Yes, it seems I may indeed be pregnant again!  I was wondering why I kept wanting to eat like a horse and have been feeling fatigued.  I figured it was period coming on.  But when that didn't show up, I took a pregnancy test.  Yay!    What a way to start off the New Year!!  So my new due date according to Baby Center.com is September 7th.  We are so excited!

So, everyone has been doing pretty good.  I am currently sick, but it's not too bad.  Just some cough and a fever.  Luckily no one else has gotten sick.  I'm a little bummed to be sick because I have a few pregnant women I could be seeing right now.  I recently started advertising myself as free birth support and I've received some feedback from it.  Margie (midwife) comes back into town in January, and she said I could sit in on some prenatals as well.  Very excited about that.

Collin is doing great.  He amazes us all the time.  He loves getting involved in everything and doing it himself.  He's quite the little chef and enjoys cracking eggs and watches us cook while standing on a chair.  He's also in love with my iPod.  As you see in this picture, he's discovered how the earphones work and loves listening to music.  He's also started to try jumping, which is quite comical.

Everyone else is doing great.  Mike's job is still doing really well, and Sara's monthly rent has really been helping us out.  I just updated out Photobucket account so make sure to check out all of Collin's photos.  There wasn't anything uploaded past 15 months so there's a lot to look at.  Well I hope everyone is having a good week!

Collin is growing up so unbeleivable fast.  We've been giving him little toddler utensils to try out. The other day I looked over and he was helping himself to some Split Pea Soup with a spoon.  Yogurt seems to be a little more difficult since it's runny.  He gets the idea of the fork and uses it a while, until he gets bored and then dives in with his hands.  I found him standing on the coffee table one day, he had such a look of accomplishment I felt really bad for telling him not to do it anymore. Now, he's able to climb onto the sofa...patio chairs...in and up cabnets...I'm really in for it.    My friend Adina suggested I try introducing a potty to him since he seems to be getting so independant.  I thought for pete's sake he can't even pull down his pants how will he use the toilet?  But she suggested I have one in the bathroom to see if I can get him to sit on it while I go, and introduce the word 'potty'.  Guess it couldn't hurt.  Wouldn't that be something? Weaned and potty trained before 18mo's ?!  Nah, he can't be that grown up yet, he's still my little baby!

The day of my birthday was a bit of a bust.  Vicki drove down from Reno to visit for a whole week and ended up having to drive home early because both of our kids got sick.  But I got what I really wanted for my birthday from my family.  I got the entire collection of Gretta Garbo movies, including her silent films which are my favorite.  I've been watching them as often as Mike lets me (which is about every other night).

Our financial problems have finally come to a head, and now every collector and their mother is wanting money from us.  We're doing okay though.  I'm getting really good at making our money stretch when it comes to groceries, I spend under $70/week now.  Lots of pasta w/ lentils and split pea soup, got to love leftovers.  The big bummer is unfortunately we're going to have to turn off some of our 'luxory' utilities, like cable and internet.  Which means more Gretta Garbo movies and knitting projects for me during the day.  Too bad we live in the desert though, I'll have to mail all my finished knits to you people in Iowa.  Well, so I won't be online very often but I'll be able to check my e-mail and update this site once in a while from Mom's house.  Hope everyone's having a good summer.

Sorry, it's been sooo long since I've updated this thing.  We had lots of fun on Mother's Day.  I got lots of Bath & Body stuff and some jewelry from Gram.  We been doing lots of swimming and visiting with family.  Jessica just flew back to Oregon on Monday, but she was here for a week or so.  We went to Cafe de tute, and listened to some live entertainment.  There was a Frank Senatra singer and since the place wasn't busy he focused on wooing us, ha ha! He even danced for a bit with Jessica.  We also went to a juice bar which is how Collin got covered in Strawberry/Banana smoothie in this picture.  It was like we were old friends and we had a blast.  Not much else is going on.  Collin is still nursing since his last tooth refuses to surface!  But the good news is he knows when bedtime is he's gotten to the point where we can just lay him in his crib to go to sleep and he doesn't even cry for more than 5 minutes.  So, when he does ween this will make things so much easier!  Oh, and I got my hair done! I no longer look like a bottle of Tang exploded on my head, he he.  I'm back to my blonde and loving it.

Life is about to get a bit busier.  My best friend Vicki is coming into town next week and will be staying with us for a full week.  She's already told me her goal is to get tatooed and peirced before she goes back to Reno, ha ha!  Then in early July I'm going to be in Iowa for a family reunion for 4 days.  Then late July or early August I think, I'll be driving with Serenity to Colorodo give her Mom's ashes a final resting place.  Then! In September our apartment lease is up and we're not sure if we'll requalify to stay here, but here's hoping.  Otherwise we'll me moving....arrgh. 

I'm almost ready to hunker down and start studying for my GED.  I finally got my car squared away and legalized, now I just have to deal with small claims court and attempt to sue the butt off the guy who hit me.  THEN! I'll be ready to study.  *whew*