moms' medical maladies!

I read these in my latest issue of parenting magazine and had to share some!

• congestive art failure: the inability to find room for one more stick figured drawing of our family on the fridge
• sexczema: the way your skin crawls when your husband tries to cop a feel after you've spent a long day with whiny children
• mallergies: severe aversion to large shopping center after enduring back-to-back school shopping with your moody kid
• damnesia: disorientation at hearing your child use a bad word, until you remember where he heard it first
• mygraine: throbbing headache after spending two-hour-playdate refereeing fights over a single toy in a room full of toys
• hymnsomnia: sleeplessness due to anxiety over how one's offspring will behave in church
• manopause: overwhelming need for a girls' night out following an afternoon of soccer, baseball and karate, followed by football widowhood
• robotomy: abrupt reversal of your upbeat mood after you step on your child's favorite action figure, amputating its limbs
• gastrointerestitis: excessive focus on what your child could've eaten that made him sick
• carpool tunnel syndrome: sensation of spending one's days endlessly shuttling rowdy kids to soccer practice and piano lessons.

hope you don't get too many of these at once!

Grand Get-a-way!

We did a Hall family first - rented a big house so the entire family could enjoy a short vacation together. We went at the end of Spring Break, and although the weather wasn't picture perfect, we still had a great time.

Pictures below are mainly from our (freezing) boat ride and from the boys flying the kites that my parents got them. The picture of the house is the one where we stayed from the boat. Also, there is a picture of Kyle dunking a basketball as my Dad is lifting him up (which was weird for me as I vividly remember doing the same thing at our house on Brookside when I was about his age!!!).

Thanks, Mom and Dad, for a great trip!

These are just some of the cutest school pictures I have ever seen!!! Of course, I didn't order this go-around (but I did take pictures of the pictures so I could always remember how precious my Kyle is at the age of 4 and in preschool!).

Lost: First Tooth!

It seems Grant has wanted to lose a tooth since he turned four years old. It finally happened today at lunch! He's been asking to snack on apples and hard foods for a few days as his tooth was very, very wiggly.

Here is a picture of his this morning trying to yank it himself (he couldn't quite get up the nerve to yank really hard!).
And then Daddy came home at lunch and Grant begged him to pull it - so he did!

Here's my cute snaggletooth kindergartener! He danced around the kitchen for about 30 minutes afterwards! So proud and happy!

Taking it Easy!

As of today, I am 27 weeks and 3 days pregnant. Last Thursday, I experienced my first contraction but didn't think too much of it since it went away. Several over the weekend. 10 on Monday night, with 4 being 7 minutes apart. So I called the doctor on Tuesday. He said that my uterus has thinned out which has caused the baby to drop (could have told you that as I am near a toilet all the time and have had really tough abdomen and lower back pressure). We did a few tests and ultrasound and the verdict: take it easy and drink water. If I have more contractions, that it's to bed rest for me!

So, thanks to Jason, my mom, Kristy and some other friends, I have been laying down the last few days just to be safe! We want to get out of this too-early stage without a baby! My contractions have decreased so it's working!

Just thought I should update my blog friends. I'm not in to posting this information on facebook for my 900 best friends to read - just you guys!

It's not bed rest yet but I am being a good patient and taking it easy!