while I love my mom, I really do, her need for annoying fuzzy things that attack me with their… fuzz is annoying. My mom recently purchased a handmade wool rug from a yard sale for $20. She’s so proud of herself and in love with it, while I hate it. She put it in the family room here at the shop for padding for Fumiko. Well now there is hair on EVERYTHING. Fumiko gets it all over her, on her hands which she puts in her mouth, on her pacifier which she puts in her mouth and all of her toys which you know, she PUTS IN HER MOUTH. I have furry stuff all over my clothes because I forgot about it this morning and sat down on it to change Fumiko. Ugh ugh ugh!

Now I feel better, sort of.

Kharizma is bringing Eevee over to the house this evening when Kai gets off work. Due to her current living situation she’s giving Carrot back to her breeder and bringing us Eevee. It’ll be interesting to see how she and Kiyoshi interact now that they’ve been apart for a year. I hope they don’t spaz out again and try to hump each other to death. That’s why we gave Eevee to Kharizma in the first place. Eevee went into heat or something and started humping Kiyoshi and driving him mad. So we had to give her away before things got anymore violent than they were. Also I need to stop by Target today and see if they have the banana yogurt covered papaya pieces that Barbz got for her little bunneh friend. I can’t find them anywhere and she said she got them from Target. So we shall see!

Other than that I am on my period and it’s killing me, I have several video’s of Fumi-kitty to upload and post. Including one of her using a big water jug to walk down the hallway. Ummm. Yeah I donno. It’s cooling off here and I’m SO glad. Christmas is around the corner and I’m at a loss for what to get Kai. Also Sascha’s birthday is coming up soon. We have a nintendo DS for him and we’re also going to get him a bike now that we have a place where he can ride safely. But I don’t know what to get him for Christmas either. Ugh. I’m sure I’ll think of stuff for them, otherwise I’ll be getting some Orlando golf junk for Kai. Since he says golf is the only “sport” he likes. Bahahaha.

The past week I’ve been obsessed with Irish music. Mostly from The Irish Rovers. I have no idea why. I just can’t get enough of them right now. I managed to find their Christmas cd on Itunes. Hoorah!

And now I leave you with bunny pictures!

This is how Kiyoshi looks when he’s completely and utter bored out of his mind.

And this is him falling asleep, while bored out of his mind.

This week has been kind of crappy on one hand, and kind of nice on the other. Yesterday my blood sugar sky rocketed up to 206. It was really confusing. I felt dizzy and sick, I felt like I feel when my blood sugar goes too low. I’ve never checked my blood sugar and had it that high before, the highest it’s ever been is in the 120′s. It was crazy, and scary. I’ve been trying to eat really well. I guess it’s not enough. My mom gave me some diabetic nutrition rx, well 1 capsule, and a capsule of pancreatin. It took forever for it to go down, and for me to feel better. It took about an hour before I started feeling normal. I checked it again, and it was down to 127. Then within about 5 min I felt really dizzy and faint, like I was going to pass out, so I checked it again, and it had gone up to 155. What the heck is going on. At this point, I’m starting to think my body is crazy, either that or the blood sugar monitor was off, and crazy. We just checked both her blood sugar monitors, less than a week ago. They were both fine. About an hour and a half after that my mom took us across the street to eat. Because at this point, I hadn’t eaten yet, which is one reason why I was really confused at my blood sugar being 206. I hadn’t had anything to eat since the day before. I had broccoli, spinach and lemon for dinner. It was just really strange. I got a shrimp salad at the restaurant and had water with some Yarrow flower essence in it. When we got back I checked my blood sugar again… 87. It was now down to where it is normally for me. Before I got pregnant my blood sugar never went above 90. Since I’ve been pregnant it’s stayed between 100 and 127 most of the time. Ugh. So confusing. I really don’t want to deal with high blood sugar during my pregnancy, or ever. My mom is diabetic, she has been most of my life, I know what she goes through all the time. I don’t want to do that.

Prior to my blood sugar issues yesterday, I was having issues of another kind. A lot of women deal with severe constipation while pregnant. Unfortunately with this pregnancy I get to join them. I went from having bowel movements 4-6 times a day, to only being able to go once every couple of days, and needing to do colonics every couple days. Lemme tell you, colonics suck. It’s seriously not something I enjoy. But I’m not about to not go poo for days at a time. I get severe migraines and feel really ill if I don’t go to the bathroom. So I have to. Well, a few days ago I did a colonic, like I normally do. It didn’t agree with my body at all. Infact I started spotting, and having braxton hicks contractions afterwards. My body kept spotting throughout the night and most of the next day, then finally eased up. However I’m still dealing with the uncomfortable slightly painful contractions, and my female parts area place is still very tender and sore. It sucks. I won’t be doing any more. I have enough issues without creating more. I’m just going to have to do.. I don’t even know. Nothing else has worked for me. I can’t take any laxatives, herbal or non. No amount of fresh fruit or veggies is making me go. It just sucks. If I use excess fibre, it makes it harder and more painful to go. Ugh. It’s so… unfair. When I was pregnant with Sascha I was completely normal, and never had constipation. I even tried prune juice. o_P I hate prune juice. It’s so gross. It didn’t help at all. It just made me really crampy. The next three-ish months can’t come fast enough for me! I keep hoping that I’ll get more regular as I get further along. It just hasn’t happened so far. It really needs to though. I wanna go potty damnit! I seriously don’t know how people can go two days without taking a poo. I really can’t understand people that only go once a week. Gosh, I would die. Seriously. Man before I had to be careful of what I ate, so I didn’t get severe diarrhea, now I have to make sure I don’t eat stuff that constipates me more. I used to love cheese, now I can’t hardly eat it. I’d much rather have diarrhea right now than constipation, lemme tell ya.

Last night I had to order a few things. I’ve been having a horrible time finding clothes to fit me. Seriously I think the world thinks fat people can’t get pregnant, and if they do they must be punished by being made to look like circus tents. I mean, they have maternity clothes in size 0, and XS, but I can’t hardly find anything above a large. There’s something wrong with that! I won’t even tell you how hard it is to find something to fit over my boobs. That’s another thing, females with boobies larger than a D cup can’t get pregnant apparently. I have three dress/shirt things that are XL. My boobies still fall out of them. Do you have any idea how frustrating it is to not be able to find tops that fit you? Hello I was a 38F before I got pregnant this time, my boobies have jumped up the alphabet. I found some website last night called biggerbras.com or something. It was really amusing. They go up to like a 56k. Hello finally. lol Of course half the bras are granny styled pointed boobed torpedo like madonna bras, but what else could I expect. They do have a nice selection of comfy looking bras though. I found 4 or 5 that I want to try. I just have to get rich first. $78.00 for one bra. My jaw dropped. But, at least I found a place to get bras! I’m going to order a maternity bra in a size 40G when I can. Because uh, my boobies don’t know what an F is anymore. Finding shirts now is a whole other issue. If it ain’t stretchy, It don’t fit. I did however finally find a pair of pants that should fit me though. I ordered them last night. If they don’t fit I can return them.

I also had to get some nipple shields. I hate, hate, hate the icky paper disposable ones. When you leak, if it dries, it sticks to your nipple and hurts like hell to peel it off. So I opted to try some washable cotton ones this time. I found some fairly cheap ones on etsy.com. You can’t beat $1.50 for a pair. I got 3 pairs. They’re even cute! Yesterday Kai and I also picked up a little play gym. It’s so cute. It’s pink and has cute little bugs and flowers on it. It has a little dragon fly and lady bug thingy that are so cute. It has lots of crinkle toys, and a mirror, and some chew thingies. It’s really cute and should last a while, cause it can be used as she gets older. I also picked up a curtain rod from Wal-Mart yesterday, and we finally got the curtains up last night. Kai put up the curtain rod for me. So yay! Fumiko’s room is coming together nicely. I also ordered a couple of pacifier clips from etsy.com. When Sascha was a baby, he liked using a pacifier, but always lost it until we got him a pacifier clip. It was so much easier to keep it off the floor, and in reach. So I decided I had to obviously get them this time as well. If Fumi doesn’t want to use a pacifier that’s totally fine with me. But if she does, I want to be prepared ahead of time.

I picked up some spelt flour from the store last night. I’m hoping it’ll be just like cooking with wheat flour. It has the same consistency. I just need to stop using wheat flour. I don’t use it often, but I don’t want to use it at all. I miss making homemade cakes and cookies and things. I pretty much stopped making them, outside of holidays or birthdays, because it was just way too much gluten for us. Sascha has a real allergy to it and gets really sick if he gets much at all. It doesn’t much agree with me either. Can we say hello cramps and instant diarrhea and general flu like feelings? So yeah. I’m going to start attempting to bake/cook with spelt. Hopefully it works out well. I know Sascha’s teacher Miss Sonia has a few recipes I can get. She only uses spelt flour at school, because like Sascha a lot of other students in her class have celiac disease. So yeah, I want to be able to make yummy baked goods again, without wheat flour. I also want to start making cupcakes. It’s something I’ve never really done, but they look like so much fun, and I love decorating things. There are tons of good recipes out there, so I should be able to find a few good ones.

My thumb is healing nicely, it’s still really bruised under the nail, but it’s not painful most of the time, so hooray for that! I’ve been trying to take it easy, with all the things happening this week and last. I’m hoping the baby will stop using my bladder as a soccer ball though. Especially at night. I’ve been up til around 5am the past week or so. She’s quiet and still allll day, then around 9/10pm she starts kicking and moving something fierce. Kai keeps saying she’s gonna be a soccer player. lol I don’t care what she is, I just hope she stops using me for practice.

We need to work on getting a crib mattress and the car seat/stroller combo soon. Those are two things I really want to get and not have to worry about later. There’s just so much to get and think about. While at wal-mart yesterday I was looking through all the diapers, trying to find a brand I was okay with. I still don’t know. I want to look into some natural diapers, I’m hoping they’re better than they were when Sascha was a baby. We’ll have to see. I did manage to get around to taking pictures of the crib and some stuff. Now I just have to not be lazy and upload them and resize them. ^_^ We’ll have to see how long that takes me. >_> Hopefully not too long.

But now I must go bathe the bunny. He got his little nails clipped last night, and now he needs a bath! I cleaned his cage earlier today, and put some lavender flowers in his litter. He seemed to actually like the lavender. He’s been doing really well lately. He runs around and plays on the bed when I’m laying down, and will come up to me and let me pet him as long as I want. We’re still working with him on his chewing issue though. The other night he was over on the corner of Kai’s side of the bed scratching. Kai ignored him, and ended up with some lovely holes in the sheet. :frust: He has been doing better though. Before he would immediately start chewing everything, and he was very antisocial. So he’s warming up and coming around. He doesn’t potty anymore outside his cage, which is just great. He runs over to his cage when he wants back in. So he’s doing great there. Now to just solve the chewing problem. He hasn’t learned that he can’t chew on our stuff yet.

Sascha’s first day of school was Friday. He had a really great time, and did well. He did however sneak some toys to school with him. Which would be fine if it were a stuffed toy, but no, he took some random transformer pieces, which aren’t allowed. So Miss Sonia handed those to me when I picked him up. He was happy and had a good day, so as a treat Kai and I took him to Denny’s. lol Yes… Denny’s. It was his choice. His first choice was Macaroni Grill though. Ha. I wish I had the money to go eat there. But no, we had to do a cheap place. So we took him to Denny’s. It was okay. Kai gave him a little laser light thingy as a reward for doing good at school. He was thrilled. I think he told everyone he saw that he got a laser light as a reward for doing good on his first day of school. Hopefully Monday is just as good. I made Sascha teriyaki salmon and rice for lunch. He however only ate the rice. I’m guessing it had to do with his throwing up episode on Wednesday night.

He was fine all day, then that night got out of bed around 10pm and told me his tummy hurt. I asked him if he felt icky or if he was hungry. He gets tummy aches when he gets hungry, sometimes he gets hungry at night. He said he was hungry. So I gave him some of the home made beef stew I made. About 15 minutes later I hear him throw up. Kai and I got up and he was standing in his bathroom doorway just throwing up everywhere… I had to get him over to the toilet, but it wasn’t fast enough. He ended up throwing up everywhere. I mean, it was all over the floor, the toilet, the sink, and the tub. Kai ended up cleaning the bathroom for me while I tended to Sascha. He didn’t have a fever or anything, so it was a bit strange. He hasn’t thrown up in months. So this was a surprise. I took him into our bathroom and ran a pretty warm bath for him. I put some lavender oil and liquid oxygen in it and had his soak in it. While he was in the tub I got him a little glass of bottled water and put some nausea/vomiting homeopathic drops in it as well as the influenza homeopathic, and a few drops for constipation. He’s also been dealing with constipation lately, so I wanted to cover my basis. I know kids can get flu-like symptoms from being constipated. The toxins that they aren’t dumping with bowel movements stay in the body and make them ill. So he drank that. He was in the tub for about 45 minutes total. I washed his hair and had him soap up at the end to make sure he didn’t have any vomit on him anywhere, and got him into bed. I’m still not sure what happened. I don’t know if it was his issues with constipation, or if he got a little bit of food poisoning from the sandwich he had earlier, or if he just had a little tummy flu. He seemed fine the next day, no more tummy aches or throwing up, no fever, no nothing. So, I have no idea really. I’m just glad he’s doing alright. The only time he was picky with his food was with the salmon. Which he normally loves. Today he had a sandwich on spelt bread. Smoked turkey, swiss cheese, alfalfa sprouts, spinach and mayo. He did totally fine with it. So I’m thinking whatever was bothering him isn’t anymore. I’ll still be watching him though to make sure nothing crops up. Especially with him starting school. Lots of bugs and things are gonna be flying around just waiting to jump on some poor unsuspecting child. I don’t want it to be mine. He doesn’t need to get sick, I sure as heck don’t need to get sick and Kai definitely doesn’t need to get sick.

I think I’ll go clean my amethyst crystals while I’m at it… I haven’t cleaned them in awhile. Whoopsy. I don’t want any icky’s coming in our house. I also need to clean and replace the ones at the front door. :frust: I have lots to do! My list keeps getting longer and longer. I’ve been wanting to get some amethyst to put under the four corners of our bed as well as Sascha’s and the baby’s. I shall have to do that soon. I may get some ametrine for Sascha’s or two amethyst, and two citrine for him. I’m still not sure yet. Either way, it’ll have to wait til we have extra money.