for adult eyes only

I realize that I have a million and one things I should rather be doing right now(after all, we are moving in 2 weeks) but instead I have been wasting time looking through old photos. This pic has always been one of my favorites not just because it proves that boys of any age are the same, but it also has a moral to it too.

This was the first time that I ever lost Darren (I wish I could say it was the only time but if you know Darren you understand). I think I was shopping with my sister in GAP baby. GAP baby, theGAP and GAP body are all connected. I got distracted for "just a moment" and turned and Little D was no where to be seen. Panicked I rushed around GAP baby. Nothing. I rushed around the GAP found my sis and we rushed into GAP body to find my baby boy had lost a precious little bit of his innocence. A mall really is no place for a little boy anyway. They hate going there. So that is why i need a girl, simply a reason to go back to the mall!

Introducing....

...Baby #4

So I know I haven't posted much about being preggo, but I really try hard to forget that I am, thinking that maybe it will make the time go faster partly because I've been sick and partly because I am so dang excited to 1)find out that it is my girl and 2)get this baby here and see what possible personality will be added to our mix.

It is still way too soon to find out the gender but yes, I have already painted the baby's room pink. I figure either way I have to get it out of my system and we already have plenty of blues and greens and browns. Lance still hopes for a boy. (I never knew just how much he was traumatized by having only sisters) Darren says he wants another boy. Cordon says he wants a boy but he refers to himself as a girl so not really sure what he means by that. Cameron I think will detest the baby either way since he can't stand me giving anyone attention besides him.

Either way we will obviously welcome this final baby with open arms.

So far this pregnancy has been way better than the others. I am still sick but thanks to modern medicine it has been much more bearable. My parents came out for a week while Lance was in Mexico and helped out tons with the boys and yard work and catching me up on a billion (at least) loads of laundry. So with three months down I just have to survive, moving, three birthday parties, my first born entering, as he says, Kingigarten and a trip to Disneyland!

Cancun

Lance just got back from Cancun a couple of weeks ago. He went for a Sports Medicine Conference. Go ahead, ask him what he learned. Really, who goes to Cancun to learn anything?

Am I just bitter? kinda but not really. I didn't really feel like going because I have been so sick lately. But I was secretly happy when I heard it was raining down there. Was I jealous? yeah. I love traveling and I used to travel a lot, you know, before kids. I would never trade my kids for all the traveling in the world but sometimes I just crave a little adventure.

So when I feel a little sorry for myself I just get out my shot glasses and drown my sorrows in the memories of past journeys.

When I was a kid and my dad was traveling a lot for work. He started bringing me home Hard Rock Cafe t-shirts from the major cities he had visited. As I grew older and started my own traveling I kept this tradition alive by collecting my own HRC souvenirs. I chose the shot glass because, hey, those never go out of style and well they were also the cheapest thing they sell.

So when Lance went down to cancun I asked him to bring me back a shot glass. I know this sounds like cheating since I wasn't with him but I have actually been there before. It just was before my drinking days and I didn't get my beloved HRC cancun shot glass. So now I had to break out the collection in order to add this one to it.

So even though my passport expires this month, I dream of distant places and far off lands and the day when I can actually fit into my bikini again. I am going to have a long time to plan my next destination so I hope my sister finds away to stay in Dublin for a while or does anyone know if there is a HRC in Tahiti?