A busy month!

In the past month we celebrated Elijah's birthday, Christmas, drove to Chicago the weekend before Christmas, drove to Maryland for Christmas, New Years Eve and Day, my sister got married and now we're well into January. Whew!! This will not be a long update, just wanted to mention a few things.

First of all, our baby on the way has a name! He will be Benjamin Sawyer :) I love it! (love it even more that Zacky calls him Benjy-min) I am 24 wks today and will be getting another ultrasound sometime in Febuary to check growth.

Also, Dan lost his job the beginning of last week. God will take care of us so I'm not worried (although it was pretty scary for a while) and I know he'll have another job soon...a better job!

I started a new project this year, it's called the 365 project. I will take a picture everyday, it will generally have something to do with what's going on in my life that day, and I'm posting in on Facebook in my "365 Project" album. So if you're not a friend of mine on FB you're missing out!

Almost a month!

Wow, sorry it's taken me so long to post an update! I can't believe Christmas is almost here! So in the past month here's a small run down of what's been going on in our lives...

We're having a boy! We found out about a week ago and we're very excited to be adding another little guy to our clan. :) He will fit in just fine! I'm almost 20 weeks, which is the half way mark, this pregnancy sure is flying by! My pregnancies are usually pretty rough and this one isn't much different, but I'm trying to enjoy every part of it since this is our last. :)

We're going to have a 10 yr old is 4 days and I can hardly believe it. I remember Elijah being a baby like it was not that long ago. But he is maturing into such a wonderful little man, I couldn't be more proud of him. He wants a sledding birthday party with about 5 of his close friends, so we're praying for snow! The only weekends we have free are in January so he's going to have to wait a little while for that party. My sister just bought a house with her soon to be hubby (only 4 weeks from today and they'll be married!) and there's a huge hill that would be perfect for sledding, so they were very kind in letting us use their house for Elijah's birthday party!

Our house is DIAPER FREE!!! (well for the next few months at least lol) Zachary is potty trained...woo hoo!!! He will be 3 in Febuary, so it's about that time. I tried a different approach this time. I decided not to push him at all and he ended up doing it 100% on his own. It took him a few days to get it down, but in the process he's had NO accidents and even sleeps in underwear at night. It's crazy how fast and easy it was. When they are ready then it all will fall into place I guess. So it's been about 3 weeks now and it's just great!

Joshua and Nicolas don't really have anything new going on in their lives, Nicolas just had his school Christmas program Thursday night and Elijah's is Monday night. All 3 of the older boys will be in our church Christmas program tomorrow morning. Also, we went to a Christmas concert Wednesday night at a local church here with the boys. It was so much fun! The boys loved that they recognized some of the songs from the radio.

We're going up to the Chicago area next weekend to have a Christmas get together with some of my mom's family Saturday, then heading to my dad and step mom's house to have Christmas with them next Sunday. Then we'll drive home Sunday afternoon and get home just in time for our Christmas service at church that night. Then the next day we're leaving for Maryland to visit Dan's family for Christmas and will be home the following weekend. Shew! We're going to be busy, but it's worth it, I love this time of year!!

I hope to update again before Christmas (but as you just read I'll be pretty busy!) so if not have a wonderful Christmas!!!

The flu!

We were hit! Sunday morning Nicolas woke up with a fever, cough, chest hurting and runny nose, out of no where. He seemed to be acting fine but when the fever got high (around 103) he would just lay there (poor guy). Monday he was a little worse, I called the dr and and they immediately told me over the phone it sounded like the flu. They would not see him, just called some Tamiflu in for him to take. So he started on Tamiflu. I'm assuming that if he did indeed have the flu, it was h1n1 because it's not regular flu season and his chest was hurting which is a major one for h1n1 (respiratory problems). Monday evening I started with a soar throat and cough. By Tuesday morning I was a wreck. Nicolas missed another day of school and I called my OB. Since I'm pregnant they did want to see me. I slept until my appointment at 2 then drug myself there (Dan, Josh, Nicolas and Zack came too, but they all waited in the car). They tested me for the flu (which SUCKED, it was soooo uncomfortable) which was negative, they don't do swine flu tests unless you're in the hospital, and they gave me a breathing treatment. I left with a script for Tamiflu (which I protested to her that I did NOT want to take it because it's normally not safe for pregnant woman, but they're giving it to them now because of how sick you can get from the flu without it). So I got home, took my first dose and within an hour was vomiting horribly. I obviously couldn't tolerate it. So for the next few hours I was throwing up, it was horrible, I have never been that sick. When it was all out of my system I started with contractions. I was worried I'd have to go to the ER for some fluids or something, but after a few hours I fell asleep. I woke up Wednesday morning feeling much better. My wonderful hubby took M-W off work to take care of me. :) There was so school Wednesday so I was thankful for that. In the meantime, Zachary started with a fever but it never really did anything. So, this being Friday night I am thankful I'm almost 100% back to normal. Yuck! I feel like I'm getting a sinus infection now, but it's ok, I will deal. :)

Oh and on a different note, Zack is potty training! He is doing it all by himself too, I haven't pushed him once. He just started going on his own, without even telling anyone (until he was one of course, then he'd run out yelling "I WENT POTTY!") so for the past 2 days he's been wearing underwear around the house. He's doing VERY well. I'm so proud of him!! Oh, and today, he found that there's a slit in the front of his underwear and has been opening it all day LOL!

Baby Guesses!

I created a game on Expect Net, go there and put in your guess! I'm not sure if you need to register (if you do, it shouldn't take long) but go to www.expectnet.com and on the left you will see where it says "Game name" type in Rodmanbaby5 (no spaces and yes the R needs to be capital). It will take you to our game. Put in your guesses about the baby's gender, weight, length, and when it will be born...by the way my official due date is May 6th. I'm getting my ultrasound on December 1st, so if you guess the wrong gender you can go back into the game and fix it. Please play, it will be fun!again the site and game name is...www.expectnet.com Rodmanbaby5

sick Elijah...

So far this fall/winter hasn't been too bad to us. Zack had an ear infection last week, Josh has done some coughing, but now Elijah's sick. He's missed Mon and Tues at school and looks like he will be missing tomorrow as well. I brought him to dr Monday. She said his throat was very red but we decided not to do the strep test because she was putting him on an antibiotic anyway so it really didn't matter, and he was wheezing so he's doing breathing treatments. He's been on his medicine 2 days now and still has a fever and no appetite. Not sure if he has a touch of the flu or something as well, just seems strange. He's not acting that bad, he lays around some but definitely isn't himself. I'm hoping he has no fever tomorrow so he can go back to school Thursday! (he has to be fever free for 24 hrs before being able to go back to school)

I hope all of you are healthy!

Halloween fun!

Saturday we had a garage sale, it was pretty chilly that morning but it warmed up pretty good during the day. The boys were pretty anxious all day about putting on their costumes! That evening Stephanie, Randy and Seth came over for dinner and to go trick-or-treating with us. We went around our neighborhood for a bit then went to mom's house (she had a special treat for the boys) and then Jessica and Aaron brought the boys around their neighborhood for a bit. It was pretty cold that night but all in all a good night. The boys got a TON of candy. Here'a few pics. :)

Spiderman (Nicolas), Zack was an adorable monkey, Elijah was a ninja, and Josh was Superman


I love how they all dressed up lol. Steph was Princess Leia, Randy Darth Vader and Seth Luke Skywalker, and he made sure to tell everyone who guessed his costume wrong that he was "Luke Skywalker!!"


Zack being only 2 1/2, was quite a bit slower then the rest of the boys so he traveled in style most of the way :D


and one more pic of my adorable niece Cami from our Halloween photoshoot!

October is over?

How did this month fly by so fast? I feel like I ask that whenever any month comes to an end. Well today started my 2nd trimester! Yay! I should be home free out of the "sickness" stage very very soon. I feel like I'm pretty close now. :) I have a dr appointment next Friday and at that appointment I will schedule for the BIG ultrasound! Very exciting to already be this far! Every once in a while I will feel something that may be the baby, but conisdering how little the baby still is, it's hard to tell.

The boys have their costumes all ready to go for Halloween. Zachary will be a monkey, we found it at Old Navy. He loves his costume but doesn't really like wearing it LOL, we'll see how that goes. Joshua is going to be Superman. This changed tonight! He was supposed to be Lightening McQueen (Nicolas' old costume) but after seeing Nicolas' new one he wanted something different. So "grandma to the rescue!" went out to Kmart and bought him what he wanted tonight so he will have it for his preschool party tomorrow. :) Nicolas is going to be Spiderman and Oh My he is so funny yet adorable in it lol. It has built in muscles, which is just so funny to see on him!! Elijah is going to be a ninja (a good ninja :) he wanted to be a football player but that just didn't work out. So, stay tuned for pictures of the boys in their costumes!!

Zachary has been sick the past week, finally today I said enough is enough and brought him in. I had a feeling he had an ear infection and mommy was right. His right ear is pretty bad she said, also his throat doesn't look so great. We did a strep coulture but it came back negative, which is good. Poor guy just wasn't himself today. I let him nap until 6 pm (I know, not too bright, but I knew he needed it) and after that he perked up real good. Finally got him to bed at 10:30 tonight lol. Not sure he's ever stayed up that late.

Also, today I took pictures of the prettiest little girl out there. My niece! She's 4 months now and just sweet as ever. :) Here's one picture from our little mini session.



(I told you she was gorgeous!)

Thanks for all of you who try to keep up with our blog (shouldn't be too hard at this point considering I only update once every few weeks lol) I will try to get another post up after the weekend!