Lynn Family Blog

9:28am.  That is when my staycation began.

John and the kids left me for a week.  They are heading to Utah to have tons of fun there.

Being 4 weeks away from having a baby I opted to stay home and nest and enjoy some quiet alone time.

I don’t know when the last time I was home alone just even for a few hours.  So, this should be a fun, interesting week.

I haven’t got bored yet.

I started the morning off helping a lady in my ward with some computer things.  She than took me to lunch as a form a payment.  Do you know how nice it is to not have to make lunch.  Ahh, it was pure bliss today.  I may have to go out to eat for every meal.

I came home and cleaned the kids’ rooms and then organized all their toys.  When they come home they won’t know where they all went since I put most of them away.  For a week I am not going to trip on, step on, and curse toys.  I also organized all their books.  John is probably rolling his eyes as he reads this.  Because we all know this is kind of pointelss because once the kids come home all my work will be undone in a few hours.  But for one week it will be clean.

After doing all of that I needed a nap.  I get one of these every day so it wasn’t much different than normal.  Just I could sleep in my own bed instead of infront of the PBS on the tv.

When I woke up I tackled organize all the craft cupboards.  We have a lot of these.

And now I am breaking to play.

My goal is to have everything cleaned and organized by tomorrow so I can really just relax and get bored.

The best thing about this week are…

no 7am(or earlier) wake up calls

no having to lock the fridge, the bedrooms, the garage door, the bathrooms

no having to worry that when there is silence something bad is happening

not having to check to make sure there isn’t pee on the floor or toilet

no PBSkids

There are plenty more.  I do miss my family, don’t get my wrong.  But I do know they will be back soon and than I will return to my full time job that is most demanding.  One that I don’t seem to have enough energy right now as I feel like a human blimp.

So off to the store I go to get me my bon bons!

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Remember last year when our AC went out on us?  It went out on us again yesterday. (always on a Sunday).  I have been dying of heat lately but I am really pregnant so I am always hot.  Well, John finally felt quite warm yesterday.  We finally realized the AC had stopped working.

Luckily, the house that we are in now has two AC units.  One for the upstairs and one for the downstairs.  So we were all able to stay here and sleep last night.  Although, Curtis was quite disappointed because we had set up the tent downstairs for him to sleep in but there wasn’t enough cool air off the fan to keep him comfortable.  Maybe tonight, if the AC is working again he can sleep downstairs.

So lets hope the AC man can fix it today so we can be in cool comfort soon.  Good thing it is only 96 degrees today.

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Yesterday I went to my weekly doctors visit (you know you are getting close to the end when you go to the drs weekly).  It was suppose to be pretty uneventful.

I drove to the dr. behind the slowest driver.  His license plate was Alwzondamv.  I muttered to myself, “sure but not fast”.  I thought I was going to be late.  After all I don’t usually give myself too much time to sit in the waiting room.  If my appt is at 2:45 I don’t get there any earlier than 2:40.  It works too.  I almost never have to wait.

Of course I pull in the parking lot just before two cars crashed into each other. Phew!  Close call.

They were running late yesterday so I did have to wait.  But it was just when the news was broadcasting Michael Jackson being dead, than not being dead and than being dead again.  Only the King Of Rock could die two or three times in the same day.

When it was time to pee in the cup I was finally able to pee a lot.  Usually I can only get a few drops in the cup.  This time it was overflowing. I was so proud.  But then I spilled it all over the floor.  So yeah, I had to clean up pee off the floor.  There were just a few drops left but enough for them to get whatever sample they needed.

Then I see the dr.  She was being super nice and talkative.  Then she measured the belly and got quiet and then did the heatbeat.  Which I heard nice and clear but she was still quite quiet.  She then said she wanted to get an ultrasound done.  She doesn’t tell me why.  But the nurse asks why in front of me and you could tell she didn’t want to say.  In the end she said she was just checking the size and date measurements.

So I went into Ultrasound.  And got to make sure that we were still having a boy.  And we are.  That was about all I could make out.  In the end I did get to see the face with its foot right next to it.  It was pretty cool.  I got a picture and I would post it but Alessia tore it to shreds when I got home.  Sibling jealousy, already?

The Ultrasound Tech can’t say much to me but I did ask about the size.  And it was measuring 5lbs some odd ounces.  So right on track.  And the heart rate was perfect.  So that is good.

I had to wait before the dr saw the pics and specs and than I could leave.  Still I don’t know what they were really checking but I guess all looked good enough cause the nurse came out and said I could go.  She looked at the ultrasound pic and said, “oh look its the vagina”.  And I said, ‘I thought it was the face”.  She was adamant that she saw a vagina.  I got home and closely examined it and no it was the  face with a foot next to it just like I saw on the screen.   Good thing this nurse is a nurse and not an ultrasound technician.  It couldn’t have been a vagina anyways, I am having a boy and not a girl!

Any how, now you are updated on my dr visit.  The c-section is still scheuled for the 28th.  It seems to be getting closer and closer.  Which is nice but quite scary too.  Having the c-section doesn’t scare me just yet but I know I am going to have recover and that is the scarier part for me.  You forget that after you have a baby that your body still does not go back to normal, moving function for awhile.  Good thing John will be home to take care of the kids and I and then our parents will be coming to help too.  The kids can’t wait to their grandparents come.

John is taking the kids to Utah next week for a week.  I will get to stay home and rest, relax and nest.  I am so excited.  My goal is also to learn photoshop while they are gone.

Okay this post is just dragging on and on and …….

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On Fridays you can win free chocolate!  You just put in your address and Mars will send you a free coupon for a candy bar.  Pretty simple.  So go enter your data and get some free chocolate!

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So I haven’t been that good at posting blog posts.  I am not all that motivated.  I have been feeling quite lazy.  And I haven’t taken many good photos of late and so I don’t have pics to post with my post.

So here is the run down of our last week.

We went to a splash pad, and two rec centers.  I am testing them all out trying to find the best ones.

Curtis got his water bottle stolen at one splash pad and no longer wants to go there again because people always steal his stuff.  The water bottle was just a bottle of water from the store.  Nothing special.  But he knew who took it and kept asking the boy to give it back and he wouldn’t.  Maybe I should have gotten it back for him but in the end it was just a bottle of water from the store and we had more at home.  He is learning how “unfair” life is.

We went to two different library classes, went to the library’s kick off of the summer reading program and saw Boo the Clown at the mall.  I really do love all the free stuff our city offers.  The library classes are my favorite because they are educational and they give them lots of things to take home.  This week we learned about words and they gave each child a journal to make up sentences in.  Curtis loves it!

We had friends over for dinner on Monday.  And Tuesday the Missionaries came over for dinner.  Sunday we were suppose to have one of the widows in the ward over but she forgot.  This week however, we have been invited to a friends for dinner, have a BBQ for Scouts and a lady in our ward is bringing over dinner for us on Thursday.  So last weeks service to others has paid off in lots of good service for us this week.

Alessia potty trained herself this week.  And then fell off the bandwagon after I wrote the post about her.  She does go in the potty still but sometimes she waits too long and pees on the floor.  So we are working on getting it back to the way it was before.  I guess it was just too easy to have her do it all on her own without any accidents. The crazy thing is the girl does not have accidents outside the house just when we are home.

Saturday we took Curtis to the circus.  It was a fun little date with our little boy.  I couldn’t believe how big he seemed going to a show with us.  The circus was a lot of fun.  Although $15 for cotton candy seemed a bit ridiculous.  (and no that isn’t a typo and no we didn’t buy any).

Saturday night I awoke in such pain.  I thought I was in labor.  Two hours later the pain went away and I went back to bed.  Maybe it is good thing I am having a c-section this time.  You forget how painful labor is.  Even if you get an epidural you are in pain until you hit 4 cm.  I have 5 weeks left until the c-section.  I hope I can make it that long.

John is taking the kids to Utah for a week for the 4th of July.  So I get to stay home and rest and relax and nest.  He is then leaving for a short trip to Texas in the middle of July.  So we really can’t afford to have this baby early.  Not that I think he will come early.  My other two children we nice and ripe, 40 weeks each.

Sunday we celebrated Father’s Day.  Curtis and Alessia wore their dads ties to church.  Curtis sang in Sacrament meeting with all the other primary kids.  For dinner Curtis decided we should pretend we were a returant and so while I made the kids chef hates he drew up a menu.  It was quite fun and probab;y the highlight of the day.

So now you are caught up our lives.  I will post pictures later as I am still too lazy to do it now.

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Kristine’s Hint – Completed!!

Kristine’s other Photoshop hint – Completed!

Who says marrying a computer nerd isn’t the best?

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Nerd

My little teeny (okay, huge) baby has transitioned into a big girl.  Yesterday she decided all on her own that she was going to start using the potty.  For the last two weeks or so she has been using the potty randomly but yesterday something just clicked and she used it all day.   She didn’t have any accidents.

And today we were out of the house almost the whole day and she let me know exactly when she needed to go and we were able to find restrooms in time.  So day two of no accidents.  Hooray.

Between the two of us I think the bathroom is now the most used room in the house!

So Hooray for my baby who has transitioned to a big girl!  I guess we ought to stop calling her baby and call her by her actual name now.

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For some odd reason I can’t add photos to my blog post.  It is highly annoying.  Everytime I try to do so my internet browser shuts down completely.  This happens on both computers we have.  Frustrating!  I would have my computer nerd husband fix it for me but you know how life is, he is a computer nerd, everyone knows it and so he is helping everyone else fix their computer problems.  Maybe just maybe he will read this post though and surprise me one day with the problem all fixed. (Hint, hint).

Any how, I feel like I haven’t really posted anything in awhile because the last few picture post were actually all done by me in one sitting and I just posted them randomly.  We have been busy here enjoying the nice weather.  It hasn’t reached ninety in the last week.  Do you know how strange that is here in Las Vegas?  It is so nice.  We have been enjoying going outdoors without being suffocated by the heat.  Now if we could get it to last until the end of July I would be one very happy woman. We have also started up summer story time at the mall.  This was a the first week they had it.  It was all about farms.  Even Old McDonald was there.  Old Mc Donald must be related to Boo the Clown that visits the mall twice a month because it was the same exact voice.  Even Curtis noticed.  (It was actually quite weird seeing Boo the Clown without makeup on.  He looks so much younger than what I had thought he would look.) I love that the mall has a new library, mainly because not too many people know about it and so their classes don’t fill up so quick and so we are actually able to get Curtis into so many classes.  They are all free too which is added bonus.  He will be kept quite buy for the month of July attending all his librabry classes.  And I will be quite happy enjoying something indoors where it is air conditioned.  Luckily Alessia is still quite content to sit in her stroller and observe everything Curtis gets to do.  One day soon it will be her turn to be the big one at home getting to do all the big kid things while the new baby gets to sit and watch.  Lets just hope this new baby will be as calm and content to sit in stroller as she is.

Now onto the reason I titled the post as I did.

Curtis loves PBS.  It is the only tv station we get that he can watch.  He loves all the shows on it.  Clifford, The Big Red Dog is one of those shows he loves.  One episode we watched was a mystery that Clifford and his dog friends had to solve.  Their playground just up and disappeared one day.  So they searched for clues and such and in the end they found that the playground was just taken away to be painted and it was later returned to it’s original spot in the park.

I know you are all dying to know why I am telling you all about this.  Well, one day I took the kids to the park across the street.  I told John about the park and a few days later John took the kids there.  When he came home he asked me exaclty where was this park because there was no park where he went.  Sure enough the playground was completely gone. One day it was there and the next it was gone.

Curtis kept telling us they were going to bring it back soon just like they did on Clifford.  I didn’t really think it would happen.  I had heard someone had torched part of it once and so I figured they just decided to get rid of it all together. Afterall, it really was just a little playground in a subdivision, not a real park playground. But Curtis insisted that just like on Clifford his park would come back.

Fast Forward three months and we are driving out of our subdivision and Curtis spots all these trackers at the “park”.  He starts screaming.  He is so excited because they are bringing back his park.  Still, I didn’t believe it.  I thought for sure they were just taken out the gravel pit that was left and adding grass.

But no, Curtis was right all along.  When I went out last night I saw two beautiful new slides sitting there.  I tried calling home to tell Curtis but no one answered.  I knew he would be excited.

Over breakfast this morning I said to Curtis, “You won’t believe what I saw yesterday”.  And nonchalantly he said, “yes I will, you saw a new park”.  How did he know that?

So my little boy was right along.  His little prayers that his park would come back were answered. Now they just need to finish the rest of the playground and then we will be able to enjoy the new park close to our house.

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We have a date!

We are scheduled to deliver Lynn baby #3 on the 28th of July, nice and early in the morning. It’s a Tuesday for anyone who was wondering but was too lazy to look it up.

Since I have had two big babies that caused 4th degree tears the Dr. has decided to perform a C-section this time around.  Lets hope that recovering from a C-section is better than recovering from the other. And lets hope this baby decides to wait until this date to come.  Not that I care to be pregnant that long but because John is going out of town the week 2 weeks before and we wouldn’t want him to miss out on the birth. And because  it sure makes it easier to plan for someone to watch the two other kiddos.  Now that we don’t have family around anymore we can’t call anyone at 3am.

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