bits n pieces

wow, spoke too soon - AM SO TIRED!!! With a splash of nausea thrown in for good measure. It's likely another boy, seems to be pretty much the same as the first 2 pregnancies (so far).

ahhh, the topic of whether we'd like a girl or not! Since we have 2 boys and I love pink, I think it's natural that we'd like a girl (plus there's just something about having at least one of each isn't there?). But the bottom line is that we decided we'd like 3 children, and altho various ppl have their opinions on how much you can do to 'get' yourself the gender you want, I think in the end you get what you're given. So yes, we'd like a girl. But we'll LOVE whatever we get.

It's funny too, ppl asking if this one was planned. Totally. Just probably a couple of months earlier than we'd have liked. It's funny cause I was thinking anytime before the end of August '09 would be good, Aaron on the other hand thought January would be good. Somehow the compromise got a little messed up and it's earlier than we both planned!! oh well :) you get that sometimes I guess.

Josh has serious issues with his new swimming lessons. Started getting upset as soon as we drove in the driveway this morning, and by the time we were walking in he was bawling. The only way to get him in centre was either by force or by saying we'd just go 'watch'. I went with the latter and it at least got him in there. I thought seeing the other kids in the water would be enough. Nope. Thinking it'd be pretty boring just sitting there the whole time I ended up bribing him. 'Get in the water and give it a try and I'll give you a jelly snake'. I actually wasn't sure it'd work, but it was AMAZING! He only specified that it had to be red, and got in and did the whole lesson like nothing was wrong. hmmm...I'm not in the habit of bribing (it's possibly the first real time I've done it) so I doubt he was holding out for the snake. Wouldn't it be great to get in their heads sometimes??!

We're going to check out the final preschool option this morning. Josh can't wait (too bad it's AGES til he starts! lol). Then a visit to Koorong and hopefully cleaning the house this arvo. I'm craving sausage rolls too...weird.

With the blog, I guess I'll make it private in a week or so. I write this blog as a sort of journal thing for myself, and to keep friends and family up to date with what we're doing. It helps me with my scrapbooking cause I can look back and see when something happened and remember the story and what was important. I love the idea of sharing my faith thru it but I guess I'm realising that I might have to have a different blog for that, one that doesn't include photo's and details of my family.

Basically I'm making this one private because I am concerned about strangers knowing where we are and what we're doing. I remember reading once that a paedophile can work out where a child is just by looking at part of a background in a photo. And since i've put on here where Josh is possibly going to preschool next year that just makes me slightly uncomfortable. I trust God to take care and watch over my children, but I don't want to be foolish just the same. I also don't care if that sounds paranoid, my kids mean too much to me. please don't think I am judging anyone by saying any of this, it's just my thoughts about my blog.

So a lot of random thoughts this post. Hope you're all having a great day :) oh yeah, details about my (belated) mother's day lunch soon too ;)