Fireflies

Another exciting week down. We didn't get tons accomplised except the huge task of finding an OB. We also have leads on pediatricians and chiropractors, so that is good. We only ate out once this week! I'm so sick of eating out, but it has kind of come down to either I work on the house during the day or I cook dinner at night.

The kids are doing great. The pool has really helped, even though they freeze! We played in it after Robert got home yesterday and that was much warmer. They actually got in the water, instead of just standing in it. Yesterday morning, Joshua told me his legs hurt from the water. Frostbite would not surprise me, lol! The water is so cold here out of the tap. I can see why people don't really drink iced tea much here, they don't need the ice. Our neighbors said it is so cold coming out of the tap in the winter that it will hurt your teeth. Funny.

This weekend we are going to go do some exploring. Might check out a farmers market kind of thing if we feel up to it. Might be good for Joshua to get out and see people. And of course we still have boxes to shuffle and unpack. My goal is to get all of that done in the next ten days because then I really have to start focusing on intensive cleaning so this house will be clean enough for a baby to come home to in Sept. That will take a long while.

We have cable hooked up already. Kind of weird and fun all at the same time. I just love Cash Cab and all of the cooking shows, but we will all be more than ready for it to go after the baby arrives. Oh, and I get to watch the olympics!!!! That was my distraction waiting to go into labor with Joshua too.

WE HAVE A DOCTOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Man, God has SOOOO answered our prayers. First doctor we even called here. He is great. Absolutely NO DRAMA over any of this. His comment about me doing a VBA2C was this "it isn't that common any more, really decreased in the last 5 years or so, but I don't have a problem if you want to try one". That was it, then on to a normal appointment. No scare tactics or threats or what ifs or this might happen or anything blah blah blah. He's great. We were talking later and he did mention that he won't augment my labor if I don't progress, which Robert and I wouldn't agree to anyway. All of the studies show that if you use pitocin, then you have a pretty good chance of rupture. He asked if I wanted to do this natural or if I wanted an epidural. I told him I'd love to do it natural but we aren't die hard against an epidural either, I've already had two with my other births. What a blessing my appointment was. I have no waivers to sign, no battles to fight. I can save all my energy to fight off the vaxing nazi's trying to attack the baby, LOL!!!

YEA!

Check out my Slide Show!

Exciting Target excursion today. Ok, really mundane normal Target outing, except that we got the kids a little swimming pool! Robert blew it up tonight, no full of hot air comments here, and filled it with water so maybe by tomorrow afternoon it will be "warm" enough to let the kids in. They are extactic! Also, hit one of the local grocery stores. It is a "fancy" store. They don't allow their carts out in the parking lot. Instead, you get a ticket at the doors and leave your cart with groceries. Then, you go drive up and they load your groceries for you. Cracks me up, but man it is nice on my ever uncomfortable body.

We have an OB appointment on Wed. This guy is supposed to be really "progressive", as described by some of the ladies that recommended him. That could be really good, or really bad. Depends on which definition of progressive you use. ;-) Anyway, I'd appreciate your prayers. I don't have 20 weeks to spend looking for an OB now, but God knows that. We'll see what happens.

Our poor neighbors, Brian and Peggy, are going to be real sick of our children real quick. Every time Joshua sees them outside he and Leah both take off yelling, "Mr Tomek, Mrs Tomek...blah blah blah blah" They are so sweet and talk with them every time, even have taught them to play eye spy. Their teenage boys don't know quite how to react to Joshua, lol!

Somethings are the same here as Houston, others NOT EVEN CLOSE! We went to the pool party and thanks to the heater that had the water at 87 degrees and still heating, Robert and the kids swam for over an hour. Robert said it wasn't too bad as long as you never got any part of your body out of the water. I was a little chilly on the deck when the breeze would kick up, so I have no idea how they weren't cold. We did have a really nice time.

Met some nice people, although a homeschooling discussion got uncomfortable with a public school teacher in the group and the ministers wife was strangely pushy and made me pretty uncomfortable at times. Everyone else was really really nice. They all brainstormed on doctors for me, which included their birth "horror" stories, of course. Another group brainstormed where to buy organics around here....consensus is that you drive to Amish country to get the best produce in the country, sounds good to me! Another group of the men brainstormed on where we could find Tex Mex. Most decided that Tex Mex and BBQ were not worth eating outside of Texas (I agree) but another were staunch advocates of the open market down town, claiming that every subclass has an authetic food booth down there. We'll see. All in all, it was nice to get out and socialize.

We left the pool party a little earlier than planned because we realized we were going to freeze if we didn't go change into long pants and sweatshirts and grab blankets for the fireworks. Can you believe that? I posted pics above for proof! It doesn't get dark here until almost 10 so it was a LATE night and got down right chilly willy by the end, but it was really fun. Our very nice next door neighbors had given us the skinny on best place to watch the fireworks and hten surprised us later by showing up to watch with us. That was nice. Brian, nice neighbor guy, is in the last pic with Robert and the kids. Joshua loved most of the fireworks, although he was tired and cranky and done with the really loud ones by the grand finale. Leah about jumped out of her skin when they began and was in my lap in about a millisecond. She curled up in the Mommy fetal position and watched about 10 minutes cautiously, but then went to sleep. She kept me warm, so I was ok with that. The show was one of the best I've ever seen, so all in all, it was a great day for us.

This is what greeted us about 10 minutes after getting settled into our room in Lexington KY on the drive up. We had already driven for 10 1/2 hours that day, and this was not a welcome distraction, but hey, the kids are always cute on a fire truck, right?

Happy Independence Day!!!!!!

It will in fact be too cold for any swimming today. Can you believe that? I'm really sad for Joshua, but happy for Robert. Oh well, hopefully soon it will be warm and we'll have access to a pool, all at the same time.

This morning we are doing more work around the house, like repairing the closet rods that keep crashing down in the middle of the night and putting up over the toilet storage in our bathroom. This afternoon we have the nonpool party and then tonight FIREWORKS. Joshua has been talking about seeing fireworks for weeks!

Funny house thing. Everyone knows the Guthrie condo on the our camping trips, right? Well, Robert and I's master bathroom is about the size of their camper bathroom. It is almost comical. We are trying to figure out if I'll even be able to use the toilet by the end of this pregnancy. Too funny!

July 3, cold and rainy

The weather here is phenomenal, at least so far....we'll see how we feel about it come winter, but for right now it is delightful! Today is July 3. We've been in our house for 10 days and have turned on the a/c once for the afternoon. Seem ludicrous. Makes me feel sorry for my friends boiling back in Houston....not enough to come visit but sorry still. lol! Tomorrow we are invited to a pool party at a coworkers house. High of 75. Um, yeah, this Texas girl ain't gettin in no pool when it is only a HIGH of 75. Pregnant or not, that isn't hot! We didn't get to swim at any of the hotels on the way up and when we got here, it was too cold, so I don't think we'll be able to keep Joshua out of the water. Sure hope that Robert doesn't freeze in the pool with the kiddos by himself!

Thoughts on Ohio....

This started as a photo only blog, but now I need a place to blog our life in Ohio, so this is it. Our lachney.com webpage is way too laborious to update. So, check in periodically and catch up.

Our thoughts so far on Ohio, in random bullet points....
-Cities are the same all around the world.
-Organic and healthy food is much more prevalent here in the grocery store because of the Amish communities surrounding here.
-Our landlord should hire some female cleaning ladies cause this place is filthy.
-We really need to get our voter registration switched pronto. This is union country, YUCK!
-Robert's commute willl be unsettling for me during snow and ice since it has a section they call dead man's curve.
-Joshua is having the hardest time adjusting of us all.
-Sunday's just aren't the same without GCC.
-We LOVE having sidewalks in our neighborhood. Who knew how much safer they feel.
- We also LOVE not being on a main street.
-We LOVE LOVE LOVE our sun room on the back of the house.

Our Farm

Our Farm

Joshua at two months with his six month old friend, Lucy

Mom, that guy has the same head as me.

 

 

Welcome Titus!

 

Quintessential Teddy

some day I'll have software to crop these, but I love this pic

Wedding break for some bluebonnet cuteness...

Private eyes, are watching you....

I know this is a bad picture, but the guy popping up from behind the screen just cracks me up! So, enjoy a bad 80's song with me, ok.

Seriously, not a bad picture all day!

The New Mr and Mrs Rodgers

Faces in the Crowd

Faces in the Crowd

First Communion

Your groom awaits!

By the way, this bride did not take a bad picture the whole day! She's amazingly beautiful!

Patiently waiting....

Cuteness X3

One last check....

Getting close....

Bridesmaids and sister support.

Flower girl takes a break....

Mother and sister of the groom take a quick lunch break.

Jake falls in love with Kale.

Our handsome little ring bearer....

although, Joshua will tell you that he carried a pillow with no rings. That was very confusing to him since we had told him he was carrying the rings, no matter how many times we explained how happy it made Uncle John to give Andrew the ring. Three year old logic can't be argued with.

The Younger Male Set was way into the wedding

Baby Jonah Love!

It's tough being the little sister...

Big girl!

Look at all of those teeth...

Aunt Pinto won't let me cut my bangs...

I see this face alot....