So, last week, while I was busy feeling horrible, throwing up frequently, 1and just all around miserable, I took a pregnancy test to find that I was indeed pregnant. I went to the doctor's office two days ago, on Tuesday, to make sure that I wasn't hallucinating and that I really DID see two positive at-home pregnancy tests.
I'm currently 9 weeks and 3 days along. We've chosen Daisy Lynn for a girl names and Dorian [insert middle name here] for a boy. Justin is happy for a new baby (as he wanted 6), but I'm not sure how I feel about it yet. It's a lot to take in; another unplanned pregnancy, especially now. I had planned to go back to my recruiter this week and take my ASVAB so I could join the Air Force. With being pregnant, that plan has had to be dissolved for something else. Not to mention that, due to the economy and the lack of available jobs for my husband and I, we can no longer afford our house and are moving back home with our parents.
Things are crazy right now. We move in about two weeks and have so much to get rid of and pack, but we are dealing with it the best we can. The fact that we have yet to completely lose our minds is a good show of how thick our hides are.
The girls have grown a lot. Lily is five-and-a-half now, having graduated from Pre-Kinder back in May. She's actually at a 2nd grade level and we have been homeschooling her and her sisters for the past few years. I'm having a bit of trouble with her, emotionally, because she senses that things are changing. We gave away the cats (we had three) and she misses them dearly. She realizes that we will not be returning to this house in a couple of weeks and the thought terrifies her. She's happy where she is, and likes having her own home. No matter how many times I try and explain that she will be living with family, she doesn't seem satisfied with having to "share" someone's home, which I understand. She is highly advanced, academically, but still very much a five-year-old. The things she can come up with are amazing, though. Story time is now her reading every book she can get her hands on to her sisters. She's actually reading chapter books now. :) She is such a brilliant little girl and Justin does a great job teaching her and Iris.
Iris is 3 now, and a lot more aloof than Lily. She is every bit of fancy-free as you can imagine. Potty-training has been a chore. She just refuses to go in the toilet. She changes her *own* diaper, that is how lazy she is with this. She would rather go to a corner and use the bathroom than actually going to the toilet. I don't know what to do with her. Lily had me spoiled--she potty-trained herself, so I am at a complete loss. We are working on her speech right now, as, though she can actually talk, she doesn't enunciate any of her consonants, and inhales while talking. You usually get one or two words out of a five to six-word sentence. She's also learning to write, which she has little interest for. She is very much the child who doesn't want to do it if it doesn't interest her regardless if she can do it or not. She *knows* how to write, she actually knows how to read simple words, too, but does she *want* to? Nope.
Rose will be 2 in two-and-a-half weeks. Can you believe it? She has grown so fast and so much. She is *very* independent. She knows what she wants, how she wants, and when she wants it. There is no bullying that kid. She takes no crap from anyone, *especially* her sisters. Iris got in her face one day and Rose punched her in the eye. Lily was taunting her, and she smacked her in the mouth. She is one crazy baby. She's begun to talk now. It takes a bit of concentration to know what she's saying sometimes, like when she asks for milk, but her vocabulary is expanding. She can start a phrase with "I want" and will add cup, juice and milk. She says thanks, goodbye and adios, hello and hola, understands multiple phrases in both English and Spanish, and absolutely *LOVES* to sing.
The girls are happy and healthy, brilliant and beautiful, belligerent and numerous, and absolutely wonderful. I'm so happy to watch them grow.
