So we went down the road to see if they had anything at another dealership since we were in the area.  They did have some we wanted to look at.  Here is what was annoying.

We looked at the ones we wanted to ask about a guy comes out asks if we need help we request the price on three.  He doesn’t listen well enough to hear past the first two.  He says they are good deals one is 18 and one is 17.  He gets a sales guy out to talk to us and bring the two vans up.  We ask again how much they are.  He says they’re under 20 figure out which one we like and he’ll make us a deal.  We say we have a loan already and this is how much it is.  Can you make it work with our trade in.  (We know we’ll be upside down which is why we ask)  They have us say we like this one can you make it work.  They want to get a trade in value on our car.  Ok.  We go wait about 20-30 minutes while this is going on.  It is hot in the dealership for me because hello I’m carrying quadruplets and its hot every where, but the freezer.  After we reached our limit we ask how much longer the kid says they just finished and he’ll have a number for me soon.  He comes over sits down says they’ll give us this much for ours.  Ok we expected it to not be great.  Then he says the van we were looking at was 21900.  We say um no thanks though can we have the keys back.  Andy asks why the other guy said it was 17.  He goes in the room and this guy comes down and says something about the internet and asks the guy who told us the first price what he said and he says oh no I told them they start at 17900.  Ok this is where I get pissed.  The guy just bold face lies.  That wasn’t what he told us, and he knows that isn’t what he said.  Andy is like can we have the keys my wife is on bed rest and we need to go.  If you can make it work call us if not thanks, but I wasn’t kidding we have to go .  So we leave and they say they’ll give us a call if they can make it work.  We went from a really nice bunch of professionals to someone that lied right to our face.  Needless to say we’d rather spend our money some place else.

I’m using Lion Brand Cotton Ease for this blanket.  I’ve never used it before, but I really like it so far.  I bought a baby hat book with something like 50 hat patterns for babies.  I would love to start on some, but since I take forever to knit baby blankets I know I would never finish the blanket.

so far I’m really loving the new lens, and I really don’t have it figured out yet. 

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This blog remains active (hopefully with baby knitting), but is more for me and less for everyone wanting to hear about pregnancy updates.

I did pretty well today until I realized I won’t be going back to work.  Not even for 4 hours a day.  I felt like I was watching paint dry.  It set in after watching Grey’s Anatomy.  It was probably just the sadness from watching the show that made me feel all the anxiety.  Or it could have been the fact that Andy was outside working in the yard, and all I could do to help was water the sod he put down.  BORING.

I’m pretty good at not getting bored.  There are so many ways I can entertain myself.  Sewing, knitting, reading, learning new crafty type things, and playing World of Warcraft.  Today I was bored.  I didn’t want to stay inside or stand around watering sod.  I followed Andy around for a bit between the pallet of sod and where he was placing it.  I know it had to be annoying to have me trailing behind him talking about nonsense but I had nothing better to do.  Well I did have better things to do…I just couldn’t do anything that I would want to do.  like clean the bedroom.

Do you realize how many household chores require bending over?  I didn’t.  Feeding the dogs…bending over 4 times.  Sweeping bending over twice to pick up piles.  I don’t think I’m supposed to be sweeping it makes my back hurt, but they said vacuuming not sweeping.  Is that the same thing?  I don’t think so.  /sigh  Dusting…I can dust anything eye level or near eye level.  Anything else is left dusty…not that I’ve dusted in a while.  Dish washer loading…not allowed.  Laundry not allowed.  Changing the sheets constant bending over required.  Just so you know everytime I thought of  something I would like to do, and realized I shouldn’t I would think this is some bull beep.  I’m adjusting.  I thought it would be more fun having Andy here to help with everything, but now I realize I shouldn’t be doing half of what I was doing it takes the fun out.  It is awesome having Andy home though so I can hug  him all the time.  That’s fun for me

I started a notebook to help get things together for later on in the pregnancy/after the births.  So far I’ve only put the folders and page protectors in the notebook.  That’s a step though!

I’ve found that I hate wearing shoes.  I wear flip flops every where, and if I had some birks I’d wear them when I don’t wear the flip flops.  The cat peed on my last pair though.  (FYI–I just spelled that pear).  I think I’ll look for another pair because honestly they were the most comfortable shoes I’ve ever worn.  The croc sandles I have make my feet swell so I don’t wear them anymore.  I also don’t wear my cowboy boots at this time.  Not shocking since I did just type that I only wear my flip flops.

I’m also starting to wonder if I can knit 4 baby blankets for the babies.  If they will be able to have them in the NICU.  Or if they’ll be able to have little hats.  What size hats should I knit.  If I start to knit them will it hit me how tiny they’re going to be?

We had a friend give us a crib, and we found a crib up in VA so now we’ve gotten all of our cribs.  The nursery will not be as previously planned.  No cherry anymore…instead natural or honey pine.  The walls won’t be aqua blue, but light light yellow all over with colorful blocks.  I’m not sure how many blocks there will be.  It was an example nursery in a Disney pamphlet at home depot.  There will still be an area in the nursery that is chalkboard paint.  Not sure how much, but it’ll be cute!  I was going to recover the two bumpers I have, but I found two bumpers at Target that I love!  A blue one and a pink one.  The blue one has airplanes and the pink one has butterflies in the center on the front of the bumper.

The office will probably any color we have left over from painting the other rooms…as long as it isn’t the dark blue from the bedroom, or the green from the bathroom.  I hope we have enough of the blue from the living room because it is so calming.  That’s right people…no pink.

I think I’m going to finish watching What not to wear then on to Prison Break with Andy.

Overall I’d say I’m doing well.  I take naps when I get tired, and sometimes I take them on accident.  If I sit too long in an uncomfortable chair my back begins to ache, and if I walk for very long my hands and feet begin to swell.  I don’t like wearing shoes unless they’re flip flops that I can easily slide off.  My belly is getting bigger, and I’m usually most uncomfortable after I eat.  It’s always the area right below the ribs that feels like there just isn’t any room.  I don’t mind these things…they’re just things I’m getting use to. 

I wish I knew the answers to some of the questions I have, but they’re not ones that are easily answered.  There in fact is no answer to the ones I want the most…all I can do is wait.  Right now the best words I hear people say are “I’m/we’re praying for you”.  It is appreciated more than anyone knows.

As it turns out I can eat whatever I want* whenever I want.  I in fact need to be eating around 1500 calories a meal.  This is the diet for someone expecting triplets, and let us not forget that I am carrying quads not triplets.  She said she wanted to start me off with what someone expecting triplets would need.  Here is how it breaks down…

Servings per DAY

Dairy = 10

Veggies = 5

Fruits = 8

Grains, breads = 12

Fats, oils, and nuts = 12

Eggs = 2

Meat, fish, poultry = 3 or 9oz total.

Now I’m from Texas so all I could think is “Good Lord!  By the time this is over Andy will need a harness to walk me around the arena and sell me to the highest bidder.”  Yes this is my first thought.  I.AM.GOING.TO.BE.HUGE.  Then my good brain starts again, and I realize I can do this or I can ignore it.  If I do it I’ll be huge & I will have done everything I can to make 4 healthy babies.  OR I can be vain and disregard what they say and hope for the best.  I’m not saying I’m pessimistic, but when I hope for the best it is usually good that I expected the worst.  This really isn’t about me though is it?  Right now this isn’t really my body…it now belongs to four little zombie monsters.  Once they’re born I’ll be running again (very slowly as to not cause an earthquake of course), and eating like a normal human being.  Then my body will once again be about me.  Until then…here’s to eating what I want* when I want.  Cheers!

*Side note I cannot have a strong drink or sushi.  I don’t drink often, but I really wanted that drink when I found out there were four instead of one, and sushi…well it’s one of my favorite things to eat.

The pink mink lining makes it oh so soft and comfy against the neck!

Something I started using this week…

I cast on a bib last night.  Just your basic bib with cotton yarn.  I am ready for my appointment next week where hopefully I’ll find out the genders of the babies so I can know WHAT COLORS TO KNIT WITH.  So far I’ve gone with a green/tan/white yarn.  Next blue/white/yellow.  I figure bibs are fast and maybe I’ll attempt some teeny tiny hats for them.

AND now for the dog roll call…

my heart on four legs

start your day off right with this smile

The Beast

Play With Me Or Play With Nothing: The Toy Hog

Relax

Gremlin Ears

Have a good weekend everyone!

After all the cutting I decided to look up bibs on ravelry.  I decided to cast on the Baby Bib O’ Love.  An easy knit and I have TONS of cotton to be used.  I can never buy one ball of it I always buy more than one color…usually the top three that I really like.  The first bib I’ve cast on is in light lime green/tan/white, but I’ve got so many colors I’ll make 4 in different colors.  Then once I find out what we’re having I’m going to pick the baby blanket back up.

Today I was excited when a friend at work decided to go for lunch at a soul food resturant.  I really wanted some pork chops and collard greens, but at the last minute I got shrimp – it wasn’t cooked on site more like from a box and heated up.  They didn’t have any collard greens.    So I ate mac and cheese -very dry and not good- and mashed potatoes – loved.  Where oh where is a good place to get soul food in Charleston?  I had Fusions on Dorchester, but they aren’t open for lunch.

Pregnancy is still going well.  I did a bit of bending over while cutting the fabric because I don’t really have a good table for crafting.  I do have a great table for sewing just not for cutting and pinning.  Which is part of the reason I decided to finish up the purse this weekend and getting off my feet.  I’ve been having a lot of hip pain on the side I fell on.  I would say mostly when I’ve been standing too much, but honestly now it is when I wake up, been sitting for a while, walking, and if it is hurting when I’m walking it really hurts when I have to get in the bed.  I’m getting annoyed with this because twice today when I was unplugging the iron and picking up something from the floor I nearly fell over from the pain catching me off guard.  Working half days has really helped with me being able to do more when I get home from work instead of just falling asleep right away.  Some days I still fall asleep on accident though.  :-\.

I’m watching food network where they show how to do horror makeup with food.  It is disgusting.  Not as disgusting as Foxy puking on the floor, but close enough I had to turn the channel.

I was trying to decide if I should knit a shrug for when I wear a shirt/dress that doesn’t have sleeves.  I can’t decide what size I would need to knit though.  :-\  Has anyone knit a shrug that was simple and fast that they just love?