yesterday was the 2nd of 3 weddings.  Two weddings in less than a week - yikes!  This wedding was at Milagro Winery in "Ramona", more like almost Santa Ysabel.  It was a relaxing wedding, the groom was pretty funny, and his mom is equally as silly.  The location was all outdoors but had plenty of shade - thank goodness!  Yesterday was H-O-T! At just about 28 weeks (officially on Tuesday) I was feeling ok.  Thankfully there were plenty of cool places to sit, and lots of water floating around.  It was again another nice time spent with Derek...

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We went to our 1st wedding of the summer, 1 of 3 weddings for this summer.  Was such a pretty location, small and intimate here in San Diego.  One of the best parts of this wedding was the big leather couches in the room that I could park my nearly 7 month pregnant butt on throughout the night lol...  Breathtaking views at the location.  Numerous people commented on Derek's bowtie - he was quite happy with his fashion statement, and then for me, most people could hardly tell I was pregnant by my outfit which made me feel good since I've been feeling like a beluga whale lately.  We had a great time over the weekend...