Julie and Rachel will be out of school in about 2 weeks and my Juliebean is GRADUATING PRESCHOOL next week in preparation for Kindergarten!  The girls both have their school concerts on Thursday so expect to see some pictures up here at the end of the week!  Rachel is now 9 and Juliebean turned 5 in March.

The boys are doing well and are the best of friends.  London is into playing Indiana Jones Legos and in the sandbox with Julie and Boston is a professional laptop destroyer and amateur escape artist.  They are healthy and obnoxious and eating me into the poor house.  Just as it should be.

I have lots of doctor appointments lined up for Rachel and hopefully this summer will bring us some answers so we can know how to best apply our efforts.  The girls won’t be doing summer school (at my request) so I will be trying to think of some fun summer ideas.  We did join the zoo last week so I will certainly want to get my money’s worth (LOL).

Most importantly I look forward to watch them just be kids.

John had nose and throat surgery on Thursday so I’ve been playing nursemaid with the help of the kids.  He is on the mend now but I am sure is drooling at the thought of steak right now even though he is nowhere near ready for that yet.  I’m sure it will be another week before he is better.  The nose is healing faster than the throat (he had his uvula out and his nose fixed).  No more snoring!!

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London. He was grouchy this morning.

The waiting area

Kate’s work space being set-up

Front Desk

Front Desk II

Front Desk III

Front Desk IV

The meeting room, chock full of my boys

It wasn’t a good idea in the first place so I don’t know why I tried (but I did finish so go figure).

Tomorrow is our opening. I’m nervous and excited.

I miss my husband. Hopefully we’ll be able to grab five minutes together tomorrow morning.

Pictures of tomorrow will be posted tomorrow night.

Now if only we could get internet access. Verizon and Comcast have both been extremely disappointing. We’ll see what tomorrow brings.

Here is a teaser:

The marriage has been going pretty good and I am very happy about it!

The girls are great, their summer school finished a couple of weeks ago.

The boys are coming up on 1 and 2 and I cannot freakin’ wait! Once Boston turns 1, I’ll take a deep breath and start to look for the light at the end of the tunnel.

This weekend I plan on taking major amounts of pictures and will share them with y’all. I have had a horrible relationship with my digital camera and have been terrible about taking pictures because of it.

School starts in 5(ish) weeks for me and I am working on getting John enrolled as well. : – o

Rachel is 6. She is a great kid who is always trying to be friends with everyone she meets. John and I definitely find it a challenge to balance our attention to Rachel (formerly known as Glue or SuperGlue) because she is 4 years older than her (next) younger sibling. Rach is about to start the first grade and she can’t wait! There are a lot of things I am hoping that she will learn early on and it won’t be too painful. We kept her out of public school for the most part during Kindergarten and have recently given up on plans to homeschool her because our proverbial “plate” is too full to give her the attention that she both needs and deserves.

Julie is 2. Formerly known as Firecracker and Fire, she is definitely our “challenge.” The first 9 months of her life I spent walking her around the house, on my hip and in the “facing out” position. She would scream and scream and (!)scream(!). For some reason I never had the thought cross my mind, that maybe she would be a difficult toddler.

In retrospect, I feel like a dumbass.

I remember thinking “If she could just sit-up and play on the floor.” Or “if she could just walk so she could entertain herself a little bit better.” Our Julie has a heart of gold, but she is a very trying child. Lots of screaming, lots of collapsing on any floor: carpet or concrete, at home or in public, wet or dry. Now I am saying “if she could only communicate better.” Right now she is a “hitter” and tends to forcefully try and take what she wants… whether that be from her older sister or her baby brother (Julie is a *very* tall 2yo). Julie is as smart and as high strung as they come. I think she might try and take over my business in a hostile takeover before preschool starts. LOL

London is 10months. The sweetest and most easy going baby I have ever had the pleasure of knowing. He is very much like Rachel was as an infant and we are really enjoying him. I think within the next couple of months his vocabulary might surpass that of his sister Julie (18 months his senior). He is sitting up, pulling himself to a stand and flirting with anything or anyone that has a heartbeat. He is a dream baby! Already a member of our family. Clapping, answering questions, and talking quite a bit more than I ever thought was possible. (See the above sisters who were/are late talkers).

Boston is t-minus 6 weeks (I hit the 34week pregnant mark in 14 minutes). Boston is due to arrive 3 days before London turns 1.

Yes. We know what causes pregnancy.

No. It isn’t in the water.

John and I met online in October of 2001 through Yahoo.com after we were both previously married. After living in sin (without the safety pin) we got married in November of 2003 and have been quickly building our family and are *done* after Boston arrives. John is definitely a “foodie” and shares my passion for small business, home improvement and hanging out with our children. Our dream is to continue building our businesses, remodel a large “dump (my word for fixer-upperer) and have a gourmet kitchen and teach all of our children how to do all three (small biz, remodeling/decorating and cooking).

On a totally random note: Next spring we are going on a cruise to celebrate my parents 40th anniversary and we vow not to be “the fat ones” on the ship. Not out of everyone on the ship. We’ve been on a cruise together before and there is no way I could gain *that* much weight, some of the people on cruise ships are unbelievably obese. My goal is not to be “the fat one” out of all of my family members that are going.

All I know is that I have lived in maternity clothes for the last 3 years and I am donating all of my maternity wear in November. Goodbye Motherhood. Goodbye Take9. Goodbye Old Navy Maternity.” I will *NOT* be missing you. I’ll slowly wean myself off of maternity clothes and maybe buy a few Lane Bryant items… and then will work my way back into Old Navy clothing…. I can’t wait to get rid of my dumpy clothes. I love my babies. I love my stretch marks. I love my breasts as they are. I am not ashamed of my body or how it has changed after making four human beings.

But if I never see another maternity outfit with the hideous looking maternity panel again (after Mr Boston arrives), it will be too soon! I am very blessed to have a working body that makes gorgeous babies, but I am done making them. Put a fork in me, Jose Cuervo and pass me a margarita. I am *DONE*!

On a side note, FireCracker is calling LittleMan: “Boy.” When LittleMan is asleep, FireCracker goes searching the house calling “Boy?” “BOY?!” It is very cute.

SuperGlue is going to Boston for a week without me, accompanied by her Granny. I don’t think it has hit her yet, and it probably won’t until she gets there. I am going to feel like half a person until I fly home to Boston to bring her back here.

HotHubby is pretty much feeling better, but a little sore. I wasn’t sure how much more of the pain-induced grouchyness that I could take. He’s a keeper, but apparently really difficult when under the weather. What hubby isn’t I guess?

He is calling to make the appointment for the snip-snip that will be done before I bring another little soul into the world. It’s either he gets it done by a licensed physician or I get it done after hours at Pet Smart, or drunk on the kitchen table. We are going on a family cruise in a year, I am not going to be pregnant for another cruise. I was 22weeks preggo with FireCracker on our honeymoon, I got so sick at our day at sea and we didn’t have SuperGlue with us. I can’t imagine being pregnant with #5 on a cruise while feeling insanely pukey.

Speaking of the cruise and my weight loss goals, I picked up an elliptical and a treadmill. The treadmill still hasn’t made it into our condo, HotHubby and I carried the elliptical upstairs together and that thing was hea-vy! I am doing a few minutes here and there on the elliptical, I have had to slowly build up my knee muscles as I’ve had two knee surgeries and my left knee area muscles aren’t all that strong. SuperGlue is LOVING the elliptical and has been working out everyday. She rocks!

We got our Staples Business Rewards check over the weekend and max’d out our quarterly rewards, getting the full $100 check. I took the girls and bought them some paints yesterday which we used today after I got back from my meeting and have been working on explaining the color wheel to SuperGlue – obviously FireCracker (newly 2) is too young to do much more than mix the paints. They were stoked and we turned two of HotHubby’s “Good Geek” shirts into painting smocks. I was very happy about not having to fork out money for smocks that are only going to get gross. I will have to take a picture of it tomorrow. I have made a resolution to take more pictures of the kids and have prints made.

Things are going well on the Geek front. The fact HotHubby is feeling better has made the gray cloud over my life go away. It was really hard to do more around the house while be pregnant with #4 at this altitude. Over the weekend I actually sat down for a full hour just to catch my breath and get my blood pressure up (yes, I am aware that it sounds backwards). I have been monitoring it and it fluctuates between 110-90 ish over 60-40 ish. I got the low blood pressure from my Dad and have been watching in every few days. I’d definitely take the low bp from my Dad over the high bp which I luckily did not get from my Mum.

Has anyone heard of metformin/glucophage making ones average blood sugar go up?