babies.

So, had a HORRIBLE Friday night/Saturday morning.  Didn't sleep but 2 1/2 hours.  However, I did what I had to do and pretty much became someones hero that moment ;)  I am skipping the rest of the details.  Those who know me best will know what exactly went down then.

Saturday morning made up for those annoying wee hours when I get a text from someone who had been trying almost 2 years to get pregnant.  They are indeed pregnant.  Woot!   I felt honored being the first one knowing, well besides the parentals involved.  Ahhhhhh.  A BABY!

Sunday morning, my sister stopped by with my 2 month old nephew.  Ahhhhhh.  A BABY!

Monday morning a little after 7 our 3 1/2 year old buddy and his 1 1/2 month old baby brother came to play with us all day.  I held that baby boy as much as I could until 5 o' clock pm.  Ahhhhhh.  A BABY!

Opened a text earlier from my soul mate with a picture of a fortune cookie.  It read something to the effect "something exciting will happen this Saturday".  It's a fortune cookie her husband got.  My dear friend/sister is pregnant and due with her first baby, a girl, on tax day.  This Sunday April 15.  Ahhhhhh.  A BABY!


Now, I must say and clarify that after my youngest was born in March of 2008 I never got baby fever.  I never ever got it in fact.  As usual everyone around me was having babies including my sister and sister-in-law but I felt no urge to run up to my husband and demand another.  It was until January 5 of this year I caught baby fever.  A dear friend of mine gave birth to her twins, a boy and a girl.  Dang her for doing this to me.  Ahhhhhh. A BABY!  (and)  A BABY!

So...with THAT said!  As excited as I was to hear news Saturday morning, love on my nephew Sunday, spoil a newborn all day Monday, read an exciting fortune today and remember the time I finally caught baby fever  (in this case times two!)...I must say, these people, just to name a few, are very awesome and so special to me for including me in their babies lives.  I can still love babies even if they aren't mine.  I have no idea if we'll add another child.  Only time can tell.  And if it happens, I may not like it because I am content with my 4, but I also feel like I could be ok.  I'd get over the initial shock (because that is exactly what it would be...a shock!) But I'd be ok!  And I'd love every second of it just like I love every second of being the momma to the (now older) babies I already have!     

you should know...

...that today's weather has fit my mood.

I woke up about 4:30 to potty. 6 because my alarm went off and forgot to cut it off for the start of KJ's Spring break today. Then woke up nice and refreshed at 8:30 (kids still asleep btw!) Had my usual morning talk with my KY twin. and during that convo the phone rang. Horrible news the a family near and dear to me had lost a very special 17 year old to a car accident. And then shortly after that got the news from my husband that he won't be home for Easter. About 11 started a cleaning spree. Stopped to take the kids to see John and Ruth. Came back here and cleaned some more. Then started boiling eggs (36 of them) to dye tomorrow with friends and started baking a pizza and making fries for our usual Pizza and FRYday and camping out in the livingroom with movies (tonight compliments of netflix it's The Smurfs!)

So, where's Spring? All of a sudden today kinda felt oddly a bit like Winter to me. I ended up wind-burned a tad.

You should know that I am typing all of this out on my phone and forced myself to have a mini-break to do this! But the kids need me. So long to the rest of this random post!

Fool's Day Critters

"Fool me once shame on you.  Fool me twice shame on me."  A quote often used and one I used as my Facebook status first thing this morning.  Well guess what.  Joke WAS on me.  I was fooled TWICE today.  Shame on me.

Rewind to 4 years ago this May when my husband was in a hurry to leave to go to work and he finds a baby turtle the size of a half-dollar under his car tire.  He scoops it up, brings it to me and leaves.  I am left clueless as to what to do next.  I put it in a box, went online to research and found out it was a typical paint turtle or as we know pond turtle.  We named the turtle Squirt and made it a habitat. A rare find.  And then a year later, September 2009, my husband, our 4 little kids and I were playing football in the back yard.  I had the football and ran and "scored a touchdown" which made me place the ball to the ground and wouldn't you know BAM! Right beside that football? Another paint turtle.  Same size Squirt was when we found him/her.  Of course we kept the baby and put it with Squirt and named him/her (we still can't identify the gender!) Crush!  

Fast forward to months ago.  My girl, let's just call her Kasey, had asked me about our turtles and said she had been thinking about getting one for her son.  I had told her it's too bad we can't find another. We hadn't been that lucky.  So then last week let's just say she wanted a turtle still for her son's birthday but couldn't find one so she gets her son a puppy instead.  That was that or so I thought.  Last night I was watching a movie with Dan and there was a turtle on it named Shelly and I told Dan that Shelly was the perfect name for a turtle.  And then I flashbacked to when we found our turtles and thought how rare and we'll probably never again find turtles like that again.  Well, unless of course our turtles lay eggs and then we'll know for sure their gender LOL!  Watched another movie went to bed woke up this morning made my coffee get on facebook THE usual morning start for me!

So, April Fool's 2012...no joke was played all morning.  I thought I was safe.  Well imagine my surprise when my neighbor/friend comes in our house with A TURTLE just like Squirt and Crush and the same size they were when we found them!  Oh my goodness!  I had just had that flashback last night and the talk with Kasey last week.  She said her dad had found it in their backyard and didn't want him/her.  So, as much as I wanted to keep the baby, I knew I couldn't.  I don't "think" Squirt and Crush would try to eat this baby but I was afraid they'd be bullied.  I knew the baby needed a home.  Kasey!  Of course she agreed and the rest is history!  And then no more than I find that baby a home I am grabbed by the arms of my kids (ok, not that dramatically) across the road to visit with another neighbor.  He's messing around and moves a cinderblock and Landon's natural bug looking dirt digging instincts kick in and he finds a Tiger Salamander!  Of course in his eyes that Salamander became our 6th pet immediately! 

I pretty much spent all afternoon researching and trying to build a habitat.

Complained later to my friend Kasey because pretty much "this day was a joke!" and I had so much I needed to do this afternoon but I didn't get around to any of them yaddy yaddy yaddy and she said and I quote:

"But these are the things they'll remember, ya know? 

They won't remember the piles of laundry. They'll remember the day Mom spent making a home for the gecko they caught."  And I reply with "

Very true! But, I do need to do one load of kj's clothes at least because she may remember the day we did all this but I had to send her to school in her pj's the next day bwahahahahahaha!"  

As much as I joked back, she was right!  April Fool's Day 2012 will be one to remember indeed! Here I thought the joke was on me...2 rare finds and in turn which the Salamander put me behind on things...but in all actuality the joke was on April Fool's Day itself because I made memories.  And I will keep these memories until the day I die.  Whether or not my children even remember this day.  I don't care.  But I will!   

And with memory on the brain I must run and do said laundry above really quickly!  Weekends fly!

I leave you with "fool me twice" pictures!

Disclaimer:  No animals were harmed by my children and we are very aware of salmonella and other diseases reptiles and amphibians carry!   : )