This Dear Child!

It's quite confusing to me that someone who appears to be so angelic can turn into such a little trouble maker! It's been a rough week with the Raiger. First, it was the tooth paste... you can see from the pictures that this time she chose not only to eat it but rub it all over her entire body. Then it burned so she screamed bloody murder while I bathed her.

Yesterday it was the shampoo... all over the carpet in the playroom and all over her. And today, it was mommy's "outlast lipstick" that dries like paint on your lips... well, it dried like paint to her face... and it was all over her face. I simply cannot turn around with this one. I guess these are the type things that "middle children" do!? Well, she's wearin' me smack out.

We had a rough night last night too...

10:48 pm- Paige falls out of her bed (pushing the siderail all the way to the ground

between that time and the next episode I take about 3 potty breaks

2:00 am- Paige falls out of her bed again & Justin brings her to our bed

several more potty breaks

3:30 am- Morgan is coughing in her bed... I go in and offer water, she doesn't move

3:45 am- Morgan comes in our room and wants water now; gets water and walks into the wall in our bedroom OUCH! Lots of tears.

4:00 am- Morgan is back in her room and realizes Paige isn't in her bed... Morgan comes back in our room crying because she said she was scared to sleep by herself... Morgan enters our bed. {That makes a 30 year old, a 3 year old, a 23 month old, and a 37 week pregnant Mama all in one bed!}

4:30 am- I get a KILLER leg cramp in my right calf jump out of bed and stretch while screaming "No, no, no!"

5:30 am- After laying in bed for an hour in a total state of "discomfort" I decide I'll just get up.

With that said, my morning started with a cup of coffee and chased it with a diet coke!

So... no sleep + coffee + diet coke + a trip to Target w/ both children {did I mention it's 97 degrees outside} before going to the OB= high blood pressure at my 12:15 appointment! Argh!

So, 3 hours later they let me go home, only after taking it numerous times, telling me we're getting closer to having a baby {which that statement alone would make my blood pressure go up}, and doing a non-stress test on the baby {which the baby looks great!}. Now, I go again on Tuesday and Thursday of next week. My OB told me she thought we were pretty close to having a baby... but her preference is a c-section, which isn't necessarily mine but I trust her and her "medical expertise"... now, if she can just give me a couple more weeks to finish some things up before she insists on doing it! I think we'll have another ultrasound next week... and I'll certainly hold off on the coffee, diet coke, and trip to Target before my appointment.

Hope y'all all have a wonderful weekend! I'll leave you with some pictures of the girls before Mother's Morning Out this week...