funny kid stuff

So you have to loooooove kids to be in our shoes. We do. We love our family time, and love the silly things that come out of their little mouths.

Here are 2 funny things that have happened in the past few days.

#1....Karley called and wanted to come over. She was in the door for 3 seconds before Amanda and her came down from the upstairs looking like twins. This has been going on ever since I went to the store with the girls and bought 3 matching dresses for the babies. Cute isn't it?

#2....Is a letter from Amanda today. She and Bradley went to their nana and papa's house...and these are my instructions while she is gone....I ask you WHO IS IN CHARGE HERE?


I WRITE THESE WORDS AS THEY APPEAR ON THE LIST:

Instroctions for guiny pig and snake! if my guiny pig needs a bath you know what to do. feed her, play with her. change her cage if it starts to stink. give vancuiver dinner. don't let vancuiver taer up the trash. plant the trees and scoop the cats litter and tow more things keep an eye out on the babys. and have a good time with ms. gripey

I (heart) u !
Amanda

I posted the picture to prove to everyone .... Mandy is fussy. Or Gripey as Amanda says.

I'm officially complaining

post by mandy
ok so i agreed not to complain if i got pregnant. it's official, i'm complaining. i am soooooooooo over bedrest. I am confined to two places. My bedroom and my living room. I couldn't take another second last night so Amy loaded my ass in the car and we headed out to look for nocturnal animals in the country. We saw a skunk and a deer. After about 30 minutes ,a trip to taco bell and to white castle my fun meter was pegged and i was ready to go home:) Fresh air was nice. I was complaining to my dad this morning and he told me i wasn't in charge anymore the 4 babies were large and in charge. I am really not capable of doing anything even if i wanted to. 90 more days. I counted out yesterday how many more days until i'm at 38 weeks. It was 91. Amy said, "why did you do that?" "that is torturing yourself"
signed,
The Fussy Squishy

doc appt/first webisode http://www.bigmammas.tv

post by mandy
well today marks 25 weeks for me. I am moving right along. Saw the doc today. I had a few hiccups at the doc today. My bottom number on my blood pressure is slowly creepy up. It's now to the point where they have to eagle eye it. I also had more protein in my urine so i have to do a 24 hour pee in the orange jug exercise "oooh goodie" Ultrasound tech says A is a girl. I was watching our first webisode that was released today laughing at the dream i had about there being 1 boy and 2 girls because up until now that what the count has been for sure. Ultra sound tech says Baby A is laying at the bottom of my uterus like the gate keeper, "no one in, no one out" So that being said. 3 girls 1 boy and a tampon dispenser needed in their bathroom when they are teenagers:) oooh i did find out some EXCITING news today at the doc. We get free formula for 6 months since our kids are soooo cute already. We have to remind them of it once they are born so all you type A's out there don't let us forget about that:)

I'm defending my fat comment

Mandy lost over 100 pounds over the past 2 years. She got really thin, and looked real good. When she got pregnant she started gaining weight according to the book "twins, triplets, and quads". She was to gain x amount of weight before x amount of time. She follows the rules to a T in everything she does. Hello!!! You take a prego lady who is on bedrest, not moving and gaining lots of weight, it goes to the squishiest places possible. So, there! She is squishy!!!

Here is a photo of her that I took tonight to prove she really is pregnant.....take a look at this picuture.

Tina, Don't fall over, her hair still looks the same.

Can someone do something about these pants? I am starting to feel like a leopard has moved in.

Amy

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this isn't right

post by mandy

my hair has stirred up quite the controversy. luckily a good friend Tina promptly emailed this morning after seeing the pill box post and said she was over the nursing home hair and offered to come give me a mini extreme bedrest makeover. No worries guys Tina is coming very soon to fix my problem. I did ask Amy last night if it bothered her that i hadn't combed my hair in a month of sundays. She said no. However, she did ask me "mandy do you feel fat?" i said, "well hell yes i do" she says, "well you are sure looking fat!" now that's every bit of it. i didn't say anything as my lovely wife had just insulted my bedrest body. She thinks it's funny. My body is a little on the squishy side:) I am looking for people who want to join me on the june 13th diet start date. i asked my mom but her response was she wants to wait to get really fat so she's gonna pass. I am very very very excited to be able to exercise again.

more on the tree

post by mandy

ok so yes i am total type A personality. I have NOTHING to keep my brain as busy at it likes to be. so yes i did happen to notice that our neighbor came over and started cutting down a tree of ours that had fallen. Amy forgot to mention is was our tree that had fallen. So we even opened our gate so he get on our side to finish cutting it. UH wrong again. He never cut what was on our property only what was hanging in the field. Now mind you the tree has only been down for about a month. He came cut and left with our wood. What the hell?????? Amy has had so much fun making fun of me watching him. He actually came back twice to do the job. Nothing gets by bedrest mamma sitting in her green chair criss cross apple sauce.

So amy says "mandy he is retired and has nothing to do just like you, he's just looking for entertainment"

Elvis

post by mandy

i am eating the stalest sucker of the century. Amy has been "nesting" and she found several bags of candy in the laundry room. She threw them away. Well at some point in the day i had waddled over to throw something away and saw all that candy in the trash and about fell over. i hallered and amanda and bradley both immediatley came running over to me. They knew what had happened. It's a very common accurance around here that i find things Amy has thrown away (like my elvis picture that i bought at a garage sale for .50) luckily my mom saved it from the trash and gave it to me for my birthday:) As joke my mom taped a pic of my brothers face instead of elvis's face. I gotta a great belly laugh. so anyway back to the candy story. the kids and i picked the candy out of the trash and have been eatin since. YUUUMMMM

(note: kerry still likes to play tricks, the first pic i took was ghostified i posted it so you could see it)

Mandy has been sitting inside the house for the past week. She has been sitting in her chair watching out the window. The guy down the street was on the other side of the fence cutting down a tree that had fallen . 1/2 was in our yard, the other 1/2 in the farmers field. NOT HIS field....just a field. Mandy sent me to town to get the chain saw fixed. I told her it was 29 degrees and I was not going to cut that tree. "Do you know how much it would cost to have firewood delivered?" she said. "well, good thing we aren't running low on firewood". I said back to her. "Well, it makes me fussy that he is taking all that good firewood." She said.

Today was 59 degrees, so I cut the tree. Well, I cut the 75 % of the tree that was left on our side of the fence, until the chainsaw gave out. POS.

I picked Mandy up on the golf cart, drove her out to the chairs to watch up close. Now isn't that nice of me? To chop down that tree and save her all that money on firwood?

We have a doctors appt on Friday. Mandy will be 25 weeks at the beginning of next week. We have reached viability. Our first milestone in this journey that we are on. We are concidering going to the multiples group that is here in town to learn anything that we can. Ok I am concidering going. I think it meets on the 27th? Better check on that.

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pill box as big as your head

post by mandy
so i owe amy and apology. ya know the joke around here is amy gettin old. so she went to town and bought a small pill box for herself to keep her vitamins and pills straight. i made so much fun of her. So i take um 9 pills a day. Don't worry they are all vitamins. Well i was opening each bottle everyday and digging the pills out and have been doing this for 6 months. So i finally broke down with my tail between my legs and asked amy if she could also pick me up a pill organizer. And this is what she brought me home. Pill box as big as my head. Ain't she sweet:)

baby names

post by mandy
ok so amy and i have finally agreed on names that we both love.

Della Godin
Elvis Mantris
Buffy Lite
Jemima Jo

we are sooo happy wtih our choices and just know that no one else will have these names. We decided to scrap all the other names and just start over.

Say Cheese

I don't brag much...But I am about to brag about my morning.

I had a dentist appointment this morning. I woke up, and was so tired, I didn't want to go. I am usually a nervous Nellie when it comes to going to the dentist. I walked in, and was so sleepy, and calm that it was really out of character for me. So, when the hygenist started cleaning my teeth, I closed my eyes, and rested. It was the best dentist appointment I have ever had. It was like going to the spa. Really.

Don't laugh....today Im back to Jack, Kerry, Tillie, Samantha (sam). Wonder if I can convince Mandy?

Amy
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my back hurts

post by mandy
ok my body is hurting bad. my back is killing me. i'm not having contractions though. looked at a dodge sprinter today. it was at a dealership and they had it packed with plants and stuff. it was at palmer dodge north. very unprofessional. if you are gonna advertise something make sure it's presentable to the customer. we obviously aren't gettting that one. The internet manager i spoke with him on the phone and asked a few questions about the van. He was supposed to go right out and measure the cargo room available behind the back seat and call me back asap. He never called me back. HA That's because the van had the seats out and it looked like a storage unit for the dealership and every college kid whose parent works there. Guess they weren't expecting us to really drive up there to look at it. Wonder if he'll ever call me back. Amy doesn't want a white van. It must seat 15 passengers. Have less than 100k miles. Keep your eyes and ears open.

Crazy name changes

This name business is for the birds. I am changing 2 of the names today. Shelby Jayne - sounds hillbilly. Tripp Aaron....changing. We have people sending us emails daily on name suggestions....My mom and Teri call us daily with options. We crack up. Everyone is so willing to help. Keep up the ideas. We concider all names.
Bradley has been in the dumps about the babies. Too much work is what he is being told somewhere? It will be a lot of work, but he needs to know that life will still be good, and he will still go on bike rides, and feed the horses. If you happen to have Bradley, give him good lovin, he needs it. Today he told us his new babies were gonna be glad to see him, because he can put his big toe in his mouth. He showed us.
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2 dogs named Sue

post by Mandy

here are my 2 dogs named sue i was telling you about.

I was reading about mothers of adopted children nursing. When I was pregnant with Amanda and/or Bradley someone asked Mandy is she was going to nurse them. I was offended. I was thinking, if I was carrying them, I would be nursing them. If you know me, I am a control freak, so feeding my new child was so powerful to me. Anyway, Mandy never had an interest in carrying babies, or nursing them, until now. So, Mandy says she is going to nurse, and we have 4 babies, and she would really have a tough time nursing 4 babies. We are going to both attempt this task with the quads. We asked our doctor last week about me pumping to bring in milk. They called the lactation consultant immediately, and we have a big packet on the process. It isn't difficult. Just dedication. You know, I loved nursing Bradley. I actually had a hard time giving it up. Nursing the quads would sure be a beautiful thing, and save so much money in formula.
When Amanda was born, she was preemie, so I wouldn't leave her for a long time. When Bradley was born I breast fed exclusively. He never took a bottle. (well maybe 1 time?) But seriously, Since Amanda wouldn't nurse, I was insistent that Bradley not be bottle fed. So, I never left him after birth either. So my question to Mandy today was : "do you think I will be that obsessed with the quads or do you think I will be so ready to get away for 5 minutes that it won't be the same as with the other 2?" She laughed at me. Like who the hell would be watching them for 5 minutes for me to go anywhere? HAHA....yeah, silly wasn't it?
Mandy found a dodge sprinter today for us to go test drive. We have never been in one, and want to see if it is even an option to look for a reasonably priced one. Jason Doan called Mandy today and told her she needed a short bus. Well, the short bus would be fine if Mandy and Jason were driving it every day. NOT THIS CAMBY HOUSEWIFE!!! No Way! I'm stretching it by being ok with a freaking cargo van w/ seats.
So, Mandy posts a bunch of names yesterday . The calls and emails are pouring in already... This would be why we didn't share Amanda's name with anyone until she was present and named. I think Mandy likes to create the drama. We are throwing around another boy name even though we have the bossy board filled out upstairs. Even though I wrote all the names on the board, everyone agrees it is good to be able to step back and see them in print. Cuz, ya know, there are a lot of names up there. The first name drama came when Amanda's school left out Sheckles on her school picture. Amanda Jo Sheckles Paul. The school dropped Sheckles. So Mandy said these babies were gonna all be Sheckles. Then Ron (Mandy's Dad ) told her that all these kids need the same name. At least that would be something with our household that would be the same. Mandy won't take my last name, I won't take hers. Only because she is so insistant NOT to take mine. No other reason for me. It is the battle of the wills. The kids think everyone in our family is a "sheckles paul". But now that Amanda is older and funny as hell....papa ron called for Mandy the other day. He asked to speak to "your mom". Amanda said "do you want mom sheckles or mom Paul?" She gets it now. Eventually the kids will get the confusion in their names. Amanda is in first grade and just figured it out.
We agreed when Amanda was born not to hyphenate her name because it was confusing. Yeah, it is still confusing. So now you all know.....all the kids are "sheckles paul" kids. Unless you are burping or being rude then we call you a sheckles and if you are dipping strawberries in sugar your a paul kid. Call us what you want, just don't call us late for supper.
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More on the Bucket List and baby names

post by mandy
so if you have been following the posts from the beginning you know that this summer we did alot of stuff with our buckets lists that amy and i created. so we have been really having baby name drama and what to name the sugar babies. amy really really likes the name shelby. so yesterday i was watching the bucket list and i had forgotten about this but in part of the movie there is a special car named a shelby. when amy got home i told her it was an omen that we name one of the girls shelby because it was on the bucket list and that's how this baby bidness started:) so here's what we have for names and they are written on amy's bossy board.

kerry jo
shelby jayne
tillie shayne
tripp aaron

Jo is after amanda, amy, and amy's mom
kerry and shayne are after my brother
tillie is after some relative of amy's that made good food (and who raised her grandpa)
aaron and (jay)ne after amy's brothers
jayne after my grandma and my aunt and amy's great grandma's name.
tripp mandy's pick (we planned our pregnancy on a trip)
shelby amy's pick and the bucket list (my office is on shelby street too:)

now baby A is still not showing us the goods. so at delivery we might be doing some maneuvering. shelby and kerry could be boy names. names that didn't make the cut are below:

Penn (mandy's pick after a relative, and sean penn)
Tess (mandy's pick just liked)
Jude (amy's pick, my mom had a premonition this name would be used)
Guy (amy's pick, puke)
Preston (we both liked that)
Stone (mandy liked)
jack (amy's pick)
sam (amy's pick)
morgan
SUE (mandy's pick)
Cruz (mandy's pick)
Iris (Amy's pick)
Ivy (Amy's pick)

amy has threatened that while i'm getting sewn up to make a few changes on her own to the names. OH dear. I do not authorize that. We both have agreed on these 8 names however, i did let amy have naming rights in order for us to get pregnant. i'll keep my fingers crossed.

24 weeks.

post by mandy
yesterday was my birthday. i normally celebrate for about 7 days around my birthday. it's called the "birthday season" around here. NOT THIS YEAR. I haven't felt very good the last couple of days. I am officially 24 weeks. so that means the babies would have 40% of surviving at this point. My next milestone is 28 weeks.What did i do for my birthday? Well, i served myself breakfast in bed. Watched the Bucket List. One of my favorite movies. Thanks to the movie that's why i have nursing home hair today. That movie prompted me to make my own bucket list and cutting my hair off was on it. Along with getting pregnant:) Took a bath and watched the sugar babies move around in my belly (you can see them move from the outside now) Amy's mom ordered me a pizza and had it delivered at lunch time for me. She's on vacation in florida. (That was fun) I like corny stuff like that. Opened my presents. I got a glow in the dark dog. i decided to name it Sue. So HA! She sits at the back door. My mastiff's middle name is also Sue. It even says so on her papers. Went to dinner with amy, the kids, and my dad and that was it. The trip to dinner was really hard on me.

Big Mammas

post by mandy
we are currently working on a show called Big Mammas. The first webisode will air on Feb 27th at http://www.bigmammas.tv you can go there now and watch the trailer of the show. Sign up at the bottom to get updates on new webisodes. If you know of any potential sponsors for each webisode we'd love to chat with them. Happy watching.

Baby Name School

post by mandy

last night the kids and i were amy's student at "baby name school" of course amy was the teacher. we only threw a couple of spit wads at her. This baby name stuff is crazy. 8 names. We have the enough names to use it's just a matter of mixin and matching them so they sound good and picking out of the ones we have. we have "plenty" of names that we like. amanda wants to name a baby after her only using her middle name though. i want to use Sue. Which is my middle name and Amy refuses to. What's wrong with the name Sue? If Amy acts bad tonight at baby name school and won't name a baby Sue then I have already decided I am going to put bubble gum in her chair.

My family horse laughed at me

Post by Mandy
I came downstairst today in this outfit and Amy and all 3 of the kids horse laughed at me. I have never seen amy run so fast as to get the camera to take my pic before i sat down. Amanda said, "mom you look like the biggest hillbilly" See we have company coming today and i wanted to put my dress clothes on. I even put on a hat on to hide my "troll hair" It's pretty impossible for me to wear anything but sweat pants or things that are tight like jeans or regular pants. I was up last night wallering around. There were four in the bed and the little one said, "roll over i'm crowded" I finally just went down the hall to another bed. I got rooted out. i haven't been monitoring for contractions religiously anymore cuz i have only had one contraction in 3 weeks. Hell the nurses finally quit calling to say no contractions. The velcro things get on my nerves anyway.

3 am

I woke up at 3 am with the brightest TV in my face. Mandy hasn't been awake in the middle of the night for a while now...but last night, she was struggling. I could hear her huffing and puffing trying to get comfortable. Can't imagine....I couldn't sleep with one!!!
We went to the cheeseeey wheezey japanese steak house yesterday. Teri (marmee) took us there for Valentine's day. Mandy ordered shrimp. Pee Wee ( our personal chef) haha told Mandy she shouldn't eat shrimp if she was pregnant. This is the umpteenth time we've heard she shouldn't eat shrimp or lunch meat. If there is some proven evidence out there as to why this is being said....let us know. I became allergic to shell fish after having the two kids, but Mandy isn't listening. Her favorite pregnant food is SUB WAY!!!! That would be the bite of sandwich she gave me the other day.
Our basement flooded last week. We ( I ) have been messing with drying the carpets and now the house smells like mildew. What the heck am I gonna do? The carpets down there are soaking wet, I've sucked all the water out that I can, and they still smell....advice?

Has anyone tried leaving a comment other than my mom and been unsuccessful? She can't leave a comment, and I'm wondering if everyone is having this problem?
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officially 23 weeks

post by mandy
loving my new big girl panties. why the heck didn't i have amy get those for me a month ago. amy had me model them today. she snickered they come up past my belly button. today i am officially 23 weeks. went to doc. learned that i barely squeeked by on my gestational diabetes test last time. i have to retake in 4 weeks. blood pressure is good. we are hot to trot shopping for passenger vans. it has to be a 15 passenger van. amy was running me around town today and she made me give her a bite of my sandwich for her to take me to the post office. What's up with that? i gained 5 lbs. Whew making i should have given her 5 bites.

almost 23 weeks

post by mandy
i woke up today and was really sick. my lower back was killing me. hmm is it contractions or just farts wanting out? Thank god it was the latter. i was in bed until noon. i had to call amy to help me downstairs. i decided after self diagnosing myself that i was dehydrated. amy hooked me up with a BIG glass of water. I just sent Amy to town to buy me underwear. mine are starting to look like a string bikini. OH DEAR!!!! She knows i am very picky about my underwear. i only wear bikini style. i hate the old lady kind that come up really high above my belly button. so she was 20 questioning me on what kind to get. i am so uncomfortable i said, "i don't care just get em BIG. Bigger the better. Interesting to see what kind of granny panties she shows up with.

Who is Karley

I had a good friend ask me today who Karley was.... So even though she is a good friend, not all of you know who our third child is. She really isn't our "third" child. Mandy has and always will be my third....lol.

Ok, so here it is....

Mandy's brother Kerry has a child named Karley. Kerry was married to Jennifer. Jennifer is Karley's mom. When Kerry passed away 4 yrs ago, it was soooo important that we get to remain a part of Karley's life. Jennifer has been wonderful with letting us have Karley so much. We have her so much that Amanda and Karley now think they are twins. HAHAHAHAH. This came about after the quads....well, you know. I've been shopping for clothes, some matching of course. So the big girls now have 2 outfits exactly alike so they can be twins.

Anyway, Karley is our niece. We love to have Karley. Every chance we get we have her. She has a mind of her own. The wise one of the kids, the resourceful one. If you need to find something that is lost, ask Karley. Well, when we found out we were having 4 babies, Karley's first concern was that we wouldn't be able to have her anymore. We outgrew our suburban the minute Mandy got preggo with quads. Not including when we have Karley. So, when we have been out shopping for a car large enough for all of us, Karley asks "is that big enough for me too?". We will not get a car that will not accomodate all 9 of us. Don't worry Karley Q....your in it for the long haul just like the rest of us....

Amy

accomplished tasks

Today,
I took the cushions to the glider over to a friends house to have her make new covers and make pillows for the nursery. (been needing to do this for about a month)

Mark came and picked up the church pew. It was in the nursery, I needed it removed to make room for for changing tables. I have had the church pew for 15 yrs. It came from a church downtown that was remodeling. It is gorgeous. It went to a good home.

Mark helped me carry in the changing table. We bought it when we had Bradley. It has been in Mandy's downtown office for the past few yrs....we didn't think we would need it again for it's intended purpose. Imagine that!

It has been a great day here. Kids have been outside most of the day playing in the mud, and soaking up the warm weather. We are all playing ball in the living room, and are about to head upstairs for baths.
Thank goodness warm weather is coming closer for us. We need some vitamin D!!!
Over and Out.

baby name drama

post by mandy
amy is stressing because we don't have names picked out yet. We only have 2 of the eight names. It's so funny how we all stress about different things in life. She is also stressed about getting the nursery 100% completely done with cribs up and beds made. I can honestly say if i wasn't pregnant i would be stressing about a million things. I don't stress about shit right now. I am not allowed to. If i start to stress i can quickly take that thought and rearrange it. Stress is not good for Mama. I am leaving all the stress to everyone else right now. I have put my type A personality on hold for 9 months.

finally the sun shines

post by mandy

I am 22 weeks now. Only 2 more weeks until i reach my first milestone. My blood pressure is starting to creep up. i have noticed my heart rate isn't as hidious as it was. The break in the weather has made me one happy camper. I absolutely hate gross, cold indiana weather. I love sunshine, green and fun in the sun. Above is a pic of the kids playing outside today swinging on the swing. i treated myself yesterday to a drive in the country by myself with the window down:) On my venture i saw 6 deer, my favorite tree and lots of trash. I drove the route that we ride bikes on when the weather is nice. i am sooooo excited to get control of my body back once the babies are born. I have completely surrendered to the sugar babies and have allowed them to take control of my body and to do what they need to do to it for them to be healthy. I have lost my pregnancy glow. When we first started this journey Amy bought me the book on multiple births. It said to eat like a mad woman your first 20 weeks because eating becomes extremely difficult after that. Well they were right. I didn't gain weight last week at the doc. I am supposed to gain 2lbs a week. oops. i will do better this week. It's so back asswards to eat when you aren't hungry. I officially have the Chick-Fila Lemonade craving my mom and amy have been so kind as to support my habit. My mom brought me 2 gallons of it yesterday. Yippee. I can honestly say other than chedder chex mix my first 2 weeks pregnant that has been my only craving.

confessional

So, I went into MOTHERHOOD looking for Mandy....And we all know I have a BIG belly. I saw the shirt, and then had to pause and pull my pants up, again and again and again....so I started looking at Jeans.
I tried on 2 pair. One pair had a band that went all the way around the pants...and the other just a little more subdued. Well, the second pair fit really well, and they weren't falling down. I have no hips, no waist, and I hate wearing belts.
I decide to buy the shirt and the jeans.
When I went up to pay, the lady asked me my name. I had shopped at MOTHERHOOD when I was pregnant with Amanda and Bradley. She asked me for my address, I was in the computer. Then she asked me for my due date. I couldn't stop the lies. I told her!!! I told her I was due June 12th. HAHAHAHAHAHA Gosh Darn....where will the lies get me? I am gaining weight with Mandy, and think that when the babies are born, the weight will go away too....I better have a talk with myself.
NOW, MANDY...are you happy? I have told on myself.
Darn, I look good in those jeans....lol

Feb 7th 2009 Doc appt.

post by mandy

doc appt today went great today. doc was very shocked i am not having more problems. so i am gonna tell on Amy. She went shopping yesterday and got home and i noticed that there were a pair of new maternity pants on the counter. I thought to myself, "cool". So we stood and talked there for a minute and she gave me a shirt that said Baby Baby Baby Baby. She was so proud of herself for buying me that shirt. So i said, "hey i see some maternity pants there, are those for me?" she says, "no i bought those for myself" I just shook my head. So we stood there and joked about how amy has gained weight with my pregnancy. We decided last night that Amy was gonna breast feed too so she can lose her baby weight. Amy is wearing her new maternity pants in the pic above.

Wrong Generation?

This is a message i got from my mom today. Now that's every bit of it.
"Mandy you were born in the wrong generation" I DO NOT HAVE A BUTT CRACK LIKE THIS!!


I've always wondered about Generation Y.

Now I know. The Silent generation, people born before 1946. The Baby Boomers, people born between 1946 and 1959. Generation X, people born between 1960 and 1979. Generation Y, people born between 1980 and 1995. Why do we call the last one Generation Y?


I did not know, but a cartoonist explains it eloquently above.

day out

We took Mandy to get her ekg today. Since her heart is beating at 120, the dr wanted to just be sure it was the 4 babies, and nothing else.
After the med check we went to lunch at the japanese steakhouse. While I was eating it I was thinking....too much sodium for Mandy.
I took Mandy to get her eyebrows threaded. She looks human again. A new girl did them....best job ever.
On our way home, Mandy put her foot up on the dash board, and her leg was purple and swollen. Too much partying, to much sodium.
Mandy started reading a chapter book to the kids tonight at bedtime. I don't want to miss the first chapter, so Im gonna go listen....
O yeah, Mandy had a contraction yesterday. Send some more thoughts her way to stop that NONSENSE!!!!

what does bedrest consist of

post by mandy
so lets talk about what bedrest consist of here was my schedule today

woke up at 7:15 a.m. checked email while laying in bed. manda got my phone for me to do this

amy went downstairs and got my monitor system for me i monitored while laying in bed and the

kids kept jumping on the bed and i kept asking them to quit. (i was the fussy princess)

8:15 a.m. called amy on the phone and asked if bradley could bring me a scooby snack in bed while i monitored for an hour.

8:17 a.m. Bradley shows up with yogurt and a pop tart for me and apple juice. he leaves

8:19 a.m. my monitor is done i call back downstairs and ask if bradley can come back upstairs to get my monitor to take to amy so she can tranmit the data for me.

8:30 a.m. I felt really really bad this morning so i went back to sleep until 10:45 a.m.

10:48 a.m. I get up and run a hot bath, still feeling really bad. i moan and groan around for 20 min. waiting on tub to fill (i love to take baths:)

10:50 a.m. check and answer emails again from my phone

10:51 a.m. call amy to see what she is doing. she is downstairs

10:51 a.m. call amy again to remind her to take her vitamins.

11:17 a.m. take bath (wasn't really dirty so it was short)

11:18 a.m. amy comes in the bathroom to take her vitamins and admits she is ready to strangle me for calling her so much.

11:40 a.m. put back on the same pink pajama bottoms i have been wearing for days and don't comb my hair. i am seeing how long i can go without combing my hair. I'm doing good.

11:45 a.m. go downstairs and amy is making lunch

11:46 a.m. work on the computer

12:00 p.m. eat lunch

12:31 p.m. the nutritionist calls me to find out what i have been eating.

1:00 p.m. work some more while in the recliner

3:30 p.m. take a nap on the couch ( i am not feeling well)

3:40 p.m. take a phone call

4:15 p.m. work while watching oprah in the recliner

6:00 p.m. friend shows up to plow our drive and comes in to visit:)

7:33 p.m. working on my laptop in the recliner waiting on amy to feed me dinner. waiting on kids to get home. they are partying with karley and my parents. i heard something about chuckee cheese and the olive garden.

i was supposed to get an EKG this morning but the roads were too bad to leave the house.
i was sitting here thinking i will be doing the same exact thing tomorrow and the next day and the next day and the next day.

amy and bradley's bedrest hair

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i was sitting here while bradley played on the computer and manda did her homework and i thought to myself, gees we all look like shit and have bedrest hair. What's up with that?

mandy and manda bedrest hair

Def some babies in there!

Last night when Mandy went to bed, she was telling me that baby A was moving. Baby A moves all the time. I know that baby A is sitting really low, and didnt think that it was an option for me to even feel the baby or any of them. All babies are pretty quiet except A and I think that is because she is being squished from all the others sitting on her. She is head down right now, so at least they aren't sitting on her head. LOL. So, Mandy told me last night that she was big enough to feel with the hand. I put my hand on Mandy's belly and just sat and waited. It took awhile, and then when I wasn't expecting it Wham.....she kicked. It was so neat to feel her move. We have changed her name, and don't know what it is yet....sorry for being so impersonal with her name. Calling her baby A is yucky....just don't know what to call her yet.

Now, this morning Mandy was on the monitor for contractions....(none so far---YES!) and baby D moved. That is Tillie. So, when she moved, Mandy said "Tillie just moved!" I think since baby A is aggrevating the heck out of Mandy that baby should be Kerry. We have agreed that we both are keeping our favorite names, and then the other 2 we will think about later.

OVER and OUT

gettin' the works

post by mandy
here's manda and karley giving me a foot rub. the kids have been awesome as far as goin' and gettin' me this and that and running all over the house for me. We have a rock system here. Rocks are worth .10 cents each. so most of the time when they do something for me I give them a rock in their jar. Bradley is saving for a corn snake. Amanda puts her money in the bank. Karley is usually pretty neutral with her money. She's not compulsive about it like manda and bradley. Bradley is a shopaholic!! His money burns a hole in his pocket as soon as he gets it.