Ty Chandler

Ty is one month old today. I thought I would finally post pictures.

First few minutes into the world.




Proud Mommy and Daddy





Big weighing moment!







Big Sisters checking Ty out for the first time.






Going home!





Home at last to one CRAZY house!

Dear Jesus,

Haley recently discovered the movie Aquamarine. I am not sure it was a wise decision to let her watch it. She has been obsessed with being a mermaid ever since. You can ask Heather who had to endure Haley asking her 15 times in the pool the other day if she liked her fins (which are her legs by the way). Quite an imagination she has. Her desire to be a mermaid was so great that she decided she needed to write to Jesus about it. Chad helped her address the envelope. He told her the address for heaven was 7777 Pearly Gate Dr. Heavenly Hills, Heaven. Creative? Yes. Smart? NO. After discovering what was going on when Haley asked for a stamp I gave Chad a "What were you thinking" look and decided I would be the rational parent and explain to Haley that heaven isn't a place we can send mail to and that all we needed to do was to talk to Jesus through our prayers. Haley promptly went upstairs to put the letter under her pillow. Hey the tooth fairy gets them so why not Jesus? I then broke it to her gently that Jesus wasn't going to come get the letter. Her response, "I know Mommy but maybe he has a helper"
The letter read like this...
Dear Jesus,
I love you and I love how you made me but I was wondering if you could turn me into a mermaid. Love, Haley

I decided to get Haley off of being a mermaid, I would tell her how much I would miss her and that I didn't want her to be one.

The next letter to Jesus read....
Dear Jesus,
Just one more thing. Can you make me a mermaid only when I am wet because I don't want to miss my family. Thanks, Haley

After about 3 nights of Haley's disappointment that her letter hadn't been picked up. I couldn't take it anymore so I became Jesus' helper (which I very strongly suspect that that is what Haley meant). Anyway Jesus' helper wrote all about how God gave Haley her imagination so she could pretend to be a mermaid but that He wasn't going to change her at all because He made her very special the way she was. It seemed to do the trick because other than a quick thank you note to Jesus we have dropped the request. The imagination, however still going strong!

Post Pregnancy

Aren't you all sad that there won't be anymore pregnancy humor to share with you? But guess what? Now we have all of the post pregnancy humor for awhile. These have been the highlights this week from my wonderfully entertaining daughters.

Ella looking at my post delivery belly and asking when the next baby is coming.

Haley coming into the room as I am nursing and asking if he is done milking yet.

Ella with magnifying glass in hand comes over while I am nursing and says, " Let's look at your GINORMOUS boobie".

And lastly, yesterday at work Ella was being a handful while I was feeding Ty and I looked down at him and said, "Ty what are we going to do with her?" Ella's response was to look at Ty and say "Just keep sucking! Don't say a thing!"

More to come I am sure...

Mother's Day

I hope you all had a great Mother's Day. Especially since most of you reading this are my favorite Mom's.
Mine started on Friday. Haley wanted to take me out to my favorite restaurant Lido's for spaghetti. The plan was to go out as a family but she insisted on it being just the two of us. This meant Ella's turn would be Saturday night. Anyway Haley and I had a wonderful time. She made sure the vase of flowers was right in the middle of the table for us to enjoy. She doesn't like it off to the side out of the way. We ate spaghetti together, re-enacted her favorite scene from Lady and the Tramp, sang the theme song from Barney "I love you, you love me..., and basically just gushed over our love for each other. I am sure we were quite the entertainment for the rest of the customers.
Then came Saturday night. Ella asked where I would like to go and I suggested Miguel's. Her response was a strange noise that indicated her displeasure at that suggestion. My next suggestion was Island's-another unpleasant noise. I then asked her where she would like to go. Her response, "It's Mother's Day mommy you get to decide". We finally decided on D'Lish. As we were getting in the car Haley decided she was going to go ride her bike. Ella quickly made a detour from the car to her bike as well. I said " Ella I thought we were going to dinner". "You can just go Mommy, I am going to ride bikes". Haley at this point comes running over, "I will go with you Mommy". Ella was not going to let that happen so she reverted back to her decision to go. Since I really didn't feel like sitting in a restaurant with my four year old I told her it was okay that we didn't have to go. She said "Okay" and skipped off to play. I guess I will have to rely on the older one for my sap.
On Sunday my wonderful husband woke up early to go buy me breakfast before church. My eldest gave me flowers and Ella wrote me a sweet card. They took me out to lunch. We also had a fun day of swimming. The night was reserved for my Mom and I had a great dinner at Tio Leo's (and yes I took the chips and salsa home again). I came home to find my daughters and husband had baked me a cake (more for them then me but they put up a good show about it). All in all it was a great weekend of getting spoiled. Haley has been asking me over and over when Kid's Day is. I informed her that Kid's day was every day but she doesn't quite agree.

Events of My Day

Nothing too exciting to post about lately. I have been trying not to bore you with all of my pregnancy woes.
Today, however had a few moments of entertainment that I thought I might share.

***Neighbor boy ran into my room unannounced and saw me stark naked! I doubt he will get that image out of his head for awhile.

***Ella the four year old asked when she could get her own cell phone.

***Haley the six year old found Ella in the kitchen eating out of the bag of sugar. Haley, clever as she is, got her camera (which she can also take video with) and had Ella re-enact the crime so she could run upstairs to show me proof of what her sister had done. What happened to just the good ole fashion tattling?

Hopefully tomorrow will bring another whole batch of excitement!

My Pregnancy Dreams

I don't know if any of you remember having weird dreams but last night I had a couple of doozys.
The first one was simple. I basically had the baby but it came out as a black bunny. I was very disappointed to say the least.
The other dream was a little more complex. I think I was at the mall. I called my mom over and out came this full grown child, yet it wasn't a normal child. It looked more like a rag doll with yarn hair. The other weird thing was that it didn't have any meat on it's bones so my mom and I tried to stuff it back in since it didn't seem to be done. My uterus seemed more like a plastic trash bag on the outside of my body that we were trying to get it in. I wanted to clarify that part so you weren't envisioning my mom and I trying to put it back in any other way:)
The other weird thing that happened this week wasn't a dream although it seemed kind of like one. I had the girls at the grocery store and I heard this very hyper woman asking her husband to bet her $100. She was going on and on trying to get him to commit. I kept hearing her say "I will ask her, are you going to bet me $100?" At this point as I was trying to concentrate on the soup cans I realized it was more than likely about me. I didn't know if I should have been flattered that I was causing so much excitement or scared. Sure enough as her husband scurried off to the next aisle ( I think he was actually the one scared) she came right up to me and asked what I was having and told me she had a $100 riding on her being right. I said "a boy". You would have thought she had just won the lottery. Off she ran and I think I could still hear her several aisles over saying, "I told you, I told you, I knew it, I knew it!" Now most of you know I don't like being the center of attention but I must say although this woman was a total stranger I was happy I could make her grocery store trip a little more exciting for her.

Could They Be Any Different?

I marvel quite a bit at the differences between my two daughters. Haley has and hopefully always will be the sweetheart with tender feelings like her Mommy and a drive to be in business (like her Mommy too). Ella on the other hand is a wild, free-spirited thing that enjoys making people laugh more than anything else and always keeps us shaking our heads. There is never a dull moment.
Yesterday I took them both to work with me so that my husband could get motivated to work on the nursery (and yes he painted!). Anyway it was a normal, crazy adventure of several bank trips, smart and final runs and three store visits. The highlights would definately be Ella dipping dog bones in white chocolate. It wasn't the actual dipping that was entertaining but what she did once they were set up. She proceeded to lick and eat all of the white chocolate off of each dog bone. The customers found this very entertaining which probably just spurred her on more.
Haley on the other hand had made her own tip cup with the words "little girl's tips" written on the outside. This is to make sure that her tips don't get confused with the regular employee working. It is surprising how quickly people give her money though. I think she is starting to pass me on the daily income level. In fact one of her favorite things to do is to visit Claire's next to us at the mall. She goes and hangs out with the employees there while I work. Anyway she took her tip cup with her and managed to make money at a place she wasn't even working at. Go figure!
All in all it wasn't as crazy to have them with me as most days. We were gone for a good 6 hours and I think between the three of us we had one meltdown each.

What Bugged Me Today

Just because I can get away with it for a few more months, I am going to make the most of my crankiness and share with you the top 5 events that irritated me today.

-Woke up this morning and hurt all over. Shared with my husband that it felt like I had run 10 miles the day before. His response "How would you know what that feels like?"

-Dropped Haley at school and one of the moms asked what was wrong with my eyes. Basically the same thing as saying you look tired but just meaner.

-Took Ella to the bathroom later at Wendy's and as she leaned over to pull up her pants all her hair nestled right in that middle spot on the toilet where the top seat doesn't connect. Basically where everyone's pee settles.

-Went to the doctor where they made me pee, chug a very large orange drink, gave me a shot, took my blood and told me I gained too much weight.

- Now let me explain the last irritating thing that topped off my day. My husband has had a nickname for me that he usually starts using when my weight increases from it's lower point. It's "Chunky Monkey". Unfortunately he enjoys my reaction which just increases the frequency of use. Well tonight he just called me "monkey". Not sure why more irritating than the whole thing. But it is.

That's it for today. There were a few more not blog worthy. I am sure tomorrow will start another whole cycle.

My Experience

I have been meaning for some time now to make Trader Joe's one of my regular stops for groceries. I feel like I have been missing out for so long not having their orange chicken. I had been there several times before to buy my favorite Zone bars but never wandered very far. I also went through a very short "cleansing" phase which cost me a lot of money but didn't last longer than a day.
Anyway I had some extra time on Tuesday night so Heather and I made our way to Trader Joe's to find prize items. She was looking for lemon curd which I don't quite understand but what I found was so much more fun. I posted my receipt (well Lauren did) so you could try to experience my cart first hand.As you can tell from my receipt I did buy orange chicken so I could be included in the mix but 75% of my cart was desserts. I could blame it on my state but I can't honestly say it would have been any different otherwise. I had three different kinds of cookies, chocolate ice cream bon bons and tofutti ice cream bars. My favorite are the bon bons which I have been enjoying immensely at all hours of the day. I also highly recommend the macadamia milk chocolate cookies. We did, however also have a nice dinner of orange chicken and artichokes last night which I must say deserves all the fuss that has been made about it. I am looking forward to trying the enchiladas and pasta sauce I bought as well (not at the same time mind you).
I did feel during my short tour through the store that I probably was missing out on several other prize items. If you have any other "loves" there let me know so I can be sure to try them the next time.

Help Me

So Lauren is making me post even though I don't have anything fun to post about. I was going to do a whine fest with all of my burdens but that will probably just depress me and you. Anyway I thought maybe you guys could help me think of a name for the baby. How about you give me your top 5 favorite boy names? By the end of March I would like to have a name for him. I also would like my nursery done so if my husband doesn't get on the ball maybe my next post will be asking for your help with painting.