It has been a long time--sorry.  I have been posting mostly on my LiveJournal and My Space sites.  And lately I just don't feel like being on the computer at all.

A quick update on all of us.
Meagan--is doing great in school.  As her report card showed she is excelling in everything.  She is reading now.  She will pick a book from the shelf and just read it.  Even though she doesn't understand all the rules of English she is able to sound stuff out and just figure out the words on her own.  Occasionally she asks me what a word is but mostly just does it herself.  She is adding and subtracting, too, but I don't think she knows it.  She is doing great in math, her teacher says.  They are learning higher numbers (20 and up) and the teacher said most kids have trouble with it but Meagan has none.  She can read the times off the clock for me now, which is a help when I'm in a hurry and not near the clock.  They are learning money now and she is doing good with telling the coins apart.  Mostly I'm proud of her reading.  She really seems to like to read.  She will ask Brenna if Brenna wants a book read to her.

Owen is the same as always--getting into everything and throwing tantrums over nothing.  He tires me out.  He has been fighting a lot with the girls lately.  I hope this baby is a boy so he can have a brother to play with because I think the girls are tired of his rough housing.  Otherwise he is good.  I'm going to get some preschool workbooks and start working with him on his ABCs.  He misses the Kindergarten cut off date by just 1 day here, but he isn't ready at all, anyway.  And we can't afford preschool so I will have to teach him at home.  This is going to be a major challenge with his fits.  We'll see how it goes.

Brenna--her speech is about the same.  Sometimes I can understand her, other times I have no clue what she is saying.  A lot of the time I have to have one of the other kids tell me what she is trying to say because I just can't figure it out.  It sounds like gibberish to me.  She'll be 3 1/2 soon and I keep hoping she will just catch up.  I'll probably work with her on preschool stuff this next school year, too.
She is starting to try and use the potty again.  We still can't figure out her aversion to the potty.  She was doing good right after we moved her.  She was peeing all the time and pooping sometimes.  Then she stopped pooping, but was still peeing all the time, then that stopped too.  Now she is in pull-ups pretty much all the time because she was refusing to use the bathroom at all.  But last night she pooped in the potty-the second time this week.  I'm hoping she is ready again to use the potty.

Me and baby--
well, I got my c-section date--April 5th, like I thought.  I don't have a time yet, though.  That is just 2 weeks away now.  I am so excited and so ready to have this pregnancy over.  It has been the worst yet.  And I thought being pregnant with Owen and having my abdominal muscles seperate and the awful swelling and dealing with a toddler was hard.  This has been like 10 times worse.  Besides swelling I have had such awful hip pain I can barely walk anymore.  I can't life my legs so I can't get my pants on by myself, I can barely get my shoes on and if they need to be tied--forget it, and I can't life my legs up onto my foot stool.  It is insane.  The house has gone to hell because  I can't be on my feet for very long so I get no cleaning done.  I have gotten a bunch of crocheting done, though.  I find it very relaxing.  This week I have been working on a cute sweater and hat set.  I've also been making quilts for the baby.  I have one in boy colors and one in girl colors.  No matter what we have the baby will use both, though, because you can never have enough blankets.

I still haven't settled on a name.  I was thinking Collin for a boy the whole time but a new friend suggested Kyler and I fell in love.  I don't know why I hadn't thought of it before.  I have always liked the name.  For the other kids I always wanted Tyler Glen for a boy but Tyler is so popular.  Kyler Glen sounds just as good and Kyler isn't as popular around her.  Now I just have to convince dh.  He will probably just give in as he always does.  The middle name might cause a fight though.  He wants James after his dad (it was his dad's middle name and is my dad's middle name and his nephew's first name).  I understand him wanting it.  My fil passed away 3 years ago on April 11 (the day before my actual due date).  But we named Owen after dh and his dad.  Owen's middle name is Patrick which is both dh's and his dad's first name.  I promised my mom a long time ago that I would name one of my children after her.  Her name was Glenna and she was named after her grandfather--Glen.  I was thinking Nora Glenn for a girl after my mom and my aunt Nora.

I've got 2 weeks to decide, unless the baby decides to come early.  I've been having all sorts of contractions the last few weeks so who knows.  Only problem is we have no one to watch the kids.  I mean no one.  Not even for my planned surgery.  We are completely on our own so that means I will be going into the OR alone while dh watches the kids.  It freaks me out but there is nothing we can do.  No one wants to come stay with us and we don't know anyone in town well enough to leave the kids with them for the day, especially since the surgery will probably be really early in the morning.  My one friend did say she would come for a couple of days but I feel bad asking her because we have no where for her to sleeep.  We still have no couch and no beds.  Oh well.  It will be an experience, to say the least.

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