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Pregnancy Brain and Other Randomness

Sometimes I really worry about my mind. I can be so forgetful and loopy. I use to tease my mom pretty ruthlessly, I think this is pay backs. I don't know how she survived that many pregnancies (12!) and came out with her mind still intact (This is still up for debate amongst the family)! 

So here are a few of my pregnancy brain moments. I'm sure there are lots more, but with this pregnancy memory I can't seem to remember them.

The other day I was talking about the craziness of the Governments back and forth about the military's paychecks. I was saying, "I don't think there is anything more messed up that our government could do to those who are serving, especially those who have been deported." Yeah, deported instead of deployed...

I drove by a thrift store that had the words second hand on the sign. I suddenly became enlightened as to why they call it second hand. I thought, "Oooooh! That's why they call it second hand! It's going from one hand to the next...second hand...you're the second hand to use/receive it!" I realize that you probably already know this, but can you act excitedly enlightened for my sake?!

Down town Nampa has a cute little section of town. It's much like the Moses Lake main street, only where all the 4 way stops are there are lights. Quite annoying to go a tiny distance, have a stop light, go a tiny distance, have a stop light, especially since there isn't a lot of cross traffic. Well they were doing construction and had those lights off. They were covered with yellow covers. I was driving along and when I realized all these lights were turned off I was so excited. I sat back and started getting all comfy as I cruised through each one. About the 3rd light I realized all the other cars that WERE next to me were now behind me because they were treating the lights like a 4 way stop. You know, like how you're supposed to when lights aren't working? Oops :S

I immediately thought of this clip. Jake likes the show....it's only the first couple seconds..

And our family's favorite...My mom was complaining of her belly button hurting during one of her pregnancies. She said, "The baby must be wrapped up in the cord or something because my belly button hurts." My dad looked at her hesitantly and paused for a second and before he could say anything my mom quickly said, "Forget I said that!" None of us listen very well... Of course there are lots more I can easily remember from my mom's pregnancies, but I'll give the poor woman a break....My brain can't handle any more paybacks ;)

Moving on to bigger and better things....

Probably the same night I posted my last post we went over to a friend's house where we celebrated a birthday with chocolate cake. Some fell on the floor and now we can add that to Jenna's list of added foods.

 You can't tell but she had chocolate cake all down her shirt and all over her hands. The little piggy ;)

I meant to put this one on the last post as well. This was when she was 7 months old....before she was sitting up or crawling. She climbed up into this rocking chair and right after I took the picture she then climbed up onto the couch.

Haddie told Jenna to go away for the first time :( I'm sure Jenna was after her food, but still it made me a tad sad. Jenna sure can hustle when she sees Haddie has food within reach. One day Haddie had a strawberry. (Her very, very, very favorite food) She set it down on her stool. Jenna very quickly crawled over, pulled herself up and grabbed the strawberry. Haddie was very upset about it, screaming as she saved her strawberry. She walked over and put it on a chair. Jenna in no time at all had made it over there, pulled herself up and started gnawing on it again. Haddie had the same reaction and put it somewhere else, yet again in Jenna's reach. The strawberry was set in several locations where it was promptly gummed before Haddie figured out she had to put it high enough where Jenna couldn't reach it. There wasn't much left of it by then.

Haddie's first tree climb. :)

Jenna was inside pounding on the window and yelling at Haddie the whole time. She is going to be an outside girl just like her big sister

I finally cut Haddie's hair. She has been needing it for so long, but it was really hard for me to do. It's like the last official step from babyhood. She has had a runny nose for the past couple of weeks and I got sick of pulling caked hair off of her snotty face so I gave in and gave her bangs. You can see it in the tree pictures. She has this funny cowlick on the side that makes her bangs part to the side. Most days it looks OK, but sometimes it looks kinda funny.

Haddie got to feel the baby kick yesterday! It was a good strong kick. She was pretty excited about it.

I feel like I need to clear something up. At the end of my last post I said I haven't been able to find much humor...I don't want you to think I'm depressed or anything. I would say I've just lost my creativity, but that's not true. All the sewing and such I've been doing. So I guess my creativity has just shifted a little. I'm quite happy and have no problem finding humor in life. I just can't express it very well through my blog lately.

24 weeks!! Woohoo! :)

If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages. ~Elaine Liner

Look at this wonderful man.

 Yes, he is doing laundry....but wait! It gets better!

Mr. mom :)

Haddie is saying and doing cute things everyday. We are just amazed at how big she is getting. Here are just a few:

She wanted to stand in daddy's chair to eat dinner and since daddy wasn't home I let her. She is completely potty trained so I was quite shocked when Haddie said, "pee pee pampies, mommy!". Sure enough. I turn around and she had peed her panties while standing in the chair, getting pee all over the chair as well. When I sadly and dramatically said, " Oh no, Haddie! You peed your chair!" she responded quite matter of factly, "No pee pee my chair, mommy. Pee pee daddy's chair." As if that made it all better.

                                                               Haddie: Daddy! Poo poo!
                                                               Jake jumps up
                                                               Jake: You have to go poo poo, Haddie?! Come on! Let's go!
                                                               Haddie giggles
                                                               Haddie: Just kidding

We were all laying in bed snoozing on a Sunday morning. (Our Sunday mornings are quite lazy. When the girls wake up we bring them to bed with us and we all hang out in bed till we are either starving (usually that's only me) or it's time to get up for church.) We were all quietly laying there when Haddie shoots up and yells, "Hey! It's me! Member?!?!" She wasn't asleep so it wasn't sleep talk, but I have no clue where it came from.

She also likes to say whenever I tell her to stop doing something, "Just playin, mommy. Just playin." 

Another favorite (Bah!) she'll call me over and over: 

                                         Haddie: "Mommy."

                                         Me: "What, Haddie"

                                         Haddie: "Mommy. Mommy."

                                         Me: "What, Haddie?"

                                         Haddie:__________________________"Mommy.                                          
                                         Me: What, Haddie?"

                                         Haddie: _____________

                                         Me:"Haddie, what?"

                                         Haddie:_____"Umm"_____

                                         Me (A little less patient): "What, Haddie?" 

                                         Haddie:"I said Um"

Not only does she LOVE shoes, but she ADORES her daddy as well. Why not combine the two?!

 

Auntie Erin gave her a doll stroller that she plays with all the time. She puts her dolls in it, gets her diaper bag, puts her boots and jacket on and says, "bye bye, mommy. Have fun!" :) She has discovered that live babies are more fun...

She really enjoys getting mail from people too. We have a daily routine of checking the mail and it is the highlight of her day. So far grandma Kathy and grandma Jenna Vee have completely thrilled her with a letter. She carried them around for days asking me to read them over and over again. Good thing I had them memorized by the 2nd or 3rd day because they got pretty tattered and worn. :)

Jenna is still our tiny little bean, but she is doing sooo much! This was the first time I discovered her standing in her bed.

She was incredibly proud of herself. She went from that to realizing standing wasn't all that fun because she couldn't figure out how to get back down. There were a lot of tear filled naps. Now it is the funniest thing to see. we go in to get her and she'll be standing up. The second she sees us she lets go and flops back because she is too excited to hold on.  

The reason I went into their room that day was because they were supposed to be sleeping. They had been in there quite a while and were still happily awake. I found Jenna standing in her bed for the first time and Haddie playing dress up.

She has an inside out, backwards turtle neck on, a backwards skirt on, and a sweater dress. She was pretty proud of herself too.

Jenna is crawling and sitting up, finally. I don't mean "finally" because of her age, but because she was pulling herself up to everything before she was doing either of those. She really had no interest in either, because she figured out how to stand up. I was worried she would walk first! Poor girl has no fear of anything and more often than not has several bruises on her forehead and has even had a few cuts on her face. She climbs EVERYTHING! I am amazed at what that tiny girl can accomplish.

The first time she pulled herself up to something other than her bed. Haddie was tickled pink! So was Jenna :)

 She got herself to  a somewhat standing position, but didn't know what to do after that. She was pretty stuck. The toy would tip if she moved her weight, and she didn't want to get down, she wanted to stand up higher. Once she decided she did want down she discovered how stuck she was.

I did this one extra large so you could see her precious sleeping face. :) (Notice the bruise on her forehead, the red mark on her eyebrow and the cut under her nose?) Daddy fell asleep on the job. Jenna quickly followed suit.

Her first bite. Not one of her most flattering pictures. ;)

You want to know what she has supposed to have added into her diet by now? Probably not, but I'm gonna tell you anyway. green beans, kale, beets, squash, avocado, yams, carrots, broccoli, bean sprouts, spinach, apples, pears, bananas, and cherries. Notice how those are just fruits and veggies? Do you want to know what she has eaten? Again, probably not, but here goes. :P Toast, butter, and jam. Rice, beans, cheerios, strawberries, noodles, raisins, fruity snacks, eggs, cheese, potato chips, chicken and hamburger. Those are just the things that I can think of off the top of my head and that I know of. She has discovered the art of grazing. She has found the bountiful location too. Under Haddie's chair. Kids are hardy, right?!

She discovered that when she did this scrunched up smiley face everyone laughed at her. So now she does it all the time. She did it for Uncle Malachai the first time and often after that while they visited

 

Jenna's first hairdo                                                                                Haddie's first hairdo

This pregnancy is going SO fast! I can't believe I'm already 6 months! The heartburn and discomfort has begun making it a little bit easier to believe. I'm getting really excited to meet this little one. It has been really hard to become attached with all the ups downs of this pregnancy, but it hit this morning that we are going to have a precious little bundle in the near future! :)

Profile view

 These were at 11 weeks when we thought we lost the baby. I'm sure recent ultrasound pics would look much different

Front view

Can't believe that was that long ago! I'm 22 weeks now!

For names we are sticking to the boy one that we've had from the very beginning of our childbearing days ;) Jacob Roger Logue. For the girl we have decided on Abrielle (Abbie for short) Altho don't be surprised if it changes. Jake likes it which completely surprised me and I like it...I'm just not in love with it. The middle name is still up for discussion. I have one that I really like and I'm trying to mention it often so Jake becomes used to it and begins to like it. ;) Hope it works!

Well...sorry this is so late and doesn't hold much humor. I can't seem to find any these days. That's why I've put this off for so long, but then I thought, "My followers are die hards. ;) They love to read what I have to say about my oh so entertaining life whether it's humorous or not." ...Right? Hello? Anyone there?! 

*Sigh*