It's been a while since I've been on here and actually posted something, but since I tend to be on Facebook just as much as MySpace, it's a middle ground where everyone who doesn't see my MySpace blog to come & read what is going on in my life.
Joshua & I started talking horseback riding lessons back in October of this past year, and I was learning the basics of barrel racing, in order to compete one day. Joshua is riding for therapy. It's something he can relate to & he talks to the horses. It's been going well, Joshua enjoys it so much, and I am so glad that he does. My mom actually bought him a pony named, Phoenix, for Christmas, and a 7 months old horse named, Expresso, for when he gets much older. Both are very beautiful and gentle. It's so funny how curious they are of Joshua. They are always sniffing him out and following him around, if the can.
The evening of December 4th, came as a suprise to not only me, but Jodie as well. We found I am expecting again. Yes, after all this time, I am pregnant again. It was definately not expected, I was soon to be going back to school to get my RN, but I guess life had other plans, as it usually does. So my plans of going back to school are yet again, post-poned. I'm excited, but I'm also nervous at the same time. Some of you already know that I have had a miscarriage with my first pregnancy, & I went into preterm labor twice when I was pregnant with Joshua. So I've been on pins and needles a bit, worrying if I might, yet again, lose another child, or have more preterm labor with this one. I haven't had any morning sickness so far, just a lil' nausia every once in a great while, usually late at night. If my estimated due date is correct, i'm due August 2, 2010, so that would put me at exactly 11 weeks pregnant today. I'm glad that I will be having a summer baby, that way Joshua & the baby-to-be's birthday will have a good spacing between them, plus I'll be able to show off my baby bump at the beach, which I never got to do with Joshua, because I didn't start showing until it started getting cold 'cause he's my winter baby, and all you can do is winter is cover up & try to stay warm. I'm also glad I have had 4 years to appreciate and enjoy Joshua's milestones, and work with him as much as possible with his speech & other issues he's been having. We've told Joshua he is having a lil' brother or sister soon, but I don't really think he quite understands.
Joshua will be turning 4 in a few days, and we will be having him a little party to celebrate his first 4 years of life. It's not going to be anything extravagent by any means, I'm debating on baking or buying cupcakes (they are so much easier to deal with), plus if I get or bake of buy a cake, it's going to be a small one for Joshua, because last year, he had half a cake left after his party, and we ended up throwing most of it away because no one wanted it. Jodie kept telling me not to get the 1/4 sheet one, to get the 1/2 sheet cake because he didn't understand how a 1/4 sheet could possibly feed 20 people, so we ended up with a 1/2 sheet which was way too much cake for Joshua's party. Hope he listens to me this year. I still haven't sent out the invitations for his party, but I know it's going to be on his birthday, and it will be between lunch and dinner, so we don't have to provide a ton of food. I'm still trying to come up with some fun activities for the kids, so they'll all have fun, but the are all different ages, ranging for 6months old - 11 years old. Hopefully I'll find a happy medium for everyone. It will probably mostly indoors or atleast most of it. Which means the parents are going to have to deal with childrens movies. Joshua got so much stuff for Christmas, that we ended up splitting half of it up, and saving some of it for his upcoming birthday. I don't think he quite understands that his birthday is for him, and not just another day in his life. I wish I knew how to get him to grasp that concept, he has his own real special day of the year.
Christmas was good... tight, but good. Joshua got a ton of toys. He helped "decorate" the tree, which was really cute. We took our holiday picture as a family this year, we had a 4th in the picture that no one really new about until now, the baby-to-be. It took forever to get Joshua to hold still and smile, but in the end he did. We drove through Flowers several different times to let Joshua enjoy the lights, and he would fuss everytime we left. The men got restless so Joshua ended up opening his presents at Jodie's on Christmas Eve. The rest he opened at Grandma's, and then at his great-grandparent's. All in all it was good.
We're still waiting on Joshua's diagnosis. We find out on the 22nd of this month, what they believe might be causing the problems Joshua is having, and hopefully they'll give us a lil' insight on ways to better help him. Potty training is still very much an issue, but he is starting to sorta tell you that he has gone poo-poo or pee-pee, so we're trying to work with us on telling us before he goes, so we can get him to the potty. I've tried rewards, and the whole trip to the potty every 15 - 30min. with no success. He's got two books "Once Upon A Potty" & "Potty Time", and then a DVD "Potty Time With Elmo", which I believe has brought the idea to him of addressing what he is doing in his pull-ups, because us trying to explain ourselves didn't quite get there. I'm praying that we'll have him potty trained in time to go to preschool this year, it really needs to get done because they won't accept him if he isn't FULLY potty trained. It's very hard on me. I want him to go, so he can learn more and have more interaction with other children. He deserves it.
That's about all for now. Hopefully I'll remember to post again soon!!!
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