This Time Around

We will be having our second child in early July. We are excited to expand our family. Being pregnant with Kendra was so much easier than this time around! I have been miserable!! The month of November was the worst. It's a good thing that Kendra is easy, (for the most part). I would lay on the couch all day while we watched cartoons in the morning (Sid the Science Kid and Super Why are my favorites) and Disney movies in the afternoon. Poor Mark had to do everything. After work he would make dinner for himself and Kendra, do the dishes, and clean up the floor. During the day I put crackers and snacks on the floor with water for Kendra. I know, it sounds like feeding a dog. It's called survival. On the weekends Mark would do laundry, go grocery shopping, and run all the errands.

Some funny things occurred when Mark did the grocery shopping. I would make a list and on that I wrote the brand and the cost so he would get the exact thing I wanted. What would take me 20 minutes to buy Mark spent an hour and a half! He claimed it was due to the fact that he wasn't familiar with the store layout. He also bought the wrong items - things that weren't on sale or weren't on the list. So he ended up spending more money each week than I do. It was funny because sometimes he thought he got a better deal than what I wrote down, but he was always wrong. I still get a good laugh from this.

Kendra had the flu Wednesday night. This was the best vomit session we've had with her. She was so cute. Kendra woke up in the middle of the night screaming and threw-up just as Mark made his way in her room. Then she's crying from being upset over throwing up, and seeing that her bed, stuffed animals, and princess jammies are dirty. We have a bucket in her room but we've never been able to get her to throw-up in it. When she's sick we put her in our room with one of us sleeping next to her. She would wake up and say, "I need the bucket." And sure enough she did. Then she said, "I don't want to throw-up anymore." It was so cute. The poor thing. Getting a kid to puke in a bucket is so easy to clean! Hopefully we'll be spared the rest of the flu season.