Light at the End of the Tunnel?

Well, I had an unexpected appt yesterday. I say unexpected because we got a call Tues evening from the hospitals appt reminder line telling me that I had an appt the next day. So I called and explained that I didn't think I was supposed to have an appt until around the 10th (they were supposed to call me when they had a cancellation because they were booked for 4 weeks. I kept the appt because I was curious to see if the contractions that I had been having Tues did anything. Well from Friday to Wed I went from 3 to 4 cms and the baby went from the -2 to the -1 station. I had also gained a pound (yay!). So the midwife believes that I'll probably have the baby within the next couple days (we'll see). I'm more excited and anxious about it.

Trip to the Lake of the Ozarks area

We didn't actually make it to the lake. We went to the outlet mall, a really good BBQ restaurant (Wobbly Boots if anyone ever goes to the area), and played putt putt and bumper cars. Well Gabriel, Tom, and Rene (one of the guys in the same school as Tom who is from Slovakia) did the bumper cars while Katheryn and I watched. Here are a few pictures.




The kids in the Truck before we left.

At the outlet mall they had a fountain. I was looking at a shoe store while they went down to it. Well, when I come out Gabriel has his socks and shoes off walking around in the water. This is before that happened. I guess that's what I get for letting two guys watch the kids (both of which are from Europe and grew up playing in fountains).

Luckily they didn't get Katheryn in the water.

Rene is Katheryn's new buddy.

Gabriel wasn't too happy because his shorts and underwear were soaked from the fountain. I had to go find him some more clothes. Which was hard because they had all their summer stuff on clearance and didn't had a hard time finding his size.

This was at the Putt Putt place.

I'm sure I look worn out. This was towards the end of the day at the Putt Putt course and the heat and walking were getting to me.

Misc Pics of the Kids

Katheryn's Fun with Markers
(the aftermath)

Gabriel came walking out of school for a week holding her hand. He told us she was one of his girlfriends. :-) The other one was a bus rider.

Katheryn likes to get my reading glasses out and put them on when I leave them laying on the end table.

We had went to the Bass Pro Shop in Springfield and came across this John Wayne gun safe. If it wasn't so expensive I'm sure Tom would have bought it.

Halloween Fabric Ornaments

Well, I was trying to wait until I got these done before I posted pictures, but it doesn't seem like I am. The Walmart here stopped saleing fabric and pretty much alot of the craft supplies (unless you like to make jewelry or paint). So I've had to rely on the the online sites that I find. Well, I wanted to put bat, pumpkin, or some other halloween buttons on them to hold the ribbon/cord to hang it, but I can't find any. What I did find is on backorder and keeps getting bumped further and further into October. Ugh... Anyways, I just wanted to post what I made. I found the panels and added batting and a back to them. I somewhat quilted them and then used pinking sheers on the edges.

School Crud

Well, right now Gabriel and Tom are waiting in the ER because Gabriel's temp was 103.5. He woke up Saturday morning with a fever of 102.5, but had went down to 99.7 until around 6:30pm today. We had been giving him Tylenol and Dimatap (sp?). It cleared up his runny nose, but his fever went up and he still had a headache. We think it might be the flu, but want to make sure and get something to make him better. So they left around 6:40pm and are still in the waiting room (now at 10:30pm). Ugh. I just hope he will get better and no one else will get sick since we are so close to having the baby. Which is the last thing I want is the baby getting sick. Even though I really don't like seeing any of my family sick, the baby doesn't have the built up immune system to fight it.


Update: Well, they spent over 9 hours in the ER last night. The doctor didn't tell Tom what he thought Gabriel had, but gave him some antibiotics (which said it wasn't for the common cold or flu...so I guess it takes what we thought it was out of the picture). So we're keeping him home from school today so that the antibiotics have time to get in his system. He still had a bit of a fever this morning, but it wasn't as high as it was yesterday.