Don't want to Talk About IT!!

Last week was pretty quiet a little snow here, a lot of rain there. Friday we went to a new school that Kya's on the waiting list for, since we're not in the district for the one she already goes too. She really liked it and it was 10 times better than the other one in the district so hopefully we get in. We're also looking into Head Start, so that she can ride the BUS to school ( BIG DEAL). Saturday Kya and I had our 1st Mommy Daughter Day, since she's been getting the brunt of my bad attitude. WE went to You're Fired and painted some pottery. Kya painted a princess crown bank to go in her room and I did a Cocoa mug with her hang print on it. We pick them up in 3 days so we'll be sure to put them on here. Monday as most of you know we had a huge storm that's flooded NH and we lost power for 3 hours. We were the lucky ones, some have gone days without power and our friend's apartment flooded and they had to move to a new apartment that night. Tuesday Kya had her last swimming lesson with her teacher Jill, they have a make-up lesson next week but Jill won't be there. We're proud to say that Kya has graduated from a Pike to an Eel. Everyone was pretty upset to find out she wouldn't be coming back until after our trip... but wait till they see her when Mimi gets done with her!
And yes I'm still pregnant, NO I don't want to talk about it. But this is what an extra 28 lbs looks like on a 5'2" frame... it ain't pretty folks and it hurts!

Happy Easter

Well our Easter could have been better if I wasn't still pregnant! I'm officially 2 days more pregnant than I've ever been!! So let's see what happened last week. Wednesday I was sick of being in the house so Michelle and I took the girls to Manchester to go to Chuck E Cheese, the mall, and a used kids store where I scored on a ton of Boys stuff. When we finished at the mall we came outside only to find 3" of snow on the van and a huge blizzard still going. It snowed non-stop and we ended up with 8" total.
Thursday as most of you know I went into labor and we went to the hospital, only to have everything stop and be sent home the next day. Real depressing because if we were still in Oregon they would have broken my water and we'd have a baby right now, but apparently they don't believe in that here. So I'm, sucking it up the best I can. I've convinced myself I'm going to carry this one as long as an elephant that way I won't be disappointed again just relieved.
Saturday Todd surprised me with a new running outfit for after the baby and the sweetest card ever that immediately put me into tears. And then we all went out to my favorite Italian place here for dinner, it was a very nice day and I felt very spoiled and it help bring my spirits up a bit. Easter was interesting... our element's going out on our oven and they haven't fixed it yet so we had Ham sandwiches for dinner. We're hoping they fix it before Mimi comes out and then we'll have a nice Ham dinner and Dee's sauce so Todd can stop his withdrawals. The girls had a blast finding candy and hunting down Eggs. We had 100 eggs in our kitchen and living room, so it was an all day adventure. I think Kya found 2 more before she went to bed at 8:30. Well that's pretty much it hopefully the next blog will include Baby details.

36 Wks and still Pregnant!

Ok so I'm not thrilled about still being pregnant, although I had an appointment today and I'm 70% effaced which shocked the midwife she said with a few at home tricks I could have the baby this weekend... needless to say Todd's gonna feel like he won the lottery! She says the baby's already around 6 1/2 lbs so next week if I'm still pregnant they're gonna look into how big he's getting... because there's not a whole lot of room left in me.
Mia's had another tough week she's working on filling in all those left over holes in her mouth at once, which totals around 6 teeth. So she's been drugged up most of the week. This weekend she got a little jealous of all the attention her cousin Mckay was getting from his boo boos so she decided to take a nose dive into some gravel at the motorcycle swap. She got quite the puncture wound that squirted luckily only on Todd. She was a trooper and after a quick baby wipe bath in the van and Hello Kitty band aid I just happened to have in my pocket, she was ready to get back out there.

Rules, Rules, Rules

With the new baby coming the Pratt girls got some new rules and schedules this past week. Bedtimes have been changed, nap times have been changed, and more cleaning up has been enforced on both girls and my tolerance has not been so great these last few weeks so they're starting to feel the wrath of a pregnant mom. Along with these came another new rule and probably the least favorite of the girls... hair has to be done everyday before leaving the house. Their hair is getting so curly and if it doesn't get done it becomes a HUGE ratty mess. Mia's hair isn't really long enough to create problems yet but you can already tell her hair is going to be way more curlier than Kya's, and so I thought why not get her in the routine now.
Nothing else has really gone on this week, I through a baby shower for my Friend Michelle on Saturday which was probably more than I should have taken on right now, but it was a success none the less. My contractions have been picking up and I have a ton of pain and pressure in the lower areas so we'll see how much longer this goes on for. It's already slowing me down starting with my blog being a day late and we had to leave church an hour early yesterday. It's been pretty tough around here Todd's been M.I.A. the last two weeks working on an application to get on the law review and just put in 2 all-nighters in a row to finish. And now this week he has to put in the extra time he missed working on his brief. So my prayers for now are the baby comes soon or the pain goes away so I can get more done. I'm nesting like crazy but I don't have the endurance to do want I want at least not without bringing on heavy contractions and I at least want to make it to this weekend when I'm 36 wks.

Updates

Mia- Here's a little overview of what's going on in Mia's life right now. She's been in a big girl bed for over a month now, sleeping on the bottom of Sissy's bunkbed. She's still doing really well goin #2 on the potty, in fact here's a pic of her getting a high five after a monsterous poop. Her favorite thing to do right now is pray. She asks to pray 24/7 folding her arms... it's so cute, although she's inhertated the premature AMEN from her grandpa Chip which makes sacrament a little awkward at times. She also has just figured out how to spin in circles and thinks it's the funnest thing in the world.
Kya- Kya's getting so grown up it's crazy. She's a great big sister and even changed Mia's diaper the other day all by herself. She got a package from Mimi this week and was very excited, the mailman has become her new best friend thanks to Mimi and Juju. Kya loves to dress up and put on dancing shoes, she also made her own necklace and bracelet with beads on them and her name K.Y.A. which she is very proud of. Kya's newest thing is to sing the loudest in sacrament I think Ted would be very proud.

As for Todd and I, Todd's still plugging away at school, he got a break last weekend to play paintball in the snow so that was fun. And it looks like Todd might beat me for the first time in the bracket since we've been together, so he's excited about that. I finally got brave this week and had some pregnancy pictures done by my friend Michelle and they turned out really good, so I'm happy... well not totally happy no one likes to have fat pictures on record but it was about time after sliding by with 2 or 3 with my other pregnancies. I'm 34 wks today and starting to nest like crazy, I have an appointment tomorrow so we'll see how things are going then.

Bad week for MIA

Poor Mia has been so sick all week starting with a cough on Sunday, followed by a fever of 103.3 by Monday... she's still sick although the fever has gone away so we'll take what we can get. Of course Kya started coughing Friday so it looks to be another long week at home for me. Wednesday Mia had her 15mo appointment she finally hit 20lbs actually passing it by 2 oz. and she's in the 50 % for height. She could have cared less about this info since it was followed by 6 shots and 2 blood draw attempts. On the plus side the girls got packages from Juju , Ariel jammies for Kya and a digger for Mia. And for the highlight of the week... dun dun nah nah WE GOT TO SEE THE OREGON GAME LAST NIGHT!! GO DUCKS! It's the only bball game we've got to see this season and the whole family was pumped. As for the pregnancy things are going a little better, it looks like he'll come early so hopefully he won't be too big. I'm 33 weeks today, this one has flown by and good thing because it's been my hardest so far. As for naming the little man nothings set in stone until we see him, so you'll all have to wait for " The PHONE CALL"

New York, New York

Well we finally managed to get out of the house as a family this past week. We celebrated Spring break for Todd by driving to New York with our friends the Cranes. It was a great trip despite the stops along the way to clean vomit out of car seats. On Tuesday we got to our hotel in NJ around 2pm and then took the ferry across to New York... Kya loved the big boat and thought the lady holding the light was really cool. We saw 1st hand the hustle and bustle of NY as we made our way to ground zero, which was all we had time for that 1st day. On day 2 in NY we decided to drive into Manhattan to save time on traveling up the island. We got to drive through time square which was neat, walk around Central Park, visit FAO Schwartz, see all the money spots down 5th Ave and visited Rockefeller Center, we were gonna make a stop at the Disney store but on our way back by all the girls had passed out. I would have to say FAO Schwartz was the big hit, there was a Princess downstairs that read to Kya and Lexi, Mia found a whole section of Diggers which she was pretty excited about (Construction is her newest LOVE), and none of the girls wanted to leave the giant piano. All in all it was a good trip and Todd and I can't wait to go back kidless so we aren't hauling dead wait around for 7 hours. MVP of the trip would have to be my wonderful husband Todd for handling ALL the driving, putting up with my 2 cents, cleaning up all the vomit, and always carrying at least one kid on his back.