Ouch.

So, we are now supposedly not so fertile for the next five years.

WHAT?! you ask...

Well, I had the Mirena placed today. It's a five year IUD with low dose hormone. It's supposed to virtually eliminate monthly periods. YAHOO!

Um...yah...it is not so comfy to get put in. Like worst cramps I've ever had. ... but only for like 20 minutes. I'm not enjoying sitting so much right now. Feels like I have a stick stuck where the sun doesn't shine... which I kinda do. TEE-HEE. But, anywho. It's not so bad.

So, if we see any posts from me about being pregnant... that won't be me.

Ah, yes. The sweet "pick-me-up-NOW, Momma" cry is heard across the house. TA-TA for now.

Mommy Attire

So, yah. I am currently sporting the newest look in "new" Mommy attire. This look includes:

• semi-clean, messed up, put-up-out-of-mommy's-face hair
• no makeup
• no shoes
• whatever pants are clean-ish
• top that covers enough so that if I have to answer the door, I won't embarrass anyone. Said top is coated in various baby spit-up spots, on shoulders, breast areas, and dead center of collar area. At least it's not too stinky, to me.

Just thought you should be fashion forward, like me.

Diaper Genie Woes

Color me retarded. I haven't used the darn diaper genie in over 3 years. It seemed too much of a hassle. So, in my cleaning frenzy today, I thought I'd give it another go. I can't figure out how to get the darn contraption to work. Maybe I am missing a piece. Maybe I am that broken, melted crayon. I just can't get it to work. So, I am tempted to throw the darn thing at a garage sale person... or maybe to a second hand store.

EEK!

Owen Cooing

Owen Cooing

Owen is 8 weeks today. So, I am officially off of maternity leave. He's smiling and cooing more and more each day. He breaks hearts and is loved on by all who meet him. Here's a short video of my little man. Not a whole bunch of cooing...but lots of moving around. ENJOY!!!

EDIT --- the video will not load from blogger, so I had to post it separately.

Prayer Request

I have a friend. She is an artist (the one that made my cowboy diaper bag), and a poet. She's a beautiful mother of three. She is happily married to a caring, sensitive man. She's a Christian and a Jesus freak. I've been her friend and she's been mine since fourth grade. She was in my wedding.

I just read an email from her. See, we have myspaces. That's how we keep up. I noticed she wasn't on there ... or hadn't been for a while. She added me to a new page. So, I told her I missed her and asked if everything was okay.

Long story short. She tried to commit suicide on July 11th. She suffers from depression. This wasn't the first attempt. She had tried to get help. She immediately tried to reverse her attempt...unsuccessfully. Thank God her husband was home. She's just now back home from the ICU and a psych hospital. I had no idea.

Please. Please pray for my friend, (we call her Chan). She needs love more now than ever before.

Legends

I am getting a ring made/redesigned there. I already had one with Amethyst - Caleb's birthstone. I wanted to add something for Owen. His actual birthstone is something called Alexandrite - aka VERY EXPENSIVE. The other option is a pearl. Since we're in West Texas, I thought I'd get a Concho Pearl. Grant, at Legends, is working on a couple of ideas for us. The one he had for us on Saturday was an imperfect pearl. It looked like the beginnings of Siamese pearls. Or, as Brant put it, a baby's butt. Whatever. It looked great in the middle of the Amethyst ring. It would replace the largest Amethyst. And, he managed to find a not pink one. It was a bronze-purple. Very me. Anywho. He's working up a couple more ideas. I'll get you a photo when it's all done up.

WALL-E

It was cute.

We were not charged for Owen. Owen did awesome. I fed him and changed him IN the theater. He cooed and "watched" the movie and slept.

Caleb did very good during the movie. He was more than tuckered when we left. So, luckily for us, he slept in the car on the way to Legends (see next post).

Such a good time with all of my boys. Brant liked it too.

Is it rent worthy? Yes. But, I am a BIG Disney-Pixar fan. So, there you go.

Rewarding good behavior

Owen has been good (well - not really by mommy standards. He decided from 2-5 this morning was wake-up time. Mommy was NOT amused).

Caleb has been good.

Brant has been good.

Mommy has been VERY good.

So, we're going to (wait for it) the movies! We're going to see WALL-E. Should be interesting. Think they'll charge us for Owen? What if I put him in a snugglie? I'll let you know.

Heat Rash

That's the verdict from Dr. P.

So. Yeah. Just keep doing what we're doing.

OH...and he's 10 pounds, 6 ounces and 22 inches long. What a porker. :)

And a cutie.