The wheels on the bus...

Porter has been riding the bus to school for a few weeks now. We started the service because Porter kept asking when he could ride the bus ( he would see the other kids getting on it after school). I called the school district and set it up and they said they would call with my pick up time the night before his first ride. We were not home when they called, and they said the pick up time was at 8:20. I think if I was home i would have told them never mind!! His school does not start until 9:10 so that is a really long ride for a three year old... heck its a long ride for anyone! He was already expecting to ride the bus though and once Porter is expecting something you cant change it or its an aweful meltdown for days.. so we got him up an hour earlier than normal and got him on the bus. He is the first drop off after school.. so only a 10 minute ride then. He gets back at 12:15. When he got off the bus he told us that it was a really long ride and he was bored and tired. He said he didn't want to ride the bus anymore, but I thought we would try it for a few weeks. Yesterday he cried and cried that he didn't want to go to school... turns out he just didn't want to ride the long bus ride in the morning. So we drove him to school and he just rode it home. I called the district and the woman said she would have someone call me and tell me if he can just ride after school, and we can drive him there. If not, I think we will scratch the whole bus idea, as really its not that hard to drive him and if the bus makes him not want to go its not worth it.

Here are some pictures of him getting off the first day. The bus comes to the end of our street, by the mail boxes.

sorry to be a slacker in my posting.. the first reason is that I have not gotten my photo software on my new computer yet and the ones that it came with are hard for me to navigate so i have just put off posting because I am lazy!!

Other than that I just have not felt well, so sitting here for too long makes me feel dizzy and I have to lay down for a bit. I have been having a hard time with low blood pressure combined with Anemia which makes me jut lethargic, dizzy, and tired. I also have weird numbness is my legs and feet, and around lips and mouth. Yesterday i lay on my couch the whole day and watched my boys make as big of a mess as humanly possible with the contents of my living room. They are very resourceful and spread it all out evenly... lol.. Anyways I hope that I start to feel more energized soon, as I have 4 months to go and I don't think my house ( or family) can handle a lounging mother the whole time.

Okay off to rest on the couch for a bit... I will try to come back later to get pics up. I have some of porter and the bus for school i want to share. Oh and a big huge pregnant me!

I like green eggs and ham

Well I don't like them, but kids seem to think they are great! I guess I cant get past the color enough to eat them. They had Dr Seuss week at school and they made them one day, so ever since Porter thinks we need to eat them at home too. He was really excited to find out we had the magic coloring to make it work! These pictures were from last Friday, I watch 2 neighbor kids every Friday afternoon/evening. Allen is only a few months older than Porter, and Jennifer is 2. Porter and Allen thought that eating the green eggs was pretty funny so they were having a good laugh.

Oh Boy!

On Friday Cory and I headed off to the ultrasound. We were both excited to find out what we were having this time round. I thought boy, he thought girl. The minute they put the wand on my tummy i knew it was another boy, when its your fourth time around you recognize that penis shot! I even asked the tech if i was wrong, maybe it was the umbilical cord? Nope, its a boy! So the naming war begins.. as we don't agree on any names as of yet. He is a cute little thing, and we enjoyed getting a peek into his world. He kept holding his hands over his ears, the sounds of us prodding must have woken him and he was not too happy! He should get used to it, because he will be coming home to one rowdy high volume house!

I had a small tinge of sadness, not that this one is a boy per se, but that after four boys in a row my odds of having a girl are getting pretty small! I love my boys to pieces, but always wanted at least one of each to have the experiences that come with raising each sex. well and to be honest i wanted to spoil her and buy her all the frilly dresses and things she ever could have wanted! ( you know live through my daughter and all... I always wanted a poofy frilly dress as a girl) Of course if i have a girl now with all these boys she would be a tomboy! Ah well... I guess god thinks i make a good boy mom. We do make some cute little boys. I cant wait to see our newest one, we are halfway there!

My sister Thora posted this and it said that zero people have her name in the US. I am not sure how that works though since obviously she is a person so shouldn't it say one?? I used the name Camilla Nelson and it said the following for me:

HowManyOfMe.com

There are 20 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

However if i put in the name Camilla Stoutner ( my maiden name) it says there are zero of them in the US. So i guess I was more original before i got married, maybe I should start using that name again? :)

Singing the Computer blues.....

Well I have been wanting to post but sadly my computer died, and all my pictures on it. It was working fine ( well except constant loud humming sound and the fact that it ran as slow as a snail) and then it just shut off sudenly while being used and would not turn back on. It was a sad sad day. I had all these things to post about and now you all will have to wait till I get some pics up again!

But on the up side I got me a brand new computer and its just beautiful! I have a 22 inch flat screen, which seems enormous after my old school square white clunky 16 inch screen. ( it was 8 years old) Not to mention the new computer is so much faster and now i can do all my favorite online things quicker since I wont have to wait so long for the computer to think. I usually have a big panic attack when ever i buy something but I guess I was okay with this since living without my computer would be like living without oxygen, man i am so codependant! And like most life and death situations money is not an issue, right? :) Even though the computer and we got a computer desk and even upgrades that Soren put on my computer to make it better (ram and other things i dont know the name of!) the total we spent was 1000. But it was a good time of year to get a new computer.. Dont you just love tax time? Well unless you are one of those rich people that have to pay money to the government.. but then again i dont feel bad for you becuase you are rich!

My older brother Soren who is a computer genious, took my old computer to his house and he called and told me that he was able to save my pictures!! So Wooooo hooooo for that! He is going to come over this weekend and so then i can access all my pics again, and then upload the ones that i want to post about!

Oh and just thought i remind you all that my ultrasound is on March 7th.. can hardly wait to see our little one and start the naming war again! March 7th is also when we meet with Porters Psychologist to discuss his diagnosis together. Cory just got the whole day off becuase after those two appointments we are going to go to my regular baby check up too. It will be a long day but hopefully a great one and we will come home knowing we have a healthy baby and with hope on the "plan" for Porter.