No toilet and I pee 15 times a day!

Yes, you read it correctly we have no toilet. No toilet, no sink, no floor, no wall, no use of our entire bathroom. Allow me to explain. Since we have moved here, almost five months ago, no matter how much I scrubbed our bathroom it always kind of smelled. And on the floor, I would clean along the floor boards because I noticed black looking stuff between the floor boards and flooring. I had a suspiscion that it was mold but was hoping for the best. Now since we have moved in here the boys, Justin and myself have been sick about every other week it seems. Adding to our suspiscion that we have a mold problem. So the other day I asked Justin to pull off the floor board where I kept seeing black creeping out. And wow, we weren't expecting what we found. The whole bottom of the wall along the whole bathroom was black with mold. Also Justin noticed that our toilet was leaking. He assumed a hairline crack on the left side because every day we noticed water and pee on the floor. Now our friends, Glen and Tanya the owners who now live upstairs, used to live down here before they owned the house. They noticed the pee too but thought their eldest son just kept peeing to the left. He needed to work on his acuracy they thought. Kinda funny in a way. But anyways...Justin told Glen about the mold and toilet and immediately Glen was on it. He gave us the ok to go and get a new toilet and because the sink was old too, we picked out a new vanity sink and tap. We've had mold guys and a large noisy hepa filter in and out since last tuesday trying to get the mold under control and dealt with in the best, most efficient way possible. Once the toilet was ripped out and the lino ripped up, the guys saw or should I say smelled where some of the problem was coming from. Poor guys were gagging and almost throwing up because it was so nasty and raunchy. So Wednesday we asked mom and dad Harnett if we could lay our heads and use their toilet at their house until this all clears up. So that's where we've been and will be until our bathroom is functioning. Justin and Glen are at Rona getting the rest of the drywall, insulation and other needed supplies to complete what needs to be done. We are hoping by Monday night everything will be DONE! All of this going on and I feel like this little baby girl of ours is coming any day. I am not sure if she has rotated or not. I know because of the ultrasound where the head WAS and where the bum WAS but now I don't know if it's the bum or head I feel in my ribs. Ribs that are so bruised I feel like I fell off a horse and landed on my chest. I use that meaphor because I know exactly how it feels to fall off a horse. Don't grab onto branches when you barebacking through the forest! Anywho away from pony land....life is a bit crazy these days. I am totally not ready for having this baby. I don't even have my suitcase packed. The clothes are washed and the cradle's here. Oh and we dug out the infant car seat. I guess we have what's esential. So different between the first child and the third. But I am not stressing. It's been crazy but an adventure. I thank the Lord for these times of reminder of reliance. We are NOT in control nor does us stressing and trying to control make the situation any better or easier. Well I will go...laundry and my tummy growling calls. (Pictures are Sam holding our newest cousin Simon Cecconi and Mattias exploring)

Ultrasound

(My sister in law Jerine and me at a wedding shower for her a week ago)
Well we went to the ultrasound today. They always say I don't drink enough water in time for the ultrasound so today I made sure I drank 1L of water one hour prior to our apointment. By the time we got there I could hardly walk my blatter was so full. First thing the technician says when she puts the ultrasound thingy on my tummy is, "WOW, your blatter is soooooo FULL!" Yes, indeed...she didn't need to tell me that. So after taking a quick couple of pictures, she let me go pee and come back for the rest of the ultrasound. She confirmed that yes, we are indeed having a girl with girl body parts shown to prove it! And the reason we went again in the first place to see if the baby is breech was also examined. The baby is NOT breech but instead sideways. I'll try to explain it...her head is in my right rib cage and her bum is in my left rib cage with the spine down at my pelvis. Her feet and hands are what I keep feeling up high in my chest. I am sure she is grabbing onto things that aren't meant to be held onto if you know what I mean. I feel so bruised inside it hurts to cough or bend over. So now we wait...pray and wait! Wait to see what my doctor will determine what needs to be done next and pray that this baby will turn with the Lord's hands directing her. For obvious reasons, I DO NOT want to have a C-section but that option is not in my control. So a girl indeed, sort of hard to even imagine. I felt like going out and buying something girly. But I refrained from doing so. Instead we drove to every known thrift store in town today looking for a smaller, sort of skinny, WOOD, dresser for the baby that I could sand and repaint or stain. NOTHING ANYWHERE! I couldn't believe it. We went to about 8 stores that were open and nothing. Refinishing wood furniture, destressing it or painting it cream, putting glass knobs on it and selling it for enormous amounts of money is a trend here in Kelowna so maybe that's where all of the dressers have gone. No call yet from my doctor concerning my sugar re-blood test results, so that's a good sign! Meaning that it appears that I passed. Well that's it for now. I will keep you all posted on this little babe of ours and her position and my doctors decision. Until then...blessings friends!

Time is flying

Update on the latest...I failed my sugar test and had to be on this diet for three days and then go and redo the blood test. The diet was simple with little sugar but lots of milk and whole grains. Not really hard! Then I had a dr's apointment on Monday and the dr noticed that the baby is not "engaged" in the correct position. Meaning the baby is supposed to be head down and it is head up! Not good at this stage of the pregnancy, 35 weeks out of a possible 40 weeks. So my dr immediately called to schedule another ultrasound for this friday to find the exact position of the baby. So tomorrow at 1pm we have our ultrasound. Justin also has an exray on his foot to see if his big toe is in fact broken. Long story but also a long time problem for him and we want to get to the root of the problem. Anyways, I am hoping they will be able to determine for sure whether or not the baby is in fact a girl. You never know though. Those technicians can be kind of picky when it comes to those kind of things when it is outside of what the dr has specifically asked to look for. We have started getting ready for when the baby comes. Justin got out our small suitcase and I am preparing things for it to pack. I have washed all of the neutral newborn clothes and blankets. And we will be borrowing a cradle from Justin's brother and sister in law. Now we are on the lookout for a good used dresser that I can clean-up and paint to store all of the baby's goodies in. For the first while, the plan is to have the baby in our room and keep Mattias in his room. But we will have to see how that works out. When Sam was born we put him in his room pretty quickly because of the weird noises that he made as a newborn while sleeping kept Justin and I sleeping with one eye open. Mattias has been in his crib in his room since the day we brought him home from the hospital. So depending on the baby and its' sleep patterns/habits, we might keep it with us; put it in Mattias room and put Mattias in Sam's room; or if its' a good sleeper like Mattias, we will put it in Mattias' room with Mattias. Sam still is a horrible sleeper. Rarely does he actually sleep through the night. I am starting to not let him have any sugar past lunch (including fruit and juice) and he only naps once a week which cuts down on the bedtime battles and helps him have a longer sleep when he doesn't nap. Chocolate is STILL out of the question at all times. We keep trying every once and a while and he just goes crazy. He is and always has been very sensitive to caffiene and sugar. Him and Mattias are total opposites when it comes to sleeping. Sam likes his night light on, music playing, and the door open. Mattias likes it dark, quiet, and the door closed. Both won't sleep if those things aren't rightfully in place. So for the two of them to share a room will pose quite a challenge.
Mattias is crawling at worp (sp?) speed and pulling himself up and walking along the coffee table. I have been able to watch right before my eyes how he's coming out of babyhood into toddlerhood. He claps, waves, and grunts to get us to look at him. But he still naps at least four hours a day and sleeps at least 12 hours at night. I prayed for a sleeper and boy did the Lord answer! First thing on Sam's 3rd birthday, November 8/06, we said it was a no diaper day and have never looked back. Officially I think the toilet training took three months but he pretty much had it on his own after about a month. He does it on his own on the big toilet and even washes his hands. It took a couple weeks of me instigating him going to use his toilet after a meal or before bed. And after that he caught on and was soon telling us when he had to use it. It was easy and quite a relief to know it can be done and without a big fuss/headache. So days are spent playing and just trying to take it easy. Not so easy for me but with little option. My hips are as bad as they have ever been but I know there is light at the end of the tunnel very soon. And Justin has been really great at taking care of the boys whenever he's home and has been really great at chores and so on. I am so thankful for a husband who is my bestfriend but also my PARTNER in all of this.