Hissyfits Photography Blog

It’s Tuesday again friends! Where oh where does the time go? I feel like the last two weeks have flown by and lasted forever at the same time! Both of the kids have been sick – coughs, runny noses, snotty noses, bloody noses, fevers…it’s been exhausting! After a coughing-turned-near-puking-experience from Gentry this morning, I finally made appointments with the pediatrician. They worked us in just before lunch and after an hour in the office, we left with two prescriptions and peace of mind. No pneumonia. Nothing major. Although I was worried the most about Gentry, it turns out that she is in fact the healthier of the two sickies! There was all sorts of crackling and wheezing coming from Huntler and we left with a prescription for an antibiotic as well as Albuterol. So…hopefully another day or two and this will all start to be a thing of the past! Cross your fingers for us!

Okay, so are you ready for your random bits of nonsense this week?

1. I am addicted to Scramboni on my iPhone. What started out as me wasting time one evening unscrambling words has turned into a full blown obsession! {Well, as much of an obsession as you can call it – I only play one game a day!!} I am a very non competitive person. I never have been. That is why my volleyball career lasted all of 7th grade and that was it. Well, that and the fact that I am super non athletic. But we aren’t talking about that, now are we?! We are talking about my lack of competitive drive. Anyway, something comes alive in me once I log into the Scramboni game world! That competitive drive that never surfaces suddenly comes out in full intellectual force! I have mastered levels one and two and made it to the big league – level three. But level three is really, really hard. As in I don’t even come close to winning!! There are some real brainiacs out there! But I love that it challenges me. I need that!

2. I have officially given up on all Bath and Body Works lotions. They smell great, they really do, but they do NOTHING for my SUPER DRY skin. The fact that we live in the desert and I am pregnant don’t help I am sure, but the love affair is over. It is back to basics for me – Vaseline Intensive Care. And it’s working!!

3. We have definitely decided on our baby names. We have the first and middle names picked for a boy and a girll!! YAY! And no, we aren’t telling. Sorry. The kids don’t even know because we can’t trust them! There are so many cute ones out there and while I continue to hear fab new ones, the fact of the matter is that I have had these names in mind for SO long that I can’t possibly imagine having a baby and not using them! Thank goodness Chris is totally on board with my love of unique and we haven’t had any disagreements!!

4. Speaking of the baby, I ordered blankets last week. I am super OCD and insist on having the blanket AT the hospital, so I ordered both a boy version AND a girl version. I figure that we know enough people having babies that someone will surely have the opposite of what we have and I can give it as a gift!!

These are the prints I chose…LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE them!!

I bought them on Etsy…from this cute little shop!! Huntler and Gentry have had their blankets since they were born and I just couldn’t imagine this baby not having one! Of course, Etsy was not on my radar five or even three years ago so they have much more “simple” {yet very much loved!} blankets than Baby #3 is going to have!

5. I still don’t have a gut feeling as to “what” we are having. Someone asked me last week and I honestly don’t have a clue!! Our ultrasound is in two weeks but I am going to make sure that the tech doesn’t let me get a peek! I am really excited to be surprised this time around! We have one of each and names that we adore so at this point, healthy is the only thing we care about!

6. Have you heard about the new show Chuggington? Huntler is in love. The boy and his trains. He now builds the little city of Chuggington ALL the time! And pretends that his Thomas trains are Chuggington characters. It amazes me how after just two or three episodes he was able to remember who was who and all of that. Crazy. We now have 15 episodes saved on DVR.

I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again. I love how innocent he is. He is more than content to play with trains, bristle blocks and tinker toys. He seems completely unaware of the world that I know is lurking just around the corner…Star Wars and transformers and guns. For now, I am happy to keep him in his bubble! No need to grow up any faster than he already is!

7. I made amends with my elliptical. After eight months of working out pretty hard core, I fell off the wagon at Christmas and am only just now getting back on. As of yesterday. And OH MY GOSH it is so much harder and more exhausting to work out when you are pregnant! It’s crazy. So, needless to say, my workouts are not great by any means, but at least I am getting in some physical activity. I am just hoping to stay somewhat active and bounce back to my normal size within 5 or 6 weeks of having the baby.

8. Did you watch The Bachelor last night? We had a little cable mishap so I missed the first date, but I can’t say I was too surprised at who went home!! Talk about an awkward moment between Jake and Corrie on the boat!

9. Target has some of the cutest sandals EVER right now!! I stumbled upon these gems for Gentry and she and I both L♥VE them!! They are a fun metallic pink and too cute for words!! They also happened to have them in silver but she did NOT like those! I was on the verge of begging with her, but if she doesn’t like something, she’ll fight wearing it, so I let it go! I ended up getting each of the kids three pair of new sandals for this spring!! They have outgrown almost everything from last summer. And seriously, I would have bought these shoes anyway. They are tooooooo cute for words!

10. Our kids have inherited my pickiness. Several weeks ago I brought up the subject of designing their Valentines. I did it last year and they turned out SO cute that I wanted to do it again. Well, last year we just so happened to be in Kansas for two weeks and staying in a hotel, so I didn’t have much else to do. A year later I am tired and pregnant and have plenty to do! But they don’t care! I was hoping to take them shopping and let them see their options and maybe they would come around. Nope. We checked out all of the Valentines at Target and the kids aren’t even interested. At all. So…tonight I am going to have to kick Chris into high gear to help me with Huntler’s and I am going to have to get busy on Gentry’s!! I ended up just buying a template for hers so all I have to do it insert a couple of photos and change the text and we are good to go!! The girl has her heart SET on these so we went out for a 15 minute mini photo shoot yesterday and tried her pictures again – the first time didn’t go so well. I am not so great at the design aspect so Chris is going to design Huntler’s – fire truck bookmarks. We took his pictures a couple of weeks ago and they turned out darling, so we should be good to go now!!

And speaking of pictures, I need to upload the ones I took of Gentry and get working on those!! And I need a nap. And I need to do laundry. And clean up the lunch mess. And make beds. And, and, and…

Filed under random-sweetness, by Bethany