So Mad At Shaw!!!

Ugh, what a week! I have never been more upset with a company in my life. Our phone, net and cable suddenly cut out at about 11:30 am on Saturday. John called Shaw right away and they set up a service call for the next day. So after Church a guy came, took a 2 minute look at JUST our TV and basically said "it's an outside problem, so sorry about your luck". So John called again on Monday and they told him that they were having problems in our area and to just be patient. We'd been without our phone for over 48 hours when they said that, so naturally I got VERY upset. Finally on Wednesday at 11 I decided to call them. Luckily, I got a customer service rep who actually had a head on his shoulders and couldn't believe that we'd been without a phone for that long. So he set up a service call for this morning. The Shaw guy came at about 9:30 and within 5 minutes he had ALL of our services working again. All he did was check the cable box outside and realized that someone had accidentally disconnected our services. He was really mad that the guy on Sunday didn't check that and that it took so long for Shaw to actually do something for us. He wrote down that Shaw needs to credit us a week of services on our next bill. So I finally have my services back again. Other than that, I've mostly just been dealing with a lot of pain in my hips and back area because of how the baby is sitting. It's not a lot of fun, rolling over in bed has become one of the most painful things I've ever experienced. Caleb has started drinking out of big boy cups though with no lid at all, so we're very proud of him. He still gets a sippy cup when he's not sitting at the table, though. And we're moving in just over 2 weeks, which I'm very excited for. I can't wait to be in our new house and to set up the baby's room. Anyways, not too much else is new here other than my huge issue with Shaw which has thankfully been resolved. I'll post again tomorrow or Saturday since I have my ultrasound tomorrow afternoon (YAY!).

John Is A Year Older!

Sunday was pretty uneventful. We went to church and my class was allowed to have their class outside. It didn't go as well as I would have liked, though, it was harder to get them to pay attention than it usually is, so I guess we won't be trying that again. Then later in the day Caleb was running around in the front yard and his shorts kept falling off because they're too big for him so he would be running and trying to pull his shorts up at the same time, it was so cute! That evening we went to Rawd and Jodi's where John decided to stay WAY too late considering he had to be up really early the next morning, and so Caleb was tired and decided to start really acting up. Poor Jodi, he was such a pill that night.

Monday was quite uneventful here, the only thing I really remember about Monday was that I taught part of the Plan of Salvation for FHE and then we went to bed super early because I was really tired.

Tuesday was also kind of a throw away day. After work and supper John took Caleb grocery shopping. I spent most of the day reading.

Yesterday Caleb and I went to Mom's Group at Rundle Park, which ended up consisting of 3 moms and 4 kids, lol. Caleb really enjoyed the slide though, but he also tried to eat the wood chips a couple of times. My favourite part was watching him and Landon throw rocks into the pond and get all excited about the ripples that it made. We picked John up from the bus stop after work and gave him his birthday cards. I feel bad for John that he had to work on his birthday, I think I've only ever had to work during my birthday once. Anyways, we went to East Side Mario's for dinner with Heather, Mike and the boys. That was interesting because Joshua and Joseph were allowed to run around and what not after dinner and it was hard to keep Caleb in his seat, but we have a family rule that the kids aren't allowed to run around in restaurants. Caleb did really good though, he polished off 2 pieces of his kids pizza, drank his whole chocolate milk AND some water and got to pick a toy from the toy chest, he chose a little stuffed bear. After supper the 3 of us went and picked out a cake for John. We ended up deciding on DQ ice cream cake with the Batman symbol on it. We got home, put the cake in the freezer and gave Caleb his bath. Then when John took Caleb into the bedroom, all he could smell was pot. Yep, our next door neighbours were indeed out in the backyard passing around some weed and because I had left Caleb's window open all day, his room now stunk of it as well. We were VERY unimpressed, especially since our neighbours have a little girl who is only a few months older than Caleb. So John took some pictures of them smoking up and wrote down what happened and saved it, just in case we need some evidence or something. Anyways, we closed Caleb's window and put him to bed and then came downstairs and enjoyed some ice cream cake. All in all, I think John enjoyed his birthday. Anywho, that's about all for now...

Caleb's Doing Better, YAY

Caleb hasn't been sick since Tuesday evening, so I'm pretty happy about that. He's still somewhat out of sorts, I think it'll take him a few more days before he's back to his normal self again. Wednesday worked out pretty good. I got lots of cleaning and laundry done before John got home. The trip to Wainwright went pretty good, but Caleb was pretty fussy by the end of it.

Thursday we did some shopping, visited with a friend and went to my doctor's appointment. I guess everything's still going well with the baby, so that's good. Caleb threw the world's biggest temper tantrum in the doctor's office, though, it was so embarrassing. Mum made ribs, corn on the cob, beetniks and a potato (for me) for supper that night. The ribs were so good, I think they were the best ribs that I've ever had.

Friday we dropped Caleb off at daycare for the morning. I went and did my gestational diabetes screening at the lab which made for a very long hour. For lunch we went to Lil' Haven and had wraps and pie. It was a really good lunch. We brought my mum a wrap and salad to her work and then we went and picked up Caleb from the daycare. That evening we went downtown for the celebrations, which really weren't very good. However, I did get an ice cream bar out of the deal, so that made me pretty happy. Then we went back to the house, loaded up the van and headed back home to Edmonton.

John had to work this morning to make up for having to stay home on Tuesday. When he got home we packed a few boxes of stuff in the basement. Then later we drove to Fort Sask to pick up a free rocker glider for me to use once the baby comes. I'm pretty happy that we got it. We also picked up some groceries, including some really good scones. Now we're just about ready to make some supper.

Do the Throat Infections Ever Stop?

So it turns out that Caleb only had the flu on Thursday. Everything after that was caused by a very nasty throat infection that was dripping into his stomach. John took him to see a doctor on Monday after he started getting sick all over his bedroom at noon and now he's got some antibiotics. I also ended up giving him Gravol a few times just to help keep some fluids and his medicine in him long enough for them to take effect. He ended up getting sick 6 times on Monday, not exactly a great day for me. I can handle blood and broken bones, but watching people get sick is the one thing I've never been even remotely good at, so having to sit there with my son and comfort him while it was happening was like murder for me. It was awful.

John stayed home yesterday as well, and Caleb just sat on the couch and watched TV with John or else slept in his room pretty much all day. He was talking more though and he only got sick once, and that was just because he was coughing too hard, so it's nice to see that he's at least improving. After he went to bed John and I got the house tidied up a bit since some people are coming to look at it while we're in Wainwright.

Today I'm just doing some laundry. Caleb woke up at 5am again, because he heard John up and getting ready for work. John gave him some juice to drink, and he drank the whole cup, YAY! Then I brought him downstairs and he got really cranky because he was still tired so I just gave him his antibiotics to get them out of the way until night time and then put him back to bed at 6. Unfortunately, because my body has decided that it's awake for the day, I'm not able to get back to sleep. At least I've gotten a load of laundry in already. Maybe now I can get done the packing that I need to do while Caleb is asleep. Here's hoping...

Stomach Flu Weekend

What an eventful couple of days, holy cow! So while I was watching Landon I noticed that my stomach was getting kind of upset. Not morning sickness upset, different upset. By 6:30 that night I knew I needed to get to bed and get some rest, I felt just awful. A few hours later I got out of bed and go figure, I had a stomach flu. And John slept through the first time too!!! Oh well, who on earth likes an audience, anyways...So I went back to the bedroom after my stomach calmed down a little, woke John up and then we heard Caleb making a funny noise. John went in to check on him and Caleb had gotten sick ALL OVER his bedroom. Talk about doing something well on your first try, this was the first time he`s ever thrown up. It was on the floor, the bed, his sleeper, everything. So John cleaned Caleb up and brought him into the bed with me. Caleb just sort of played on the bed while John cleaned Caleb`s bedroom and then we put Caleb back to bed. I got sick again later, luckily for the last time, but it was still a really rough night. I had a very hard time getting any proper sleep because my stomach was still so irritable. Luckily I had the wisdom to take some Gravol, I think that was the only thing that really helped me get any sleep at all.

But low and behold, when Caleb got up in the morning, he`d gotten sick again and I still felt awful, so John ended up having to stay home from work to take care of us. However, Caleb was back in high spirits, so he got to take a trip downtown to work with Daddy in the afternoon so John could enter his timesheet in.

Saturday morning John went into work to make up most of the time he`d lost the day before. He came home at lunch time and then we went out and picked up a bunch of boxes from Heather and from U Haul so we can start packing stuff for the big move. Then we went to Wal Mart and got Caleb a Diaper Genie II, since they don`t stink as bad and he won`t be able to play with the diapers in it like he could with the old one. While we were at Wal Mart they had a mobile pet adoption thing outside so Caleb got to check out some bunnies and dogs. He really liked the first bunny he saw. We got some stuff packed that afternoon in the basement, but not a lot since Caleb really didn`t want to be down there and it was coming up on supper time anyways.

Sunday morning we all woke up and when John went to get Caleb there were bright red blotches on the carpet by the door, I mean like Fire Engine red... At first I thought Caleb had a nosebleed or something until we realized that he`d gotten sick again. I will never feed Caleb red Gatorade within a week of him having the flu EVER again, there are 2 permanent stains on that carpet that I couldn`t even get out with the steam cleaner!!! So Caleb and I had to stay home from Church so that he wouldn`t make anybody else sick and John ended up having to teach my primary class for me. It was a pretty lazy day once John got home, later in the day the 3 of us watched Cars together. Caleb sat through the whole movie, we were so impressed. Well, by the end he was laying on the floor watching, so we knew it was time to put him to bed. Anyways, it was a LONG few days for us, and I`m just hoping now that this episode of the flu is behind us. Hope everyone else had a better weekend!

Groovin Out to AFI and Bad Religion

So I did a fat load of nothing on Monday, other than going to the bus stop with Caleb to pick John up when he was getting home. Tuesday we went out that night and got groceries and on our way home we got caught in a huge downpour. We got the groceries put away and then took some donuts over to Heather and Mike's to celebrate Mike's birthday. It was a good visit. It's so quiet there when the girls are in Magrath! Yesterday John cleaned the house while I went visiting teaching. He did a really good job, too, it made me very happy! Then I couldn't fall asleep until about 1am again because of my back and the baby kicking lots. Oh well, at least Caleb let me sleep in until 10 this morning. He had a hard time falling asleep last night as well so he slept in this morning. Anyways, other than that, there's nothing new. It's been a very uneventful week. My back is doing tonnes better today though, which is good since I'm watching Landon for a while this afternoon. Well, I should get going and maybe play some Toddler learning games with Caleb or something...

Sore Back!!!

I didn't do too much on Thursday, that was the day that my back decided to start being in extreme pain to the point that I couldn't even really lift Caleb. It was awful!

On Friday John and I went out for dinner to the Old Spaghetti Factory and left Caleb with his first teenaged babysitter. Supper was great, I love how much you get and how good it is for such low prices there. Apparently Caleb even behaved for his babysitter, so that was really good to hear since he's been having some attitude problems lately. Then I went over to Alana's new house to help Jodi and Merilynne clean it. I didn't do very much, just vacuumed a room and cleaned some windows, but it was nice to get out and socialize. I even got an ice cream slurpie out of the deal:)

Saturday morning I woke up with the worst pain I've ever had in my back, it was so awful. But John had already said he'd help the Kutanzi family move, so he went and helped with that first. Then I had him take me to see a chiropractor. Luckily I was able to get in within 15 minutes and I felt a lot better after, but now my back is getting bad again. I also found out that the reason my back hurts so bad right now is because one of my hips managed to get lower than the other and so my spinal column isn't sitting right. The joys of pregnancy!

Yesterday was church. I did okay for the first meeting because I had the wisdom to go out into the hall and sit in one of the more comfortable chairs. Unfortunately I was getting a few nasty Braxton Hicks contractions, but they passed after a while. My class went a lot better this week than it did the week before, John helped out a lot. I'm so grateful that he's willing to help me teach, it's getting too hard to do it on my own. Then we had naps in the afternoon. Kyle came to get his new car and he and Danielle stayed for supper, which was fun. We enjoy having them over. Then I got ready for my class's sharing time presentation we're doing next Sunday before I headed to bed.

So I woke up this morning and something must've bitten me during the night because I have these big fat red welts right next to my armpit. They hurt and they're itchy and it's really uncomfortable. Oh well. Now Caleb is just chilling watching Treehouse. That's about all that's new in the Bly house for now...

Happy 141st, Canada!

I really should be asleep right now, but I'm at that lovely point in my pregnancy where I can't sleep and because of the weather, I can't cool off enough to sleep anyways, so here I sit at 1am and figured I may as well update my blog because there's not much else left to do. Maybe after I'm done on here I'll watch a movie or something. Hopefully I'll get tired enough that I'll end up falling asleep.

So Saturday we went to the boys' doctor appointment. We were told that Caleb is, in fact, allergic to Amoxicillin, which is what I thought anyways, but always nice to know for sure. And John found out that if he can't get his blood pressure down on his own in the next month by trying not to be so stressed out and losing some weight then he has to go on blood pressure pills. *sigh* I really hope he can lose some weight and get it lowered, the last thing he needs to be worrying about is blood pressure pills at 32. After the doctor appointment we went and bought LOTS of clothes for the baby, which was really good. I also managed to find a 24 months Oilers jersey for Caleb which made me very happy. Then later on we went out for dinner with Rawd and Jodi and their girls and went over there for a visit after. John had to leave at 8:40 or so because Caleb was just freaking out, but I stayed and visited with Jodi until 1 or something like that.

Sunday was VERY interesting. Caleb completely lost his cool during sacrament meeting. He was screaming so bad that we had to take him right out of the building and then he lost his temper because we wouldn't let him play in the grass and we had to actually physically hold him down so he wouldn't hurt himself or us. It was really scary. Plus, I was having an allergic reaction to something in the air, so my eyes felt like they were on fire. Then when I actually taught my primary class, it was the kind of lesson where you come out of it wanting to beat your head on a wall. The kids just did NOT want to pay any attention to the lesson. After church I had a primary meeting I had to go to, which was good and short and then we had lunch there after. For supper we'd been invited to someone's house (I've taught 3 of her 4 girls in primary), so we went and did that. It was good, but super hot out.

Monday I tried to keep cool, but didn't succeed very well. Caleb got to go in his pool in the afternoon, which he was VERY happy about. He was so mad when I brought him back in the house, but I was so worried that he would get heat stroke or something. Then my brother and his girlfriend came for a visit in the afternoon, which was nice. We ordered pizza for supper since it was way too hot to cook anything. Then later on I went and visited with Jodi until stupid o'clock again.

Today we got our grocery shopping done, filled the van up with gas and helped my brother (hopefully) find a car he's buying. The sale is just pending an inspection at the dealership tomorrow, which we all think is going to turn out just fine. Then later on we took Caleb to the Canada Day celebrations in Sherwood Park. I was hoping to find face painting and stuff for him, but couldn't seem to find it, but he was content to just get himself black as could be in a dirt pile and then go play on the playground for a while, so that was okay. We got some mini donuts, cotton candy, a soft pretzel and John got a snow cone. It was fun. After we got home I think the heat of the last few days caught up with me because I had to go lay down, I felt SO sick. I'm still not feeling very well, but what can you do? Anyways, so that's what our last few days have been like. Happy Canada Day!