I'm a Survivor

I have been severely lacking in the whole posting department. It's not that there aren't things going on, it's just that there is so much going on! I'm telling you, May is always so busy. If there is anyway to prevent it, I highly recommend not having a kid in May. Especially not towards the end. It's just too crazy. (Believe me, I have experience in that department being a May baby myself)

First of all, I have survived what I would call Hell Week. What is Hell Week you ask? It is the last week of school. I have loved my job, and I definetly have loved the kids until this last week. The kids that I have known all year have slowly started to slip away since the start of May, but the last week of school was like working with 13 year old MONSTERS! It made leaving them a lot easier. It's kinda of weird because I am done with work. I'm not going back after the summer. I am done permanently....or at least for quite a while. It hasn't quite sunk in, but I'm sure it will. This has been the best job I have ever had, so it really is a bittersweet thing. I hear that motherhood can be even better though....

On a happy note, I have felt like a proud little momma for the last couple days. My brother Kade is so a middle child. I often feel like he gets a little forgotten, but he really isn't. Whenever he or my little sister do anything good I feel almost as proud as my mom does, because I feel like I have helped raise them. This year Kade has really hated school. That is so not his nature. But it has been rough. He has had a hard time with the teachers and he has never felt confident in how he has done on tests and things. However all his stressing was worth it. They had the underclassmen awards ceremony on Thursday and he just cleaned house! He took awards in every single class except P.E. where there wasn't one given out. He co-won the science fair, and in English there was only one award given and he got it. The English one was the biggest shocker because that was where he stressed and felt the least confident ALL YEAR!!! At one point Danica Patterson was on stage getting an award and she told Kade, "Geez, Kade, you might as well stay up here!" His friends were all throwing fits everytime he got called up. Way to go Kader! I am so proud!

Finally, I feel like all I ever do is talk about this pregnancy. I'm sure it's pretty boring and gets old, but it is all consuming. It is just my whole world right now. Last night I came across this pregnancy magazine that the doctor's office gave me. I really like this magazine because it shows pictures of what your baby looks like each month. I turned to the 6 month pictures and handed it to Trevor to look at. I then left the room to make one of my many trips to the bathroom. While I was gone Trevor proceeded to go through the rest of the magazine, where towards the end he came to the pictures of a woman giving birth. These showed everything. When I walked back in Trevor was like, "this is pornography!" He was totally freaking out. I of course died laughing while he kept saying it. I said it wasn't and he asked me to define what pornography is then. I fired back with, "Does that make biology books pornography?" It didn't stop him one bit.

One picture showed the umbilical cord coming out of the woman after the baby had been delivered. He was like, "What is that?" So I told him. Then he asked, "Well, what do they do with it? Do they like stuff it back up in you? Will it fall out of you later on when we are back home?" He really couldn't believe it. I just laughed and laughed the whole time. As he was looking he said, "I am NOT watching that when you have the baby."

We turned to the next page and they had a picture of a newborn with a black looking belly button. Trevor freaked a little more and was asking "what the hell is that?" I told him that it was part of the umbilical cord. He thought that it just came off when the kid was born. I told him that it shrivels up and falls off a few days later. He just had the most disgusted look on his face and finally said, "I don't want to know anymore!"

Poor Trevor got a whole lot of labor and delivery education last night that he didn't like. It was really really funny. I told my mom about it and she said that I better tell him about it so that he doesn't think that I am weird, that it's totally normal. I think he has had all the education he cares to have though. Talk about throwing someone in a lake to teach them how to swim.....hopefully it won't be as gross to him at the actual delivery!!!